Economy: Implement fiscal policies to end deficit spending. Restore sound, honest money, and halt the fall of the dollar. Stop predatory lending practices and Wall Street bailouts, and put a lid on massive expenditures abroad.
Iraq: End the occupation and bring home all military personnel – active duty, guard and reserve – and all private contractors as rapidly as possible. The practice of using private unaccountable armies, often referred to as contractors, must end. Those "private contractors" engaged in non-military roles supporting our troops must be properly supervised in terms of cost and performance. Paying $100 a load for laundry that doesn't even get the troops' clothes clean has to end. It is time for some real Congressional oversight.
Military: Overseas deployments of occupation are breaking our military. Our National Guard needs to be rebuilt; 80% of units lack the necessary equipment for training as a result of their deployments in recent years.
Veterans: Veterans need to be given adequate care, not shuffled around in a Veterans' Administration that needs to be overhauled.
Immigration: Secure the border and enforce existing law against those who illegally enter our country, and those who hire and harbor them. Hire and deploy more border patrol agents and provide adequate funding and staffing for interior enforcement. Corporate greed is fueling the immigration fire. Greedy corporations and unscrupulous businessmen profit by hiring illegal aliens, while working South Carolina families and taxpayers foot the bill for services for illegals. This is corporate welfare, and it has to end.
Trade: Promote and restore America First trade policies. Withdraw from NAFTA, CAFTA, and the WTO. We cannot continue to allow unelected foreign bureaucrats to decide and dictate our trade policies. End most favored nation status for Communist China. Fine-tune policies to correct the massive trade imbalance, keep American workers employed here at home, and stop multi-national corporations from importing foreign skilled workers to take away well-paying jobs from American citizens.
Energy: Establish an energy policy that finally ends our dependence on foreign oil by encouraging more energy production at home, promoting the development of alternative energy sources, and encouraging the use of energy-saving technologies.
Constitution and the Bill of Rights: Restore what has been lost from the Bill of Rights during the reign of the Bush regime through the so-called PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act, so-called REAL ID, etc. We cannot afford to give up essential liberties under the false pretense of security. We must restore the Constitution and respect the principles on which our Republic was founded.
This is our campaign for a strong America. I can't do it alone. I need your help.
Sincerely,
Bob Conley
