FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR
IT'S TIME FOR CHRISTINE
Christine's Deal with Delaware.
In the U.S. Senate, Christine O'Donnell:
• will fight to keep your money in your wallet. Christine will never vote to raise taxes and she will fight to repeal the tax on Social Security retirement income. This will give seniors an immediate increase in their household budgets. Biden voted to TAX social security retirement income and increase the financial pressure on those already on a fixed income.
• will fight to take care of veterans and their families. Christine will always advocate for a strong defense, and will fight to stop the United Nations from taxing America's GNP, a global tax Biden supports.
• will fight to end the estate tax on inheritances, end the marriage penalty tax. Your hard work should not be punished by such crushing tax burdens. Again, Biden voted to keep these taxes.
• will work to bring academic equality to all students, regardless of their background, economic status or the neighborhood in which they live. Christine will fight to make sure that all children have access to quality education.
Taxes
- Christine pledges to oppose tax increases and new taxes, without exception.
- Christine O'Donnell will fight to repeal the tax on social security retirement income imposed under Bill Clinton. She will fight to make all student loan interest tax deductible.
National Security and Foreign Affairs
- Christine opposes the Global Tax that will require America to pay taxes to the United Nations - something Biden adamantly supports. This undermines America's national sovereignty and punishes economic prosperity.
- Christine will fight to improve oversight of how America's foreign aid is spent and managed.
- Most importantly, Christine has a strategy for bringing our troops home from Iraq: It's called victory. Past mistakes should not deter our need to stabilize Iraq so we can get our troops home. We can succeed in the future, but we must accompany our efforts with the honor and respect we've earned as a people. We cannot leave on the enemy's terms. We must leave on our terms.
Energy
- High gasoline prices created by policies of the Democrats must be cured. America has not built another oil refinery to produce gasoline in the last 30 years. The lack of refinery capacity is a major factor in high gas prices. While protecting the environment God gave us is indeed a sacred trust, we have the skill to do both. We refuse to accept that America lacks the knowledge to produce energy while also keeping our environment clean. We can do it.
- By strengthening the dollar, we lower the price of oil. This directly impacts the price at the pump. We don't need gimmicks to stimulate the economy. We need solutions that address the root cause. Christine will advocate for monetary policy that strengthens the dollar and attacks the root cause of many of our economic concerns.
- Christine has long supported using Delaware's agricultural resources to supplement America's gasoline supplies. This can raise the income of farmers as well as help all Delaware drivers.
- Let's also keep in mind that the biggest reason for rising food prices is the high cost of fuel for transporting food and grains. This must be addressed.
- Democrats have blocked America from achieving energy independence, including vast oil supplies in the Gulf of Mexico. China is preparing to drill for oil 45 miles from Key West, Florida, as a team with Cuba. Environmentally, this drilling will happen either way. But U.S. firms will surely use higher technical quality and greater care for our own environment than China will. How careful will China's oil drilling be about America's shorelines?
Education
Christine believes that no child should be trapped in a failing school. The same week that President Obama's family came to Washington, and his daughters were enrolled in private schools, the President, aided and abetted by the liberal Congress, eliminated the successful and popular school choice program serving mostly minority families in the District of Columbia.
Education funding should reside primarily with the people most invested in the success of all schools - local communities and states. However, the Federal government is now a major funder of local education. As such, citizens in Delaware have every right to demand that the dollars they send to Detroit through their taxes are actually working to educate children. As long as the Federal government is in the local education game, then taxpayers have every right to demand that the schools they support meet basic standards of success. America's children deserve nothing less.
Christine will support all programs that provide parents with maximum choice and hold schools to the highest standards for the sake of our children's future. She supports programs that give parents options to send their children to schools that work, whether they are government schools or not.
Transportation
- Christine will work to ensure accountability and restraint in increased tolls on Federal highways.
Border security
- Christine O'Donnell will fight to secure our nation's seaports and borders to defend our families from terrorism and from drugs.
- Christine will demand that employers obey the law, just as the rest of us must obey the law, with meaningful penalties for hiring illegal aliens.
Veterans' Affairs
- It's Time to implement a medical voucher system for Veterans.
- Treatment of and treatment for every United States veteran is a priority to Christine O'Donnell.
- As the next U.S. Senator from Delaware, Christine will work to improve overall medical benefits for our serving troops and veterans through advocating for a medical voucher system that allows vets to choose their own doctor closer to home.
- The dollar should follow the veteran, not the other way around. Many Delaware veterans need to drive well over an hour to receive medical treatment. A voucher system will allow each veteran to choose their own doctor and their own treatment.
- Every veteran should;
- Be treated with the highest respect and greatest honor!
- Be saluted with the deepest gratitude by every citizen of this free nation for their service that has kept us free and safe!
- If the ultimate sacrifice is paid by giving his or her life in fighting for this nation and democracy, it should be absolutely assured that his/her spouse and children are provided with the means to live according to the high standards of American life.
- And it should be assured that the surviving children are provided with every opportunity to receive a post high school education, to succeed in their lives to the honor of their parent who gave it all in sacrifice to our country.
- There has been a profound loss of respect for human dignity. We are treating the sick, indigent and dying as if the value of their lives is measured by their economic productivity. Women are starting to come forward to break the silence about the mental and physicals scars left on their lives by abortion. Now more than ever we must elect Senators who have a real understanding and deep appreciation for human life. We must renew the commitment to respect all human life on which this nation was founded.
- This issue now includes a debate over whether or not the government should fund human cloning experimentation. Joe Biden voted to block a ban on human cloning. He voted AGAINST banning human cloning. Christine O'Donnell has been an outspoken critic of this macabre practice on both the state and federal level.