| The Issue |
Chris's Common
Sense Approach |
Current Bay
Area Representatives |
Homeland
Security
Number one responsibility of the Federal government is to protect
the citizens from our enemies. |
•
Islamic terrorists attacked the US on 9/11 and are the enemy.
• US is a sovereign nation and determines
its own destiny. |
• The
Bush administration is the enemy.
• US should seek permission from the
UN. |
Education
Local control means better education. |
•
Local control of education.
• Students must achieve competence
in basic subjects: reading, math, language, history and science. |
• Use
Federal dollars to dictate policy to local school districts.
• School responsibility is to impart values
that will enable children to live in the global community. |
Jobs
for Silicon Valley
A business-friendly environment creates jobs. |
•
A business-friendly environment.
• Encourage entrepreneurship by reducing
regulations and taxation. |
• Promote
guest worker programs that provide jobs for foreign workers.
• Solution of every problem is a tax or
fee. |
Illegal
Immigration
Enforce the law, reduce the burden on tax payers and help protect
the US from terrorists. |
• Enforce
the laws that are on the books.
• Federal government and local agencies need to work together. |
Ignore the problem:
• 25% of the people crossing the Mexican border illegally
are not Mexicans.
• California spends almost $2.2 billion annually to education
illegal immigrant students—enough to pay the salaries
of 41,764 teachers or 14% of California teachers. |
Preserving
American Values
We cannot go to France and become a Frenchman….but Frenchman,
Indians, Vietnamese, Mexicans and people from every nation can
come here and be Americans! |
•
We are all Americans because we buy into a set of ideas, upon
which our Founders brilliantly based our nation…the
value and responsibility of the individual, and the rights
of man derived from God, not the state.
• We must focus more on what we have
in common, rather than our differences.
• The culture of assimilation that
built our great nation preserves American values and knits
together the fabric of our country. |
• Promote
multiculturalism.
• Focus on diversity.
• Undermine our foundation. |
