Paul Babeu

• Homeland Security and Border Control: Our borders are NOT secure, as evidenced by hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants pouring across our southern borders and Mexican Drug Cartels continuing to push billions of dollars in drugs across America through Arizona. Worse yet, if illegal immigrants and cartel members can easily walk across our border, it stands to reason that possible terrorists with military training, deliberate plans and lots of money can cross the border while more easily evading detection.

• Energy: One of the pillars of a productive and innovative economy is access to continuous and affordable energy sources. I believe in an “All Energy All The Time” policy on energy – be it solar, wind, bio, nuclear, natural gas or coal. To consciously avoid pursuing sources of energy hampers our competitiveness unilaterally – another way in which we have allowed President Obama to put our country in the back seat.

• Veterans': As a U.S. Army veteran, I believe that our federal government and elected leaders have broken their sacred trust with our veterans when it comes to the care and support of them and their families upon their return home. The VA system is outdated and broken and far too many veterans are homeless, unemployed and impoverished. Delayed care and intentional false scheduling has killed Arizona veterans. VA staff who haven’t performed their jobs should be immediately fired and barred from any further pay or bonuses. The administrators who orchestrated this scam in order to qualify for bonuses should face criminal charges.

• Second Amendment Rights: The second amendment is a fundamental individual right, not a collective right. Opponents of it maintain that it is outdated in an age of modern technology, but it is as important as ever and no one knows that better than America’s lawful gun owners. As a gun owner, I support every lawful Americans’ right to own the weapon of their choice to protect their life and liberties.

• Health Care: In recent years, President Obama has seen fit to structurally reengineer ONE SEVENTH of the overall domestic economy to fix a problem that did not exist. Did we get to keep the doctors and insurance plans we liked? Did health care costs come down? Did premiums become more affordable? None of what was promised to us is reality.

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