Faye's Core Issues
RESTORING ECONOMIC JUSTICE
TO PROTECT OUR MIDDLE CLASS
For EVERY person in Congress, there are 60 lobbyists. Media owned by corporate giants like GE make it hard for people to keep themselves fully informed.
Elected officials should work for the voters, and not for the special interests. Public financing of election campaigns is needed to ensure our government is truly “by the people, for the people”, rather than “by the billionaires, for the billionaires.”
Since I lived in Europe, I know it makes more sense for the mainstream media to give each candidate equal time through free PSA type announcements.
While independent truckers around the nation were striking to highlight the disastrous impact of soaring fuel prices on their survival, the chief executives of the five biggest oil companies justified their record profits. As a member of Congress I will support measures that can curtail the excessive profits by Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips and Chevron, and question their next to nothing investment in renewable sources of energy. In 2007, they got $18 billion in tax breaks, when their profits hit $123 billion and oil prices had reached runaway highs.
Re-regulating the Finance Industry is a must, if we want to prevent another disastrous sub-prime mortgage meltdown, like the one that led to record foreclosures across district 7. Particularly hard hit was Flagler County.
The loss of our middle-class, which in past decades had made the US the envy of the world, and the growing ranks of the poor, is a disgraceful phenomenon, and particularly unacceptable in a civilized society. We need to make sure that in a "working society", people can make enough to support their families. Minimum wage should be increased and indexed to keep pace with inflation. Pay Day loan advance interest should be restricted even more, to 25% instead of the current 36%.
It is shameful how "uncivilized" our country has become in the way we treat those who are less fortunate than we are. Attacking poverty is not charity, it is a must for our moral standing in the world.
The primary role of government is to protect its citizenry, at home first,then from abroad. Fighting economic injustice against the American people is vital to our democracy and it is at the heart of my objectives.