Peg in the Machine

Key Values

We here at the peg in the machine website (being a political based site, pointing out and offering insights to politics, and well a 2012 based site) have the following general key values:

1. Grassroots based approach to government. — We just believe that every person has the right to have input in the government’s running.  We believe that everyone should be involved in their government even if it’s just visiting their town meetings every so often – even when it doesn’t apply to them directly.  We believe that all people should have the right to be heard at all levels of government and not shoved aside — including a direct vote-based approach for town decisions that affect the masses.
2. Decentralization.  — We believe that the federal government should oversee the general rights of people to guarantee that people rights are upheld, and otherwise help to maintain society — but let the individual states, counties, towns and people decide the actual way things are carried out.  By doing so, the government will work for the people.
3. Rights for all. — We believe that all humans are entitled to virtually unlimited rights insofar as their actions don’t interfere with another person’s rights.  We believe that as long as what one person wants to do won’t hurt another person, they should be allowed to do it.  We also believe that if a person’s actions causes problems with others, then penalties would have to exist.  For example, we believe that if someone wishes to do drugs they should be able to — however if they kill, rape, rob, or destroy property while on them, they’ll be punished.
4. Equal rights for all. — We believe that all people, no matter what age, race, sexuality or anything else, should have identical rights and privileges within society given that they are capable of having them.  We believe that jobs (positions) should be paid based on the position and location and be constant throughout the company.  Identical positions in a company should have identical benefits and wages.
5. Environmental Sustainability. — We believe that the environment, overall, trumps the needs of the people.  Without the environment humans die.  Human rights don’t mean anything if everyone’s dead.  We believe that all actions for people and the environment should be forward thinking, taking into account short and long term needs.
6. Personal & Global Responsibilities. — We believe that all people have certain responsibilities to treat all life with respect.  We believe that all people should live in harmony with their neighbors next door and on the other side of the world.  We believe that we should live in harmony with nature over subduing nature to serve us.
7. Living is a right, not a privilege. — We believe that people have the right to food, shelter, and the opportunity to better themselves.  It’s a right.  It isn’t a privilege that can or should be taken away just because they fall on hard times, or were born in a low-income family.  We believe the opportunities should exist for all people equally, and not favor someone because of how much they have.  We believe that people should be guaranteed a place to live, food to eat, and the chance for an education just because they’re alive.
8. Education is a right, not a privilege. — We believe that education should be available to all people for free.  When you charge people for education to better themselves, you’re making it so only those people with good credit or with parents with good credit are able to better themselves.  We believe that knowledge should be given to help better society — not better those with the best money-raising opportunities, and those who happened to go to better funded schools.
9. Products should be recyclable and maintained. — We believe that instead of creating tons of junk with the idea that “just throw it away” all products should be 100% recyclable.  Things that are built should also be able to be maintained (and actively maintained) to prolong it’s life as long as possible.  We believe that if something can’t be recycled in a “newspaper today, label tomorrow, cup the next day, textbook the next” it can be as in “house today, cans, cars, landscaping and fertilizer the next” — where the products can be safely be reused as something else.