Economic Policy

The American people are rightfully fearful that the irresponsible policies of Cleaver and this Congress will collapse our economy. Expanding our obiligations by 2.5 trillion with health care vote on Sunday is the latest example he just doesn;t get it! 

The governmental policies that work to create jobs in tough economic times are clear. Our economic policies need to be based on freeing the American people as consumers and businesspeople to fix our recession and create jobs. We only have to look to our 20^th century history to find what does (and doesn't) work. Every time our federal government significantly reduced our taxes the economy took off – Mellon 1920's, Kennedy 1960's, Reagan 1980's, Bush 2000's.

When the government sucked up our resources to centrally run the economy they turned a recession into the Great Depression – Hoover/Roosevelt 1930's. Our economy did not fully recover from that administration's disastrous picking of winners and losers in the marketplace until President Truman instituted more favorable policies post World War II.

Our choice is simple:

• Tax cuts both personal and business produce the environment that produces new jobs.

or

• More government spending soaking up our personal and business resources creates the environment for stagnation in job creation.

Congress adopted the policy that does not and is not working producing runaway unemployment and fear in the American people.

I propose we return to proven policies of tax cuts to give the American people the confidence and ability to bring our economy back and give our fellow citizens the jobs they need.