My Signed Pledges:

I was the first Georgia candidate to sign the 10-4 Pledge of the Tenth Amendment Center
http://pledge.tenthamendmentcenter.com/the-signers
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/MichaelFrisbee.pdf

I'm the only Georgia candidate that has signed the Rule Of Law Restoration pledge
http://www.ruleoflawrestoration.com/candidates/rolr-candidates-list
http://www.ruleoflawrestoration.com/pledges/legislative-pledge

I was the first of three Georgia candidates to be asked to join the Conservative Freshman Coalition
http://www.conservativefreshmencoalition.com/candidates.html
http://www.conservativefreshmencoalition.com/pledge.html

Congressional Reform

There is no doubt that Congress has more than overstepped their authority too many times to count, and has been doing so for decades. The position of a House Representative and Senator has stopped being one held by statesman that honored and abided by the Constitution, to one held by career politicians that ignore their constituents and listen to the special interests and corporate lobbyists that fund their campaigns to get special favors.

If elected, I pledge I will donate 1/3 of my annual salary to charity organizations in the 13th Congressional District that help people in need, until such time this economic crisis has been abated.

I also pledge that I will not enroll in the lucrative Congressional pension plan, and in fact, will seek to have the Congressional Pension Plan ended and defunded. This should help to disincentive career politicians, and return us to citizen statesmen that only seek the office as a duty and honor, for a short time, and then return to their normal careers.

As a further step to end career politicians, I will seek a Constitutional Amendment that establishes term limits upon Congress. Four terms for US House of Representatives, two terms for US Senators. Fresh blood and fresh ideas, people dedicated to Constitutional authority and adherence. This is how we get Congress back on track.

In addition to term limits, I will seek to change the manner of which Congress does its business, and seek a change to bring Congressmen and Senators to their home states and districts. With today's technologies, there is no reason our representatives need to be in Washington to conduct the multitude of committee meetings and other work that leads up to legislative votes.

By forcing representatives to work from their home districts and states, using satellite feeds, online group meetings, and so forth, the representatives can conduct their business at a much lower cost, and be easily accessible by their constituents. They would be far less accessible by the special interests and lobbyists. These representatives would then have to be far more accountable to their constituents and would only need to visit Washington for a two week session, three or four times a year, to debate and vote on actual legislation ready to be considered.

All of this falls in line with the Constitution. You can learn more at http://bringthemhome.frisbee2010.com

Jobs & Business

Jobs creation can only be made in the private sector and further expansion of the public sector is not a long term sustainable goal. We need to encourage in-sourcing of US jobs and to that extent, I see two policy changes that can impact that immediately.

Firstly, we must reduce our corporate tax rates. We currently have one of the highest corporate tax rates for a developed nation in the world. We are part of a global economy and we must become competitive within it.

Secondly, we must eliminate the double taxation of corporate revenues earned in overseas operations. We need to re-patriate those revenues without penalty to encourage domestic re-investment by American companies.

It is vital we promote an environment in our country that is beneficial to small businesses and the entrepreneur to operate and invest in operations and expansion within the US. Only by strategically reducing the tax burden on these entities, can we see growth in jobs begin, and soon after that, real and measurable growth and recovery of our economy.

Finally, we must begin to create opportunity for programs that effectively and constructively bring private industry and public sector programs together to help create new business owners and new jobs. This would allow for the raising up of the lower income classes into a place of self sustenance, and perhaps even fiscal independence. This type of collaboration can be done so with no investment or increase of tax payer funds to achieve it.

Education Reform

When elected, I will seek the revocation of the Department of Education charter and return us to a Constitutional footing in regards to education. There exists a national association of state educators that could take over oversight of further advancements in education, but leaves the States autonomous in their managing educational funding. All current funding of the Department of Education would stay within the States, for use by the States in determining their own educational goals and priorities.

Leading up to the revocation of the Department of Education Charter, I will fully support a National School Choice Act to promote educational options and expand opportunity for all children, regardless of background, ethnicity, or financial situation. This will encourage direct involvement of their parents in the child's education.

It is a fundamental tenet of conservatism that we all begin from an equal footing and have the opportunity to rise up and above our circumstances through personal effort and responsibility. Only by reforming the Federal education system and applying school choice nationally, can we ensure equal opportunity for all.

Energy Independence and Global Warming

The rationale behind CO2 regulation crumbles to dust when you ask these five one-word questions about Al Gore's and the IPCC's claims of the global warming debate being settled - "when, where, who, how, why".

If the global warming debate is truly over, WHEN exactly did the debate occur, WHERE was it, WHO attended, HOW were expert scientists offering conclusions contradictory to IPCC reports addressed and refuted beyond a shadow of a doubt, and is there any reason WHY Dr S Fred Singer's & Dr Craig Idso's Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the NONgovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a collection of peer-reviewed published scientific papers, should not be considered as a second opinion to the IPCC reports?

The NIPCC is a devastating 880 page report (see http://www.nipccreport.org ) that is an authoritative and detailed rebuttal of the findings of the IPCC, on which the House & Senate global warming bills rely for their regulatory proposals. (Thank you Mr. Cook for bringing this resource to my attention)

Keeping the current devastation in mind going on in the Gulf, we need to not allow this tragedy keep us from continuing to seek out domestic resources of all types. This includes off-shore drilling. We need to focus not on freezing ourselves out of self reliance, but finding ways to better secure and make safe methods to procure those resources. There are oil fields yet untapped, that have been tapped but locked down, and riches yet to be discovered. Of those resources they have cataloged, if we were to tap them exclusively, we could meet our current energy consumption for the next two centuries, without purchasing a single drop from foreign sources, and being able to drop our costs by half.

The money we could save by doing this - could be used to give PRIVATE INDUSTRY, the FREE MARKET, incentive to develop alternative energy sources. There are alternative sources available today. Not the solar panel or wind turbine, but a process that ties right into recycling of bio-mass waste. There are several hundred billion tons of bio-mass waste produced across this nation from agricultural operations. A company near Savannah, Georgia has developed a zero carbon imprint process that converts bio-mass waste into a sludge that can then be refined into a wide range of fuels useable in cars to aircraft carriers. Notice that Washington isn't pushing this as a solution.

Mobile Collection Facilities can move throughout a region during harvests and such, collecting the bio-waste and converting on-site. As the sludge is produced, it can be shipped by tanker truck to the processing plants in that region. The fuels created can be sold and distributed in that region, reducing costs. The environment is better off because now the bio-waste isn't burned putting carbon-monoxide into the atmosphere. The whole process would create thousands of new jobs.

It is REAL solutions like this that I will seek out and push for implementation in the Free Market that will help bring a true energy independence, will reduce costs, and help our economy and environment, while building up the wealth of our citizens through jobs and financial independence, not governmental dependence.

Finally, I am in complete opposition to the former Cap & Trade legislation that Rep. David Scott voted YES on, and the new version of that bill, America's Power Act. These are in no way Constitutional, and I will not subject my district's citizens or businesses to the taxation and increased power costs.

Taxes:

We are vastly off the chart in regards to a Constitutional tax system. To get there will take several phases, or steps, not to mention getting the right minded Constitutionist in office to get these phases passed.

I support Fair Tax in as much as it is a good halfway point to Constitutional tax system. By moving to a Fair Tax, we cut almost in half the totality of taxes we are burdened by, directly and indirectly. With citizens getting 100% of their earnings and only paying a tax when purchasing something, you have the opportunity to invest and save without penalty. Families can begin rebuilding wealth. At the same time, we start taking away the blank check that Congress feels it has. We also see many "under the radar" people, both law abiding and criminal suddenly having to pay the taxes they have been getting out of for the past several decades. So the amount of collected taxes will increase

However - we can't stop there.

We need to cut Federal Spending 2% annually across the board - no pick and choose - and do that for the next 10 years.

We need to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment

We need to pass an Amendment that sends representatives back to work from their districts 75% of the time via telecommuting, and only go to DC for voting. http://bringthemhome.frisbee2010.com

We need to cut Foreign Aid across the board by 75%, and only to those countries whose governments believe and support our ideals. We need to remove ourselves from the UN. We take that half of that surplus money, and purchase precious metal reserves (gold, silver, platinum, etc), and order the US Treasury to print and dispense US Treasury Notes backed by those reserves, and trade them for the devalued Federal Reserve Notes. The other half of the surplus is used to pay off our debt with the Federal Reserve. In a decade or so - we can eliminate the Federal Reserve.

Those things above will bolster the US Dollar, lowering costs, helping to balance our Trade Deficit, and prepare us for the next step, Repeal of the 16th Amendment, and eliminating personal taxes.

Health Care Legislation and Reform

If elected, one of my first efforts will be seeking the repeal of the American Health Care Act that Congress unconstitutionally forced upon the American people. No where in the Constitution has Congress been given the authority to legislate health care, and it is NOT covered by the "General Welfare Clause".

Once repealed, there are several legislative initiatives to enact real reform; Federal tort reform, opening up purchasing across state borders, eliminating unfunded federal mandates, repealing detrimental regulations that fail to truly regulate and only serve to ramp up costs.

There is a growing number of private physician cooperatives that require no insurance at all. Members of these cooperative pay an annual members fee and a monthly individual fee based on your specific health status. All are accepted - no pre-existing condition problems. With no insurance accepted, all those regulations and such on paperwork and other issues are eliminated, and these cooperatives can provide preventative and primary care at a much reduced cost.

The only requirement is to carry catastrophic care insurance. This is how it was before all the regulations and other legislations came into being that drove up health care costs. The focus is more on preventative care - where it should be. This approach actually helps lower costs overall during the life of an individual.

National Defense:

I believe in a strong and prepared military to bolster our national defense. A part of National Defense I believe includes protecting our borders.

I think it is time for us to close down our role in Iraq and that Iraqi's need to step up and do what is necessary to keep the freedoms they have. We can't continue to pull them out of the fire on that.

I believe we need to either commit the needed troops and resources to finish the mission in Afghanistan, or pull out.

I come from a family that has had 14 generations serving this country, from before it was a country.

I believe it is time to have a hard review of all foreign bases, and where we have no strategic need for them, close them down. Shift non combat personnel back to the US, and roll combat personnel to existing hot zones, and bring our overburdened National Air and Guard units home. After we have them home, it is time to de-federalize them and put them back under the authority of the governor's as state militia's - AS PER THE CONSTITUTION!

We need to focus on border security - put the Army unit that has been training at Ft Stewart to operate in the US for domestic upheaval and crisis, and put them along the border to back the Border Patrol, and let's get a real barrier in place. Mexico has one on their southern border with Guatemala, and they shoot illegals crossing on sight. I don't think we need to go to that extreme, but a much better border barrier is necessary.

Immigration:

I do not have a problem with foreign citizens coming to this country LEGALLY and attend the process to become a citizen. My family tree is dotted quite a bit with such citizens that came to the US to have a better life. But they worked hard to learn the language, learn our society, and to become productive members.

I also understand why many come across our borders. For the most part, many are good people who are simply seeking a better life but they are either impatient with the system to come here legally, or too broke to pay the fees to do so. But there are a small portion who are criminals looking to transport drugs, or escape prosecution in Mexico and so forth.

Sealing off the border is the first step. The second step is to work with Mexican citizens, and help them to learn the value of a Constitutional Republic, and how to bring it to their country, to bring reforms to their own country and to get rid of the graft and corruption in their government, starting with their local towns, then into the states, then into their Federal government. If we help them to reform their country so that it is a better country to grow and be successful in, people will be less likely to try to cross to the United States.

Finally - to deal with the illegal immigrants here. First thing - end the anchor babies - no more US Citizenship for children of illegal immigrants born here.

I am not for amnesty per say -but to think we can effectively find 12-20 million illegals and deport them - not realistic.

We need to have a comprehensive program. First - lets ENFORCE the laws in place. Then let's beef up the cost for businesses that flaunt those laws and hire illegals. Jail time for corporate personnel that are actively involved in doing so would go a long way to deterring that. Let's make the penalties money wise sting a bit more. Boost the fine per illegal to $100,000 each, with the money funding the border barrier construction.

In fact, let's put illegals to work doing JUST THAT. They come forward and identify themselves, and should they have a clean record (outside the illegal crossing) they can choose to work four years helping build the southern border barrier, or they can serve four years in the military. Once the four years are complete and they have kept out of trouble, then they earn citizenship for themselves and up to three direct blood family members already in the US. Any illegal that is found after a certain date, is deported, and any found with a criminal record is instantly deported.

This would provide a robust work force to build the barrier needed, cutting costs (they would be paid a reasonable wage, English immersion classes, etc) as well as a boost to our military that after an extended boot camp (for English immersion, US History, American Law and Society, etc) they can be trained to help serve in our hot zones, and relieve an overburdened military force, some having served 4-5 tours.

Is it a perfect solution - no. But one I think if implemented - would make a definite difference.

Abortion:

Personally, I am against abortion except in the extreme case where the mother's life is at threat, or you have a rape case where the mental stability of the victim is so fragile she is unable to manage the pregnancy. Again - that is where I am personally.

As a federal representative in Congress, and based on my understanding of the Constitution, Congress does not have the authority to take a position on this. This is a matter for each State to decide upon, through their legislatures, whom are closer to the people that represent them and the State can then reflect the values and decisions of it's residents.

Thus - regardless of whether the bill be to support abortion, or ban it - as a Congressman I would vote No in either case - because Congress has no authority to either choice.