The 9/12 Platform: Bernie DeCastro | U.S. Senate – FL
Posted by Jacob Roecker on July 18, 2009 under Inspiration | 
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9 Principles 
1. America Is Good.
America is the greatest nation that has ever existed in the history of mankind. It has been the source of the greatest liberties, the greatest inventions, the greatest medical breakthroughs and the greatest military army. Instead of using our military might to conquer and take over countries, we have only used our military when we have had to displace dictators and despots and to defend weaker nations that were being threatened by bully nations. If it weren’t for America we would probably all be speaking German and there would be some races that would have been totally eradicated. We even helped rebuild Japan and much of Europe after WW II. We have no reason to apologize for this great country. America is not perfect, but because of our faith in God our creator who has endowed us with “…certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…” and because of our Constitution we are the closest thing to perfection that has ever existed in the governing of men
2. I believe in God and He is the center of my life
I had a profound life-changing encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ in 1981 and have followed Him ever since. Prior to accepting Christ as my Lord and Savior, I was a selfish and self-centered individual who had no purpose in life. I was a user and a taker. Ever since my spiritual rebirth, I have learned to love God, to love myself and then to love others. I now have a purpose for living and it is to serve others while living by the 10 Commandments and the golden rule. Even though I am a Godly man, I still have feet of clay like everyone else and the knowledge of that keeps me from becoming self-righteous. I may not like the action of others, but I am to love them with the love of God.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
Honesty requires a moral framework and America’s moral framework comes from it’s Judeo-Christian beliefs. Honesty is one of the greatest attributes we can possess. It defines who we are. It let’s others know whether we are trustworthy. A dishonest man is a liar and cannot be trusted. It is a sad commentary on our nation, but the truth is that there are very few men and woman in the United States Congress who are trusted by the American public. I live my life everyday as a man of integrity and honesty and if elected to Congress, I pledge to help restore American’s faith in Congress.
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
I have five children from ages 10 to 19 and my children do not look to the government for their authority they look to me. The primary role God has given me is to take care of my children. To feed and clothe them, put a roof over their heads and to protect them. But more then that, I am charged by God to give them the love, nurture, guidance and discipline they need to grow up as healthy human beings. So many children today have skewed and misshapen personalities because of the lack of Godly caring parents in their lives. Our juvenile centers, jails and prisons are full of them. Even though I am divorced, I am a single parent to my three youngest children and I take that responsibility very seriously. I give you my word that I will never vote on legislation that in anyway encroaches on the life of you and your family.
5. If you break the law, you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
We have the greatest legal system in the world. And even though it is not perfect, it is still the best. I will always fight to see to it that the law remains blind and that it provides equal justice for all. It bothers me that there are so many men and women in the banking industry and on Wall Street who broke the law and are responsible for this economic meltdown that is affecting our entire nation. As a U.S. Senator, I would fight to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law those responsible for this economic disaster.
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
The Declaration of Independence says “…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Even though we are all created equal, and we are all guaranteed the same Rights, we are not guaranteed equal results. The results will for the most part depend on our skills and abilities and our willingness to work hard and to save and invest. The degree of our success also has to do with the favor of God.
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with whom I want to. The government cannot force me to be charitable.
I do believe in a strong work ethic. I also believe in sharing with those who are less fortunate. I wouldn’t be where I am today if others had not willingly invested in my life. The saying that it is better to give than to receive. But the government has no constitutional authority to determine if or how much I give. That is one of the fundamental problems with the 16th amendment. The government is taking part of my income and then giving it to others who I do not believe deserve it and in some cases it violates my conscience. That is why I believe we should implement the Fair Tax then repeal the 16th Amendment.
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
The First Amendment to the Constitution gives all Americans the Right to freedom of speech; of the press; of peaceable assembly and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievance. This is one of the most important rights we have and yet more and more we see the government infringing on these rights with the concept of political correctness and with the racial double standard that exist is this country. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a perfect example of this double standard. He can spew vile racist remarks from the pulpit with impunity yet if a White pastor were to say the same thing about Blacks they would be arrested for hate speech and lose their tax-exempt status.
9. The government works for its citizens. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
We are reminded in the Gettysburg address that ours is a government of the people, by the people, for the people, and yet how quickly do our elected officials forget that they work for us, not the other way around. Most of them do not have the spiritual or emotional maturity not to succumb to the intoxicating allure of the power that has been entrusted to them and before long they have become obstructions to the Rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The Declaration of independence goes on to say “That to ensure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organinizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
12 Values
1. Honesty: Honesty is one of the most fundamental of all human values. It determines whether we are trustworthy or not. It is sad to say that we live in a time when honesty among our political leaders is a rarity. Instead of people saying what they mean and meaning what they say, all we get out of Congress is spin and political correctness. I pledge to the American citizens that I will always be a man of my word and that they can always depend on me to say what I mean and mean what I say.
2. Reverence: Reverence toward God is foundational. It is the wellspring from which our other values flow. When we reverence God then we respect his authority and we desire to live by his Commandments.
3. Hope: Hope is a joyful, confident expectation of our future and it is based on a belief in a loving God and the belief that god will conquer evil. I have hope that regardless of the darkness of this hour that America is facing, that the men and women of faith will pray and be willing to take a stand for righteousness sake.
4. Thrift: Thrift is a basic fundamental of prosperity. Congress has become so corrupt that they have abandoned these very basic principles of prosperity. Consequently we have a deficit of over a trillion dollars and our national debt which exceeds 11 trillion dollars. I pledge to reign is spending and do everything in my power to eliminate the deficit and the national debt. By mandating immediate national energy reform to include, nuclear, drilling for our own oil and natural gas, wind, solar etc., we can save the 600 billion dollars a year that we give to our enemies and we can create many jobs that will help revitalize our economy.
5. Humility: Humility is a word that has lost its meaning in the U.S. Congress because only those who truly believe in God almighty can evidence a spirit of humility. From the day that I bowed my knee to the King of the Universe, I understood true humility. I understood that I am nothing without Him but that with God on my side that nothing was impossible and that in the end He is the only one worthy of praise, glory and honor. I pledge to always humble myself under the mighty hand of God and to consider it a divine honor to serve Him and His people.
6. Charity: I believe that it truly is “…more blessed to give than to receive.”and we are instructed by the Holy Scriptures that “Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.” It is the individual’s responsibility to give to the need of others and not the governments responsibility.
7. Sincerity: It is important that leaders demonstrate that they are sincere in wanting to truly serve their constituents. They can do this by spending time with their constituents and really listening to them and their suggestions. Then they can show their sincerity by working hard to accomplish the greater good for those they represent while staying true to their core principles and the Constitution of the United States.
8. Moderation: I believe in living a moderate lifestyle. As leaders, we are to live our lives as examples to our children and to the world that is constantly watching us.
9. Hard Work: I believe in hard work and it is obvious that Americans are some of the hardest working people on the face of this earth and that is one of the reasons whey we are the most prosperous nation on earth. The free market economy rewards hard work and creativity allowing us to pass on to our children a quality of life. From the time I was eight years old I was working selling newspapers to make money. My mother instilled in me a hard working ethic. As your U.S. Senator, I pledge that I will work as hard or harder then any Senator in Congress for my constituents and my country.
10. Courage: I have survived one of the harshest environments on the planet. I understand what courage is all about and there is no one I fear but God almighty. I will stand and I will confront evil wherever I find it whether it be an individual, a party or a special interest group. I pledge to fight to my last breath to defend the constitution of the United States.
11. Personal Responsibility: I absolutely believe in personal responsibility. As your U.S. Senator I want you to hold me personally responsible to do everything in my power to fight for the freedoms guaranteed to us by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the Amendments. I believe that every able bodied American should be responsible for themselves and that it is not the government’s role to take from one person and give to another.
12. Gratitude: I love the United States of America and I cannot express in words how grateful I am to have been born a citizen of this great country. Not only because of the freedoms to which my citizenship entitles me, but to the hope that it gives to the billions of people all over the world who hunger for such freedom.
Chris said,
"If it weren’t for America we would probably all be speaking German and there would be some races that would have been totally eradicated."
is this….is this a joke? You can't be serious.
PoliticiansHome said,
No, it's actually not that far from the truth.
Hitler had a sequel to "Mein Kampf" which he didn't widely circulate that went into very specific details on the growth of their empire especially as it had to do with their plan to subdue Britain once they had made land fall. They've done half a dozen History Channel specials on it.
The Slavics (eastern Europeans and Russians) were considered a tier higher than the Jews often referred to as the "Slave Class" of the Aryans, similar to how the Hopylites(sp?) were the slave class of the Spartans.
The US entered the War prior to the occupation of Britain which screwed up the Nazi time table. But they did have specific plans on how to go after the US mostly by teaming up with the Japanese to attack from both sides.
Ironically, this ended up being the very same plan used to crush the Nazis with the Allies teaming up with the Soviet Union.
Guest said,
Just a historical correction: the hoplites were Greek infantry, the term you're looking for in regard to Spartan slaves is "helots". Carry on.
Cliff Hutchison said,
Fighting the Japanese was a just cause because of Pearl Harbor and the reason most Americans supported the Second World War, but the war in Europe, and how the war in general was fought, was not so noble.
I am currently reading "Roosevelt's Road to Russia", which documents FDR's diplomatic meetings with Churchill, Stalin, Chang Kai'shek and other foreign powers prior to and during the Second World War. It shows, with publicly available declassified documents, that FDR's purpose in the war was to support communism in Europe and Asia, by prioritizing military aid shipments to Russia over US military supplies to the Pacific in 1942-43, convincing Chang Kai'shek to take Mao's communists into his coalition (when Chang had nearly finished driving them out of China), and preferring Stalin's strategy (to open up a western front in France) over Churchill's strategy (to liberate eastern Europe and cut off the Soviets from control there). The final result of FDR's foolish interference was to set the stage for communist control of Eastern Europe and China, and fifty years of Cold War conflicts in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, etc.
Also, there were German senior commanders who would have overthrown Hitler in 1943 in exchange for a conditional surrender and terms for peace, but when FDR spontaneously demanded "unconditional surrender" at the Tehran summit, and the Allies agreed, the Germans (and the Japanese) would be committed to fight to the last man. Unconditional surrender literally means submission with no terms, no rights, no independence, pretty much one step above slavery.
Before Pearl Harbor, the British had fought off the German attempt at invasion of England and the Nazis and the Soviets were evenly matched along the front outside of Moscow and Leningrad. If the British would have pulled their troops from their vast empire, they could have beaten the Germans without the US. Their colonies were lost to nationalist independence movements within 10 years anyway, so it was foolish for them to lose so many lives holding them during the war.
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