A Palin supporter's review of Newt's legislative proposals...
Sealing the border, repealing Obama Care, balancing the budget, Gingrich may be gaining strength as GOP primary voters look at Gingrich's Contract with America! by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Newt is making strides in the GOP Primary so I thought I would take a look at the Gingrich website to see what the core of his agenda is.
Below, I have listed his legislative priorities as they are written on his site. His initiatives are in bold italics. I have than added my thoughts as an independent conservative writer and thinker who is an admitted Sarah Palin supporter.
Before I begin, I should like to admit my admiration for Newt for his role in the conservative revolution to retake the House of Representatives. In 1994, Newt was one of the most conservative men in the nation. His foundation of knowledge in U.S. and world history provided a worldview and a comprehensive approach to Post Cold War US domestic and foreign policy. Newt's view as an historian and legislative leader was far different from the legal and economic perspectives which permeated the special interests within the District of Columbia. I lost great respect for the national Republican Party, and especially the RINO's of the northeast, who were responsible for the eventual removal of Newt from his leadership position. At that time in American history, Newt was for me, the most important policy maker and political leader in the nation.
However, since his resurrection I believe Newt has been "re-educated." I believe he is now a member of Bush-Clinton-Bush globalist -internationalist American party. I believe a review of his initiatives will demonstrate that he is not the Newt Gingrich of 1994. I still retain great respect for his intellect, experience and breadth of knowledge. He may be the most intelligent man to run for the office of President in my half century life time.
One area which absent in the legislative agenda is an inclusion of Christianity and God at the governing table. I did not look through the rest of Newt's site to see if he acknowledges that the single most important issue facing the United States is the role of God in our government and society. President Obama has denied our Christian character as a nation, and his statement reflects many, if not a majority of federal elected officials.
And so we consider Newt's legislative agenda.
1.Repeal Obamacare and pass a replacement that saves lives and money by empowering patients and doctors, not bureaucrats and politicians.
Repeal of Obamacare is essential to the future of what remains of the original Constitution. Recently, the Supreme Court has issued a statement indicating they will rule on the Constitutionality of Obamacare. This statement indicates to this observer that they will most likely rule in favor of Obamacare. Be that the case, this promise by Gingrich may be the most important plank in his legislative agenda. All of Obamacare must be repealed. Where I differe with Newt is his promise to "pass a replacement." Government funding of health care has inflated it to proportions which are draining our national wealth faster than we can create it. Socialism is the fastest way to create long term economic malaise.
Any replacement of Obamacare must be private sector oriented. It's primary target must be to reduce the actual costs of medical care through the injection of competition, limiting government funding, reducing profiteering to medicines and procedures developed through government monies. If the government pays for the development, the people of the nation own the end product. Any sale of the end product to a commercial enterprise should severely restrict the end cost of the product.
Further, new systems providing health care should mirror military systems where basic care is provided by med techs, significantly reducing the cost for care.
2.Return to robust job creation with a bold set of tax cuts and regulatory reforms that will free American entrepreneurs to invest and hire, as well as by reforming the Federal Reserve and creating a training requirement for extended federal unemployment benefits to encourage work and improve the quality of our workforce.
Repeal of Obamacare will help clarify the governmental infrastructure burden which must be carried by the private sector, and citizen tax payers. This one step should go a long way to help reposition the United States for economic growth.
But, this second initiative from Newt demonstrates a lack of the need to conduct a true, honest, comprehensive economic analysis of what is presently America. This analysis must include a broad description of the world's economic model, and its political organization. It must address the likelihood of an expanded role of the United Nations, or world government. It must describe America's true position in the world as one of two hundred nations competing in the world economy. It should set a long term goal of national economic self-sufficiency. America should reverse its trade imbalance and retake its role as the world's commercial and industrial center. America's foreign and economic policy should reflect an America First view.
It is here that I believe Newt is closely linked with the world view of the Bush - Clinton - Bush Ivy League internationalist axis. It is globalism which is seen as the political - economic system which the United States must participate in. We were told at the time of NAFTA that there was nothing we could do; we could not stop globalism, the free passage of goods, dollars, ideas, and people. America's inability to secure its southern border and the infiltration of twenty million illegal immigrants into the US is part of globalism. Globalism will lead to world government, it is inevitable.
At this point, 2012, America could reassess the world we live in, and reassess American nationalism. We could assert our own nationalist identity. We could choose to re-establish our borders and re-orient our policies towards a goal of self-sufficiency. All of our national future, all of our individual rights, all of our Christian foundation is reliant on this re-assessment of the United States in the 21st Century. And it’s here, Newt is probably the only candidate, in either party to understand the historic nature of the crossroads we face. It could be that Newt does understand this, and has decided to avoid discussing this reality in the election environment. It could be that he is accepting enough of the Bush - Clinton - Bush philosophical axis to be acceptable as a candidate to the ruling elite.
Newt is a smart politician. He is not Congressman Ron Paul. He will avoid saying things or advocating positions contrary to the ruling and the special interests they lead. I am hopeful that is the case.
3.Unleash America’s full energy production potential in oil, natural gas, coal, biofuels, wind, nuclear oil shale and more, creating jobs, stimulating a sustainable manufacturing boom, lowering gasoline and other energy prices, increasing government revenues, and bolstering national security.
Concur 100%. The United States should create policies which encourage self - sufficiency in energy development, production and refinement. Huge amounts of American wealth leave our nation every year to pay for the energy imports. Wealth leaves the nation, jobs left uncreated. Newt is solid on this initiative.
Sarah Palin's achievements in this area are unparalleled by any American elected official. What she accomplished in Alaska as Governor demonstrated her character, intelligence, leadership and toughness,
4.Save Medicare and Social Security by giving Americans more choices and tools to live longer, healthier lives with greater financial independence.
These issues must be resolved. Privatization, and early opt outs, say in the mid 50's by individuals who will surrender what they have contributed if they can opt out of payments for the last twenty years so that they can earn without any payments to social security should be allowed.
5.Balance the federal budget by freeing job-creators to grow the economy, reforming entitlements, and implementing waste cutting and productivity improvement systems such as Lean Six Sigma to eliminate waste and fraud. Pass a balanced budget amendment to keep it balanced.
A restructuring of the budget to the old Constitution and division of responsibilities should lead the way. The Federal Departments of Education and Energy should be eliminated. National Public Radio and other useless government programs should be terminated. 2/3's present day cuts to government spending should precede any increase in taxes, up to 1/3 of the operating deficit. But...the cuts must precede, and must occur prior to one dollars increase in taxes.
6.Control the border by January 1, 2014 and establish English as the official language of government; reform the legal visa system, and make it much easier to deport criminals and gang members while making it easier for law abiding visitors to come to the US.
Securing the border is paramount. Securing the border through the deployment of tens of thousands of soldiers, Guardsmen, border agents, etc. must occur first, before there is any consideration of the future of the illegal immigrants. Once the border is secured, closed then an approach to deal with the illegals can be considered. That approach must understand that the illegals did NOT come to America to become citizens. Many of the illegals do NOT want citizenship. So, the question of assimilation rises. Other immigrants came to be Americans, but many illegals do not come to be Americans. This is issue has never been addressed.
7.Revitalize our national security system to meet 21st century threats by restructuring and adequately funding our security agencies to function within a grand strategy for victory over those who seek to kill us or limit American power.
America's role in the world changed with the end of the Cold War (1945 - 1991). It has, but our national understanding of the new world and our role in it has not. Terrorism has been used to keep the nation in an extended state military preparedness which is both expensive and unnecessary when considering only our own national security needs.
The Unitd States is no longer the leader of the Free World. Europe no longer relies on US military force for its safety. The People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Brazil and many of the other largest nations in the world have not proven to be aggressive militaristic nations. Regional security issues dominate the world stage. Terrorism is NOT the perceived threat created by September 11th. President Bush's failure to seal the southern border in 1991, and the influx of 20 million illegals demonstrates how porous our border and how impotent the Moslem terrorists are.
The US deployment to the Middle East appears to be for one reason, the national security of Isreal. It isn't about securing oil for the world...let them do that. We are not benefitting economically for the military over stretch of our military.
The national security issues which face the United States are much different from those of the end of the twentieth century. Space is one of those aspects which has been all but abandoned, but is crucial to long term US security. Border control-security is a vital US interest. Improvement of Mexico's social, economic and political conditions may be the single most important foreign policy issue facing us long term.
The US must recondition its mental perception of itself to understand that we are not the England of the world. We should re-assert an isolationist perspective. That is not to say that we should withdraw from the world, but rather to say that our engagement in the world should be centered on what improves the condition of the United States of America.
A truly honest, objective, almost revolutionary analysis of our nation's national security needs should be conducted with its foundation on the actual position and role of the United States in the 21st Century world. Part of the analysis should consider the role of space exploration in national defense.
8.Maximize the speed and impact of medical breakthroughs by removing unnecessary obstacles that block new treatments from reaching patients and emphasizing research spending towards urgent national priorities, like brain science with its impact on Alzheimer’s, autism, Parkinson's, mental health and other conditions knowledge of the brain will help solve.
Depends on the cost, if it continues to inflate medical costs, and if it is paid for by the private sector in terms of risk capital, etc.
9.Restore the proper role of the judicial branch by using the clearly delineated powers available to the president and Congress to correct, limit, or replace judges who violate the Constitution.
No other branch has demonstrated a greater willingness to modify, amend, delete, and ignore the original Constitution and the Founding Fathers then the Courts. The black robes have, through their decisions, "Europeanized" the United States. The Courts have neutered the X th Amendment, and trampled separation of powers. In addition, the Courts have turned against the Bible as the foundation of American law. Our ability to live as we wish, to define our environment by the state we reside in has been all but destroyed. This was a great gift of the original America. It has been taken.
10.Enforce the Tenth Amendment by starting an orderly transfer of power and responsibility from the federal government back “to the states, respectively, or to the people,” as the Constitution requires. Over the next year, state and local officials and citizens will be asked to identify the areas which can be transferred back home.
I would be really surprised if Newt could do anything to reduce the power and control of the central government. In the past, the liberals have used intermittent rises in state's rights to win small foot holds on issues in one or more states, and then used the consolidation of power and Court cases to impose minority views on all the states. This is probably the plan for the destruction of traditional marriage and the imposition of the perversion of homosexuality.
So we have taken a walk through the legislative proposals listed on Newt's site. You can visit the site yourself and read more in depth on his proposals. If nothing else Newt's site will give you a broad view of the challenges we face as a nation.
I am still hopeful of Sarah's entrance as a Presidential candidate. But should she not take such a step, Newt would be one of the few alternatives I would consider supporting.
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