Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract With America
by Newt Gingrich
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Author: Newt GingrichEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-01
ISBN: 1596980079
Number of pages: 271
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Book Review: The only pseudo-candidate with an agenda.
Summary: 5 Stars
The only pseudo-candidate with an agenda.
We all know who Newt Gingrich is, and what he stands for. This book, then, is more of a clarifier and a source of talking points than a proselyting tract, although it does serve this purpose in a secondary sense.
What drew to this book is that Mr. Speaker first, correctly identifies the socio-poltico-economic problems, and, better yet, offers concrete, sound, and sensible solutions to these problems. This contrasts with the Democrats, who are the reactionary party as opposed to a loyal opposition, or the Neo-cons who are wannabe Democrats.
The key difference between Mr. Speaker and the Democrat-Neocons is statism. In all areas, except defense, Gingrich is for a smaller, leaner government, and following the Tenth Amendment by devolving powers back to the states and the people respectively.
As to defense, Gingrich understands three things. First, there is a difference between a conservative position, a libertarian position, and an anarchist position. As Federalist 23 says, "These [war] powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them. The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed. This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense." When we are paying more in Social Security than we are in defense, we are just asking for what we are going to get.
Second, we cannot be relighting World War II with lumbering battlewagons and the American Expeditionary Forces making bloody beachheads. This word is a techo-war with different fronts and different beachheads. We need to restructure the military accordingly.
Thirdly, we will be fighting this war for a long time. As he calls it, it is the Long War with the Irreconcilable Branch of Islam. When we fought with the Nazis and the Soviets, we had the under-girding culture of Germany and Russian to connect with. We have no similar under-girding, Western-Christian culture to connect with. This war is not just about terrorism, but the value system that breeds terrorism.
As to everything else, Speaker Newt is a futurist, which is exactly the type of person we need right now. So give his book a chance, and think hard. We have no guarantee that America will continue in the same way it has continued for two centuries. We need to take intelligent action to preserve our liberties. So think about it.
Summary of Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract With America
America's future in the twenty-first century, argues Newt Gingrich, will be determined by the decisions we make now. His book is a grass roots call to action--and will set the debate for the new administration and Congress.According to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, America currently faces five threats that could undermine, if not eliminate, the United States if immediate steps are not taken to correct them. The threats as he sees them are Islamic terrorists and rogue dictatorships armed with nuclear or biological weapons; the removal of God from American public life; a loss of patriotism and sense of America's history; a decline in economic supremacy because of poor science and math education; and the increasing budgetary burden of Social Security and Medicare. To tackle these problems, Gingrich offers his "21st Century Contract with America," which he outlines in great detail in this bold and thought-provoking book. His updated contract, which comes a decade after the original Republican Contract with America that marked the high point of Gingrich's national power, calls for a dramatically simplified tax code that favors savings and investment; government investment in science and technology, particularly regarding space, energy, and the environment; transforming Social Security into personal savings accounts; overhauling the civil justice system to reduce the burden of lawsuits; and updating the federal government, including the privatization of some functions, so that it moves at the speed and effectiveness of the information age. And that's just the beginning. He also calls for tripling the size of America's intelligence community, reforming its election system, developing a more intelligent health care system that creates jobs and increases quality of life, and balancing the federal budget.
Gingrich believes that this ambitious agenda can be accomplished, but only if it receives grassroots support. The entrenched political system, with its lobbyists, bloated bureaucracies, and the complicity of the media, is too self-serving to fix itself, he stresses. Concise and clearly presented, Winning the Future is long on specifics and short on rhetoric, and it succeeds as a springboard for political discourse. Gingrich's aim is clearly to inspire citizens to take responsibility for the county's direction by demanding more of their government and their leaders. --Shawn Carkonen
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