Bradley James Allan was an Australian martial artist, action choreographer, actor, and stunt performer. He worked in the Hong Kong film industry as a member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team and choreographed action scenes in Hollywood films. He is best known for his role as Alan on Gorgeous.
As a pediatric heart surgeon and medical researcher, I’ve trained my entire life in the art and science of solving problems and helping people live better lives. This same problem-solving approach is needed in Washington. We need to bring common sense back to Congress, instead of more politics, or a particular ideology. My goal is to provide actual solutions to problems by using the pragmatic problem-solving approach I learned as a doctor to improve American’s daily lives.
I believe we need to support our police, not Defund them. Our streets and homes need to be safe—that is one of the primary roles of government. I will give law enforcement a powerful voice in Washington. They have a hard enough job and they shouldn’t have to fend off calls to “defund” them. I will support efforts to ensure law enforcement always have the resources they need to do their job. I am opposed to “anti-law” proposals like “cashless bail” that just put criminals back on the street. I would support bills like the Protect and Serve Act that creates federal penalties for people that deliberately target law enforcement officers with violence. I would also consider federalizing certain crimes that local governments either can’t or won’t control. For example, trafficking Fentanyl, since Fentanyl overdose is now the number one killer of adults 18-45 years old.
Inflation is at a 40-year high, with surging gas, food and housing costs. Supply chain issues have led to shortages in just about everything. We have gone from energy independent, to begging other countries to produce more oil. The growing federal bureaucracy and over-regulation is punishing small businesses. We need people in Washington to remember Government works for us, not against us.
Politicians always talk about the money they bring back to the district or their success in passing bills without any regard to what these bills cost. Last year the government spent almost $7 trillion while collecting only $4 trillion in taxes. Democrats are still trying to pass “Build Back Better” at a cost of $5 trillion, and forgive student loans that could cost of up to $1.5 trillion.
Printing all this money has huge consequences. Excess spending is one of the major drivers of inflation, and it increases the national debt, which has ballooned to over $30 trillion.
My goal in congress would be to cut inflation by restoring financial sanity. We need to stop spending money we don’t have by just printing more. And Congress should try to rescind as much money that is in the pipeline as possible. Like American families, Congress needs to be financially responsible to get inflation under control. The Spending Spree must stop. We have enough on our credit card.
We need to stop punishing small businesses with federal over-regulation so they can create new jobs. But the Democrats have done the opposite. During the first year of the current administration, they put in place more than $200 billion in new regulatory costs and 131 million hours in new annual paperwork. This puts it far ahead of the two preceding administrations’ first years by a wide margin. As a small business owner, I understand how deleterious this can be. My goal would be to cut the regulatory and licensing burden on individuals and businesses. This will allow them to flourish, and help reduce supply chain problems by letting businesses and essential workers be more productive. And by lowering business costs, reduce inflation.
And no new corporate taxes as the Democrats now propose to support more inflationary spending. Corporate tax increases will increase inflation as the higher costs will simply be passed on to consumers. We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem.
Democrats one-size-fits-all approach to Covid-19 has failed miserably. They stopped following the science ages ago, and failed to actively pursue therapeutics and testing. Their reliance on lockdowns inflicted enormous economic and societal costs while providing little to no health benefit, and imposing them on children caused severe damage, including mental and social anguish. I can’t just sit by and let the politicians continue to mismanage Covid and healthcare.
As a practicing doctor for almost 40 years, I and have worked at major universities in the United States and Canada, as well as in Veteran’s hospitals. So, I understand how healthcare works, and how it can be improved. As a medical researcher with almost 100 papers and 7 book chapters I understand research. I understand the data and science of COVID and how best to manage this disease. I am opposed to prolonged lockdowns, as they have only been shown to cause economic harm without being beneficial, and I believe it is critical to keep our children in school as the science and multiple studies support this approach.
I believe that a good education is essential to a better future, and that parents have the right to be part of their children’s education. Our children should have the same opportunities that we had when we grew up. We need to get back to being more concerned about their education in terms of math, science, and literature, rather than gender identity and CRT (critical race theory). And we need to allow parents more school choice, as parents know what is best for their children. This means expanding vouchers, scholarship tax credit programs, education savings account programs, charter schools, and public school open enrollment. Education is the most important thing we can give our children.
This is a significant public crisis. Services are being provided, but the homeless population just keeps growing so it is clear the current approach is not working. Our goal should be to get people back to a place where they can be self-sufficient, not to just get them into a temporary shelter.
We need to remember that 75-85% of homelessness is caused by substance abuse or mental illness, and so they have different needs than someone who just doesn’t have a home. A one size fits all approach will not work—we need to tailor the treatment for different groups. I would support a single high-level position (maybe just below the cabinet secretary) to deal with this problem. I would like to include incentives for people, such as better housing if they get a job, or stop their addiction. I would never house children with people with mental illness or substance abuse. And the homeless shouldn’t be allowed to break the law when help is available.