POLITICAL EXTORTION
We are taxed on what we earn. We are taxed on what we spend. We are taxed on what we save. We are taxed after we are dead! Enough already! As I see it, this is plain and simple extortion and it is time we throw out the incumbents who cannot add and balance the budget. It is time to stop pretending we can spend our way out of every problem and situation that comes down the pike. Out of control spending is what got us here in the first place. The Federal government does not have the right or the responsibility to provide for the need of every American just because that American thinks the government owes it to them. That is socialism and we are a free market economy. A free market economy gives people the opportunity, indeed the privilege to earn an income virtually without limit. Socialism has limits, a free market economy does not. One thing a free market economy needs however is fiscal responsibility.Personal fiscal responsibility means meeting our own needs and bills as they come along. But, for a nation to be fiscally responsible means that some people will have to give up something. That is just the way it is. I think the Governor of Wisconsin has the right idea, we must cut spending. Greed and selfishness cannot be king and queen when our economic system is on such shaky ground. We cannot have a Governor of Maryland who makes money available only to the people or counties he happens to favor. That is not fair, not legal and not just! We have to stop playing politics. And the best way to do that is to elect new officials who will break the bonds with big business and labor unions. Labor unions have a purpose, but it is not to run the country by extortion. This extortion has gone on for too long now and it must and can be stopped. The way to do is to elect all new legislators who are not bound by greed and personal favors to do what business wants done and not what the people who elected them want done! We need to elect leaders who will govern with integrity and honesty. We need leaders who will make hard decisions, but right decisions. The time to take action is now. As a candidate and a Senator I pledge here and now that I will be honest. I will strive to live with integrity and above reproach. I will not make deals that favor a few in return for political or monetary favors. I will be fair. I will work to limit the federal government and even reduce the federal government so as to bring our financial house in order. With your help and your vote, we can make the right changes!
Rick Hoover
2011