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ROBERT D. HOSKEN'S POSITIONS AND WORLDVIEW
1) Uphold traditional marriage as the cornerstone of civilized society.
2) Eliminate "gender-identity" access to public bathrooms and locker rooms.
3) Defend our nation against the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism.
4) Replace today's federal tax code with a new, fair, flat tax.
5) Balance the federal budget by slashing the size of government.
6) Eliminate the secretive Federal Reserve Bank and the issuing of fiat currency.
7) Replace welfare with faith-based charity: reward hard work instead of no work.
8) Unleash the full potential of private enterprise by cutting regulations.
9) Replace Obamacare with a market-driven, patient-centered healthcare reform.
10) Stop illegal immigration by enforcing the laws and securing our borders.
11) Expose Cultural Marxism front organizations such as the ACLU, BLM and ACORN.
12) Uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.
For several years I've been writing various blog articles and creating websites that illustrate how one's personal faith relates to life in society. Six of the pages on this website that relate to latest presidential campaign represent just a few of my previous writings on this subject. The sources linked to in our news posts are valuable for learning what is behind the climate of unrest in America. They include Prager U videos, Daily Signal, National Review, Conservative U., Manhattan Institute, American Thinker, Live Action News, My Faith Votes, Powerline Blog, and The Blaze - become an informed voter!
My ancestors include Generals William T. Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant who led the Union Armies to liberate the slaves. Other ancestors of mine were involved in the anti-slavery movement: James Duane Doty, Governor of the Wisconsin Territory during that era, is my great-great-great uncle. Rev. Nicholas Richards, my great-grandfather, a Methodist pastor in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, manned one of the last stops on the Underground Railroad. Also involved in the emancipation struggle was my great-great aunt Susan B. Anthony, who after the Civil War redirected her energies toward advancing women's rights to vote, own property and choose their career. She was also opposed to abortion, as attested to by the modern Pro-Life organization the Susan B. Anthony List. For over 50 years, I've opposed abortion on demand and have participated in sit-ins and marches to protect the lives of the unborn. I firmly believe that the U.S. Congress must pass the Life at Conception Act that will overturn Roe v. Wade, the huge blunder by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 that has led to the deaths of sixty million unborn Americans.
One of the most gripping articles on the Right to Life is "When Abortion Suddenly Stopped Making Sense" by Frederica Matthews-Green who was "an anti-war, mother-earth, feminist, hippie college student." It finally dawned on her that being anti-violence must also mean being against violence directed toward the smallest, weakest, most helpless of people: unborn babies. For all of my adult life, I've been opposed to violence, and in favor of genuine human rights to life, religious liberty and private property for all citizens, regardless of sex, ethnic or religious background.
The upsurge in massive flooding and wildfires around the U.S. indicate that climate change is a reality, whether determined to be natural or human-caused, so I am also for a clean environment and renewable energy that is cost-effective without government subsidies, balanced with the economic realities of existing jobs and industries in the energy sector. Meanwhile, using fossil fuels can and should be made cleaner and more efficient: I drive a compact gasoline-powered car that can get 40 mpg on the highway, so this technology must become more widespread. Huge energy efficiencies can also be gained in constructing new buildings and retrofitting older ones: see for example https://www.byfusion.com/.
President Obama's executive order on "gender-identity" bathroom and locker room access was an unconstitutional effort to bypass the role of Congress to pass laws. This executive order threatens removal of federal funding from schools that don't allow teenage boys who self-identify as girls to enter girls' locker rooms and watch the girls undress. This violates the girls' right to privacy and increases the risk of sexual assault. There are cases reported already of grown men posing as women and entering women's restrooms and dressing rooms in stores and other public buildings. We need to put a stop to this illegal and immoral abuse of executive orders. A simple and common-sense solution for the 0.3% of people with gender dysphoria - people thinking they are their opposite gender - is to build single-stall restrooms and shower rooms for them.
Replacing today's federal tax code with a new, fair, flat tax will provide an immediate boost to our U.S. economy by eliminating most of the complex and confusing IRS tax code that has grown to immense size and provides hidden loopholes for wealthy individuals and corporations. A flat tax of 15% on all income over $25,000 per person will remove the various marriage penalties and provide the incentive for unemployed people to get even minimum-wage jobs and then begin improving their skills to move up the income ladder.
The current U.S. income tax code and welfare system have stacked the deck against married couples. The welfare system rewards women for getting pregnant and having babies outside of marriage by giving them a stipend while their babies are pre-school age. This has led to many women having another baby every 4-5 years so they can stay on welfare: my wife and I have met several such women in our many years working with low-income and inner-city people. This welfare system traps them in poverty, giving them just barely enough to survive, but not enough for them and their children to thrive. In addition, it encourages cohabitation and no-fault divorces that have left many, many more children in single-parent households.
The tax code often allows two singles to claim a lower income tax rate than married couples, which also encourages cohabitation among young people instead of life-long marriage, again increasing the number of children in single-parent households, as well as increasing abortions. This has led to a dangerously low birth rate in the U.S. that in turn encourages illegal immigration. All this illustrates there is a direct connection between sexual morality and effective public policy, in contrast to the nonsensical "liberal" mantra - "you can't legislate morality!" The solutions for the welfare system and the tax code problems are:
1) Encourage churches, synagogues, and other charitable institutions to teach the poor - "Get Your Life On Track", and teach them the value for society of sexual morality and life-long, monogamous, faithful husband-wife marriage;
2) Have the U.S. Congress pass the Life at Conception Act that establishes the personhood of unborn human beings, thus overturning Roe v. Wade and ending abortion on demand, the so-called "right" for women to have their unborn babies killed simply because it's "inconvenient" or "embarrassing" to have a baby, usually out of wedlock; and
3) Cease using the IRS to focus its investigations on conservative non-profits, and revise the tax code to treat married couples equal to two singles.
Be sure to check out section 2 of my web page - The best Way to Fight Poverty: a Job! My wife and I live in Pittsburgh and have volunteered among predominantly Afro-American population in Pittsburgh's Hill District. For several years I've been helping unemployed people set goals for their lives and careers, next write cover letters, a list of references, and their resume, and then show them how to do effective online job searches, fill out applications and upload cover letters and resumes, and have successful job interviews. Then I show them how to acquire modern skills (section 3) by taking some the many free online courses available on the Internet.
Often when unemployed people ask me - "just help me write a resume", this is a coded expression meaning - "All I need is to write a resume and say I've applied for two jobs this week, then I can keep getting my unemployment check." It took me a while to catch on to this routine after a few people actually said those very words to me, so now I explain the whole process of setting goals, writing cover letters, a list of references, and a resume, and doing online job searches. Then many people simply leave and never show up again. We need to replace the welfare system that hands out virtually "unlimited" taxpayer money with faith-based and other charitable organizations that encourage unemployed people to actually find jobs and improve their skills to move up in society.
See the two pages on "Seek the Welfare of the City", my blog articles that trace the rise of state takeover of "charity" in the thousand-year Byzantine Empire, which eventually led to its bankruptcy and inability to defend against the attacking Muslim Empire. We currently owe nearly two hundred trillion dollars in long-term unfunded Federal Budget obligations, amounting to a future tax burden of one million dollars on every man, woman and child in the U.S. The result is that the U.S. government is unable to adequately "provide for the common defense" as our Constitution requires. The only way we can reduce and eventually eliminate this enormous deficit is by reducing the size of our federal government and its spider-web of regulations and rules that encroach on our freedoms. We need to get the federal government out of many areas such as welfare, public education and healthcare that it uses to indoctrinate our youth and create dependency instead of independence.
Why has the cost of welfare and number of people on welfare mushroomed in the past several decades? In 1966, radical socialists Richard Cloward and his wife Francis Piven, both professors at Columbia University, published their infamous "Cloward-Piven Strategy (CPS)" of premeditated, manufactured crises designed to collapse the U.S. economy by overwhelming it with demands for public services, illegal alien voter registrations, women's rights, homosexual rights, etc. Barack Obama, a former Columbia U. student, was and is heavily involved in the various groups under the CPS umbrella: here's the chart mentioned on the above web-page that illustrates all those inter-relationships. Many "Liberals" are blissfully unaware of this: they are what Lenin called "useful idiots" who get carried away with whatever is "cool" and trendy, but are being used by the Marxist leaders to take part in huge protests and form large voting blocs.
Behind all this lie the neo-Marxist doctrines of "Critical Theory" and "Cultural Marxism": Critical Theory was developed by European Communists of "The Frankfurt School" after WWI when Marxist revolutions failed in several Western and Central European countries. Why did the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution succeed in Russia when, according to Marxist theory, it shouldn't have? Those other countries had more developed capitalist and proletariat classes, but it succeeded in Russia because the social fabric had already unraveled due to the war. So these Marxist theorists realized the key is to criticize the cultural foundations of western societies so that the social fabric unravels and the Marxists can pull off a revolution. With the rise of Hitler in Germany, The Frankfurt School's leaders fled to Columbia University in NYC and Hollywood CA, developing "Cultural Marxism" - "Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms" - that strives to tear apart Western society's Christian value system by changing the narrative, the way we must speak, being "politically correct" - "diversity," "gender neutrality," "inclusive," "liberation," "expropriation," etc.; and "the politics of division" - blacks against whites, latinos against whites, women against men, LGBTQ against "Cis," poor against rich, young against old, income inequality and on and on ad nauseum: read it ...and weep!
In order to defend our nation against radical Islamic terrorism, we first must call it what it is - "radical Islamic terrorism" - and instruct the U.S. military and local police in the teaching and goals of fundamentalist Islam, and how it radicalizes Muslim children and young men to become jihadists and "martyrs" for Islam. We also need to monitor mosques and Islamic schools, as France is doing, to ensure they are not radicalizing young Muslims: see U.S. Islamic Schools Teaching Homegrown Hate. Then the U.S. and our NATO allies must increase the information war to put a stop to this indoctrination in Muslim countries, as well as increasing our police and military efforts to decisively root out and eliminate radical Islam ...before it infiltrates deeper and finally conquers us.
The Federal Reserve System manipulates the money supply and interest rates not merely for the sake of the U.S. economy as a whole, but especially for the rich and powerful elites who are increasingly Leftist-oriented. This may sound contradictory to the Leftists' declaiming of "capitalists," but consider people like Armand Hammer, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, and Tim Cook, who use their wealth to advance "progressive" (Marxist) causes and ideas. Those who possess wealth are currently able to collect "rents" on their wealth through investments, which are linked to long-term interest rates that increase inflation, which harms the poor because they have little or no investments. Why are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? Because the poor give their money to the rich in the form of usurious interest rates! By cutting these interest rates on loans and reducing the length of mortgages to no more than six years (see my Escaping Debt Slavery page), and teaching the poor personal thrift and savings, as well as eliminating derivatives and other complex investment vehicles that helped bring on the Great Recession of 2007-2012, we can bring about more income equality and real economic growth, not just inflating the GDP by adding to the money supply through "liar loans" and the vast myriad of confusing investment schemes.