A Plan That Works . . .

• Protect these programs from going bankrupt.
• Ensure current and future generations of Americans have choice and access to quality - affordable health care, and are covered by a retirement system that will assist them in their senior years.

• Work to ensure the Budget is balanced and stays balanced.
• Pay down the 5.7 trillion-dollar debt, reduce spending, and provide tax relief for Americans. (Note: The National Debt has increased by $300 billion to $5.6 trillion since 1997, and another $100 billion since 1998. How is the budget balanced?)
• For the long-term health of America, encourage more saving and investment.

• Lower our unemployment rate that is near 6 percent in many parts of our district to 4 percent, in-line with our State and National unemployment rates.
• Retain jobs, expand imports, create new jobs.
• Support small business and farmers.

• Make Northeastern and Northcentral Pennsylvania a safer and more attractive place to raise a family and do business.

• Ensure 90 percent of Federal dollars allocated for elementary and secondary education are spent on educating our children, and not consumed by the bureaucracy in Washington.

"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt." Thomas Jefferson