Holding his own jobs summit which he referred to as a real jobs summit in Cincinnati, Ohio on Wednesday evening, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich made it clear that American Solutions, a conservative grassroots organization that he started, is about far more than just encouraging job creation. The 1.5 million strong organization embraces small businesses owners and entrepreneurs, the kind of people who like to roll up their sleeves and make things happen, and helps them figure out how they can make a difference now.
Gingrich’s plan speaks the language that is well understood by those who truly make the jobs that employ the majority of Americans. Gingrich speaks of tax reforms that bring immediate payroll tax relief, incentives for purchasing new equipment and investing in new, more productive technologies, abolishing capital gains taxes, reducing the business tax rate, and abolishing the death tax. Bottom line: when businesses are growing and making money, they spend money. And that often takes the form of hiring new employees.
Another thing that American Solutions does is encourage members to hold their elected officials accountable by engaging in the political process. “To truly fix the country,” he said Wednesday night, “you have to have a wave of change on local, state, and the federal level.” In order to stop bad policy from being proposed and made into law, there have to be elected officials in place who truly know what makes good policy, introduce it, and implement it.
Gingrich said of American Solutions, “We believe if you encourage the development of permanent, really good jobs, and if you encourage the rise of a new generation of entrepreneurs, and if you strengthen small businesses; you in fact, create a tremendous wave of new jobs. They are competitive with Chinese growth, and they enable our generation, our children and grandchildren. And those are the most productive and responsible and sensible goals, and those are the underlying goals of American Solutions.”
Gingrich also stated that, “There are core values that you want to measure all public policy against. It’s not just its end over here, but what does it do for who we are.”
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an interesting word picture: “If you think about the sports page as compared to the political page, the sports page will tell you about the person who won. And the sports page tends to say that winners ought to get bigger metals than losers. And they actually use words like ‘winners’ and ‘losers.’ Now if the sports page was written by the New York Times political writers, they would find the coach who coached the team with the most loses, and there would be a page one story about the agony of defeat, and the degree to which he felt unhappy over having lost every game, and the fact that he couldn’t recruit anybody because they didn’t want to come and play for a team that was losing all the time. They’d bring out how he thought this was unfair, that really good athletes ought to be forced to come to his school, and that there ought to be a redistribution of scholarships so that the worst school in America gets the first choice of the best athletes. It is so unfair that they keep getting recruited for good teams by good coaches. Shouldn’t the bad teams and bad coaches have a fair chance of getting people too?” He went on: “And then there would be an editorial page about how there shouldn’t be a World Series because the World Series allows somebody to call themselves a champion, and champion is such an egocentric, emotional, dominant term. We should all be friends. We could have the 2009 Friends of the World.”
Gingrich then brought out the fact that the sports world is more like the America that had the worldwide reputation that, “if you work hard, you develop your skills, you do the best you can, there’s no guarantee that you’re going to win, but we’re going to give you a shot at it.”
A shot at that freedom to do all that you know to do to make your personal American dream a reality, which for some people also includes trusting in Jesus to direct their steps and supply their need, is the very freedom that has been the envy of the world and the hope that has inspired so many citizens and drawn so many immigrants to a nation that has clearly had God’s hand on it from its very inception.
America was founded by leaders who called themselves Christians and wrote The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution with God’s principles in mind. The court system was originally designed with God’s 10 commandments in mind. But today, we’re at a crossroads. “We the People” only have a few months left to decide if we want leaders who will uphold traditional family and positive values, or those who would thrust our nation into a new world order that embraces a one world system.
For more information about American Solutions:
www.AmericanSolutions.com
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Comments
Where does the persistent myth come from that the declaration and constitution are Christian or were based on the ten commandments? No gods are mentioned in the constitution, and the overlap in laws between the constitution and the ten commandments is a whopping 30%. The constitution does not make it illegal to:
work on Saturday;
worship idols;
say "Jehovah" or "Oh, God!";
dishonor one's parents;
sleep around on your wife or husband; or
covet your neighbor's wife, or any of his *other* property (the ancient Hebrews were SO enlightened).
Well, Newt doesn't talk about the use of tariffs on imports, abolishing the Federal Reserve, or returning to the gold standard. Feel good platitudes don't solve problems, but do keep lost people deluded. Newt and televangelists have a lot in common.
Nowhere in this article, does it state what, if any negative effects reduction of top tier tax rates could do. Also, what guarantees are there that when business owners get more money, they will begin hiring people in droves?
Sadly like much of the media, Newt ignores the obvious: if we enforce our immigration laws, many of the 8 million illegal foreign workers would leave and open up these jobs for American workers.
And on top of this, we are admitting about 100,000 foreign workers legally per month -- which is insane during this era of high unemployment.
The job market should have been the focus all along. We've wasted time and money trying to rescue Wall Street fat-cats and Corporate goons. People with JOBS buy houses and cars. People without JOBS lose houses and cars (see: repofinder.com). At least the Government is finally waking up to this. Romney 2012
Right on "reality check"! Let us think about our own before we hand it all to the squatters!
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