Time For Washington To Get To Work

Releases Top Ten List of Items Our Leaders  Must Accomplish in 2012

Waseca, Minn. - As Congress heads back to Washington after nearly a one-month vacation, congressional candidate Mike Parry today released a top ten list of items Washington needs to accomplish by the end of 2012:

1.  Send the Balanced Budget Amendment to the states for ratification. Tim Walz was one of 165 Congressman who shunned fiscal responsibility by voting against the Balanced Budget Amendment in November - letting Washington politicians to keep on spending money we don't have.   

2.  Pass a balanced budget. It has been nearly 1,000 days since Washington passed a budget - balanced or not. That is unacceptable no matter which party is in power.

3.  Preserve and protect Medicare and Social Security. Washington politicians, by their own inaction, are letting these programs go bankrupt. Time is running out to ensure that future generations can have access to these programs.

4.  Put partisanship aside and get our economy going again. Our national economy is still struggling - Washington needs to give our private sector confidence by passing a bipartisan jobs bill that gives them to confidence they are lacking. 

5.  Reduce the size and scope of government. Simply put, we can't afford the government we have. We need prioritize our budget and only fund what we can afford.

6.  End "class warfare" style attacks. Our nation is already divided - we don't need our political leaders pitting one American against another so that they can win re-election.   

7.  Get a handle on government bureaucrats. Unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats are out of control - creating new job-crushing regulations every day.  Unlike Tim Walz, I support giving Congress the ability to stop regulations they think will have a negative impact on our economy.

8.  Continue to find new customers for Minnesota's ag industry.  Last year Tim Walz opposed two trade agreements that will open new markets for grown-in-Minnesota products. Fortunately for our farmers, these agreements passed despite Washington Walz's objections.

9.  Investigate waste, fraud and abuse in the stimulus program. The Obama-Walz stimulus gambled, and lost, on Solyndra and helped create jobs in Finland - these abuses need to be investigated so that we can hold the perpetrators accountable.

10.  Stop bickering and get items one through nine accomplished.  No excuses - it's time for our leaders to get to work.