OUR PRINCIPLES & VALUES
1) The immediate and extended family unit is an indispensable characteristic of our Country’s past and future.
2) Quality education, hard work, delayed gratification and a healthy environment are fundamental to achieving the American dream.
3) America welcomes all who wish to come here legally.
The integrity of America’s borders is vital for our national security.
4) No country can borrow or print its way to prosperity, including America.
Deficits do matter.
America cannot maintain military superiority if our government is financially irresponsible.
5) America’s laws shall apply equally to every citizen, including those in Congress, the Executive and Judicial branches.
6) America’s judges shall singularly interpret laws, not create them.
7) American elections shall be free, fair, transparent and auditable.
8) The Constitution and the Bill of Rights shall be esteemed, upheld, defended and recognized as the ultimate arbiter of American law and culture.
9) We shall not judge or disparage others.
We shall lead by example, guided by our mission and values.
10) My body, my choice is a natural, God-given right, which Americans' birthright guarantees.
11) If the choice is made to end a pregnancy, the law must, to the greatest extent possible, recognize the responsibility to preserve life at all costs and invoke the principles of the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm," principally regarding the life of the mother and nextly, the life and wellbeing of the fetus or unborn child.
Note: We a
11) If the choice is made to end a pregnancy, the law must, to the greatest extent possible, recognize the responsibility to preserve life at all costs and invoke the principles of the Hippocratic Oath to "do no harm," principally regarding the life of the mother and nextly, the life and wellbeing of the fetus or unborn child.
Note: We acknowledge that this subject is painful and polarizing, but believe that this prototypical "Pro-Chlife" (pRo-CHA-life) position, a pro-choice and pro-life hybrid, moves the issue in a positive direction, one that rights advocates will find affirms choice, while at the same time, saves lives.
12) Healthcare must be provided as safety-net for vulnerable Americans who cannot work and for those not of working age.
13) 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
13) 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 to defend one's family, friends, one's self or our Country, which so many law-abiding Americans cherish.
14) The income tax rate should be low. It should allow Americans to keep most of what they earn and be equally applied to every taxpayer above the poverty line.
Americans with extraodinary incomes of over $1M should pay a reasonable, (fair share) premium, based upon a gradually increasing sliding scale; but never higher than 50% more than the rate paid by everyone else.
15) The Government must balance its budget and honor its commitments and promises.
Not doing so, is inescapably leading to America's financial downfall, and then worse.
16) Our schools should be solely judged on the performance and success of its students. Children must come first over every other consideration.
Education must be decentralized, reclaimed from the federal bureaucracy and returned to State and local control.
Professional, fairly paid teachers are an integral part of the solution.
17) The earth and our environment sustain humanity's existence.
We must respect and care for the earth, while at the same time inspiring and incentivizing Americans to work hard to find new, clean and innovative ways to produce energy.
18) 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
18) 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.
19) 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 toleran
19) 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.
20) 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 fight
20) 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.
Our Goals
