"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

America is at a crossroads. While our present challenges are formidable, we can still achieve an optimistic future.

Our present situation has families living in tent cities, and the destitute drinking from paper bags next to boarded-up factories and warehouses.

Our future has a resurgence of manufacturing, production, and innovation, creating value from reinvigorated human and natural resources.

Our present situation has people so desperate for employment, that they are working in jobs and conditions that are intellectually, emotionally, physically, and spiritually damaging.

Our future has a resurgence of economic freedom with Americans able to pursue their dreams, launching new businesses that serve their communities, and enjoying the profit that comes from creating value and satisfying customers.

Our present situation has a health care system that reduces patients to numbers, and too often forces physicians to choose between staying in business and taking the time to care.

Our future has a health care system full of caring providers with the freedom to offer patients the best care at the best price, and patients surrounded by affordable options to help them maximize wellness, avoid chronic illness, and not be financially devastated by unexpected medical emergencies.

How do we achieve this optimistic future? We must stop repeating the mistakes of the past, and move in a different direction -- the direction of freedom.

Over the past few decades, forces within our nation have been working tirelessly to centralize our economy, regulate every facet of our lives, and make our federal government bigger and more invasive than ever before. As government has grown, our freedom to create, innovate, build, and profit has diminished.

As a physician, entreprenuer, and father, B.J. Lawson will work hard to take our nation on a different road -- one that leads to less government, more freedom, and keeping more money and resources locally to create our own businesses and jobs.

Cut Taxes to Stimulate Job Growth:

Today in America, millions of CEOs are operating small to medium sized businesses. Career politicians sing the praises of “small business”, when in fact our twenty-four year incumbent David Price has embraced corporate welfare to those deemed “too big to fail”.

Reduce the Size of Government:

There is not a single aspect of American economic life that special interests and career politicians do not want to control. Congressman Price voted with Nancy Pelosi to pass a health care bill that amounted to a mandated tax on millions of young Americans – including college students – as well as millions of small businesses who currently cannot afford to provide health care. Instead of giving our damaged health care system back to patients and providers, they sacrificed the doctor/patient relationship on a funeral pyre of lobbyist cash from insurance companies and special interests.

Reform the Federal Regulatory Burden:

Congressman Price has voted to sacrifice our jobs and sovereignty with destructive trade agreements – including with communist China – while also voting to regulate local manufacturers out of the United States.

Reduce Spending to Restore Fiscal Balance:

David Price has overseen a growth in government spending and national debt that have grown exponentially over his 24 year career. It is essential that we break our dependence on government borrowing and spending, and return purchasing power and prosperity to our local communities. Building strong local economies requires that we keep our money and resources in our communities, and not rely on a a failed "trickle down" policy of government spending that only benefits the politically connected.

Empower Local Education:

Federal education policy is not good policy, and costs North Carolina millions.  We must keep North Carolina’s money and education policy in North Carolina. We know our state and our children. Bureaucrats in Washington do not.

Restore Trust in Government:

David Price admits to not reading critical legislation before voting. Furthermore, Congressman Price admits that many pieces of legislation so complicated that they are essentially incomprehensible. Passing legislation that is not fully understood, or understandable, is simply legislative malpractice. We must demand better of our elected representatives if we are to restore the trust and legitimacy of our federal government.

The gulf between our present and an optimistic future may seem immense -- but in reclaiming our freedom to be productive, we will cross it more quickly than we can imagine.

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