American Solutions Day Newt Gingrich has spearheaded an attempt to “unify” average citizens, Republicans, Democrats and Independents, where we share commonalities into impacting respective party and candidate platforms going into 2008. I think he is saying that what unites us is being lost in shuffle of partisan politics and in the intense special interest lobbyists at work in Washington, D.C. It is the special interest groups that have the ear of Congress, not the electorate. The special interests get what they want, but the country gets further and further divided and nothing seems to get accomplished. I can agree with that.
I read the "Platform of the American People.” It tackles some weighty issues, which seem to get continually placed on the back burner of the Congressional stove. This platform seems like a good starting point for getting some things done. Here are the major categories found in this document:
· American Values and American Solutions
· English and American Civilization
· Immigration, the Border, and Assimilation
· Science and Technology
· Prizes (for creative ideas/ways to solve problems)
· Energy and the Environment
· Taxes and Jobs
· Social Security and Retirement
· Freedom of Religion
· Defending America
There are many excellent ideas in each category. The former Speaker of the House is a brilliant teacher and strategist. This is the only organized effort to do something coordinated and constructive in term of real solutions that I see in the political arena. It seems that both the Democrat and the Republican parties have lost sight of principle and seek only the attainment and preservation of power and at any and all costs to America and the American people.
Here are a few question that beg for American solutions:
Ø Why has the fence on the southern border that Congress and the President authorized and funded not been built? Why are illegal aliens continually invading this nation?
Ø Why do we keep falling behind the rest of the world in science and technology education while pouring obscene amounts of money into an unproductive, ineffective and inefficient bureaucratic, monopolistic union-manipulated federal controlled education system?
Ø Why has the Social Security System not been fixed?
The bottom line is that Speaker Gingrich is trying to address the desires of the people over the desires of the moneyed elite in various fields and industries.
I am not sure if Gingrich’s group has the same definition as I do when they outline the first two statements:
“There are values which unite a large majority of Americans,” and “We want to strengthen and revitalize America’s core values.” The associated polling data taken for the American Solutions for Winning the Future are at least 80 to 10 for both of these statements. Americans overwhelmingly see the importance of American values. To me the values of the sacredness of life from conception to natural death, the preservation of the traditional one-man, one woman marriage and natural family and a return to absolute parental control of education are among these core values. I am not sure if that is what American Solutions for Winning the Future identifies those core values as being. If it does than I most definitely would be supporting “The Platform of the American People.”
You can read the document on here. The website http://www.AmericanSolutions.org has a lot of good resources to view and to even sign-up to become part of the solution, instead of of being part of the problem by allowing our representatives to get away with doing nothing . . . Let’s begin to hold our elected leaders accountable to us and not only beholden to moneyed elite, powerful lobbies and global corporate entities.
Good work, Newt.
