KHIRTER

KHIRTER
 Georgia, Democratic

The congressmen from Georgia I most agree with is [|David Scott].

**Education: ** One issue that is important to me is education. I feel that education should be a responsibility of the state not federal government. I feel that our level of education is slowly declining compared to other countries such as China, and that in order to obtain good jobs and have a satisfying income, people first need to be educated to learn and advance in their lives. If all people individually gain knowledge about certain subjects, as a whole America would be a much smarter, advanced country.



 * Job Employment: ** The economy is not going well in America, and I think everyone agrees we need to create jobs to fix it, but I am more interested in the motivation of jobless people. If the government is giving money and helping out people who are out of work, those jobless people won't have the motivation to go out and get a job. The government needs to stop pushing along people without jobs with money and beneficial things, and start motivating them to go get a job.

**Gun Control**: Gun control is a huge issue for me. I don't think we should have the right to own and use guns without a real purpose of having one for a sense of protection. We are given guns to protect ourselves from danger, but you never hear in the news that someone used the gun in their house to protect from an intruder. People can just take their gun and kill someone free willingly, if they wanted. Of course they would get sentenced to jail, but that doesn't change the fact that they shot and/or killed someone. Our country has the highest rate of criminals of the world, and I think if we didn't have guns, that rate would decrease immensely.


Our bill is focusing on jobless Americans in today's economy. We feel that in order to give a job opportunity to a struggling American, there first needs to be jobs open and available. Our bill wants to establish a fund for small businesses. We feel that if the government funds a small business, just to get them running and in business, job availability will become less scarce, and the economy can start to circulate again. Our research shows that 75 percent of Americans want to start their own business and 84 percent said they would be more passionate about ther job if they had their own business. These qualities are beneficial to all of America.


<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> !) Environmental issues may conflict with Georgia's lumber industry, which is one of their main sources of income. 2) Government help to farmers which helps a lot of Georgia's economy 2) Georgia is very serious about public safety and any bill devoted to improving public safety will be beneficial to Georgia 4) In a study less people from Georgia are willing to buy cigaretes if they are at a higher price, so to decrease smokers in georgia we need to increase the price. 5)Health care needs to be more affordable for salary workers which makes up 78.9% of Georgia

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