In its last session, the Legislature enacted higher-education reform legislation. Tell us the first legislation you would sponsor if elected, and explain why you believe the issue is important. Dr. Richard Kerr Answers 1. There are things that can be done at the federal level that help all of the states' economies. Government produces nothing.
Government uses force, or the threat of force, to take from some and fund others' projects.
That is the nature of government. So to the extent that we can reduce the drag that government programs put on the economy generally, we will increase our abundance in this country, and West Virginia would sha re in that abundance. I think that if we reduced the federal programs that are destroying education, and which are encouraging dependency and sloth, we would be helping the people in all of our states, including West Virginia. First of all, the budget surplus is a myth. If you factor in Social Security, we continue to be accumulating debt, not surplus.