"graduated with honors from Princeton University and with high honors from Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for the Chief Justice of the United States." Without ever having held office in the past he was elected the 34th U.S. Senator from Texas. He is a true conservative representative, and champions small businesses and minimal government.
So where does Mr. Cruz stand on all the issues?
Healthcare: Mr. Ted Cruz has been a strong advocate for repealing Obamacare. He opposed its implementation in the first place, and filibustered for twenty one hours in an effort to thwart the bill. He says that Obamacare is causing people to lose their jobs and move into only part-time work, as well as making healthcare costs rise to an unmanageable level. He has said recently that while others have given up opposing Obama's healthcare plan he will continue throughout his political career.
Welfare: Here is what Mr. Cruz had to say on the subject during the 2012 Republican national convention:
"Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility. 55 years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenage immigrant, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you. Let me give you a government check and make you dependent on government. And by the way, don't bother learning English. That would have been the most destructive thing anyone could have done.
Instead, my parents worked together to start a small business, to provide for their family and to chart their own future. That's the American dream.
To restore America, to get Americans back to work, we must rein in the leviathan. We must stop spending money we don't have and turn around our crushing debt. Each of you comprises the fabric of our nation. Together, we must revive our many-century love story with liberty and restore that shining City on a Hill that is America."
Education: "Sen. Cruz believes that all children deserve a quality education that gives them the opportunity to succeed. School choice gives students more opportunities and improves public schools, making our schools stronger, more effective, and more accountable to the communities they serve.
Sen. Cruz opposes Common Core because education decisions should be made on the state and local level, where parents and communities can be more involved and find solutions better suited to their kids’ needs." (From Senator Cruz's campaign website.)
Environment: He wishes to end regulations on energy production. He was an advocate for the Keystone pipeline, oil fracking, and offshore drilling. He says that the energy business is growing rapidly, and could help our economy greatly, if only the people working on it could do so without as many environmental regulations.
Taxes: Ted Cruz, like most right wing conservatives is for decreased spending in the government, and lower taxes. He lobbied against raising the debt ceiling, and hopes that a less regulated government can do that. He also opposes taxing the internet saying that he wants it to remain a free and regulation free resource for the general populace. He says that taxing the internet which is a mainstay of growth and progress would inhibit that progress. This April he announced that he wished to abolish the IRS altogether.
Illicit Drug use and regulation: Now Ted Cruz does not have much in the way of policy concerning this subject and he has not said much concerning it either. He has stated that because the 'war on drugs' is the law of the land it must be enforced, but that does not mean that he will not try and change that once he is in office.
Pro Choice/Pro Life: Mr. Cruz is very much Pro Life, and has opposed all pro choice action that has come his way. He is against contraception as well, and ivf. He strongly supported Hobby Lobby and their action towards religious freedom in small businesses, trying to receive the right to decide whether they supplied women on staff with contraceptives.
Gun Control: Ted Cruz is an advocate of the NRA and wishes to abolish "burdensome" regulations on arms. He strongly supports the second amendment and has voted against bills that add more regulations; as well as authoring a brief on the subject.
Foreign Affairs: Mr. Cruz takes a hardline view on national security and says we must do everything we can to protect our country. He has supported legislation that took action against terrorists in Benghazi and against Hamas. He also supported a bill to re-instate regulations against Iran. He wants to take a strong militaristic stance against ISIS and terrorism in general.
Immigration: "As the son of a Cuban immigrant, Sen. Cruz celebrates legal immigration. He has championed measures to secure the border, reform the legal immigration system, and uphold the rule of law. " He has a lot of firsthand experience in this area having lived in Texas his whole life. He says that regulating our borders would limit access to criminals that would cross over otherwise. He does wish to reform immigration to make access to legal immigrants easier.
Now it is obvious that Ted Cruz is quite a bit less experienced than our last subject, however he does have strong and obvious stances on most of the issues. Simply because he has not been in the game as long makes it harder to collect a lot of his policy information in depth. This is an interesting contrast to Hillary Clinton because Mr. Cruz leans as far to the right as Mrs. Clinton does the left. He is definitly an interesting option.
Next up is Senator Bernie Sanders!
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