Campaign Literature


Newt 2012

Flyer, 8 1/2" x 11", Dec. 2011, Iowa.

NEW CENTURY
NEW CONTRACT
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."

DEAR FELLOW CITIZEN,
If we are to solve our jobs crisis and meet the challenges of the 21st century, we need a plan for national renewal based on timeless American values.

That plan is the 21 st Century Contract with America.

Because of the depth of challenges facing America, the 21st Century Contract with America will be much larger than the original, and will continue to evolve over the next year. You can visit Newt.org/Contract for more information about the 21st Century Contract, including ways to offer feedback.

This flyer outlines the basics of the legislative proposals in the 21st Century Contract with America. There are executive order and citizen training components as well.

Developing and then implementing the 21st Century Contract with America will be a team effort of millions of Americans.

I'm asking Americans to be with me, not just for me, because it will take all of us, working together, to change Washington and to save our country.
YOUR FRIEND,

Newt Gingrich
 
LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS

1. Repeal Obamacare and pass a replacement that saves lives and money by empowering patients and doctors, not bureaucrats and politicians.

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.

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.

4. Save Medicare and Social Security by giving Americans more choices and tools to live longer, healthier lives with greater financial independence.

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.

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.

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.
 
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.

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.

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, stale and local officials and citizens will be asked to identity the areas which can be transferred back home.