Our United States of America and our people are facing many great challenges in 2010 and beyond.
We are engaged in two troubling foreign wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and must defend against terrorists at home and abroad, with no clear victory and peace in sight.
We are in serious economic recession, with 10 percent of our people needing work but unemployed.
We are irresponsibly considering big spending that will cause a budget deficit of $1.4 trillion – adding to the staggering national debt of $12.1 trillion, on which we must pay interest.
Taxes are too high, burdening our people and putting brakes on our nation’s economy.