Mike Forrester Launches Campaign Website
Uses Blog to Communicate Directly with Voters
(Spartanburg, SC)-Today, State House District 34 candidate Mike Forrester announced the official launch of his new campaign website www.forresterforhouse.com . The website is interactive and will feature a regularly updated blog highlighting his ideas for addressing the issues facing the Upstate. “Most politicians will tell you about the problems our state is struggling with, but I think it’s time to start talking about the solutions to these problems” said Forrester.
Health Care
Our hospitals and doctors are required by Federal law to treat all who come to our emergency rooms. Knowing this, many of the uninsured, indigent, and increasingly, illegal aliens use our expensive emergency departments to treat routine problems. They come because they know they will not be charged.
It’s the rest of us who pay for it. Most of the high increases in private insurance costs underwrite these governmental policies to a point where reasonable health policies cannot be made. The entire system must be changed to something that is rational, encourages all to pay their fair share, and encourages health and wellness practices, which prevent emergencies.
Most healthcare professionals agree that the current system has enough money to take care of all if the distribution of resources were to make healthcare decisions rational. The state should encourage the development of such a system.
Tort Reform
Our current system encourages the excessive filing of law suits. The United States is the only country in the world where the losing side of a civil suit does not pay for the court costs and attorney fees of the winning side. The United States has 17 times per capita the number of practicing attorneys of the country which is in second place.
The costs embedded in our goods and services as a result of this burdensome Tort System are as uncontrolled as our tax system. One automotive company with a plant in Europe and one in the United States make an identical transmission linkage. It pays $2,500 per year to protect its European facility from the risk of automotive recall and over $250,000 for the same coverage for the same part in the United States. The sole difference is a civil court system which encourages the filing of frivolous law suits with no penalties to the losers.
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Taxpayer Protection
I agree with President Thomas Jefferson’s most basic governmental theory; “That government is best which governs least.” I also believe that educational attainment is key to economic growth, business growth, and jobs growth.
Further, I understand that many governmental supports, expenditures, and special interest provisions often have taxpayers spending their money for things that the private sector needs to. I know that by itself, the government has no money. Whatever it is spending, it’s spending the people’s money.
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Illegal Immigration
The very phrase “illegal immigration” is too politically correct to be accurate. True immigrants are not here illegally and those who are here illegally are lawbreakers, not immigrants. People in this country illegally are a security risk. Additionally, they strain our public services and taxes, through our educational system, our mandated health coverage, and public welfare support systems.
There are many ways in which our state identification system, law enforcement practices, and citizenship proof for services could make South Carolina far less attractive for those that break our laws.
Illegal immigration hurts us all and should be stopped as a matter of state policy.
Crime Prevention
Crime is an activity that can cause deep social and psychological scars. We must get serious about combating crime in South Carolina. Here are a few ideas:
- Habitual criminals should be punished severely and should be removed from society.
- Child abusers should suffer severe penalties and serve under conditions which fully prevent them from ever having access to children again.
- Criminal behaviors which are known to be predatory and repetitive must be permanently removed from the temptations upon which they prey.
- DUI penalties should be strengthened and made uniform.
- Judges must be held accountable by the public for the decisions that they make.
- Practicing attorneys should play absolutely no role in the selection of judges or the conditions under which they operate.
- Our state system of elected Coroners are accountable to no one in their routine, day to day operations. They should be replaced with a modern system of medical examiners that are an integral part of large city and county law enforcement.
Our criminal justice system has lost touch. It has become more responsive to special interests, offender leniency, and liberal judges than to the people it’s supposed to protect. We must work to change this.
Solutions are a team effort. What are your ideas? Let us know in the comment section below.
SHJ: Forrester campaigns for Talley’s House seat?
Mike Forrester says he’s had enough of people constantly running down his home state.
“I’m tired of hearing everyone concentrate only on South Carolina’s problems,” Forrester said. “It’s time to stop complaining and start doing the hard work it’s going to take to find solutions.”
To that end, Forrester said Friday he will seek the Republican nomination for the state House District 34 seat. Rep. Scott Talley, R-Moore, now holds the seat, but he is running for the state Senate rather than seeking re-election.
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