Dr Dan Eichenbaum Needs Your Help Defending Freedom!
My name is Dr. Dan Eichenbaum, and I am standing for election to Congress. Like you, I believe that our country is in dire straits. In fact, we are on the edge of a financial abyss. Our federal government is controlled by an Administration that believes deficits don’t matter. They think that we can continue to borrow, print and spend our way to prosperity. I stand here to say that deficits and debts do matter. We cannot continue sacrificing our children’s and our grandchildren’s futures by mortgaging tomorrow to pay for today.
In 1787, the founders gave us The Constitution, a document that forever changed the relationship between man and government. They believed in Natural Law – that each of us is born into freedom and that the proper role of government is to protect and secure the rights of life, liberty, and property, not amend, abridge or restrict them. In addition, these rights are God-given and are not derived from any government.
Protected by these Constitutional guarantees, America became the land of opportunity for millions of legal immigrants who came because they believed that hard work and perseverance would lead to prosperity. The American Experiment, characterized by limited government and unlimited opportunity, has produced the greatest improvement in the human condition in the history of mankind.
About 100 years ago, my grandparents were legal immigrants to this county. They came with nothing but the desire to live the American dream. They enrolled in night school to learn English, went to work, and gladly became part of the great melting pot of our society, not to become hyphenated-Americans, but to become just Americans. They sacrificed not only for their own future, but for their children’s future, and for generations to follow.
Today, I stand for and live by the values that my parents and grandparents instilled in me as a child – always tell the truth, take responsibility for your actions, obey The Golden Rule, love God, and respect the sanctity of all Life. The Ten Commandments, God’s ultimate moral code, transcends any specific religion and applies to each of us. These are the very same Judeo-Christian values, the undeniable and absolute foundation of our country, that my wife Rhonda and I taught our own children to guide them toward successful lives.
After the 2002 election, for the first time in 50 years, Republicans controlled both the White House and Congress. The Republican Party could have been and should have been the guardian of the Constitution, the defender of limited government, and the champion of free markets and fiscal responsibility. Instead, we sought compromise and cooperation with the Left, and in the process, lost our way as a Party. If you are a person of conscience and principle, how can you reach across the aisle to work with those who have neither?
Now that the Democrats are in control of our country, the American way of life is under siege by progressive liberals who seek to replace individual rights with collective rights, property rights with so-called social justice, and American culture and history with radical multiculturalism.
In the past several months, we the people have begun to find our voice. Out of frustration and anger, a true grass roots movement is rising up all around our nation, growing larger and louder each day, demanding an end to business as usual and an end to the oligarchy in Washington. We see this movement here in Western North Carolina, stronger than anywhere else in this State.
In 2010, we have a real opportunity to take back the 11th District, and regain control of the House of Representatives. But to win, we must return to our Party’s principles – fiscal restraint, individual freedom, personal responsibility, and limited government. Voters are fed up with both parties, especially fed up with career politicians and party insiders. Members of the grassroots movement are mad as hell. They are not going to take it anymore, and, most importantly, they will vote.
So we need to give them what they want – a true grass roots candidate, unencumbered by political baggage – a leader who will be true to the principles of the Republican Party and our founding fathers. A Republican in name only, an unprincipled RINO, who goes along to get along, will not cut it this time.
Without question, I am that candidate. My education, intelligence, communication skills, and extensive life experience combined with my broad, genuine support from the grassroots movements in our district give me the advantage necessary to defeat Congressman Heath Shuler.
A RINO can’t beat a Blue Dog. The Democrats know that. But do WE?
I am Dr. Dan Eichenbaum and I am standing for election to Congress in 2010.
I ask for your vote.
I ask for your trust.
I ask you to Trust in Freedom.
Dr. Dan Eichenbaum and his loving wife Rhonda have been together for 13 years. They have a son, CJ and a daughter, Joy. Dr. Dan has lived in Murphy, N.C. for 23 years and has been a practicing Ophthalmologist for 34 years.
After completing his Bachelor of Science with honors from the University of Michigan, Dr. Dan graduated from the Yale School of Medicine Cum Laude and moved on to serve as a commissioned Naval officer during the Vietnam era. Dr. Dan has since led a medical career involving practice in Florida and New York, 26 years of guest lecturing, 12 years of professional research, 14 peer-reviewed publications, and six medical patents. Currently, Dr. Dan practices in his own small business which he has run successfully for 23 years. Also, Dr. Dan is a founding member of the Cherokee County 9/12 Project and is active in grassroots politics across the 11th District.
Dr. Dan’s experience as a military veteran, ophthalmologist, small business owner, and grassroots political activist make him uniquely qualified to handle the tough challenges facing our nation today. Dr. Dan’s term in Congress will resemble his entire professional career: diagnosing problems, devising treatment plans, and prescribing successful solutions.
There is no other means to attain full employment, rising real wage rates, and a high standard of living for the common man than private initiative and free enterprise. – Ludwig von Mises
I believe that good, high paying jobs are the key to American prosperity. President Obama and the Democrats promised that their Stimulus Plan would keep unemployment below 10%. They broke their promise. Due to their failure, the real unemployment rate is over 16% and getting worse. Government cannot grow our economy by growing government. My plan for restarting the American economy is cutting government, and letting the enterprise and ingenuity of the American people flourish. Government is not the solution to our problems…government IS the problem.
As your Representative, I will vote for shrinking government, growing the private sector, and letting the American people keep more of the money they earn.
The economy is in the worst shape since the Great Depression. In mere months, this administration has added trillions more to our debt with no plan to balance the budget. This massive debt is being passed on to our children and grandchildren. This is not only wrong, it is immoral.
We can no longer be satisfied with “trying to eliminate debt and deficits”. The situation is so dire, we must look to significantly reducing the size and scope of the federal government. If our choice is between cutting our parents’ and grandparents’ social security benefits (they paid for a retirement program) or cutting dysfunctional programs that encourages good folks to do dumb things, we need to protect social security and demand governmental thrift.
As your Representative, I’ll support and vote for balanced budgets. I’ll do this by being an advocate for the elimination and privatization of programs and departments that don’t work.
Corporate Bailouts and other subsidies
I believe in individualism and free markets (The voluntary exchange of private property.). What we now have is a mixed economy of some free markets and some areas of economic fascism (corporatism). Corporate bailouts and stimulus packages are particularly repugnant. These and other subsidies are un-American and unconstitutional.
As your Representative, I will vote against every legislative attempt to interfere in free markets by subsidizing one group of people at the expense of another group of people.
Taxing, Borrowing and Printing Dollars
We can’t tax, borrow and print money to solve this economic crisis. That IS exactly what has created the current crisis in the first place!
The federal government must do what most corporations do when they get into trouble. We must eliminate government programs that are not working. We must fire federal employees who have performed poorly and layoff federal employees who are no longer needed. A full audit of ALL federal departments is necessary to determine excess and target areas for reduction or elimination. The federal government must stop taxing, borrowing and printing new currency to fund things that we can no longer afford.
As your Representative, I’ll oppose new deficits, new debt limits and any further debasement of our currency
The current “Health Care” legislation being considered in both the House and Senate in no way even attempts to address true reform in this country. As a practicing Ophthalmologist who has dealt with government medical regulations for many years, I know that this legislation is more about increasing the wealth of insurance companies and less about helping out average Americans.
I have a much different prescription for Health Care Reform:
First, we must expand tax free health savings accounts. Doing so would begin the move away from employer based health coverage and provide for a tax free way of expanding deductibles. Secondly, we absolutely must have true and real tort reform. Real tort reform would include a limit on punitive damages and be tied to physician demonstrated malice. This should be supplemented by a medical legal panel that examines suits before they go to trial. Finally, we must open the door to free market policy solutions. This would include personal policies that are tailored to each individual, portable regardless of employer, transcend state barriers, and involve specific parameters for age, preexisting condition, and family medical history. Couple all this with an insurance pool for high-risk patience and we’ll be much closer to true health freedom.
As your Representative, I will vote for any bill that encourages more choice and health freedom for all Americans. I will vote against any government takeover of healthcare.
We should be secure in our homes, in our papers and in our person from unreasonable searches or surveillance. In the name of the War on Terror, our government has done to us what bin Laden could have never accomplished. We are quickly losing this very personal right to privacy. Tracking of currency, tracking our location by cell phone, satellite spying, recording our phone calls, reading our emails, implants and retina scans are no longer the realm of science fiction.
As your Representative, I will oppose any further encroachment on our freedoms and will work as your representative to repeal those parts of FISA, the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act that conflict with the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
We need a strong, affordable, modern national defense that can protect our nation against threats from other nations or groups hostile to the United States. We do not need expensive military bases in 130 foreign countries around the world, particularly in countries that are perfectly capable of defending themselves at their own expense. America should not be policing the world.
As your Representative, I will vote for a strong, affordable, modern national defense that protects America.
Our foreign policy should be grounded in honest diplomacy. We should not interfere in the sovereign affairs of other nations, just as we would not like other nations interfering with our sovereignty. We should deal with specific threats to our nation, but we should not occupy other countries for the purpose of nation-building.
As your Representative, I will vote against any appropriations for nation-building.
The States created the federal government, not the other way around. The 10th Amendment is referred to as the forgotten amendment. Our founders added that amendment because they wanted to make it absolutely clear that anything that was not delegated or prohibited by the Constitution would be reserved to the states or to the people.
Article X of the Bill of Rights states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
As your Representative, I will encourage North Carolina to reaffirm the 10th amendment by challenging Washington when it oversteps state sovereignty.
As a nation, I believe the US must protect and defend its borders, national identity, and sovereignty against all threats external or internal. The push toward globalism sponsored by the current administration and the United Nations is a direct threat to our personal liberties and the rule of law as defined by the U.S. Constitution, and, as such, must be fought with all vigor and persistence. When our constitution was written, treaties consisted of agreements one nation to another nation. For this reason, provisions were made so that no state could opt out of an international treaty agreed to by senate ratification. These provisions are extremely dangerous now that UN “human rights” treaties deal with citizens’ rights inside a nation. Senate ratification of UN treaties such as those concerning Rights of Children, Climate Change, Weapons, Judicial/Legal rights, etc., would allow international law to supersede state law to the detriment of our citizens. This possibility is unacceptable to me. Until this constitutional loophole is fixed, we must actively prevent ratification of any international treaty that would contradict or restrict any rights and provision guaranteed by our constitution.
“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.” – Thomas Jefferson
As your Representative, I will oppose the transfer of American sovereignty to any international organizations or foreign governments.
