Preamble

I’m sure that most patriotic political parties will agree to common beliefs such as:

Americans need better health care, national security through strength, restoring the economy so more can prosper, restoring our credibility with foreign countries, better sources of energy and a cleaner environment.

But I have to wonder, when the government makes a poor decision does it nibble away at our freedoms? Some say the government is chipping away at Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, creating “freedom gaps” where they did not exist a hundred years ago.

FreedomGap believes in free market, entrepreneurial capitalism which makes possible entrepreneurship, which is the realization of an idea birthed in human creativity.  Therefore, capitalism helps maximize human potential. 

Our society has lost its moral compass, and so, FreedomGap has endorsed teaching school kids the Six Pillars of Character  — trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.

Presidents don’t cause economic and fiscal crises. But they get elected on a promise to fix them. But about one in five men of prime working age, and nearly half of all persons under 30, did not go to work today.

An unprecedented explosion of spending, with borrowed money, added trillions to what was already an unaffordable national debt. The federal government borrows about one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with such debts.

Those punished most by the government mistakes are those unemployed or underemployed, and those so discouraged that they have abandoned the search for work altogether. And no one has been more tragically harmed than the young people of this country, the first generation in memory to face a future less promising than their parents’.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have nots; we must always be a nation of haves and soon to haves.

In our economic stagnation and indebtedness, we are only a short distance behind Greece, Spain, and other European countries now facing economic catastrophe. Time is running out, if we are to avoid the fate of Europe.

The challenges aren’t matters of ideology, or party preference; the problems are simply mathematical, and the answers are purely practical.

The route back to an America of promise is a private economy that begins to grow and create jobs at a much faster rate than today, along with local government that creates a climate in which smart growth can occur.

That means a dramatically simpler tax system of fewer loopholes and lower rates. A pause in the mindless piling on of expensive new regulations that devour dollars that otherwise could be used to hire somebody. It means maximizing on the new domestic energy technologies that are the best break our economy has gotten in years.

There is a second item on our national must-do list: we must unite to save the safety net. Medicare and Social Security have served us well, and that must continue. But after half and three quarters of a century respectively, it’s not surprising that they need some repairs.

There are smart ways and dumb ways to do this: the dumb way is to raise rates in a broken, grossly complex tax system, choking off growth without bringing in the revenues we need to meet our debts. The better course is to stop sending the wealthy benefits they do not need, and stop providing them so many tax preferences that distort our economy and do little or nothing to foster growth.

If we continue to quarrel over debt, we will all suffer, regardless of income, race, gender, or other category. If we fail to shift to a pro-jobs, pro-growth economic policy, there will never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net, national security, or whatever size government we decide to have.

If you have any question as to what our founding fathers intended for this country, read the U.S. Constitution – the single greatest document of wisdom after the Bible. And for a clear understanding of what the founding fathers intended, please read The Federalist Papers – the book that scholars have declared the most important work in political science ever written. It is the collection of papers exchanged by Hamilton, Jay, Madison, Jefferson, et al, prior to their drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

This website is designed as a wake up call to America; you can join; you can contribute and you can contact us, but please don’t sit on the sidelines and be spoon-fed by politicians.