• Pay my medical bills in full every time (that which is not covered by my insurance which I pay extra for)
  • Generate clean, safe, reliable, CARBON FREE, energy for a living
  • Vote
  • Recycle paper, plastic bottles, tin cans, plastic bags, organic waste (in my dare I say wicked tomato garden), glass bottles, and lousy jokes.
  • Donated more than 2% of my income to recognized charities last year and am on pace to pass that this year.
  • Donated even more to unrecognized charities and that’s about all I’m going to say about that.
  • Pay my taxes
  • Only heat my house to 60 degrees in the winter, do not turn on my AC until it hits 90 degrees in the summer, and made energy saving modifications to my house in order to reduce my energy foot print (and save on my bills of course).
  • Proudly display the American Flag
  • Was named Clean Communities Person of the Year for the State of New Jersey at the age of 8.
  • Worked 3 years in the deadliest, most physically exhausting profession on the planet to finance my education.
  • Sacrifice my own standard of living which is by all accounts modest in order to ensure that upon retirement I will not be dependent on the generosity of others for survival.
  • Was eligible to collect unemployment benefits at more than one point in my life but refused on principle despite the circumstances.

So if that makes me a Neocon - guilty.  The way I look at it, we Neocons, as liberals call us as if we might be insulted by such a label, are people of values, determination, and most of all we are people of action who do more than talk about how to make the world a better place - we get off our asses and do it.

~Man Overboard

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