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When your house is on fire, grab a hose. Fix the water damage later.
The financial markets rescue package (which I supported), brought powerful weapons to the fight against a depression. Those weapons include:
- Treasury’s purchase of equity interests in identified banks.
- FDIC insurance of unlimited deposits in non-interest bearing accounts in depository institutions.
- FDIC insurance of other accounts up to $250,000.
- Federal Reserve Board’s purchase of commercial paper.
- Federal government’s buying and holding illiquid mortgage-backed securities starting with auctions in November 2008.
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We have lost trillions of dollars in wealth. Respected banks have failed. Credit is constrained. The economy is in a downward spiral.
Seeing our financial house on fire, many people suggested that we should burn the rats out. I grabbed a hose. Thankfully, a majority of House and Senate members grabbed hoses too, and we’ve gotten some water on the fire in the form of a financial rescue package. It’s clearly not enough to extinguish the blaze, but it may help.
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Dealing with high fuel prices isn’t going to be easy, but it can be good.
Getting the answer right will set up the triple play of this American century.
Breaking our addiction to oil can:
- Improve the national security of the United States as we stop funding terrorists with our gasoline purchases.
- Create jobs in South Carolina as we develop and deploy fuels of the future.
- Clean up the air as we switch to the clean fuels of the future.
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Food prices are tied to fuel prices. Getting more refining capacity in the near term and getting cars off of oil in the mid-term
and long-term will help farmers with diesel and fertilizer prices. Breakthroughs in cellulosic ethanol (the kind that comes
from switch grass and wood chips rather than corn) will make corn and other grains more available and more affordable as
food. We should stop competing fuel against food.
Solving the problem of illegal immigration is one of the simplest challenges we face. All it takes is a little bit of courage.
- Tighten up the border, building fences where necessary, using the military where necessary.
- Require employers to E-verify Social Security numbers before offering jobs.
- Tighten up proof of legal status for drivers’ licenses and license tags.
- Limit social benefits to citizens.
- Deal with the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants here in the U.S.
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Far from a doomsday scenario, acting on climate change is a fabulous opportunity for can-do America:
- Market push. The market will drive innovation once a price is attached to carbon. We won’t be doing science projects
then! If I lose the gift of belching carbon into the air, my old-technology company may be beaten by your newtechnology firm. But look what competition has brought us with computers, cell phones and every kind of gadget. READ MORE…
America’s incredible volunteers have won three campaigns in Iraq.
- Phase 1. We asked them to take out a madman suspected of plans to use weapons of mass destruction. America’s best took him out.
- Phase 2. Once deployed in Iraq, we asked them to disrupt terrorist networks. There being no further attacks on the
United States since 9/11, America’s best succeeded again.
- Phase 3. The President asked our troops to surge to create a security space for decision making by Iraqi politicians.
America’s best took to the streets of Iraq and won that security space. READ MORE…
Affording quality health care is America’s most complex challenge. It’s going to take careful thought to design systems fit
for America. Too simply stated, we should:
- Make prevention especially affordable and readily available
- Get every American covered by health insurance
- Use technology to improve efficiencies and outcomes
- Understand the competitive disadvantage we’re causing American industry
- Meet the patient at the need READ MORE…
The federal government should:
- Inspire attainment, realizing that we’re committing our children to a standard-of-living-race in which they will have to run harder, faster and smarter than the rest of the world.
- Oil at $120 a barrel is this generation’s Sputnik.
- Creative, prepared, flexible young people must re-energize freedom.
- Provide a robust system of student aid so as to allow students to go to colleges throughout the U.S. READ MORE…
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David McCullough writes in his book 1776, “The
year 1776 had been as dark a time as those
devoted to the American cause had ever known –
indeed as dark a time as any in the history of
the country. And suddenly, miraculously it
seemed, that had changed because of a small
band of determined men and their leader.” READ MORE…
If we really believe that God is sovereign, we
have every reason to be optimistic.
- “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything
in it, the world, and all who live in it.”
Psalm 24:1
Our system of checks and balances rightly
estimates the inclinations of human nature
and compensates for them. No President, no
position, no power should be worshiped.
- First Commandment: “I am the LORD
your God, who brought you out of Egypt,
out of the land of slavery. You shall have
no other gods before me.”
Exodus 20:2-3.
- Second Commandment: “You shall not
make for yourself an idol in the form of
anything in heaven above or on the earth
beneath or in the waters below. You shall
not bow down to them or worship
them…” Exodus 20:4-5 READ MORE…
When “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are understood to be inalienable rights
and every life is valued – from pre-born to natural death.
When the First Amendment is revered and people speak their minds, pray and worship
freely and are served by a free press.
When the Second Amendment is honored and people can defend themselves.
When the Fifth Amendment is upheld and private property rights are secure.
When the Tenth Amendment is kept and the federal government is focused on the
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At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Ben Franklin fixed his gaze on the sunburst motif on the back of George Washington’s chair.
“I have often looked at that sun behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting,” Franklin said. “Now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.”
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Confident that freedom makes us innovators.
Certain that the rule of law gives us stability.
Positive that education will make our children the winners.
Get health coverage to every American.
Have patients and physicians (not insurance companies) control costs.
Turn away from defensive medicine.
Practice preventive medicine.
Conserve.
Use hybrids.
Switch to ethanol/biodiesel
over the next 5 to 10 years.
Be on the road to hydrogen in 10 years.
Balance the budget.
At all its stages—from pre-born to old age.
Express our most heartfelt beliefs.
Affirm our neighbors’ freedom to live in opposition to those beliefs. It’s the love of the heart and not the compulsion of the law that is the highest aim of our faith.
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 “The road to a hydrogen economy can run through South Carolina. We can help reinvent the car.”
“There’s a spark of innovation in South Carolina. We can fan it into a fire.”
“South Carolina Republicans want more than a majority. We want a majority that matters.”
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Rise as other nations rise.