U.S. Senate candidate ready to set America’s future straight

U.S. Republican Senate candidate Ben Sasse spoke with the people of Chadron at a town hall meeting at Country Kitchen, Tuesday.

Sasse opened the meeting showing a video of moving the Capital to Nebraska. The video showed a literal move of the Capital to Nebraska but what Sasse really meant was that if he is elected he will take a work ethic and morals of the Nebraska people.

“I want to run for U.S. Senate because I feel like I have a moral obligation to our younger generations to preserve the American dream,” Sasse said. “If I am elected, I believe that eight or 10 other senators will become apart of my vision and help support it to make the future of the younger generation better.”

Sasse brought the 21,762 pages of regulations of Obamacare, showing everyone that the regulations are longer then the original bill.

“I don’t think we are doing what we can as Americans to persuade the younger generations to keep the American Dream alive,” Sasse said.

Randy Bauer, who acted as the moderator, asked Sasse questions from the audience.

“What can a senator do to change the steam roller called Obamacare?” Bauer said. Sasse said to tell everyone that he is for the impeach of Obamacare all together. He also explained that just one senator is not going to do anything but with the help of two or more we can get something done.

Another question was, “How could they delay the employer mandate?” Sasse said that the act is unconstitutional and the media did not cover it because of the day that the government picked to bring this up.

“Employers were saying that they could not afford the minimum benefits package so they started cutting down employees or partially laying them off,” Sasse said.

“People on Medicare and people on Med plans, what can they do if they have a fixed income and high costing drugs?” Bauer said.

People on a fixed income and the government cannot change the rules, Sasse said.

“Washington has debited from 72-73 trillion dollars but they do not keep that on the balance sheet,” he said. “They point fingers at other people and they have so much debt.”

To close the meeting Sasse brought up the economy in Greece.

“The media is doing a terrible job to keep Americans updated on what is going on over in Greece,” he said. “Greece kept saying they were going to get around to paying off their debt, well now no one believes them so there economy is going down drastically. Many houses are being foreclosed and people are losing there jobs because the economy is going down.”

Sasse considers himself very relatable to the people all over Nebraska because he is the only candidate not from Omaha. He believes that with his upbringing here in Nebraska will help him in Washington. Sasse looks up to Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma, because he only cares about making things better for his state and not worrying about being liked in Washington. He also says this is his plan is to follow what Corburn does and not worry about being well liked, but doing what is right.