America’s 2-T Moment—The Case for Newt Gingrich!
By Kevin A. Lehmann on in Entrepreneurship, Illegal Immigration, Kevin's Commentary, Politics, Radical Islam, US Military
Despite the fact that . . .
1. Our debt has now surpassed our entire GDP
2. Congress is about to increase the debt again to 16.4 trillion dollars
3. We are now borrowing forty-two cents of every dollar we spend
4. We continue to deficit spend
5. China owns a significant chunk of our debt
6. The Senate hasn’t passed a budget in three years
7. America is drowning under big government bureaucracy and regulation
8. We are witnessing statism before our very eyes
9. We are rapidly relinquishing our individual freedoms
10. Corporatism trumps capitalism
11. We are now a nation of oligarchies
12. We are becoming an egalitarian society
13. Forty-six million Americans are on food stamps
14. 1 in 6 Americans are poor
15. Nearly half of all Americans pay no income tax
16. America has the highest corporate tax rate
17. We have a Muslim president who has not produced a valid birth certificate
18. Radical Islam is sweeping across the European and African continents
19. More Islamic mosques are being built in America than Christian churches
20. Sharia is infiltrating every aspect of American culture including the judiciary
21. There are twelve million (closer to 20 million) illegal aliens in the US
22. We have wide open and unsecured borders
23. Mexico’s drug wars are spilling over into the Southwestern United States
24. The State Department has teamed up with foreign nations to sue states who enforce federal laws
25. The Justice Department armed Mexican drug cartels in a furtive assault on the 2nd Amendment
26. The nation’s defense budget has been slashed in half
27. Iran is on the cusp of securing a nuclear bomb
28. We have transitioned from a manufacturing and producing nation to a consumer and debtor nation
29. We spend more on education yet rank near the bottom of industrialized nations
30. The leftist media dictates the outcome of wars and elections while it influences the minds of our children . . .
Americans are NOT protesting the road to serfdom, we’re paving it!
Regardless of how we got here, e.g., collective stupidity, addiction to entitlements, a castration of our cojones or mass media mind control, one thing is for sure: Those of us who recognize it need to stand united and fight it!
If we don’t, tyranny and totalitarianism is all that awaits us.
In his seminal book, The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2)
Hayek demonstrates how socialist governments (Obama Administration) are motivated by illogical ideology and political posturing. They inevitably tamper with free market principles. In so doing, it usually results in suboptimal economic performance, financial crisis, and even greater intervention. Hayek would argue for solutions based on individual freedoms while limiting government’s ability to intervene in markets, but socialist/marxists see it differently. Instead, they demand greater and greater powers, claiming that only greater intervention can fix the problems that their actions have caused. To the extent that people buy into this thinking and vote to grant governments ever more power, economic and personal liberties are surrendered, eventually resulting in tyranny and totalitarianism.
Hayek also points to the fact that socialism and it’s characteristic “centrally planned” economies tends to concentrate power in a small band of political elites (Obama and his endless appointment of czars). In this type of system, only the most corrupt and politically ruthless tend to advance, and over time it gets to be increasingly difficult to oppose them. Leaders, unable to offer real growth and prosperity, turn to things like thought control, group think (media) and other dubious and nefarious means to stay in power and advance their socialist agendas.
Although construction of the progressive highway to a socialist / communist America began at the end of the Reagan Administration, the one fly in the ointment that they could not foresee was the birth of the internet—the great equalizer, the peoples platform, a conduit of coalescence and the ultimate arbiter of the very definition of free speech. At no time in our country’s young and fragile republic has there ever been a more effective enforcer of our 1st Amendment right.
By the same token, not since the Civil War has America found herself at such a monumental crossroads. We have two choices that lie before us:
A. Fight to preserve our blood-bought freedom and liberty
B. Surrender that freedom and liberty and continue to pave the road to serfdom
This presidential election is America’s 2-T (Titanium Testicles) moment. And from what we’ve witnessed in the race for the GOP nomination, only one candidate has the balls to match his brains and that’s—Newt Gingrich!
To say that Gingrich is not a conservative is tantamount to saying that Obama is not an egalitarian.
In fact, according to the Freedom Index—a congressional scorecard based on their adherence to constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, national sovereignty, and a traditional foreign policy of avoiding foreign entanglements—Newt Gingrich scored an 84 out of a perfect 100, more than double that of his congressional peers. To put that in perspective, the average score for the past two congresses averaged 59.
When Newt Gingrich was confronted on a recent talk show about his being a labeled a “big government progressive,” he replied by saying . . .
“Well, I don’t know, I mean, depends on what standard you’re using. You know, the fact is that I balanced the budget for four consecutive years. And we did so well cutting taxes and increasing employment. So people went back to work; they left welfare; they left food stamps; they left unemployment; and they left Medicaid. Who else has a record of that level of achievement?”
He continued . . .
“I worked with Reagan in ’79 & ’80. I worked with Reagan for eight years in defeating the Soviet empire. I think those are relatively conservative credentials.”
Where does Newt Gingrich stand on the issues? Let’s hear it directly from the horse’s mouth . . .
1. Fiscal Policy: Gingrich claims he would be able to balance the national budget within five years of taking office using a five-point plan: Eliminate the NLRB, replacing the EPA and repealing ObamaCare; cutting regulations on financial institutions; employing a fiscal policy based on Reaganomics; providing a one-year tax moratorium, coupled with the elimination of capital gains tax and reducing corporate tax rate to 12.5%; and limit unemployment benefits to a maximum of four weeks.
2. Tax Reform: Gingrich Favors lower, flatter tax rates, and has a pro-growth instinct toward reforms that lower rates and broadens the base. He favors broader fundamental tax reform; in 2008 enthusiastically praised the idea of an optional, single-rate income tax reform proposal. He said an optional flat tax would save taxpayers more than $100 billion per year and reduce compliance costs by over 90 percent. He has advocated a near flat tax proposal that would lower the current 25 percent income tax rate to 15 percent, affecting close to 90% of American workers. Either option would not only bolster our economy, they would send it through the roof.
3. Free Market Principles: Gingrich believes that workers have basic human rights but unions have outlived their purpose. Unions discourage competition and are overly concerned with politics, spending millions of dollars on influencing government policies while their pension funds are in the red. Unions have made the cost of producing goods in the U.S. prohibitive. In 1994, William F. Buckley, Jr. called Gingrich a “profoundly committed free trader,” and his record and rhetoric over the years bears that out. He is strongly opposed to Sarbanes-Oxley which regulates small businesses in this country; the Dodd-Frank mortgage bill that restricts lending money for mortgages; and opposes the “Employee Free Choice Act,” or “card check,” especially its binding arbitration provision.
4. Personal Responsibility: Gingrich stated the revolutionary idea contained in the Declaration of Independence is that certain fundamental human rights, including the right to life, are gifts from God and cannot be given nor taken away by government. Yet, secular radicals are trying to remove “our Creator”—the source of our rights—from public life. He has an aggressive strategy to defend life and religious liberty in America.
5. National Sovereignty: Gingrich went on record August 14, ’11 stating, “the United Nations and other international bureaucracies are seeking to create an extra constitutional control over us and he rejects the model totally. The United States is a sovereign country; the United Nations has not authorized anything to the United States; the United Nations does not have any control over the United States; and we want to make sure that it remains our core values as we go forward. At the Values Voter Summit in DC, September, 2010, Gingrich told the crowd that it’s time to take federal action to prevent Sharia Law from infiltrating courtrooms in the US; and we should have a federal law that says sharia law cannot be recognized by any court in the United States and that “no judge will remain in office that tried to use Sharia law.”
6. Constitutionally Limited Government: There’s a long list of big government regulations that Gingrich has opposed. Commendably, he advocates full repeal of Sarbanes-Oxley. He fought Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme and wants to abolish the EPA. He also opposes the Obama EPA’s controversial plan to regulate carbon emissions via the Clean Air Act, and has urged Congress to prevent its implementation. However, in ‘08, he starred in a TV ad with Nancy Pelosi urging a bipartisan solution to climate change. In a debate with Kerry in ‘07, like so many Americans that were duped by fabricated science, he said, “the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading in the atmosphere.” While he insisted that government regulation wasn’t the answer, he said, “I would agree you would get more change more rapidly with an incentivized market rather than a laissez-faire approach. ”
7. National Defense: Gingrich believes that the greatest danger to the nation is the rise of radical Islam inside this country. He said Sharia law is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the US. He would call for a federal law barring courts from using Sharia law and endorse efforts already under way to exclude Sharia as well as other non-American law codes from being applied in America’s courts. He thought withdrawal from Iraq without a decisive win was a blow to national security. He also believes it’s dangerous not to compete with India and China stating that losing our economic advantage will cause us to compromise national security. He thinks our secular-socialist system is another danger. Homeland security is willfully hiding from reality, reacting instead of being proactive, and twisting the language instead of targeting the real enemies.
8. Energy: Gingrich supports lifting restrictions on energy production; offshore drilling; drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; nuclear plant construction; and removing bureaucratic and legal obstacles to responsible oil and natural gas development in the United States, offshore and on land; ending the ban on oil shale development and giving coastal states federal royalty revenue sharing as an incentive to allow offshore development. He has long endorsed a federal role in supporting renewable energy projects and the development of clean energy technologies including cleaner energy research and projects with new oil and gas royalties. Replacing the EPA with an Environmental Solutions Agency that would use incentives and work cooperatively with local government and industry to achieve better environmental outcomes while considering the impact of federal environmental policies on job creation and the cost of energy.
9. Heath Care: Gingrich opposes ObamaCare and favors repeal, and more recently has supported tort reform in the context of health care reform and cost-containment. In ‘09, he criticized Obama’s health care overhaul for skirting the issue of lawsuit abuse reform which ignores more than $200 billion in potential savings annually in health care. In his ‘08 book Real Change, he advocated an individual mandate for health insurance (a similar mandate central to ObamaCare and being challenged by 26 states in court as being unconstitutional). However, he also wrote “Individuals are expected to help pay for their care. Everyone should be required to have coverage. Those with very low incomes should receive vouchers or tax credits to help them buy insurance. Those who oppose the concept of insurance should be required to post a bond to cover costs.”
10. Entitlements: Gingrich has been consistently pro-growth and pro-reform on Social Security, favoring personal Social Security savings accounts owned by individual taxpayers and off limits to congressional spendthrifts. He supported the effort in ‘05 to reform Social Security with personal accounts, and a ‘04 plan that would have done much the same. He favors comprehensive reform of the notoriously inefficient Medicaid program and originally proposed the idea of block-granting the program back to the states in ‘95, giving them more flexibility to administer it. He has long advocated expanded health savings accounts, tax free accounts coupled with high-deductible catastrophic coverage to allow people to build a medical nest egg, like a health care 401(k) plan. He played a high profile advocacy role on behalf of Bush’s Medicare prescription drug benefit bill in ’03 by urging House Republicans to pass what was billed at the time to be a $400 billion expansion of the federal government.
11. Education: Gingrich is for empowering parents to pick the right school for their child. He would institute a Pell Grant-style system for Kindergarten through 12th Grade and require transparency and accountability about achievement. He advocates implementing a “no limits” charter system and establishing a pay for performance approach. He would also restore American history and values into the classroom as well as protect the rights of home-schooled children. He would shrink the Department of Education to a bare bones administrator and encourage states to think outside the outdated boundaries of education.
12. Immigration: Gingrich believes that our open borders are a direct threat to our security. He thinks the terrorists can cross our borders at will with little deterrence. He supports a guest worker program that allows a worker to stay here for a certain time then go home. He thinks we should make it easier to come here legally, work, obey the law and prosper. Requirements for any worker visa program must be tough and strict. He thinks everyone here illegally must go home and apply for legal status.
As for Newt Gingrich’s personal shortcomings, let he who hasn’t sinned cast the first stone. I’m not voting for a priest, I’m voting for a president.
Fight for the man who will fight for America . . . Vote for Newt Gingrich!
Until next time . . . Wake Up America!
Kevin A. Lehmann
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14 Comment(s)
By Thomas on Jan 19, 2012 | Reply
A very informative and comprehensive look into the truth of a candidate completely void of the spin and fallacy of the liberal propaganda machine which twists, skews and selects those points which best advance their untruths. One of the primary characteristics of a conservative, if such a characteristic can be defined, is that a conservative is flexible based on what is best for our country, freedom, liberty and way of life. If it isn’t working, a conservative is more willing to admit the mistake and make the change. I believe that Newt is that conservative and his record and his words have done nothing to dissuade that belief. This is a very good article that focuses on fact and record and that is all that any Patriotic American needs to concern themselves with!
By Sherry on Jan 20, 2012 | Reply
As for Newt Gingrich’s personal shortcomings, let he who hasn’t sinned cast the first stone. I’m not voting for a priest, I’m voting for a president.
Well stated. Conservative Christian voters need to understand that God did not remove King David after his transgressions (not even during them!). I’d rather have a repentant sinner than an unrepentant flip-flopper for president. Now if I can just get my devotion for Santorum to abate…
By Connie Helbling on Jan 20, 2012 | Reply
He wants partial amnesty. No thanks.
By Sherry on Jan 20, 2012 | Reply
~sigh~
Thanks, Connie. I keep forgetting that.
By Harvy Naegele on Jan 21, 2012 | Reply
I have been behind Newt from the very beginning: I know that he can put this country back in order…& get that muslim out of the WH…
By Dreamon035 on Jan 21, 2012 | Reply
I like Newt too. He’s so very bright. But, I hesitate because he is soft on Illegal immigration. Which is a very important issue for me.
By RAMBO LYBRAND on Jan 22, 2012 | Reply
awesome, thanks for the great info
By Old Patriot on Jan 22, 2012 | Reply
There are times that CONTROLLED borders and immigration could be of an advantage. Work permits that are obtained after extensive background investigation and the right of law enforcement to stop and demand the work permit are essential. This accomplishes two things. It controls who is in this country and whether or not the worker is who he claims to be. The worker would have to agree that he is the one applying for the permit and not his family. He would not be eligible for any benifits except workmen’s comp for confirmed injuries ON THE JOB. The worker should return to his home each time his work shift is over. If the worker lives too far from the workplace to do this, He should have a special permit to stay in this country overnite at a boarding facility provided by the employer, as opposed to anywhere the worker chooses. They would be subject to PBA testing by law enforcement. They are here to work, not to party.
Vehicles driven by worker would be required to meet the safety inspection standards of the state they work in and display a special sticker that it is a vehicle for transporting the worker to and from his home to his job, not for joy riding. Commercial Vehicles would be subject to DOT requirements, the same as commercial vehicles in this country and operated by a driver with a current CDL of the class required for the vehicle. Perhaps, if they were subject to all of OUR laws when they are in OUR country, they wouldn’t be so eager to come here.
By Karen on Jan 23, 2012 | Reply
He is NOT soft on immigration. He absolutely wants our borders secured and will have it done by Jan 1, 2014. That’s one year after talking office. He will send the 25,000 TSA people who populate Washington down to work the border. And his method of handling current illegal immigrants is practical. He wants to use the credit card companies to create a card check system because they know how to do it and have a .03 percent error rate. What you are calling “amnesty” is not. Think about it yourself. You probably have friends in your own church, elderly people who may have come here years ago and have a couple generations of family now. Whether you know it or not, many of them were illegal then and have never done anything to become legal. He would not tear those families apart, but instead, as long as they have not engaged in any criminal activity, have paid taxes, and have a citizen willing to sponsor them, he would give them a residency permit. They would NOT become citizens and would not have the right to vote or do anything else that requires citizenship. To become a citizen, they would have to go back home and wait in line. But he also wants to simplify the process for those who want to come here the legal way. It makes a lot of sense for a complex problem.
I disagree with him on the idea of “requiring” everyone to have some sort of insurance unless that insurance could be simply a catastrophic plan. The problem with health care is not the health insurance as the two are constantly and erroneously blended. The problem is the actual cost of the health care–doctors, hospitals, etc., has gone through the roof as all these facilities charge outrageous prices because they know insurance will pay for it. That forces the cost of insurance up. A cost analysis needs to be done and the amounts hospitals, doctors, etc., charge, needs to be brought down, but not by regulation. Bring it down by free market principles and by letting doctors and hospitals compete for their patients by offering lower prices to those who pay for part of their own costs.
By Sherry on Jan 23, 2012 | Reply
Here are some quotes by Newt Gingrich on illegal immigration and amnesty:
“No serious citizen who’s concerned about solving this problem should get trapped into a yes/no answer in which you’re either for totally selling out protecting America or you’re for totally kicking out 20 million people in a heartless way. There are — there are humane, practical steps to solve this problem, if we can get the politicians and the news media to just deal with it honestly.”
June 13, 2011, Gingrich speaking on the GOP New Hampshire Presidential Debate
“We are not going to deport 11 million people. There has to be some zone between deportation and amnesty… Let’s find someone who actually knows what they’re doing… It should be possible for any employer, anyone in the United States, as fast as you swipe your ATM card to get cash, to swipe a card to know whether or not they’re able to hire you
December 2, speaking at The Americano.com First Annual Hispanic Forum 2010, Washington
U.S. Mexico Border Fence-
“I am deeply committed to securing the border… I am deeply committed to changing the deportation rules for felons and gang members… But I also think we have a huge challenge — what do you do with the human beings who are engaged, some of whom are married, have children? It’s a very complicated situation, and I don’t you think you can just wave a magic wand and have some kind of a simple, clean answer
March 1, 2011, Interview with The Hill
Source with videoes and other candidates’ comments
By Batman on Jan 23, 2012 | Reply
Does anyone know where I can see Newt Gingrich’s birth certificate, college transcript and donors to his SuperPac?
Thanks
By Sheatina on Jan 24, 2012 | Reply
Thanks for your time in writing this. Very interesting. I do love Santorum in terms of his family values. This has given me a lot to think about. Thank you, Kevin.
By Wes on Jan 30, 2012 | Reply
New Gingrich….More of the Same 2012!
Seriously, people. Vote Ron Paul.
By Flip16 on Feb 9, 2012 | Reply
I really feel sorry for conservatives that are tricked into Newts smoke shield. Btw, Ron Paul confronted the Newts statements that he balance the budget after doing some research. Dr. Paul stopped short of calling him a liar but did make Newt aknowledge that he never truly balance the budget those four years but was really using Social Security to manipulate the numbers. Truth is the budget hasn’t been balanced since the father of an unbalance budget first created it, Reagan. Yes, a man the conservatives constantly use as an example economic policy got us started on this path!!! Pay it later. I found it funny that on one hand the article spoke of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, suggesting Newt is the only one with the balls to go to war with another country and later expressing his true conservatism and interest in following the constitution. Yet he can’t both start another conflict and follow the constitution. The truth is Newt is called a progressive b/c when it is time to walk the walk his voting record shows him to be a progressive, not a fiscal conservative. Most of the concerns in this article are valid but he got the candidate wrong!!! There is one candidate that has always voted down legistlation that was in conflict with the constitution for 30 years. Only one that served his country in the military. Only one that is a Doctor. Only that has promised to repeal anti-freedom legistlation like the Patriot Act. Only one that believes taxes should return to Zero. Only one that will end this money draining conflicts that never seem to end!!! That man in Ron Paul 2012!!! Let’s return to true conservstism!!! Small Government and fiscal responsibility in the House, Senate and Executive Branch!!!
Ron Paul 2012!!!