Cat's Plan/The Issues | Grass Roots Support | What I Stand For | About Cat | Contact Me Indianapolis About the candidate: 28 years of military service Successful small business owner 7th District resident for the past 24 years The main-stream citizen that shares the same concerns and burdens as her neighbors. Has no special interest groups for campaign contributors Web Links on the Issues www.in.gov www.cqpolitics.com www.politicalusa.com www.onecarenow.org www.afmc.org www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20040326ar01p1.htm www.afcm.org/profitslowercost www.nationalreview.com www.truthout.org/index.htm Indiana's 7th Congressional District Map Contact Cat Ping Email Cat: Support@CatPing.com Mail your donations to: Cat Ping for Congress 4084 Pendleton Way, #225 Indianapolis, IN 46226 Make your contribution online: PayPal membership not required for credit card donation Or call: 317-557-2687 Get Involved! Please complete & submit the form below: Name (first & last): Street Address: City: State: Zip Code: E-mail: Daytime Phone: I would like to support Cat Ping for Congress in the following ways: (check all that apply) volunteer attend a fund raising event other (indicate below): In what ways can you volunteer? (check all that apply) mailings phone calls yard signs go door-to-door help at rallies help at a fund raiser host a fund raiser other (indicate below):     Visit Cat's MySpace Blog Click HERE Click play button to view video again Cat's Plan Cat Ping resonates with everyday people who know what it means to suffer politicians long on talk, but short on delivery. Cat Ping delivers results. As a military officer for the past 21 years, Cat has been a leader of men and women serving in the Army. Her leadership skills, and moral values, makes her a strong candidate for the people who recognize the need for change…the need for someone to take a stand for them...a need to face the tough issues and fight for the everyday citizen's right...a need to have someone do the people's business, and not their own…and a need to speak with a voice that resonates with the people and not special interest groups that helped to get them elected…the need is now…the time is now…to elect a candidate that speaks for the people. Cat Ping is that candidate...that voice... and the time is most definitely now. Where I Stand on the Issues As a candidate I have definite ideas on where we are, where we are heading and where we need to be positioned for success. The issues range from the more individual perspective to the more broad reaching issues on what impacts us all in our daily lives. Let me share some of those with you. First: I feel, as most of you may, that many of our problems circulate around oil and energy prices. I have been saying for years that there are alternative energy sources and that we should be tapping into them. These sources would provide solutions to a number of growing problems, one of which is the environment. What better way to make a positive inroad than to create a win-win solution on numerous problems. Why not go with energy efficient electric or hydrogen fueled cars. We, as a nation would decrease our dependency on oil and have a cleaner solution toward pollution emissions. We would effectively be cleaning up our air; reducing risk to the ozone, repairing damage years of smog has created and found a cheaper solution in the prevention of war. If as the largest consumers of oil demands were to significantly decrease, the oil produced in the united states would be sufficient to meet our own domestic needs; thereby, freeing us as a nation on the dependency of oil rich Arab nations. These are just a few of the benefits that come of alternative energy/fuel solutions. Second: Cut out the ridiculous government spending. How can we do that? Well, we need to elect candidates to office who really care about us, for starters. Look closely at the candidates' campaign fund supporters. See how many of them are from special interest groups, lobbyist, and unions. Those candidates may have the best intentions in the world, and mean every nice word they say during their campaigning; however, the bottom line exists for them, as well, and the pay back begins as soon as they are sworn into office. Somewhere in the pecking order, they will manage to throw in a crumb or two of real legislation that doesn't smack of pork barrel spending and has our real interest at heart, but I daresay that doesn't happen as much as we would like to think. Campaign Reform has been talked about for the past two to three general election campaigns—oddly, it seems to be missing somewhat this year. Hmmmmmmm. Third: A strong push to pass the Line Item Veto bill needs to be passed. If this bill were to pass through the house, then it would go a long way to cleaning up the issue of campaign reform. The president would then have the power to pass good legislative law that both parties work so hard for, but don't get passed because some member of the house or senate owes a payback to a campaign supporter/special interest group and decides to slide a line or two of pork barrel garbage spending into the bill. That significant one or two lines of garbage effectively kills the whole bill and all the hard work that went into the making of it. This way, both parties can rightly say that they are working hard to create law for the people, but that the other party, or the president, is out to undermine their efforts and the will of the people. It wasn't the will of the people for special interest groups to undermine the democratic process to govern and create law. And it certainly isn't the will of the people for the democratic process to be derailed by the growing minority of greedy unions, big business and special interest groups silently and subversively running the country behind the scenes. Fourth: Just like you, I'm sick to death of out of control medical costs and skyrocketing insurance rates. As a small business owner I want to provide for my employees quality health insurance coverage. The cost to insure my employees is staggering for a small business. What coverage I can provide is very meager and doesn't do a good enough job for what we pay. I'm not convinced that socialized medicine is the way to go, but have examined the merits. I have been reading up and researching on this subject and feel that a solution may rest somewhere in the middle. However, I do feel that we as a person have a big responsibility to own up to. What are we doing to keep our health at an acceptable level of good condition? If as a nation, community or neighborhood, we were doing something more positive on a personal level to get in shape and stay in shape, we would be in the driver's seat. How dependent would the insurance companies and medical facilities be on a nation of primarily healthy people? So, what I'm saying is this, we need to stop sniveling and recognize that we are partly to blame for the sad state of our growing medical costs. This in no way excuses the outrageous greed of the major Insurance company CEOs. Most of them have received in the past several years ungodly amounts of money in bonus pay from their stock holders. I call this blood money, and I say this because those stock holders are making a killing profit from the CEOs decisions to with-hold benefits to patients desperately in need of care, medicine and treatments, all while continually raising costs of premiums and forcing doctors and medical facilities to take less for their services. People languish in pain and suffering or even un-necessarily die because of their greedy tight-fisted practices. Doctors are being reduced to working 12 – 15 hour days just to file insurance claims and justification for why their patients need their services or procedures. This is recklessness. In effect, insurance companies are in the business of diagnosis and treatments for the ill. Clearly, the call to action is now, and your elected official needs your help. Please let them know how strongly you feel about this and what you would like to see done to correct it. Every voice resonates with the shared pain of outrage. It's time to turn that outrage on the truly deserving—insurance companies. Fifth: The war. Every Candidate has as a part of their platform that they will stop the war and bring our soldiers home. That's terrific, but how are they going to single handedly do that? As an Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel, I know better than my candidates what it means to serve during a time of war. I understand better than some what it takes to wage a successful war and bring it to an acceptable resolution. The soldiers and their families want the war to end soon, also, but with a more pragmatic view of things. We all want the sacrifices that were made count for something, not just another chapter in a history book as the one that cost so much, but served little purpose in the final analysis. There is a right way and wrong way to do most things, and certainly ending a war falls in that category. Let's be perfectly clear what our end state is for this war and then everyone needs to be 100% in concert with the goal and object in the achievement to ending this war. Not until that is accomplished can we say that the war is over and that it was worth the price. Anything less should be unacceptable to the American public. So yes, I too want the war to end, and I too believe that we can get the job done the right way. And hopefully you noticed that I said “we”. Because it is not going to be the individual politician that will make this happen but it will take the will of the people to make it so. Now I ask you, how would you have your will carried out? Let It Out! Are there some things that just don't seem to get better, or ever go away…and you wish they would? Well here is your chance to get it off your chest and hopefully feel better. This section of the website is designed for you to speak out on those issues that bother you the most, or issues that you would like to see something being done about. Cat would like to start out by saying that she is upset by what she has seen so far since her return last week regarding the increase in crime. She know that the new Mayor Ballard has a big job on his hands and is working to make a difference. Cat sincerely wants to see him make some sweeping changes that will put violent criminals behind bars, and keep them there. So, if you have something, even if it's about pot holes, which seem to be mushrooming up around the city, let it out! Share your comments HERE. Cat's Plan | Grass Roots Support | What I Stand For | About Cat | Contact Cat All Rights Reserved 2008 · Committee to Elect Cat Ping for Congress Campaign Designed by Bates & Associates, LLC This website is paid for and approved by the Committee to Elect Cat Ping for Congress Campaign.