Jerimee,

The Employee Free Choice Act is an easy one for me. The most collectively bargained groups in the county can be found in the executive suites and their Boards of Directors. These guys collectively bargain among each other to rake in tens if not hundreds of millions each year regardless of how well the company does and regardless of how many jobs are created or lost by their acts. These guys collectively bargain the most golden of golden parachutes while fighting the most rudimentary efforts of workers to organize for their interests. These are the collective bargainers that Sue Myrick defends.

I believe that workers have every right to organize and I defend that right. Workers need to put in a hard and productive days work and in return should expect a livable wage, opportunities for growth and advancement, and a management philosophy that thinks of the employee as much as the next income statement. When our business community builds its work force as much as it builds executive perks our economy and our country will prosper. I believe that these goals should be behind the Employee Free Choice Act, an Act that I support.

Ross.

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Charlotte Observer,

You have asked a very important question that demands more than a quick bite of an answer.

PAYGO is pure common sense. Nobody that has any sense of a future incurs debt when there is no return to pay for that debt. We pay as we go. If we want Program “A” we obviously must cut somewhere else like Program “B”. PAYGO demands that we assess the value of our spending. The only exception is investment where we get more out than we put in. When we invest in our people through education, job training, and research and development we are building a future that pays dividends to everyone. If our spending does not invest in people we Pay as we Go.

Regarding our near 10 trillion dollar debt. We are headed for disaster that our children, my children, will pay for. In ten years our debt will be joined by enormous social security and Medicare costs. If we don’t start to fix the problem now there may be no fix other than default. My ideas to decrease the debt and to build fiscal responsibility are:

1) Eliminate the income caps on social security and Medicare contributions.
2) Eliminate ear marks.
3) Implement what I call the “Purity in Legislation Act” where a Bill can only address relevant aspects of the legislation. No burying a bridge in a child welfare Bill.
4) Roll back capital gains and dividends tax rates to the year 2000 rates on incomes above $250,000 per year. Off set the tax adjustment by offering tax incentives for starting new businesses and for investing in research and development.

Ross.

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Momoaizo

Though it is easy to label Sue Myrick a hard core, special interest panderer, I have never been one for labels. Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal all conger up immediate images that rarely are true. I believe in fiscal responsibility. I believe in building bridges between differing opinions to get something done. I believe in the power of personal responsibility, being pragmatic, and the power of a government of the people that gets behind each of us and makes our lives more than what we would be alone.

I am a man of my own ideas predicated on what I believe is right and best for my county, my community and my family. I suspect that I will find more friends and common thinking among the Blue Dogs than among Party stalwarts. However, this does not mean that I won’t see eye to eye at times with ideas that come from all walks of life. You will find me among ideas that I truly believe are best for our county, our community and our families.

Ross.

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Betsy,

Considering Sue Myrick’s position on immigration there seems to be no punishment great enough for undocumented immigrants. Even deportation does not seem to be enough. I believe in a comprehensive program that secures our borders by eliminate the draw, open jobs that go unfilled but not for the immigrant.

We need an America works program that invests in education and training for displaced workers. These people can fill some of the jobs. But even then many jobs will go unfilled. We need to issue visas in a controlled manner that fills the job demands. If we give companies the workers they need at livable wages the draw to come here illegally evaporates. Our border security can then look for those trying to enter the country to do harm.

Regarding all the undocumented workers here now, thanks for the mess Sue Myrick. We need to do a background check on all of them, deport undesirable people, and issue a fine commensurate of the law broken, and then go forward without malice.

Ross.

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James, I believe that our Military is the best and should be the force with the training and the weapons. I don't believe we send defense to the private sector.

Ross.

James,
I am unsure about the whole immunity thing. When our government demands data even if illegally, do we hold a company to the fire? If companies were offering information that is one thing, but what about a powerful departments asking for data? Who is to blame? We need to get the Constitution back into the acts of our government agencies.

Ross.

Jerimee,
About 10 years ago I reflected that my strength is building bridges between differing opinions. Nowhere are there more differing opinions than in my career, fixing environmental problems. I wanted to use that skill in Washington.

But I needed to know in my heart what I would do if got the job in Washington so I started writing down what I would do. That pen to paper effort became a published book called "Who Will Speak for the American Ideal?" I am a guy that can handle himself in the shark tank of Washington and I know what I will do when I get there. My writing inspired me that it is my time to serve.

Ross.