1. Freedom – The freedom to rise each day, each morning, knowing that one will retain the vast sum of one’s earnings. That the central planners of either party won’t confiscate earnings and property for schemes of a ‘Greater Good’, ‘Volunteerism’, ‘Fairness’, ‘Social-Equality’, ‘Carbon-Guilt’, ‘Redress or Redistribution’, ‘Social-Justice’. To know that the Constitution clearly enumerates that which the government cannot do to us, won’t be shredded daily, and that it is not ‘flexible’ or a ‘living-breathing’ document.

2. Abundancy – Flowing from the concept of freedom. The basic notion that an individual is sacred and once set free enables himself and the society at large by pursuing happiness. Through this pursuit he creates abundancy by unshackled entrepeneurial pursuits. Individual creativity, unchained dreams, liberty-induced limitless potential of the individual soul.

3. Responsibility – I know that I am not my neighbor’s keeper. And neither is he mine. There is no lease, levy or mortgage on my future, present or past. I am free to do as I choose under the constraints of the Rule of Law and the Constitution. I know full-well that when I fail, I do not look to the nanny-state do-gooders for a ‘bail-out’ or a check. Based on the Laws of Nature and economics, I know that subsidization of failure creates more failure; likewise with poverty, illiteracy, and lack of upward-mobility. I reject this subsidization for corporations, local and national governments, and the individual.

For Tom McClintock’s speech that compelled these 3 pillars click here. For my article on this concept click here.