Jo Jorgensen, Presidential Candidate

Dr. Jo Jorgensen is the Libertarian candidate for President. She’s been a full-time Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Clemson University since 2006 and holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Clemson, 2002). She also graduated in 1979 from Baylor University with a B.S. in Psychology and in 1980 from Southern Methodist University with an MBA. Her slogan for the campaign is let her speak.

With the Covid-19 situation, according to her official website, she believes that the Washington bureaucrats and politicians have shown gross negligence and ineptitude, thereby lengthened the pandemic. She wants to make sure that the federal government does not bungle and worsen a situation like this ever again. She has stated that if she is president then she will get rid of the efficacy requirement of the FDA, if not the FDA entirely.

While unemployment rates remain dangerously high and families are in dire financial straits Jorgensen wants to help. America needs a swift economic recovery. She believes we can accomplish this by ending the many ways in which the government stands in the way of job creation. She wants to end all federal government licensing requirements on workers and will encourage states to do the same. One of her highest priorities is lowering government spending and taxes to give us more jobs. She has stated that she “will work tirelessly to replace government regulation with natural market regulation, which is far more effective and sensible. Forming new businesses will be easier than ever.”

Jorgensen wants to fix our Healthcare system. She thinks Americans should be in charge of their own healthcare money. This would give patients the opportunity to shop for care the same way they do with any other product or service, and costs would go down as a result. She has stated that if she is your president, so that new medicines and procedures get to patients as quickly and safely as possible. She will also make more drugs available over the counter.

Criminal Justice Reform is a big issue for her. She wants to federally decriminalize all drugs and encourage states to do the same. She believes that as long as there is no victim and no crime done then she would pardon anyone convicted at a federal level of victimless crimes and instead allow the medical community to deal with substance abuse issues in a way that salvages lives, instead of throwing them away. She wants to defund federal involvement in policing. She will also defund the DEA and keep federal agencies out of local police matters unless called upon by state authorities.  She also will end the no-knock raids.

When dealing with environmental issues she believes that states should deal with many of the issues instead of it being entrusted to the federal government. She has stated that Local communities and individuals are nearly always better equipped to decide upon what will work for their economy while preserving the environment. She will also work with Congress to end all energy subsidies and level the playing field. 

Neutrality and Peace, Jorgensen believes that America needs to be free, off foreign battlefields, and at peace with other countries. She wants to stay out of foreign wars and open civilian trade between Americans and the citizens of other countries. She is proposing an American military force ready and able to defend the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and all U.S. territories against foreign attackers or invaders.

For Social Security, she has stated that she will work with Congress to enact a plan like the Cato Institute’s 6.2% Solution, granting more choice to everyone who pays the FICA tax. This plan has been scored by the Social Security Administration itself as restoring Social Security to permanent sustainable solvency.

If you fail to pay taxes, what the government says you owe, you can be fined, have your wages garnished, assets seized, even go to prison. She wants the money out of the government sector and back to the people who earn it. She has stated that she will work tirelessly to slash federal spending, make the government much, much smaller, and eliminate the federal income tax, so you can keep what you earn.

Jorgensen wants to limit spending and eliminate debt. She stated that if she was president, she would first audit and then end the Federal Reserve. Ending the Fed’s manipulation of interest rates would mean more market stability. Investors could get accurate signals on market conditions instead of being misled by Fed manipulation. She will veto any bill that increases spending, borrowing, deficits, or debt ceilings. 

She thinks that the Federal Department of Education has utterly failed to provide our children with the opportunity to thrive. She will work with Congress to immediately ensure that student debt, like any other kind of debt, can be renegotiated in bankruptcy. She will also work to end the Department of Education and encourage states to eliminate regulations that stifle innovation in education, including state-mandated textbooks, curricula, and testing; minimum numbers of days or hours teaching; and teacher certification. This will return control of education to where it belongs – with parents, teachers, and students.

Jo Jorgensen wants to make the streets safer for children. She wants to ease relief for those in need. She wants to have peace and neutrality for America. She wants to make America a better place for all Americans.