Alright Alliance High seniors its your turn to start voting and you need to be informed. It is your civic responsibility and that is why I am here to guide you on your path to making informed political decisions. Each week I am going to feature one of the presidential candidates and what they stand for. After perusing these easy to read posts there will no longer be an excuse for you to not vote. Oh, and when you go get your new license when you’re eighteen, register to vote! This week’s update is Newt Gingrich. He is the leading Republican for the Primary Election. All of the information below comes from issues2000.org.
Abortion
- Stop forcing pro-choice morality on religious organizations
- Immediately cease public funding for abortion providers
- Impeach judges who don’t abide by Constitution as written
Budget and Economy
- Don’t bail out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae; break them
- Put people back to work to raise revenues without taxes
- Insure banks rather than pass out checks
- Demand a Balanced Budget amendment
- Limit federal spending growth to per-capita inflation rate
- Supports balanced budget amendment and line item veto
Civil Rights
- Loyalty test for everyone, not just for Muslims
- Stop forcing same-sex marriage on religious organizations
- ACLU lawsuits designed to drain resources of Boy Scouts
- Discontinue affirmative action programs
- Affirmative action OK individually, but not by group
Corporations
- Businesses focus on customers; apply LEAN Sigma Six to gov’t
- Bureaucracy and litigation are enemies of entrepreneurship
Crime
- Supports Prison Fellowship InnerChange Freedom Initiative
- 3-strike laws are constitutional
- convert decommissioned military bases into prisons
- against replacing death penalty with life imprisonment
Drugs
- Against legalization of marijuana
- Increase penalties for illegal drugs
- Drug-free society focuses on both drug supply and demand
Education
- College students should work and graduate with no debt
- Dramatically shrink the federal Department of Education
- Offer coupons to send kids to schools that work best
- Pay kids as incentive to learn math and science
- Replace multiculturalism with patriotic education
- Waive interest on student loans for math and science grads
- Vouchered inner-city programs from schools to groceries
- Supports giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer
- Supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer
Energy and Oil
- Put nuclear waste in deep storage for 10,000 years
- Against green tax
- Supports new nuclear plants
- Focus on incentives for conservation and renewable resources
- Stop scare tactics about drilling in Alaska
- Against cap-and-trade
Environment
- EPA should not regulate dust storms in Iowa
- Replace EPA with new Environmental Solutions Agency
- Reject apocalyptic warnings
- Combine healthy environment and a healthy economy
Families and Children
- Let poor kids work so they learn like middle class
- Reward high-school girls who graduate as virgins
- Aging baby boomers need more independent and assisted living
- Marriage penalty costs low-income couples $4,600 per year
- Use tax code to reinforce families
Foreign Policy
- Corruption from our bureaucrats giving bureaucrats money
- Lead the world into Third Wave Information Age
- American Exceptionalism: uniquely far-reaching individualism
Free Trade
- Protectionism helps China and India challenge US supremacy
- Mutual trade: neither free trade nor protectionism
Government Reform
- Abolish all White House Czars
- Replace bureaucratic mindset with Entrepreneurial Management
- Insist on judges who understand our rights come from God
- Contract with America: deep cuts in Medicare/Medicaid/taxes
- Established systems are inherently hostile to change
- Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978
- Moratorium on all earmarks until budget is balanced
- Limit punitive damages; term limits on Congress
Gun Control
- Don’t redefine Constitution with no individual right to arms
Health Care
- No mandatory premium support model; give people choices
- Block grant Medicaid
- Rampant Medicaid/Medicare fraud
- Repeal ObamaCare; sign tort reform instead
- Focus 21st Century Intelligent Health System on individuals
- Defund, repeal, and replace federal care with free market
Homeland Security
- Use every tool possible against terrorists, including PATRIOT Act
- Gingrich-plus-up: $1B increase in 1990s Pentagon funding
- Contain nuclear threats
- Defend America and allies with information policies
- Co-founded Military Reform Caucus as “cheap hawk solution.”
- No US troops under UN command; more defense spending
Immigration
- Review all illegal aliens and if you have no ties, go home
- Illegal aliens born in the US should not be deported
- Sue the federal government for every cent spent on illegals
- Require official English plus American history
- Use National Guard on US-Mexican border
- Deport 55,000 illegal aliens with multiple arrest records
- Immigrants must learn key values of American history
Gingrich on Jobs
- Go to college instead of 99 weeks of unemployment
- Jobs and Prosperity Plan: cut business taxes and regulations
- Defund National Labor Relations Board; favor right-to-work
- Incentives to businesses create jobs and raise wages
Principles and Values
- Tea Party prevents mistake of electing conservative Dems
- Declaration assumes God created man
- Supreme Court hostile to religion, but building based on it
- Reform traditional instruments of government for 21st century
- Focus on 5 major challenges for the 21st century
- Search for progress in successful lessons of the past
Social Security
- Take Social Security off federal budget; give young a choice
- Take away politicians’ power and control over retirement
- 50% offset on the FICA tax to stimulate economy
- Move retirement plans to personal savings plans
- Convert to IRA-based system
- Reduce taxes on Social Security earnings
Tax Reform
- Against death tax
- Against Reagan tax increase and Bush tax increase
- Change tax policies to make US companies competitive abroad
- Create tax incentives that encourage R&D
- Adopt a single-rate tax system
- Repeal marriage tax; cut middle class taxes.
Technology
- America should be in space, aggressively and entrepreneurially
- Replace NASA with incentives to private sector
- Treat WikiLeaks as enemy combatants engage in terrorism
- Establish three high-speed rail corridors
- Invest in scientific revolutions: energy, space, environment
- Focus on investing in science and discovery
- Supports federal investment in space for science and discovery
- Abolish tax deferral for media sales to minorities
War and Peace
- Sabotage Iran’s oil refinery
- Covert operations and military, if needed, stop Iran nukes
- Get out of Arab region rapidly
- Pressure Iran to cut off Iraq
- Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem
Welfare
- When free welfare is provided, people choose not to work
- Food stamps crowd out space shuttles
- Replace welfare state with opportunity society
- Limit welfare to 2 years and cut welfare spending