Who We Are

If the choice is made to end a pregnancy, the law must, to the greatest extent possible, recognize the obligation to preserve life at all costs, invoking the principles of the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm," principally regarding the life of the mother and nextly, regarding the life and wellbeing of the fetus or unborn child.

Or, in other words, a woman who no longer wishes to be pregnant, shall have the right to remove a growing baby from her body on day one, through and up to one minute before birth.  

However, doctors performing the removal shall be ethically, morally and legally bound to honor their oath and take all reasonable steps to preserve the life of the unborn child, as they would any other patient under their care.

Note: We acknowledge that this subject is difficult, but believe that this prototypical pro-choice / pro-life hybrid, moves the issue in a positive direction, one that abortion rights advocates will find affirms choice, while at the same time, addresses concerns of pro-life advocates and saves many more lives than the status quo.

Many of the implements we use in our everyday lives, placed in the wrong hands, can be lethal.  The foregoing list of implements is vast, but only a single item on that list has the distinction of mention in the U.S. Constitution - guns, or more precisely, Arms.

Our Founders spoke of arming "the body of the people" as "the best most natural defense of a free country."  However, they also envisioned that Americans would be trained and part of a "well regulated" group (militia) constituted to act as a fail-safe to defend the liberty they treasured.

Experience taught our Founders what many Americans have feared since 1776, that lost liberty often follows the elimination of the right to bear Arms.  

That said, an open-minded, respectful discussion regarding the imperative to keep guns out of the hands of people intent on killing is overdue and necessary.  

It is however obligatory to be mindful that any solution not violate the enumerated Constitutional Right in the 2nd Amendment to bear Arms, one which enables Americans to defend their family, friends, one's self or our Country.  A Right which Americans cherish.

A fair day's work, for a fair day's pay, is a long held American aphorism.  

Americans that can work, must work for many reasons, not the least of which is that work provides one with the dignity of moving towards an independent, self-sufficient life.  

Work benefits not only the worker, but society in a virtuous cycle that helps others who can't work.  

Incentives of every kind should be instituted to promote and celebrate work.

Crime is poisonous, violent crime is intolerable, and the fact is, Americans are helpless as they are not capable or responsible to stop either, only our leaders are.  

Permissive or compassionate laws have failed to reduce crime. 

The short-term solution to crime, while instituting fair and firm laws, must also incorporate zero tolerance for crime and high quality, fully funded policing. 

Longer-term solutions include, early, quality educational intervention, healthy family life, a connection to Biblical, morality, non-theistic or other enlightenment instruction, so-called tough-love and a safe environment within which to undertake all of the foregoing.  

From the first days of our Republic, our Founders warned against "foreign entanglements."  This advice has proven to be prophetic as America has drained its treasury by trillions and spilled the blood of our brave warriors in the last few decades- with little to show for it. 

Our safety and security are accomplished, not through fighting repeated wars, but through an accumulation of great strength, which deters adventurism and aggression by our enemies, and projects America as a beacon of light, morality, strength and culture to the entire world.  

There will of course be some conflicts that cannot be avoided, however, many likely can and should be.

From the beginning to time, humanity has produced people with an unlimited array of views, beliefs, preferences, opinions and every other descriptor one could come up with, showcasing how we are all different - while at the very same time, all being identically human.

As such, it's no surprise that those differences, while often interesting and wonderful, can also be contentious.

If history has taught us anything, it's that history has not taught many as much as it should have. Lost is the one important lesson, 'Live and Let Live.'

The live and let live axiom, more clearly understood to mean, 'do what you like, as long is it doesn't negatively affect or hurt others,' should be liberally applied to the debate surrounding sexual orientation.

Having said the above, there are immutable truths:

1)  Our society has agreed that one reaches majority and the freedom to make decisions for oneself, at the age of 18. Given same, any non life-threatening, permanent, life-altering medical decisions must be delayed until that age.

2) While every person has the right to identify as anything they wish - there is no reciprocal, moral obligation for any other person to be forced to accept, or embrace another's assumed identity.

3) The fight for equal rights, and our successes with same have been a blessing for America.  Sadly, the associated proposition that one can change one's sex or gender at will, completely transform one's self into their biological opposite and naturally function as same, cannot be seen as one of those successes, but rather a fantasm. 

The harmful fallout emanating from the above proposition is causing irreparable harm to the noble civil and gender rights movements - think women’s sports for example. 

As in everything, there are limits and boundaries. The notion that boys and men... can "trans"form themselves into girls and women, is a notion that goes far beyond those thresholds.  

Bestowing equal protections upon Americans is laudable, but the presumption that laws can be passed which defy nature, or which obligate Americans to accept and embrace the artifice that one's God-given gender is alterable, is unconscionable and un-American.

Support for Democratic Governments, where the rule of law is honored and respected, is integral for the maintenance of humanity's peace and progress, especially in our troubled world today. 

Support for Democratic Governments has been of paramount importance to the United States of America.

A good example of the above is the State of Israel, a country that holds the aforementioned values dear.

Currently Israel is fighting, what some have called, a multi-front war for its very existence.  

This war has not only pitted Israel against Hamas and other enemies, but in many cases, pitted Israel against some of its own people and many opportunistic detractors around the world.

Given that Israel is fighting for its life, it hasn't had the luxury to focus on much else, but the reality is, it must do so.

The roadmap to a resolution of the Gaza issue has not yet been articulated in a wholistic way, but again, it must be, so that the truth will be obvious to all - that Israel is not a murderous killing machine, but a besieged nation that only wishes to live in peace - and should take the necessary and  extraordinary steps below to do so.  

1. Destroy Hamas’s infrastructure in Gaza and its ability to instigate terrorism and wage war.

2. Create s new safe zone in Northern Gaza for non-militant, non-Hamas affiliated, innocent Gazans.

3. Israel to support the complete redevelopment of the “Northern Gaza Safe Zone” area with loans, expert assistance, logistical assistance and (diplomatic representation – if requested.) New Gaza would be a model, self-contained, self-sustained city.

4. Have those who wish to live in New Gaza, agree to support new Gaza and its new peaceful constitution, which among other necessary provisions must explicitly acknowledge that Israel is the singular reason for the creation of New Gaza and that Israel and its people are not an enemy.

5. Incentify new Gazans to buy-in to the “New Gaza Concept” by allowing the creation of a New Gazan peaceful, self-administered government, while also allowing new Gazans the rights of other free peoples to liberty, security, and the pursuit of happiness. 

6. As the population outgrows the initial New Gaza zone, pursuant to their new Constitution, facilitate additional population growth by moving the additional population southward, as necessary. 

7. While the Israeli army never desires to harm innocent civilians, Palestinians who refuse the New Gaza offer after one year, and wish to remain in an active war zone after a one-year time period has expired, will be subject to martial law as Israel completes its efforts to eradicate Hamas’s ability to terrorize and wage war against the State of Israel. 

8. Once the Israeli army declares any portion of the remaining land in Gaza, south of New Gaza, safe, Palestinians will have the option to enter into long-term leases with Israel for Israel's use of same, which will generate significant revenue for the Gazan government until the New Gazans are able to logistically, politically and financially support the land south of New Gaza and administer it themselves. 

9. With this 10-Point Plan, Israel will have taken every moral and reasonable step, in a time of war, to protect itself, while at the same time compassionately supporting those Palestinians who wish for, and will work towards a better life.

10. If the above fails, then Israel shall retain the right, and the obligation, to protect its existence by any means necessary. 

INSURANCE: 

The likely best two solutions are: allow radical competition between ALL legitimate and financially strong insurance carriers. Encourage a wide menu of deductibles, so that if customers wish, they can participate in risk in return for lower premiums.

Lawmakers must tell homeowners the truth; that not all homes and home locations can be made safe against hurricanes, and that there is not a good free market solution available for same. 

Poorly constructed homes, homes in flood zones, homes near large bodies of water, are all poor risks (bets) and are likely going to be badly damaged in a hurricane, something all insurance companies will want to avoid, or charge unacceptably high premiums for.  

In the end, owners with hurricane resistant homes and safer locations will enjoy (relatively) competitive rates. 

The other homeowners and their lenders must face the reality that short of a subsidy from government, whether in the form of premium assistance or financial assistance after a hurricane, there are few good options. 

To understand the dilemma in a nutshell, a homeowner could simply ask him/herself this question: if I had the $1,000,000 my neighbor’s home is insured for as cash in my bank account, what premium would I be willing to charge in return for handing over that entire $1,000,000 bank account to my neighbor in the case my neighbor’s home was hit by a hurricane?

 The truth is, most would not want to take on the risk for any premium. 

So, since there is no good free market solution for a large number of homes, what can be done?

1) For homes that can be satisfactorily fortified against hurricanes, the total cost of approved upgrades could be offset against the property’s real estate taxes. Of course, in the short run this would impact local municipalities, but have the long-term benefit of strengthening homes, improving taxable values and retaining residents and entire neighborhoods that could be displaced following a hurricane.

2) For homes that are not candidates for fortification initiatives, and cannot buy affordable insurance, homeowners could be incentivized, one time, to buy a new, hurricane-proof home by providing them with an additional homestead exemption amount on their new home equal to the sale price of their existing home.

3) All home lenders must make a determination prior to the issuance of any home loan that the property’s structure is hurricane resistant and follwing issuance of the loan, shall not be permitted to withdraw the loan or penalize a homeowner in any way, during the term of the loan, related to the hurricane resistance of the structure.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING:

  Affordable and workforce housing (AWH) are critical components of any successful community. 

Not everyone can afford market housing options, hence the need for AWH options.

To begin, AWH should be located near to the communities they serve.  However, some believe that AWH should be built inside the communities they serve. 

This is not ideal given the cost to build AWH in an already affluent community is extremely high and severely impacts the number and quality of the units that can be built. 

On the contrary, AWH built nearby, in blighted or lower income areas, has many benefits. Those benefits include the ability to buy land at lower costs, build more and better-quality units, transform the blighted and lower income areas with investments in the community, including roads, sidewalks, funds for better municipal services, new and better infrastructure, community activities and programs and many other benefits that go along with large investments in new projects.

In short, AWH investment is desired and necessary. It should be used as a double-edged sword to both provide needed housing and improve needy areas. 

This way, taxpayers and recipients get the biggest bang for their buck!

CLEAN WATER AND AIR:

  This one is easy: take all steps necessary to make certain our water and air are clean and that Florida holds polluters accountable.

TRANSPORTATION:

Florida is a victim of its own success. 

Overcrowding in our State is taking hold in our large cities and traffic is approaching gridlock levels. 

The problem is that our leaders believe it is possible to put 10 pounds of population into a 5-pound population bag! 

It is not possible and is having the predictable effect.

Florida needs to continue to invest in improving and enlarging where possible, its roadways. 

Florida also needs to look at common sense mass transportation alternatives like more rail, bus and other transportation modes which will help move our people from point to point.

The real elephant in the room however is the massive population growth our State has experienced. As I said earlier, there is a limit to the number of people one can cram into a fixed area, and in much of our State, we have hit that limit. 

The solution? 

Stop building new housing until we can absorb the number of residents we currently have, and start taking care of the Floridians who are already here and who deserve the quality of life they were promised and expect. 

In addition, rather than continue to build more new units, let’s fix the broken- and run-down units we already have, making housing better for all.

If we stop making the problem worse by mindlessly adding more housing units, and fix and/or improve the housing units we already have, we might be able to preserve the amazing quality of life our current Florida residents envision, get our traffic nightmare under control and further increase the value of all our residents’ investment. 

All of that would be a home run for everyone.

PENSIONS:

Our country is woefully overindebted and its retirement promises are unkeepable, as our Social Security and Medicare unfunded amounts alone are equal to 10 year’s worth of every penny the United States collects in revenue! 

In other words, the system will fail, the only question is when?

We do not want this to happen to our retirees in Florida.

While promises are nice, financial realities are something very different.

The State of Florida has one pension system, the Florida Retirement System, (FRS).

The mechanism for paying the aforementioned pension obligations is an investment account managed by the State.  

The required size of the investment account is determined by the revenue the account yields in relation to the number of retirees needing to be paid.

Currently the account itself has become unable, on its own, to pay the amounts the State is required to pay. 

Given same, in order to “fix” the pension system, the State would currently have to inject $43B into the fund, an amount equal to almost 50% of the State’s entire budget.

Finally with respect to the above structure to pay retirees, in the case where the investment account begins to fail, is cut significantly or goes to zero, the State will likely bear the ENTIRE responsibility to come up with all of the funds, over $200B, a second time, to restore the investment account.   

Given the size of the investment account, this alone could bankrupt the State and devastate our taxpayers.  

The chances of this happening are not zero.

Is there any alternative? 

Contrast the above with a 401k type account for employees, with the State making very generous contributions; an account which each employee would own.

Unlike the defined benefit plan first described above, the 401K type account is a defined contribution benefit plan.  

The 401k type plan has several benefits.  

1) It allows the employee to own their account, benefit from it and take it with them with no strings attached.

2) Since the plan belongs to the employee they can invest and do with the funds in their account upon departure from the State as they wish.

3) It allows the State to pay as you go, budget responsibly, not go into debt and retain employees by raising the State’s contribution to a level which would entice and financially motivate its employees.

Lastly a 401K type plan for all new employees, which is intelligently designed, would be good for those new employees, while honoring the promises made to existing employees, and at the same time protect Florida’s residents from making financial promises that they probably can’t afford to keep.

PROPERTY TAXES:

They are too high!

The truth is, in the Free State of Florida, the high property tax rate is choking residents and enabling unconscious elected leaders in our cities and school boards to spend like the flow of money is never-ending. 

Given politicians are experts at talking, they will always have a reason why your paying more to them is necessary. Let's ignore that problem for a minute.

Property owners deserve relief and unconscious elected leaders need to do the hard work of caring for taxpayer money, by cutting their overall budgets by at least 5% and preferably 10%. 

Floridians are continuously forced to tighten their belts, and the same should be required of government bureaucrats.

For example, Florida school budgets have grown from $2.5 billion in 1980 to $29.7 billion in 2024, a 12-fold increase. 

Meanwhile the 1980 median income for the average Floridian was about $18,000, and in 2024 that number grew to $72,000, only a 4-fold increase. 

See the problem?

The real question is, how do Floridians pay any bill that has gone up 12-times, with personal income that has only increased 4-times? 

Answer: They can’t.

What’s the solution and how to implement it? 

1) Reduce the Florida Constitutional maximum property tax rate by 50%. 

This change would mean the potential maximum tax rate on one’s property would be reduced from 4% of the property’s value to 2% of the property’s value, saving property owners and reducing revenue to government by up to $18B.

2) Reduce school spending by at least 5%, possibly 10%, saving property owners and reducing revenue to government by $1.5B to $3B.

3) Reduce municipal spending by at least 5%, possibly 10%, saving property owners and reducing revenue to government by $1.5B to $3B.

4) Reduce fraud and waste Statewide likely saving $3B to $5B.

5) Other miscellaneous State and municipal savings of $1B.

6) Note: Florida had a $21B surplus in its most recent budget. These funds should be added to Florida’s version of a savings account for emergencies only, the Budget Stabilization Fund (BSF).

By taking all of the above-mentioned steps, the likely result would be that property values would increase, revenues to government would necessarily increase, property owners would receive desperately needed relief and government would be forced to spend the revenue it collects much more carefully. 

A win for everyone.

GAMBLING:

Florida has enough of it already.

IMMIGRATION:

Legal immigration is good. Uncontrolled, unvetted, unregulated, illegal immigration is bad.