Issues update covering various topics, including 2 new "Critical Challenges" papers (Veteran's Issues and Illegal Immigration) and Blanche Lincoln's expensive "Child Nutrition" proposal (download update)
Immigration has made America great. We should all take great joy in the richness of talents, skills, and energy that millions upon millions of immigrants have given our nation. Many of us are who we are because of immigration. My very mother immigrated from Czechoslovakia, and both my father's parents were from Europe. Most of us can trace our ancestry only a few generations back to immigrants.
But illegal immigration is a problem with tremendous direct, indirect, and social costs. It has put tremendous burdens on social programs and has been identified as a source of significant crime and other problems in many regions of America.
In the following pages, I will outline the seriousness of the illegal immigration problem. I will then outline five specific initiatives we should pursue to remedy the problem.
We can solve illegal immigration. We must solve illegal immigration.
Bernie finished the Bentonville Half-Marathon in an impressive 2 hours and 2 minutes, placing 8th out of 21 in his division!
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My 4 year-old grandson Peter (Skoch) has memorized the Pledge of Allegiance. I can't watch it without smiling and being hopeful for our future!
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Our Veterans have given us the freedoms we enjoy, security from harm, and are arguably the reason we continue to exist as a free nation.
Unfortunately, our Veterans are suffering from the burdens of their service. We as a nation owe it to them to honor our commitments in helping them overcome the challenges brought on by those burdens.
In the next few pages I will briefly deal with just two of the many issues that burden far too many Veterans: Homelessness and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
I will briefly outline:
- How pervasive Veteran homelessness is
- How many Veterans are afflicted with PTSD
I will conclude by offering six specific common-sense initiatives that need to be pursued—and that I will pursue—to honor our commitments to our Veterans in overcoming these challenges.
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Fayetteville, AR, March 11, 2010—Brigadier General Bernie Skoch, Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, Arkansas 3rd District, has published his second "Critical Challenge" paper identifying two critical veterans issues.
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