Before moving to my next issue blog, I have to respond to President Obama’s speech.

Tuesday night the American people experienced the time-honored tradition of the Presidential State of the Union address. What President Obama delivered was something different than what we have come to expect from the leader of the free world. This address sounded more like a campaign speech and ignored many important issues of the day. Perhaps, what is most noteworthy is what the President left out, not his new campaign promises.

In his appeal to voters, President Obama forgot to mention that we have witnessed a deficit that has more than doubled since he took office, and that we are experiencing the longest period of sustained high unemployment since the Great Depression. With more Americans in poverty than ever before in our nation’s history, this Administration has proved itself a complete and utter failure.

Our Middle class, always the backbone of our nation’s economy, is suffering from 35 straight months of unemployment above 8 percent under the failed promises of this Administration. Our gas prices have doubled and the promise of new jobs for American workers remains a pipedream.

The President just one week ago stopped the XL pipeline, an economically and environmentally sound project that would have gone a long way toward providing energy independence and providing American workers a decent private sector paycheck. The progressive policies of this Administration are not only failing to fix the economy, it is traveling down a path that requires us to borrow one of every three dollars the government needs to maintain it.

Washington, literally, spends 25% of the money spent in our economy. What President Obama is not recognizing is that government on steroids is not what the people of this great nation want, and are demanding, of our officials. The President pays lip service to the common sense policies that would enable prosperity and freedom to reign in America.

Last night President Obama said that he believed as Abraham Lincoln did that government should do for the people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more.

Yet over the last three years has thrown the Constitution out the window by appointing czars, ignoring court orders, pushing through excessive regulations on businesses that reduce the American workers’ ability to compete overseas, and, for the first time in our history, stealing wealth from future generations of Americans not yet born.

The President admitted last night: “There is no question that some regulations are outdated, unnecessary, or too costly.” In fact, he said, “I’ve approved fewer regulations in the first three years of my presidency than my Republican predecessor did in his.”

While the number is 4.7% fewer in quantity, the truth is that this President created over 75 new major regulations that cost American businesses jobs. The average annual cost to businesses is higher than under his predecessors, with the increase estimated by some to total as much as $1.75 Trillion annually. This represents twice the amount of individual income tax collected last year. This is the Obama Administration’s legacy – the imposition of $38 billion in new regulatory costs on American taxpayers, more than any comparable period of time on record. We can do better by ourselves. We, the American people, don’t need this type of assistance from Washington.

It sounds good when President Obama speaks of restoring the economy and giving everyone a fair shot. I agree, too, that everyone should do their fair share and play by the same set of rules. But what this Administration has failed to acknowledge is that under the U.S. Constitution, the guiding document that has brought us freedom, liberty and centuries of prosperity; we the American people are provided an equal opportunity to succeed, not a guarantee of equal result.

When the President stated that he bet “most Americans are thinking the same thing right now: Nothing will get done this year, or next year, or maybe even the year after that, because Washington is broken.” I bet he was right. When he offered an explanation that “The greatest blow to confidence in our economy last year didn’t come from events beyond our control,” once again he was correct.

The events of the last three years of his presidency were controllable. The President is responsible for the ongoing deconstruction of America and for worsening the economic problems we face today. President Obama has failed to deliver on his campaign promises, and he has failed the American people who trusted him to bring change in the last election.

Daria I. Novak (R)

Candidate, U.S. Congress (CT-2)

 Ms. Novak is an Executive Consultant and former President of ERUdyne, LLC international cross-cultural, business management and homeland security training and consulting firm she founded in March 2001. She specializes in helping organizations to leverage culture and turn it into a competitive advantage. Ms. Novak travels extensively across the United States and throughout the world teaching, consulting, and lecturing on global business management, security issues and cross-cultural issues.

Since 2003 she also has taught seminars in National Security Studies, Chinese Politics, International Relations and American Politics at Eastern CT State University, the University of Connecticut and at University of New Haven.

From 1979 to 1989, Ms. Novak served in career positions and as a presidential appointee under Ronald Reagan at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC and overseas. In 1989, she served as Senior Coordinator for the Secretary of State’s 300-member China Task Force handling the crisis in Tiananmen Square and as a U.S. government spokesperson. She received a Meritorious Honor Award from the Undersecretary of State for her “core leadership role in managing the crisis” in China. Ms. Novak has traveled extensively in Asia and was a member of then-Vice President Bush’s White House Advance Team.

Ms. Novak received a Superior Honor Award, the highest given by the State Department, from the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, for her involvement in saving American lives in Haiti during the fall of Haitian President Duvalier. Secretary of State George Shultz also awarded her a Meritorious Honor Award for her substantive contributions to the August 1982 U.S.-China Joint Communiqué, one of the main documents governing U.S. relations with China.

Ms. Novak received an MA in Political Science from the University of Southern California and is a graduate of the U.S. Foreign Service Institute and Georgetown University’s Institute of Comparative Economic and Political Systems. She received a certification in advanced Chinese language studies at Taiwan National Normal University in Taipei. Ms. Novak began her PhD work at the University of Southern California and later transferred to the University of Connecticut. She also has conducted presidential election research under Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics.

Prior to founding ERUdyne, Ms. Novak was a manager in the Technology Practice at META Group when she specialized in knowledge management, risk/vulnerability assessments, IT-business performance standards and contracting. With a background in dual-use (military-civilian) nuclear technology she led vulnerability studies conducted at nuclear power plants in the Northeast United States.

Ms. Novak has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Women in World Trade, the California-Taiwan Trade and Investment Council, the California-USSR Trade Association, the Shoreline Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the Great Falls, Va. Volunteer Fire Dept. where she was a volunteer firefighter and EMT.

In recent years she has been involved in MusicAid USA (a group dedicated to helping wounded vets obtain musical instruments), the American Society of Training and Development, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, and InfraGard (a public-private partnership protecting crtical infrastructure). She was a contributing writer to The Encyclopedia on World Terrorism, 2002 Edition and has written many other articles on foreign affairs and international business.

Ms. Novak has a lifelong involvement with the Republican Party and serves on the Board of Directors of the CT Federation of Republican Women. She ran for US Congress in 2010 and won the Republican State Convention’s endorsement. Among other positions she has served as a Delegate to the 1976 Republican National Convention, various District and State Republican Conventions, Vice Chairman of Virginia College Republicans, and President of Mary Washington College Republicans, prior to joining the Reagan Administration. She was born and raised in Connecticut and has lived with her family in Madison since 2001.

Please volunteer and contribute to Daria’s campaign at www.novakforcongress.com. Telephone: 203-318-8200.

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The 2nd District of Connecticut Race Has Begun

Madison, CT – Before a crowd of family, friends, and supporters, Daria Novak announced that she is running for U.S. Congress in Connecticut’s Second District. Novak’s announcement at Café Allegre in Madison last night launches her bid for the seat in 2012.
Michael Hannan, a member of the Waterford Republican Town Committee and longtime supporter of Ms. Novak’s, introduced her to the crowd. “Now, without any further delay, it gives me great pleasure and it is very much my honor to introduce to you a woman of great decency, strong conviction and nearly tireless energy,” said Hannan.

“Daria Novak is the only choice to fill this seat as she has the depth of knowledge of the issues and knows what needs to be done to ensure our Nation’s future is once again headed in the right direction,” said Kathy Blake, a campaign volunteer and a member of the Westbrook Republican Town Committee.

Ms. Novak told the attendees that she was running for U.S. Congress in 2012 because she “remains concerned about the issues our Nation is facing and wants to impact the decisions being made in Washington by having a voice and representing the people of the Second District in Connecticut.”

“I am looking forward to campaigning on the issues. I am confident that the people of the Second District are as concerned about big government, excessive spending, and higher taxes as I am and they will recognize that I am the right person to be their voice in Washington” said Novak.

After joining the State Department I received a Presidential appointment under Ronald Reagan. I worked hard to serve our country and received many leadership awards. If you’re curious, check out my bio. I believe all service to this great nation no matter where or what type is important. That’s why for many years I was a volunteer firefighter and EMT. Our police, firefighters and, of course, our American soldiers are among the bravest citizens I have met.

Do you know why I am running now? This country needs decent, honest, hard-working people to help steer us back to the right path. The “change” we were promised, isn’t the correct change. Government spending is way out of control; our freedoms are being stripped away from us; the federal government is intruding in our lives where it doesn’t belong; and now Washington is threatening our children’s future by the excessive debt burden this Congress is putting on them and their children.

I can’t sit back when this Administration drafts reports stating that law-abiding citizens, including our military, are potential terrorists!  Washington is arguing that the vast majority of our citizens, who are conservative, are a threat to this great country! It’s outrageous that the Administration gets away with labeling law-abiding American citizens “potential terrorists” simply because they choose to exercise their right to free speech and assembly at a Tea Party rally.

The voting record for our 2^nd District Congressman proves he is part of this problem. Like many other career politicians in Congress, he doesn’t read the bills he votes for. And like Senator Dodd, he actively supports legislation taking away the freedoms guaranteed us by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. It has to stop now before we ruin our free nation. Washington is dragging the middle class down instead of lifting up those who need help.

My plan is to help bring sanity back to Washington. We need good candidates to step up and seek public office with the goal of serving the people, not themselves and the special interest groups. It’s really quite simple. When I go to Washington you will be my boss. The job you hire me to do is to represent all District 2 voters. If you have a moment, take a look at my platform and you’ll see some of the details about how I plan to it.