My candidacy

Does my country need me? I envision America as a land founded upon the freedom to enjoy the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I am eligible to be president. I am a natural-born citizen, a life-long resident in these United States and over thirty-five years of age. Why should I, who have no political connections, elitist status, extra-ordinary wealth or no lack of patriotism not be qualified? Why can I not hope to find some financial sponsors and a campaign manager? Why can’t a Republican from Ohio, with a history of innate, diehard conservatism, lead America forward? Haven’t better days always been on America’s horizon?

All Americans have a right to be live safely without domestic and foreign threats and in a culture that values each human being’s worth. All Americans have a right to liberty that allow one to honestly get and spend money as one chooses. All Americans have a right to pursue happiness, however defined, within the confines of the laws. Freedom got us where we are today; and underlying it is an assumption of the basic goodness of human nature governed by self-interest which personally improves life and improves lives around the globe.

My leadership, symbolic and real, would literally cut the cords of dependency on government and substitute aspiration. Like a political religion. I think young men and women should aspire to defend their country in times of need and know their fellow citizens support them. Immigrants should feel free to aspire to come here, welcomed and needed, knowing the path to citizenship is open, easy and timely, if requirements are fulfilled. Students should aspire to acquire an education uncontrolled by government, Unions or political agendas, at private institutions that suit parents’ interests and encourage learning. Americans should not only aspire to work and spend but also to save and invest more money than they now do. Hard workers know that taxes should be low, at a reasonable rate and applied across the board to all income levels equally. Americans should aspire to do good; sins against the 10 commandments should bring about a sense of shame. One as high as the President must address the ungodly trends in media, entertainment and personal lifestyle habits. Americans should aspire to self-reliance by getting by without welfare programs, racial preferences, social services, unnecessary grants, subsidies, programs and safety nets. Also, lawyers engaging in frivolous litigations for profit, increase the costs of health care and insurance and discourage independence. Businesses can’t flourish if they can’t aspire to acquire wealth for themselves and, if applicable, their shareholders, without fear of governmental interference. And free trade? America could not have attained its economic and military hegemony without aspirations of global interconnectedness.

Our great country can be trusted to step up to the plate when common sense is on the line and to rise to the occasion when our security is threatened. In an atmosphere of hope, Americans can be trusted to make decent choices about their health, insurance, savings, personal safety, education, religion, jobs, and charitable giving. Unfortunately, political correctness, liberalism and socialistic policies are propelling us in the wrong direction. They represent a waste of time and money on pork, programs and unsubstantiated causes such as curbing global warming, courting world approval and seeking alternative energy sources (other than safe and cost-effective nuclear fuel). A revolution is in order against spending, irresponsibility, progressivism and immorality. I hope to reverse the negative thrust of leadership today. Concomitant with rights, Americans have duties. I believe we can count on Americans to do what’s right. I am their candidate.