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Positions
Up one levelThe Centrist Party positions center on administration and leadership principles as foundations for elected representatives in the following areas: Economy; Education; Energy; Environment; Healthcare; Political Reform; Security. Policy direction is need dependent and some positions will be further developed as needs are better understood. The basic premise is simple: Common sense and reason applied to the common good and national needs.
Economy
Secure - Stable - Sustainable - Reasoned Economics: Free markets with market regulation limited to the common good of the people that enables equality of opportunity, based on performance and productivity. Checks and balances to ensure that competition and innovation are not squeezed out of the American Dream. Protect and allow for potential to be achieved by the virtue of individual will, rather than subsidy without performance agreements or due consideration to cost/benefit relationships. Balance between boutique economic systems and national/international systems.
Education
Life Skills - Innovation - Performance: Performance based systems to motivate the achievement of higher potentials. We need to begin dealing with the multitude of factors that impede our children's education and transition out of the industrial model of education to foster innovation, critical thinking and problem solving.
Energy
Clean - Safe - Sustainable: Economically sound systems and rapid transition strategies based on needs and available technology to achieve energy independence and a healthier future. Enabling transitions to protect the health of the environment and provide sufficient energy is key to a stable healthy transition. Carbon Sequestration, alternative energy systems and reduced energy consumption and efficiency are critical in this endeavor.
Environment
Clean - Safe - Sustainable: Policy based on realistic assessment of available resources and common sense usage of those resources regarding system capacity and regulation considerate of these ends. Any lack of consideration in this area directly affects our economy and security. Rapidly addressing needed policy directives will yield more affordable solutions and a healthier future. Carbon Sequestration, alternative energy systems and reduced energy consumption and efficiency are critical in this endeavor.
Healthcare
Health - Food - Lifestyle: Real health-care is promoting and increasing health, not concentrating on disease-care after the fact. A distinct lack of effort in empowering the FDA to perform its mission has allowed a general degradation of the health of our food system. This in turn requires a greater emphasis on the pharmaceutical industry to cure our ills. The thinking is obviously backwards. We need to reduce or eliminate special interest influence and empower the FDA to achieve its mission. Unhealthy food and lifestyles are a major cause of increased cost of healthcare. Work towards performance based healthcare systems with client choice and simplified tiered assessment methods.
Political Reform
Integrity - Honor - Humility: Get special interests out of the electoral and legislative process. We need leadership that is strong enough to stand and fight for what needs to be done, not what is popular with the electorate. The people will need to lead on these issues. Campaign reform is only the beginning. We need to address the fundamental basis of the erosion of the system, including supreme court decisions may be at odds with the founding premise of our great nation.
Security
To be a beacon of freedom and democracy we must practice and enforce the protection of these ideals at home and abroad. Enhance state department communications capacity. Recognize actions have short and long term consequences. Support and empower the military rather than outsource. Commit to conflict only when justified by fact of established threat and required action, not agenda. We should not be afraid to draw the sword, nor to sheath it. Once committed, follow needed protocols for success in-theatre including manpower and equipment.
