MY LETTER TO HERMAN CAIN ON THE ISSUES
Mr. Cain,
September 26, 2011
Congratulations on your win in the Florida straw poll.
I posted your stance on issues from your web site on about the largest conservative activism web site on the net at FreeRepublic.com. They have well over 200,000 members.
Here is the link to that thread:
Herman Cain on the Issues
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2784035/posts
I urge you to put the following two topics on your web site:
ABORTION
THE 2ND AMENDMENT
These two issues are extremely critical to most conservatives, particularly Tea Party Conservatives.
I believe you need consice, strongly worded, declarative statements on these issues to show your strength there. Many are mist-representing you due to the Wolf Blitzer interview. You can counter it easily and I urge you to do so.
In any case, God bless and keep you Mr. Cain. We need God-fearing, strong candidates who understand America and her traditional and foundational values and who are unafraid to stand up strongly and directly for them.
I believe you are such an individual and thank God for it.
BTW, God bless you for your statements on cancer as well. I feel exactly the same way. I was diagnosed two years ago with a very rare malignant bone cancer in my lower spine (Sacrum). One in three million. Within three months I was under the care and being operated on by a world renown surgeon in Houston at MD Anderson almost 2000 miles from my home. Here's my story:
My Sacral Chordoma
http://www.jeffhead.com/chordoma.htm
I agree with you. Under Obama Care, I would be dead...and feel free to use my story anywhere you choose to that effect.
Finally, I 'm also a part of a grass roots movement called Restore the Constitution at:
Restore the Constitution
http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/
We are looking for candidates to swear or affirm to our 12 constitutional principles, which are quite similar to your own positions. We swear to support such candidates and spread their word. Many Tea Party sites watch our list, as does FreeRepublic.com and Refounders on Facebook.
If you agree with those principles, let me know and we would be proud to list you there as a Presidential Candidate who we will support to Restore our Constitution and the fundamental principles it is founded on..
Sincerely,
Jeff Head
'www.jeffhead.com
HERMAN CAIN ON THE ISSUES
National Defense Click on the link to the left to read the full statement. The primary duty of the President of the United States is to protect our people. In fact, it is the principal duty of a limited federal government. They must ensure that our military and all of our security agencies are strong and capable.
We must support our military with the best training, equipment, technology and infrastructure necessary to keep them in a position to win. We must also provide our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families with the benefits they deserve for their tremendous sacrifice. These heroes have served us. We must never forget to serve them. Immigration Click on the link to the left to read the full statement. Illegal immigration has only exacerbated illegal activity, such as the horrendous crimes of drug smuggling and human trafficking. Illegal immigrants who are repeat offenders are harder to track, making it difficult for law enforcement to prevent crime. Further, weak borders have caused a compounding problem of terrorists assimilating with illegal immigrants, crossing the border with them and entering the U.S.
We must secure our borders, enforce our laws and promote the existing path to citizenship. Protecting our nations sovereignty should be a paramount concern of those elected to lead us, not an afterthought or a reaction once the problem becomes even worse. Further, taking a stand on the issue does not mean one lacks compassion, but instead, that one respects the rule of law and the importance of not becoming a lawless nation. Spending Click on the link to the left to read the full statement. The massive debt caused by liberal policies will be passed onto our children and grandchildren if we do not stop it. They will be stuck with the tab for the government takeover of health care, industry bailouts and failed stimulus packages. They will be the ones approached with outstretched palms by the Chinese to pay back the billions upon billions we owe them. Each generation of Americans should seek to leave behind a better and more prosperous nation for the next, not saddle them with debt from reckless spending.
I have served as an executive of several major corporations. When times were tough and money was tight, I asked our employees to cut back drastically, and explained why it was necessary, and they did. We have all had to make difficult decisions in our own household or at our work place. Serious but responsible belt tightening can save businesses, and it can also save our country with the right leadership. Energy Click on the link to the left to read the full statement. America is a land blessed with abundant natural resources and the capability of the people to obtain them. From the oil-rich states of Louisiana and Alaska to the mighty dams along rivers across the states, the options for many forms of energy are real and plenty. Still, liberals continue to perpetuate the misunderstanding that the high energy consumption of a thriving nation and conservation of our precious planet are at odds with one another. Because they have perpetuated such a myth, liberals have forced excessive environmental regulations that have stifled our domestic energy production, and instead, forced American consumers to rely far too heavily upon foreign oil.
Alternative energy sources, such as wind, solar, nuclear and hydroelectric are certainly part of the solution long term, but private industry must take the lead for true innovation to be a bigger part of our future energy needs. If alternative energy sources are found to be inexpensive, safe and plentiful, then American consumers will choose to purchase them. Let the markets decide which forms of energy fuel our cars, heat our homes and which ones will keep America working. Economy Click on the link to the left to read the full statement. America has long been a beacon of prosperity throughout the world. The American Dream has been attained by those who were willing to think, work and sacrifice to achieve it. Each dream was different, but each dream was made possible due to the freedoms this country provides.
The role of the federal government should be to encourage economic growth by ensuring conditions that will allow businesses to thrive, not just survive. That means less legislation, less regulation, lower taxes and business-friendly policies. Health Care - Repeal Obama Care Click on the link to the left to read the full statement. President Obama and the liberals in Congress have dismantled the free market health care system and replaced it with health care deform. They have passed measures that compromise the sacred patient-doctor relationship, eliminate patient choice, stick a bureaucrat in the examining room, ration care and do nothing to limit frivolous lawsuits that drive up the cost of health care. In all of these provisions, they made health care more expensive and less accessible for American families they claimed to protect.
Under the guise of making health care a right for all people, President Obama and the liberals in Congress instead extended the tentacles of government, expanding their control and diminishing patients rights. They have also made it more difficult and more expensive for doctors to practice medicine, including specialized practitioners who are desperately needed to save lives. In reality, their attempts at reforming the system have actually deformed it. Entitlements Click on the link to the left to read the full statement. Big government enthusiasts designed social programs to provide a financial safety net, but, in turn, dependency on the government for the most vulnerable in society became an expected entitlement. Decades since their inception, far too many Americans have shifted their expectations from government assistance to entitlement. Too many people have exchanged their freedom for a false sense of security that these programs are supposed to provide.
Unfortunately, this has not only been to the sociological detriment of America, but also to its economic detriment. Simply, ever-expanding social programs are compromising the current and future financial stability of this great country. The federal government has imposed expensive and often counter-productive social and welfare programs on the states and the people. It is time to admit the mistakes, and get the federal government out of the way. This will allow states, cities, churches, charities and businesses to offer a helping hand instead of a handout where they live. People closest to the problems are the best ones to solve the problems effectively. Regulation Click on the link to the left to read the full statement. Eliminating the burdens of cumbersome federal regulations would provide an immediate boost for our weakened economy. It would signal to businesses and investors that the federal government intends to get out of the business of over regulating. Where regulations are required the states will do their job. Consumers and investors do not need nanny-state federal regulations to save them from themselves. Education Click on the link to the left to read the full statement. Education is the key to unlocking a prosperous future. At the heart of education should always be the students. Unfortunately, education has become weighed down with administration that has shifted the focus from educating students to maintaining an excessive level of bureaucracy through expanded unionization and regulation. Its time to unbundle education from the federal government down to the local level.
critical component of improving education in our country is to decentralize the federal governments control over it. Children are best served when the teachers, parents and principals are making the day-to-day decisions, coupled with the leadership of local municipalities, school boards and states. What might work for a third grader in Oklahoma might not work for a third grader in Hawaii.
Unbundling education means putting kids first. It means rewarding those teachers who enrich the lives of their students, and it means holding those accountable who do not. It means putting students before union interests, and it means keeping their development paramount. Unbundling education means localizing education- making those on the ground responsible for the teaching and learning that happens in our local communities. Unbundling education means offering parents choices for their children to create a truly competitive educational system. Faith and Family Click on the link to the left to read the full statement. Our Founding Fathers recognized a higher power in the formation of this nation when they said in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
It was no accident that in some of our earlier years as a free and independent nation that our leaders added In God We Trust to all of our currency. Americas moral foundation does not need to be rewritten. It needs to be respected and taught to our children and grandchildren. It is the basis for our concept of freedom.
Here's a winning slogan for Mr. Cain should he win the GOP nomination:
HERMAN CAIN FOR A RETURN TO A STRONG AMERICA
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