Principles

Last Updated 25 November 2000

Principles that need to expressed and lived in the 21st century include:

All people need basic subsistence and safety. Until these are satisfied, most people cannot grow to higher levels of living.

We can afford to satisfy these needs for all, and no significant argument exists not to do so.

Providing these needs is practical. It is cost-effective to provide subsistence needs short-term, rather than to handle the negative effects long-term of not providing them.

However, the government’s role in this provision should be minimized. As a performing organization, government cannot be better than minimally effective, except in primarily "protective" roles such as the enforcement of civil rights, or "conservative" roles such as the National Park Service.

Our initiatives must all be jointly organized and mutually-supportive (i.e., "system engineered"). Directions and effects in education, employment, housing, and crime all affect one another.

These are in addition to those expressed in the founding documents of the USA,
as well as in recent declarations sponsored by the United Nations:

All people are created equal - which implies tolerance.

No person's rights shall be abrogated without full due process of law.