WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLE

My interest is to bring all of my small business experiences to the Nevada Assembly by offering creative entrepreneurial visionary ideas and programs for the citizens of Nevada. I am not running for office because I have an interest in politics. I am running because I believe that our representatives have lost their accountability and fiscal responsibility to our citizens and their duty as legislators. My experience of being in very small business, self-employed over half my life has provided me an insight that few politicians understand. The amounts, methods, and intricacies of “taxes and regulations” businesses face are incomprehensible and are responsible for the demise of thousands of small businesses, the lifeblood of American free enterprise. I’ve experienced small business IRS tax problems and worked through them but they are impossible for a new business with little experience.  I have always applied conservative values to personal, business, and governmental management. I was heavily involved with the election of Maine Independent Governor James B. Longley, and also served on his Committee for Employment of the Handicapped. Longley’s election to office was the result of his work on the state’s cost cutting analysis “The Maine Management and Cost Survey”. As with the Nevada budget management issues today, the largest uncontrolled state budget expenditures are at the university systems. This exact same issue was faced in Maine in 1974. However, in Nevada per the states decree, Nevada’s SAGE Commission was NOT allowed to include our university system in the analysis and this remains the single largest item on the issue. If such a major consumer of state budget is the university system which has to remain off the table for reorganization the SAGE Commission is handicapped at the starting gate. They have done a great job with the hand they have been dealt but their analysis could not be all inclusive in the task they were asked to do.

 JOBS vs BUSINESS

Every candidate this year will be pushing you their “jobs policy” I will tell you that jobs are not the precept to our economic recovery in Nevada or nationally, it is small business and industrial manufacturing growth, SALES of business products and manufactured goods . . . private industry CREATES JOBS which have a growth potential! Jobs created by government stimulus are simply exchanging your tax money with “other people”. The government does not conduct any functions which create a profit, they only DISTRIBUTE tax monies collected. It is only our free enterprise system that provides “profit” for growth and with every stroke of your government impeding business growth they are dooming any sustainable economic future. Jobs don’t create new business. It is business and manufacturing that stimulate home, industrial and road construction reversing this process is counterproductive.

With this general proposal in mind this set the stage as part of the reason I launched the US Nuclear Energy Foundation in 2005 to educate average citizens about the far reaching benefits of nuclear energy. Stating the following in many documents I have generated, its criticality cannot be emphasized enough! “Energy is the DRIVER of all economies worldwide and no one can change that”! Once we accomplish getting Joe Citizen to understand this precept the directive of our mission is well on its way.

There is no single “massive” economic direction that the State of Nevada can pursue better than nuclear energy plant construction and the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. Not only do these directives evoke heavy industrial manufacturing but they simultaneously evoke very high technology science and engineering that within themselves would serve to redirect the course structures throughout our university system.

It has been my goal since the inception of the USNEF Foundation to educate and convince the average citizens of Nevada that we the public, should drive our government to friendly consideration of nuclear development and the Yucca Mountain facility. As of today, Nevada is a “neutral” state in respect to regulations concerning nuclear construction; there are no Nevada laws on the books against nuclear plant construction. The concept of an “Energy Park” was presented by a member of our US Nuclear Energy Foundation by the late Joe Wetch in April, 2009. Joe was aggressively interested in advancing public knowledge about nuclear energy. Details of his presentation are available as slides on the website. From another member Dr. Ted Rockwell recently sent a memo that today, after the past 20 years of nuclear plant amortizations in Europe, the plants are generating two million dollars in net profits daily and NOW governments want to hit them with “windfall profits taxes”!

Much more detail is available to further this awareness on my NUCLEAR tab and the ENERGY tab.

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