We are working to spend each dollar smarter, giving citizens the right to chose their provider, and vigilantly attacking fraud, waste and abuse while at the same time increasing benefits. I am also committed to preserving and protecting Social Security for current retirees and future generations. I will not allow any reduction in benefits for those receiving them. I am supporting the Social Security Preservation Act to ensure that the money in the Social Security Trust Fund only pays for Social Security. Medicare and Social Security are issues that are critically important to so many people in New Jersey and throughout our nation.
Libertarians deplore the initiation of coercive force by anyone including the government.
At the same time, we refuse to abandon the 2nd Amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms to protect our lives, liberty and property. History repeatedly shows that tyrannical governments including Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as well as our former British rulers have employed gun control to suppress dissenters and unfavored minorities. This we must resist. Peaceful, law-abiding citizens who own firearms are a threat to no one except criminals and despots. Most Americans depend upon their employers to provide health insurance.