allen west for congress

About Allen West

LTC Allen West has lived his life in service to America. In 2004, when it was time to retire from more than twenty years of service in the US Army, he brought his wife and two young daughters to Broward County, Florida, where he taught high school. He then returned to Afghanistan as an advisor to the Afghan army, an assignment he finished in November 2007.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Allen West received BS (UT) and MS degrees in political science (KSU). He also holds a Master of Military Arts and Sciences from the US Army Command and General Staff Officer College in political theory and military history and operations.

"Education is the great equalizer," he says. "With a good education, any child in America can live his dream."

Allen West knows that for our children to live their dreams, they need to be safe. He has faced down the world's terrorists: in Operation Desert Storm, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was battalion commander for the Army's 4th Infantry Division, and in Afghanistan, where he trains Afghan officers to take on the responsibility of securing their own country.

In his Army career, Col. West has been honored many times, including a Bronze Star, three Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals (one with Valor), and a Valorous Unit Award. He received his valor award as a Captain in Desert Shield/Storm, was the US Army ROTC Instructor of the Year in 1993, and was a Distinguished Honor Graduate III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas Air Assault School.

Excellence is a West family tradition. His wife, Angela, holds an MBA and PhD. and works as a financial planner. His daughter, Aubrey, is a sophomore at Archbishop McCarthy HS and his daughter, Austen, is a 6th grader at Parkway Christian School.

Issues

For Economic Restoration And Fiscal Responsibility

• Make the tax cuts permanent; abolish the Death Tax and Alternative Minimum Taxes; simplify the tax code to offer a one-page tax return.
• Reduce corporate and capital gains taxes; reward corporations with tax cuts or incentives for keeping jobs on American soil.
• Prevent appropriations bills from including unrelated projects or appropriations to reduce extraneous politics.
• Immediately discontinue the practice of earmarks to restore fiscal responsibility to an out-of-control Congress.

For A More Secure America

• Keep America on the offense against global terrorism and its state sponsors.
• Immediately secure our borders; cease taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals, establish English as our national language; enforce all existing laws.
• Deport foreign felons to their countries of origin; end the practice of anchor babies; promote H-2A visas for employee recruitment by businesses.
• Move Border Patrol from Immigration and Naturalization Service to the Department of Defense.
• Support Israel to become a member of NATO to share its protection with our allies.
• Approve FISA to allow real-time action in response to terrorist contact with any person within US boundaries.

For Energy Independence

• To provide immediate relief and long term solutions for energy, eliminate caps on domestic oil production.
• Support research and development of full spectrum of energy sources, including sugar-based ethanol.

• Suspend the 2007 corn ethanol program to reduce current pressure on global food prices.

For Education And Health Care Improvement

• Support and facilitate trade education programs to develop marketable skills.
• Allow open-market purchase of health care insurance throughout the US, rather than restrict options by state, and other market-driven solutions.
• Duplicate FloridaCompareCare.gov and MyFloridaRx.com nationally to allow comparison shopping for cost and quality of health care providers and procedures.
• Require “e-prescriptions” to reduce fraud and error from misread handwritten prescriptions.

For Natural Disaster Insurance

• Create federal tax credit for the cost of windstorm and earthquake insurance; no tax on that amount of income.
• Allow federal tax credit for any and all amounts paid to repair or rebuild any property, crop or equipment damaged by natural disasters not covered by insurance for all forms of property ownership.

For Supporting Our Troops

• Ensure troop funding must NEVER be used to resolve internal partisan disputes as long as American soldiers are deployed in a war zone.
• Provide health care funding for any deployed soldier serving or injured in the line of duty as a fully funded annual budget line item.
• VA mortgage funding should include a credit equal to a 10% down payment for a first home purchase.

For the Second Amendment

• An armed and informed law-abiding citizenry is the best defense against an unjust government and the criminal element created by irresponsible societal benevolence and activist judges.
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