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~From the desk of the Candidate~
Press Release
Monday, May 19, 2008
The public
debt for the United States is growing at a rate of one and a half billion
dollars a day and is moving rapidly toward nine and a half trillion
dollars. That figure works out to over $30,000 owed by every citizen in
America above and beyond their own personal debts.
11th District
Republican Congressional Candidate Carl Mumpower is not happy about Washington
waste and he has turned his concerns to action by creating the Wounded Eagle Award for those who make major
contributions to our national debt. Last month Mumpower submitted the
award to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for her leadership in using borrowed
monies to fund an economic recovery package. "Borrowing our way into
a healthy economy, a move supported by most Congressional Republicans as well
as Democrats, is misguided policy that will rest on the shoulders of our
children and grandchildren," said Mumpower.
This month's
award is going to a fellow Republican - President George Bush.
"Nothing the President has done has had greater harmful impact on our
culture and economy than his failure to uphold his oath of office and enforce
immigration law," said Mumpower. "Waste and leadership lapses
in Iraq and the folly of agreeing to spend our tax dollars rebuilding New Orleans,
a city literally beneath the sea, are both actions that might trigger a Wounded Eagle Award for wasteful ways."
"Yet for any number of reasons, the failure by the President and both
political parties in addressing the greatest illegal enterprise in America's
history tops the list."
"There
are two rarely shared harms coming from Illegal immigration that resonate most
strongly with me," said Mumpower. "We have a physical high
school dropout rate that is 30 percent in general and 50 percent for
minorities." "When you add the mental dropout rate that has a
majority of our students stepping into life without the skills to compete in a
tough world, we adults should all be ashamed for our neglect. With all
this unencumbered cheap labor coming in our backdoor, there is simply no
incentive for the business community, our leaders, and the rest of us to get
off our fannies and get serious about saving our kids."
"Then
comes the issue of decent wages so that our people can reach for their fair
share of the American dream," shared Mumpower. "That cheap
labor pool stops wages from rising naturally through supply and demand factors
so that our own citizens will have the motivation to go to work with the hope
of being able to pay their bills and get ahead." "Instead we
have over fifteen million illegal aliens accustomed to subsistence wages that
help employers step around our free market economy to keep their costs
down. You and I should be willing to pay a quarter more for a burger to
insure that America continues to uplift our people through enterprise and
opportunity. Instead we keep rigging the system with imported labor,
artificially low wages, and socialistic government programs that make pets out
of people."
What solutions
does Mumpower propose? "We should stop wringing our hands and get
serious about protecting our borders, enforcing existing laws, and fining those
employers who feed the flood with jobs and money." "Until that
time I will do what I can to bring attention to this economic and social harm,"
said Mumpower. "It will be my honor to send the President his Wounded Eagle Award just as soon as the U.S. Postal
Service can get it to the Whitehouse."
Carl Mumpower
11th District
Republican Congressional Candidate
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