Political Stands
2004
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Damage Control
Government:
Limited, smaller government and less spending with continued tax relief.
We believe the government has become dangerously larger than it is
functional.
Defense: A strong, smart
defense. We believe the 21st century war on terror justifies a careful and
powerful pre-emptive doctrine. The asymmetrical nature of the war on
terror requires a reorientation of strategic thought and pre-emptive
action unfamiliar to the 20th century approach to warfare.
Social Issues - Pro-life Family Values:
We support a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex
marriage and civil unions while defining marriage as between only
one man and one woman. In the meantime, this website
encourages and supports individual states that continue to pass
Constitutional Amendments unequivocally defining marriage while at
the same time bans same sex marriage as a legally recognized union.
We believe that homosexuality and
bi-sexuality are immoral.
We support the
ban on the medical procedure called partial-birth abortion. We support the Mexico City Law, the Parental Notification Law,
and the new law, based on the Laci Peterson verdict, that protects the fetus
against violence in
the same way the law is intended to protect the mother carrying the fetus.
We also do not believe the American
government should be providing funds via foreign aid or any other
financial format to any country that in turn uses that money to
support abortion.
We believe in the sanctity of life. We
believe that indiscriminate choice without boundaries was mistakenly
elevated by a liberal Supreme Court via Roe v. Wade. The
perspective that created the Roe v. Wade decision should be
realigned while abortion laws should be based on issues other than
mere "right to privacy." When balanced against a view that
places the highest premium on the sanctity of life, then a "right to
privacy" becomes and remains an invaluable moral standard but not
the ultimate standard when creating policy related to abortion.
The key term there is "related to abortion" because the politically
motivated elevation of a right to privacy creates destructive
policies that allow mere teenagers, for example, to become pregnant
and obtain an abortion without their parents knowledge.
The
politically charged view that claims the elevation of that which respects
life is therefore a downgrading of "the right to privacy" is a
contemporary exploitation of a social problem rather than the responsible view
from which the Constitutional law should be written. We believe Roe V. Wade was a
serious mistake, and prematurely forced on the nation.
The Death Penalty: This
website supports
the death penalty.
(You can read a LightBookproductions perspective on
a death penalty issue at our Speech page in reference to
the Supreme Court decision Roper v. Simmons.)
Cloning: We do not
believe the human psyche at its current stage of development is prepared to be trusted with human cloning, period.
Judiciary. We support an independent judiciary and the nomination
of conservative judges, also known as Constitutionalist.
We think via Pat Buchanan and Phyllis Schlafly that Congress should
seriously consider certain restrictions on the jurisdiction of the high court. The
importance of clarification cannot be overstated. LightBookproductions strongly supports
a Senate rule that would
remove the filibuster from the judicial confirmation process.
(You can read a lot more about our positions on the filibuster and the modern judiciary in a series of
commentaries at the Essays, Speech, and
Essay Archive pages of
this site.)
Social Security.
We supported President Bush's call to begin restructuring Social Security as far
back as 2000. A reform program that would include the option to
invest in private savings accounts (PSA). If handled properly we believe
private savings accounts could also be structured in parallel with
spending cuts to help Social Security reach solvency.
To provide young people in their 20s
& 30s, who are not at that age already members of the investment class, reasons to be
interested in the performance of the economy, via some form of ownership, would
be a constructive development.
Washington politics predominately via the do-nothing Democrats trying to stall reform
until they have what they really want, that is; Trying to force you to believe
there is no other choice, while forcing themselves to have to ask you, in the
meantime, for more
of your Social Security tax money to waste on inefficient programs. Please see
the Heritage Foundation WebMemo by Alison Acosta Fraser on this issue at LightBookproductions
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Parallels.
Update Note 2009: We
understand how impossible it would be to propose PSAs in 2009 under
the current depressed economic conditions, and while liberals
control both houses of Congress. But that temporary situation does
not change our view that in the long run, PSAs are still a valuable
idea. Nevertheless, if your rationale for not testing this
great idea was, or is, that it could not work in case Congress
and the financial sector perpetuated idiotic policy decisions, which
of course is what has happened, then I would say your reasoning is
baseline defeatist in the first place and should be questioned.
Education.
We basically support in concept and spirit, the President's intention in the
original version of the No Child Left Behind program, preferably though,
without the liberals involved.
In time there will be a great deal more said here about education policy as this
site develops throughout 2008.
We support accountability in both performance and spending as reflected in
Florida's A+ program, which includes FCAT standards. And we support Florida One,
the program that is a good model for removing affirmative action from the
education system.
The extensive damage liberal thinking has inflicted on the role of discipline in
the education system and the Education Department could
probably be controlled or
marginalized more constructively at the state level.
We support choice in education, especially vouchers, as well as reasonably
standardized and accountable home school and charter school options.
Immigration. America needs a secure border with a fence and a stronger border control regime now.
We believe the current proposal from the U.S. House of Representatives to build
700 miles of fence (a real fence like in Israel) along the Mexican border would
improve operational control of the border.
The issue of border control should be a first priority, as well as a separate
issue from the guest worker, illegal alien and amnesty issues, which are equally in need of immediate
and comprehensive reform.
We support both the REAL Act and the CLEAR Act.
We believe that thoroughly securing the border first, would then make the citizenship
and guest worker problems easier, instead of more difficult, to reconcile.
We also believe that Mexico is not doing enough to create more educational and
economic opportunity for
it's own citizens and young people.
You can read more on the Immigration issue
(scroll down) in a letter we
wrote to Senator Elizabeth Dole in response to a Republican Senate Leadership Survey and
The Right Parallels
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