Newt Gingrich - Real Leadership - Real Solutions

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Like Rush Limbaugh(click for link) said, and I agree, we don't need a flip-flopping, moderate. You might need a moderate if you were grasping for votes in a tight election. But with a strong, conservative, and experienced candidate, we're not going to be grasping for votes in an election against a record as pathetic as Barack Obama's(click for link).

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I'm not going to watch any interview with an ex-wife of Newt Gingrich or anyone else for that matter...not because I want to bury my head in the sand so as not to hear it because I'm a Newt supporter but because I generally feel very uncomfortable and embarrassed for women who submit themselves to the slime-ball media networks and go public on personal, family matters. I think that they lower themselves and present their self as being weak and somehow responsible for the problem when they publically explain why and how they lost their husband.

Newt's 21st Century Contract with America Continued

Unemployment in America is always a point of discussion in presidential elections and particularly when it comes to republican candidates. This is especially true in the 2012 republican primary when unemployment as reported has been hovering around 9% in the 3+ years since the 2008 election, and real unemployment is probably more like 20%(what's the real unemployment rate) . Each republican candidates take on unemployment and how it can best be reduced is then filtered through the lense of those of us in the Republican Party(click for link) who believe people should be given a hand up and not a handout.

Under the current unemployment system a qualified person can receive up to 99 weeks of unemployment without having to do anything but "look for work." Whatever that means.

Of course, one way of reducing unemployment numbers is simply to create an economic environment favorable to creating jobs, as opposed to killing them. Newt Gingrich(click for link) recognizes that fact in the 21st Century Contract with America:

"The best way to repair our broken unemployment compensation system is to make the problem of perennially high unemployment obsolete through robust economic growth."

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In the meantime, what do we do? What can we do long term to manage these unemployment issues years down the road when we recess out of a recovery again, something that is surely to happen given the volatile nature of the free market when government continually sticks it's proverbial nose in our business?

What if there was a Federal law to require the qualified long-term unemployed to get some form of training (program would be directed by the states) during their tenure of extended unemployment? Shoot, 99 weeks is an Associates Degree! What if we gave some of the qualified long-term unemployed the opportunity to get an Associates Degree?

Well, in order to accomplish that we will need to introduce appropriate Federal legislation. Right now, all you have to do to get unemployment is qualify. Once you're on it, you're on 99 weeks of welfare, for all intents and purposes. If Newt Gingrich has his way, there will be no handouts - only a hand up.

In his 21st Century Contract with America he suggests:

"...Ninety-nine weeks is too long for any American to be dependent on the government. It is fundamentally wrong to give people money for 99 weeks for doing nothing...We can better help these Americans by requiring them to participate in real training programs in private companies, in exchange for temporary unemployment aid.
It is also why I will introduce a training requirement for extended federal unemployment benefits. We can better help these Americans by requiring them to participate in real training programs in private companies, in exchange for temporary unemployment aid.
Our goal is to convert the time and money now lost to a maintenance unemployment program into a human capital investment program that increases the competitiveness of
the American worker in the world market in a time of dramatic scientific and technological change."

One should take note that this is not for those who are in the first term of their unemployment. It would apply only to those attempting to qualify for extended unemployment benefits.

There will be those who say this is nothing more than forced labor; doing something the unemployed may not be interested in doing, etc. Translated, that means those that don't want to work might have to work and forcing them to work is wrong. Well, it's not forced labor and no Ameridcan in their right mind would believe that. Those who want the handout will not get the extended benefits. Real simple.

Of course, there are those out there like Juan Williams of FOX News who learned very quickly that Newt knows what he's talking about. In last night's SC debate sponsored by FOX News and The Wall Street Journal, Newt responded strongly to Juan's insinuation that somehow Newt was belittling those that are on unemployment. See the clip here: http://nation.foxnews.com/2012-presidential-race/2012/01/16/gingrich-and-juan-williams-food-stamp-exchange-brings-debate-crowd-its-feet?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FoxNation+%28Fox+Nation%29

One last point: If you have ever been unemployed for any extended period of time, you know how bad you wanted help to get work - any work. Newt's proposal as one of the republican candidates for POTUS in the 2012 republican presidential election process, will help America's unemployed get work or get trained for work. Human capital is a valuable asset and worthy of investing in. In President Gingrich's world, there'll be no handouts.

Tomorrow, Part III of my take on Newt's 21st Century Contract with America. To download and review a copy of the Contract, click here:
http://www.newt.org/sites/newt.org/files/contract/21st_Century_Contract_Legislative_Proposals.pdf

Ralph T. Hudson
Former District Director
U.S. Congressman Asa Hutchinson
3rd District of Arkansas

Mitt Romney is a Massachusetts Moderate(click for link) with progressive views. Newt is a Reagan Conservative with a track record to prove it.
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