In general I believe that government is too big, too expensive and is slowly taking away our freedoms and liberty.  In Pennsylvania, especially in Allegheny County, we are over taxed and over regulated.  As has been proven in the past, we cannot tax Allegheny County into prosperity.

We find ourselves involved in three wars, running huge deficits, and making cuts to those who can least afford them. We have a Congress seemingly unable to find solutions to the difficult problems we face. While our unemployment rates hover around 9%, large corporations continue to prosper and send American jobs overseas.

We must, and can do better for the vanishing middle-class, the poor and  the elderly. The best way to end the recession is to create, and keep, jobs here so the revenues generate can be used to provide important services at the state and local levels.

Finally the Constitution is not just a piece of paper.  If we do not limit the government’s reach and power we will wake up one day and wonder, “Where has our Country gone?”   The Constitution is not the tool of the government; it is the people’s tool to control the government.  “We the people” empower the government; the government does not empower us.

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

President Theodore Roosevelt