CONTACT SENATOR MCCAIN:
Phone: 703 413 2008
Website: http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
Senator McCain,
I am a recent Republican, having fled the Democratic Party four years ago from its wildly leftist leadership and from its mandates. I had long been a Conservative Democrat, but I have given up on that path. I am for less government than more; I am for more economic freedom and less market control; I am for a strong, independent America, and opposed to Internationalism, Multiculturalism and to any ideology that would diminish our great nation's political culture and freedoms.
Senator McCain, I was an early supporter of your campaign, but I left your team because of your position on immigration reform.
Now, though, you are my Party's nominee. I want to give you my support. But you seem to me to be ignoring the positions of our Party on several key issues.
1. Immigration--sir, I know there are millions of illegals in this country. You want a compassionate solution. But sir, they are stealing our wealth from us by sapping our infrastructure, stealing through insurance and education costs and through not paying taxes. They must be sent home, and that can be done on a state-by-state basis. Regular checks for paperwork by state and local police can make this happen. They can come back, if they can get visas.
2. Energy costs--sir, I detect a Senate-elitist stance in your policy here, and an absence of a compass. Democrats have stifled refineries and drilling for new oil, and that has led now to impossible gas prices. This is economics 101 Senator; we have exceeded our refining capacity, and prices, because of this fact, will not come soon down. We must have more refineries now, and we must drill for more oil now. We need this fuel to keep growing, sir, and OPEC cannot help us refine more oil. The inability to make gasoline will still have an upward pressure on gas prices.
3. Ethanol--this is a boondoggle, Senator. Quash this before every foodstuff in the United States trebles in price in the next six months.
4. Israel
Senator, I think your heart is in the right place on this. We must for the first time in the history of Israel make Israel our right-hand ally in the Middle East.
5. Islam--We must stop pandering to the interests of Islamists to whom we send billions of dollars in aid, and who with that aid often send it back to us in the form of suicide bombs and terror attacks. We must pacify Islam, and help it learn how to pacify itself. These people really believe they will defeat the West and destroy Israel. Have you seen the DVD "Obsession?" You can find it on the internet. Also, we want the trail of Saudi influence money sourced and exposed. The fact that your campaign manager is a former Saudi lobbyist doesn't sit well with many of the people who share my political views.
Please consider my words, Senator. You must offer us Republicans who range from the Center to the Conservative core more. You must give us more of what WE hold true and dear.
I hope you will hear my words and those like me who will follow. We cannot get whole-heartedly behind you if you don't.
Sincerely,
James A. Bridge
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3 comments:
Dude you know I love you and I agree with all but two points you have made here.
Immigration reform and Ethanol
On Cape Cod every summer, they have to import workers to work in the restaurant and hospitality industries because locals don't want the jobs. This is true all over America today. As a consumer I could care less if the person behind the counter is Mexican, Colombian or Brazilian. The simple reality is if they are making enough money to make a meaningful difference in their life back home they will be happy workers. And a happy worker means I get what what I want with a smile and an accent instead of some self righteous pierced goth who is probably spitting in my coffee before serving it to me. It also doesn't hurt that their wages are helping their local economies and making their populations happier. We want happy neighbors. That said we need a easier way to register guest workers so they can pay the requisite taxes (probably at a lower rate than we pay) and healthcare benefits so are system isn't burdened caring for them if they get ill or injured while working here. These are not easy things to do and if you don't offer some form of amnesty no one will ever do it.
On the topic of Ethanol, we need look no further than Brazil for a lesson in responsible environmentalism and economic brilliance. 30 years after the last gas crisis left their economy crippled, Brazil now gets 40% of the fuel for light vehicles from ethanol grown from sugarcane and used in "flex" vehicles that burn the mixture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil. If Brazil can do it imagine what this great country could do with all of our technological innovation! It begs the question, why haven't we done more on this front in 30 years? The answer i'm afraid is buried in the dealings of the big oil and car companies. Time to change the tide and the Fed has a responsibility to lead us here or we will never make progress towards energy independence.
McCain is on the right track on both of these two fronts IMHO.
Ethanol first--this is an economic disaster in the making.
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This is from Financial Sense Editorials (www.http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/cooke/2007/0202.html)
"So. How much does the consumer pay for a gallon of corn ethanol? Let’s sum it up.
Cost For A Gallon Of Corn Ethanol
Corn Ethanol Futures Market quote for January 2007 Delivery
$2.49
Add cost of transporting, storing and blending corn ethanol
$0.28
Added cost of making gasoline that can be blended with corn ethanol
$0.09
Add cost of subsidies paid to blender
$0.51
Total Direct Costs per Gallon
$3.37
Added cost from waste
$0.40
Added cost from damage to infrastructure and user's engine
$0.06
Total Indirect Costs per Gallon $0.46
Added cost of lost energy
$1.27
Added cost of food (American family of four)$1.79
Total Social Costs
$3.06
Total Cost of Corn Ethanol @ 85% Blend
$6.89
SEVEN DOLLARS A GALLON in real cost.
This is NOT a good idea.
As for illegal aliens in Cape Cod--I personally don't care if every restaurant in New England closes if their business plan is based on illegal labor. Illegals are criminals.
Friendly borders? I want mine with barbed wire and minefields.
A Country Without Borders Is NOT A Country
If Cape Cod needs to import illegals, It's because they work for slave wages and no back talk. Why hire a 'local' at current wages when you can get an illegal at half the price? Plus, when you abuse them, locals have a recourse, illegals don't.
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