2012 GOP Platform Must Aim To Restore American Innovation By Newt Gingrich
Jobs and work must be at the heart of the Republican platform in 2012, just as they’re at the heart of what makes America exceptional.
After three years of President Obama, we’re in danger of losing these important values. The current economy has been so bad for so long that it is undermining the very fabric of American life. The prolonged economic downturn and destruction of jobs by high taxes, massive over-regulation, and class warfare has forced more and more Americans into dependence on government.
President Obama’s policies, ostensibly solutions to these problems, have in truth focused on making people even more dependent on an even larger government. Under the Obama model, for instance, unemployment benefits and food stamps are satisfactory compensation for the president’s own job-killing policies. Similarly, the president’s health care law is praised for providing young people the chance to remain on their parents’ health insurance until they are 26—a dependency made necessary only by the fact that so many young people are unable to get jobs in the Obama economy.
These changes are in accordance with the left’s vision for America, in which dependence on the government is a legitimate lifestyle—even desirable.
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