Daryl Mikell Brooks For U.S. Senate 2008: Why I'm Running

Friday, February 8, 2008

Why I'm Running

Why I'm Running
America was built on the idea of making and leaving a better place for our children and grandchildren. President Bush and Senator Frank Lautenberg have not kept this promise.

A misguided war and record deficits are crippling our future.
I will ask tough questions and dig for answers and expose sweetheart deals that are costing you and your families millions of wasted tax dollars. Today, that corruption continues, quite frankly, because our government is held hostage by special interests groups, who are the real rulers in Washington. They prevent us from dealing with the problems facing our nation. We have to act now to break their grip and return power to you, the American people.
Washington is broken and our Senator, Frank Lautenberg and the Democrats, are fully complicit in this culture of corruption. He works against New Jersey’s interests and rewards his big money donors with his votes…big business, large insurance companies and lobbyist friends. Our jobs are being outsourced, Lautenberg has no leadership on immigration, and instead works for his friends in China.
Lautenberg has turned his back on students and their families as college tuition skyrockets.

We also have to fix our tax system and change it in a way that provides across-the-board tax relief. It has to provide at least as much help to the middle class and small businesses as it does to the special interests who can afford high-powered lobbyists. A tax system that shifts its burden to the middle class and small businesses while giving special breaks and loopholes to the wealthy and powerful is just wrong. Let's tell it like it is…The IRS has lost the trust of the American people and need to abolish and replace with a better system.

You may be asking yourself why will be any different when I get to Washington. You may think, like I do, that politicians always talk a good game at election time, but then get to Washington and become part of the problem. I will be different. I will not take money from special interests PACs or registered Washington lobbyists - not for this campaign, and not after I get elected. The best way to stay true to what I promise you, and to what I believe, is to stay outside the system that has corrupted so many before me, and that's why I will never take money from PACs or registered Washington lobbyists.

I hope you'll join me. Since I am not taking the easy money that's corrupted so many, I need help from individuals like you, who want to take our country back. We're going up against wealthy, powerful special interests, so anything you can afford to give will be greatly appreciated.

I respectfully ask for your support. It is time we fight back.
I offer trustworthy, competent and genuine leadership. I am not a Politician.

Together we can make a difference.
I am Daryl Mikell Brooks. I am running for Senate.

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IRAQ BRING TROOPS HOME NOW!!!!!

Daryl Mikell Brooks believes that we should keep pushing for a positive outcome in Iraq, while preparing for a handoff. He believes that we should tell the Iraqis that we are not pulling out immediately, but neither are we staying indefinitely. The Iraqis must build up their army and police forces, because the day is coming when Iraqis must take charge of Iraq.

Our mission in Iraq has been plagued from the start by poor intelligence, poor planning for the post-war, and a disdain for the advice of our allies and our own military leaders. The Army's chief of staff was ignored, and too few troops were deployed. The Administration failed to foresee the insurgency that followed the war, and many of our servicemen and women who were deployed were not properly equipped with body armor or armored vehicles. Troops were forced to improvise in the field and assigned to duty for which they were not trained. These and other errors in judgment have cost us casualties and made the insurgency more intractable.

What should we do? First, we must supply our troops in Iraq with everything they need to suppress the insurgency and secure the country. Second, we must step up the training of Iraqi security forces – army, border guards, building guards, police and special counter-terrorism units – so that we can turn over to Iraqis the responsibility for securing their own country. Third, we should help the Iraqi forces protect themselves through the provision of better armor and smarter security where recruits gather. Fourth, we must assist Iraqis in forming a functioning representative government, in which all ethnic groups have a voice. And fifth, we must enlist greater allied assistance in protecting Iraq 's borders and preventing the infiltration of foreign terrorists.

JOBS & TRADE

Jobs & Trade
Good jobs and fair trade are the bottom line of a nation's prosperity, and that prosperity is how we pay for the defense of our ideals. Many communities in New Jersey and across America have been hit hard by unfair trade policies and conservative legislation that have made it increasingly attractive for businesses to pack up and move out of the country with the federal government's blessings and tax relief support. This has placed many talented, trained, and dedicated workers on the unemployment rolls almost overnight. The President's tax cuts to the wealthiest one-and-a-half percent of this country have crippled the ability of social services programs to provide aid to our neighbors, friends, and relatives when they need it most. Our current trade policies need to be amended to allow fair trade and protect the workforce of America. Any future legislation needs to consider foremost the impact it will have on the welfare of all Americans.

Full-time workers should have the right to earn a living wage and we must pass fair trade initiatives to protect them. We must change trade and tax policies to favor and reward businesses that create jobs in the US, especially in the awarding of government contracts, while doing all we can to discourage businesses that outsource or set up offshore addresses to avoid paying taxes. We must also create a favorable environment for small businesses even as we correct our corporate welfare policies.

New Jersey must develop incentive packages, better infrastructure, and a dedicated workforce to position itself to lobby immediately for new business and to encourage existing employers to expand their operations within New Jersey. We have some of the largest Pharmaceutical research companies in the nation in our own backyard. By creating a favorable environment for the development of service, manufacturing, and satellite office communities, we can make the most of this natural advantage.

We should also plan for the future by encouraging investment in businesses focused on new energy technologies and renewable energy resources. Manufacturing, transport, and application of these technologies for New Jersey and the Nations can certainly be developed here, while agriculture can benefit from producing biofuel and ethanol products.

Technical training and support-service education can be administered through the community college system. Online education and support will provide even greater access, which will expand the capabilities of the community college system, cementing its role in every community.

ENVIROMENT

Environment
America's promise will not mean much if our environment is not secure. The international community of climate scientists believe the evidence for global warming is "unequivocal" and that human activity is the likely cause. A report released recently by some of our top retired military leaders warns that the result of climate changes from global warming will pose a "serious threat to America's national security." If our environment is not secure, neither are we. This is a moral issue as much as it is a security issue. Can we afford to bet our children's future on the consequences of inaction? The time to act is now.

We must invest in a new energy economy that reduces our dependence on foreign oil and other non-renewable resources that are polluting our environment. By encouraging the development of renewable, non-polluting energy sources, we can create new business and job opportunities in New jersey that stimulate the economy even as we move towards securing our energy independence and the environment.

We must take steps to conserve energy and manage its use more efficiently and effectively. We must work to reduce and cap greenhouse gas pollution and plan for the future.

Because pollution anywhere can potentially create problems everywhere, we must lead the way in formulating a new international treaty on climate change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale.