03754cam a2200289 4500 547209924 TxAuBib 20021218120000.0 010828s1995||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 95011183 9780060173364 006017336X DLC DLC KToSCC TxAuBib Gingrich, Newt. To renew America / [by] Newt Gingrich. New York : HarperCollins, 1995. xii, 260 p. ; 25 cm. Includes index. Acknowledgments ; 1. Visions and strategies : The six challenges facing America, Beginnings ; 2. The six challenges : Reasserting and renewing American civilization, America and the third wave information age, Creating American jobs in the world market, Replacing the welfare state with an opportunity society, Balancing the budget and saving social security and Medicare, Decentralizing power ; 3. The contract with America : The contract with America and the Campaign of 1994, Implementing the contract, part I & II ; The ongoing revolution : Learning versus education, Individual versus group rights, Illegal immigration in a nation of legal immigrants, English as the American language, Health care as an opportunity in the world market, Health care as an opportunity rather than a problem, Ending the drug trade and saving the children, Defense for the 21st century, reflections of a cheap hawk, New frontiers in science, space, and the oceans, Tending the gardens of the Earth, scientifically based environmentalism, Violent crime, freedom from fear, and the right to bear arms, Why Rush Limbaugh and his friends matter, The flat tax and the IRS, The coming crisis in higher education, Corrections day, Unfunded mandate reform, Term limits and the defeat of the democratic leadership in the house ; Conclusion : A new beginning, the America we will create ; Index. Newt Gingrich has become a highly controversial person in the American poitical arena. Leading his party into the first Republican domination of both houses of the Congress in 40 years, Gingrich represents a turning point in national priorities and policy. In this book, Gingrich outlines his social and political philosophy, a manifesto that proposes a radical change in policy-making to counteract the decay of American civilization. A nation desperate for renewal is clamouring to hear his message: precious institutions can be rescued from decay, only through personal motivation and faith. This work draws on the Speaker's impressive command of American history to demonstrate how to renew civilization culturally, educationally, economically and poitically. This renewal depends on recovering the five key elements that have almost been lost from the national life: personal strength, entrepreneurial free enterprise, the spirit of invention and discovery, commitment to quality and the lesson of American history. Using these five pillars of renewal as a framework, Gingrich puts forward a range of proposals which should influence political thinking across the world. These proposals include: replacing the welfare state with an opportunity society; dealing more strongly with the problems of illegal immigration and multiculturalism; establishing English as the national language; protecting the rights of American citizens to bear arms; and overhauling the education system and spending less on alleviating poverty. 20021218. Social policy United States. Economic policy United States. United States Politics and government 20th century. United States Moral conditions. TXCKT