A LETTER FROM THE DESK OF NEWT GINGRICH
Dear Fellow Citizen,
America's exceptional nature is based on the self-evident truths
contained in the Declaration of Independence. Our rights are
endowed by our Creator and they are unalienable.
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 these timeless
American values.
That plan is the 21st Century Contract with America.
The 21st Century Contract with America will be much larger than the
original, and will consist of four parts.
1. A set of legislative proposals to shift America back to job
creation, prosperity, freedom and safety.
2. A "First Day" project of Executive Orders to be signed on
inauguration day to immediately transform the way the executive branch
works.
3. A training program for the transition teams and the appointees who
will lead the shift back to Constitutional, limited government;
4. A system of citizen involvement to help us sustain grassroots
support for change and help implement the change through 2021.
This brochure outlines the basics of the legislative proposals in the
21st Century Contract with America.
Visit Newt.org/Contract for more information on these proposals and
details of how the bills will be developed, to receive the "21s Century
Contract with America Newsletter" and offer suggestions for developing
and improving the 21st Century Contract with America.
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
21ST CENTURY CONTRACT WITH
AMERICA
PART 1: LEGISLATIVE
PROPOSALS
- Repeal Obamacare
and pass a replacement that saves lives and money by empowering
patients and doctors, not bureaucrats and politicians.
- 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.
- 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, strengthening the dollar, and
bolstering national security.
- Save Medicare and Social
Security by giving Americans more choices and tools to live
longer, healthier lives with greater financial independence.
- Balance the federal budget
by freeing job-creators to grow the economy, reforming entitlements,
and implementing productivity improvement systems, such as Lean Six
Sigma, to eliminate waste and fraud. Pass a balanced budget amendment
to keep it balanced.
- 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.
- 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 to limit
American freedom.
- Maximize the speed and
impact of medical breakthroughs by removing unnecessary
obstacles that block new treatments from reaching patients and
emphasizing research spending toward urgent national priorities, like
brain science with its impact on Alzheimer’s, autism, Parkinson’s,
mental health and other conditions that knowledge of the brain will
help solve.
- 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.
- 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.
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