Allen West
Allen West
Allen Bernard West is an American political commentator, former member of the United States House of Representatives, and retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Florida's 22nd congressional district in the House from 2011 to 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 February 1961
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
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Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.
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But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.
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The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass on a heritage, a lineage and a legacy of American exceptionalism to each and everyone of you so that you can enjoy all the great liberties and freedoms that all the previous generations have had.
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This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When you look at the theocracies all across the Middle East, where we look at constitutions that are based upon the Qur'an, I don't think you want to see that happening in the United States of America. So it is a theocratic political construct.
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When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.
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This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.
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Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.
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One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.
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Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.
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You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.
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I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.
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I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.
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When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.
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Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?