We face many challenges that must be resolved to ensure our children and grandchildren are afforded the same wonderful freedoms and opportunity our parents handed down to us.

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. Government must live within its means. We must stop mortgaging the future of our children and grandchildren. We do that by ensuring government spends no more than it collects in revenue.

Government must encourage, not stifle private sector job creation. Today the creation of well paying private industry jobs is being stalled and even driven from the state by excessive government regulation, red tape and unwarranted taxation.

We must restore self-sufficiency and personal responsibility. More government is not the answer to every problem. We need common sense reforms that support individual success and independence, rather than entitlement.