If you work for a fast growing company, you don’t want your employer to get taken over by a competitor because then your job could be in jeopardy.

For the last seventeen years I have worked for a wonderful company in Fort Worth that has been growing every year. This company has given generously to local charities and rewarded employees so well that it has regularly been cited by Forbes Magazine and Fortune Magazine as one of the “Best Companies to work for.” Every year the sales have grown and the stock has risen to make it one of the best stocks to own, even after the 2008 economic crisis.

However, there was a competitor company that was not doing so well and it chose to lay off thousands of its own employees so that it could afford to take over our company and secure its own future.

If the purpose of free markets is to allow survival of the fittest, then should we allow a withering company to swallow a growing company? Such mergers reduce competition and deprive us of some of the best opportunities in the stock market.

When a company is ailing, then it makes sense for a merger that increases efficiency.

However, when a company is growing then I think its employees should be protected against “merger-layoffs” with a mandatory severance package of one year’s wages.

I have not borrowed and spent trillions of dollars on the taxpayers’ credit.

Nor have I given any of that borrowed money to foreign nations.

I did not receive campaign contributions from global corporations.

I don’t need to apologize to British Petroleum because I represent local Texans.

If you want someone who has not let America down, then vote Bryon Severns for Congress.

The first step to improve our economy is to get banks lending to small businesses, but that requires a ban on federal borrowing so that banks won’t be able to invest in Treasury Bills. Otherwise, banks will continue to be satisfied with safe interest on Treasury Securities and the banks will have no desire to make loans to people and small businesses.

“No more National Debt” should be our top priority for a sustainable America.

I favor replacing the federal income tax with an adjustable Fair Tax. The absence of a federal income tax would entice global corporations to locate their corporate headquarters in America.

Why did Joe Barton, my opponent, apologize to British Petroleum? Does he care about the Americans that are out of work because of BP’s mistake? Does he care about the loss of fish and shrimp and shellfish in the Gulf and the mess on our formerly beautiful beaches?

I would never apologize to BP, nor would I accept any campaign donations from BP.

Joe Barton wants to continue exempting BP from responsibility with a $75 million liability cap. I want to remove this liability cap.

Abraham Lincoln said that our nation is a government “of the people, by the people, for the people.”

Joe Barton thinks Congress should represent global corporations, at the expense of local people.

To restore America to the ideals of our founding fathers vote Bryon Severns for Congress.

An incumbent that rationalized his votes for bailouts and the spending of trillions is highly likely to continue big spending if he gets re-elected. When Joe Barton said it was good for the economy to spend billions when the budget deficit was 1.5 trillion, then he was the same as a Greek politician. Is it good for our economy to pile so much debt on America that our nation falls into a Greek style sovereign debt crisis? If Joe Bailout bankrupts America, then our Treasury Bills won’t be worth a cent and Social Security and Medicaid will have worthless IOU’s from the Treasury. All the retired people who put their life savings in T-Bills would be bankrupt and would be dependent on Social Security, which would also be bankrupt. Or maybe his plan is to devalue the US dollar ten times that the national debt won’t be such a burden, but that would inflate the price of a car to two hundred thousand dollars and the average house would cost a million dollars. This kind of inflation would bankrupt all the retired people who put their life savings into conservative investments like bonds or cash. They would be forced to look for a job that might not exist, since 8 million jobs were lost since 2008.

The government says unemployment is only 9.5 %, but the youth unemployment is 20% and climbing. If we continue on this path then there will be riots in the streets.

I would put our economic security at the top of the priority list. Instead of Joe Bailout, vote Bryon Severns for Congress.

As long as we have a federal income tax instead of an adjustable Fair Tax, then let the IRS 1040 forms include a questionaire allowing taxpayers to say how they want their tax dollars spent.

Let the taxpayers decide how much of their taxes should go to Defense, Social Security, Medicaid, Wellfare, International Aid, Education, Highways, National Parks, Border Patrol, Iraq War, Afganistan War, Bank Bailouts, and so on.

Then require Congress to apportion the budget according to the taxpayer bugdet poll. This will make our government more democratic and will take take the political fighting out of the budget allocation.

If taxpayers want more taxes spent on Social Security, they will say so. If they want less taxes spent on Bank Bailouts, they will say so.

People like to spend money, but they don’t like to have money taken from them; it makes them feel robbed. Let the taxpayers allocate the budget and they will feel ownership in how they spend their taxes. This will allow the taxpayers to represent themselves in the budget decisions.

This would be true “Representation For Taxation.”

Oust Congress of the “bank buddies” and “national-debtors” who play Monopoly with our money, or else our life savings won’t be enough to pay our taxes.

Vote Libertarian for quality money and sustainably small government.

If universal health care is the goal of America, then why is it NOT in the United States Medical Licensing Examinations’ mission statement? Instead of increasing the supply of doctors, they have restricted the supply by raising the minimum test score.