George Allen: It’s Time for America’s Comeback
Newsmax.com
By Matthew Belvedere and Kathleen Walter
June 19, 2011
It’s “time for an American comeback” to rescue the nation from the precipice of dangerously high debt levels, says former Virginia Gov. George Allen.
The rebound needs to be “based upon the principles of freedom and opportunity and personal responsibility, rather than dictates, mandates, and redistribution or dependency on government,” Allen said during an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV.
Allen also talked about his candidacy to regain his old U.S. Senate seat in Virginia, a vital contest for the GOP nationally in 2012. Republicans would like to make this blue seat one of the four red net gains needed to win the Senate majority.
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Democrat Jim Webb, who beat Allen in 2006, has announced that he won’t seek re-election. Allen’s likely challenger is Tim Kaine, who also is a former Virginia governor and formerly was President Barack Obama’s handpicked chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The latest polls show that Allen and Kaine are deadlocked.
“Our country needs to take back control of our own destiny because we’re vulnerable to others because of our high taxes on job creating businesses and our dangerous debt and our counter-productive energy policies,” contends Allen, who says he has just the solution.
On Tuesday, he announced his “Blueprint for America’s Comeback” at an event in Virginia’s capital city of Richmond. “There are three key points in our blueprint, my blueprint action plan for jobs, opportunity, and competitiveness,” Allen explained to Newsmax.TV.
“Number one, we need to reduce the taxes on job-creating businesses” to 20-percent — a move he says will create 500,000 private-sector jobs a year.
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