ThE 912 pRoJeCt

Well, I have not made a political post in a while...so this one will be fun! I recently watched a show on Glenn Beck about the 912 project. It is so nice to have somewhere to turn when I feel so dissatisfied with the government. Glenn Beck has outlined 9 principles and 12 values that he believes in, and if you believe in them too, then you believe in the 912 project. He has a website and I added it to my blog list and I am going to regularly check it. It is a great forum for those of us who love America and don't want to see it fail. Thanks to Glenn Beck for starting the project.

The 9 principles are:
1. America Is Good.2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday. Honesty “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government. Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is know. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it. Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Thomas Jefferson
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results. Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable. Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George Washington
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion. On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” George Washington
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” Thomas Jefferson


12 Values
• Honesty
• Reverence
• Hope
• Thrift
• Humility
• Charity
• Sincerity
• Moderation
• Hard Work
• Courage
• Personal Responsibility
• Gratitude

I just love the 912 project idea. If you think about it...we may need something like this now with the way the government it going! With Auto bailouts; a 700 billion bailout (Bush's stimulus #1); bank bailout (and possibly the nationalization of banks); Obama's bailout (stimulus #2); and the Omnibus 410 (our massive new budget plan with 9000 earmarks); It equals to 2 trillion, 200 billion in spending and 6 trillion in guarantees! Congress and the President are extremely destructive and will be especially for the next 3 months. Where will all the money come from? Taxes? Print more money? (more inflation) China? Or borrowing from the future? (giving the debt to our kids & grand kids)

We need to learn a lesson from the Jimmy Carter years and repeal half of the stimulus package! Conservatives cannot be the book balancers for the liberals. It is bad money and bad bureaucracy. Unfortunately, Obama was not the change we needed, he is up to bad politics as usual with increased energy taxes and income taxes and spending. The republicans are just not keeping to their values either...the country is more about these two parties now: 1)Big government & elites
2)party of the people (the Reagan party) That is why I am so interested in the 912 project, because it has the principles and values that the party of the people would espouse. Do you believe/agree in the 912 project?