{"id":8309,"date":"2011-01-14T18:41:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T23:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2011-01-14T18:41:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T23:41:46","slug":"gingrich-lays-down-the-gauntlet-for-restoring-americas-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8309\/gingrich-lays-down-the-gauntlet-for-restoring-americas-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich Lays Down the Gauntlet for Restoring America&#8217;s Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love him or hate him, there is no denying that Newt Gingrich is the conservative movement\u2019s best policy entrepreneur \/ political consultant \/ motivational speaker.\u00a0 At today\u2019s House Republican retreat, the former speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newt.org\/newt-direct\/hope-and-opportunity-congress\" target=\"_blank\">laid down the gauntlet for restoring America\u2019s greatness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His speech before the new House majority framed the multiple crises facing the country in positive terms; calling for every full and sub-committee to designate 1\/3 of their hearings to the theme of \u201cHope and Opportunity.\u201d\u00a0 The idea is to focus on solutions to America\u2019s problems, such as inviting job creators to speak before committees on what they need government to do \u2013 or not do \u2013 to get America working again.<\/p>\n<p>Most interesting to this writer is Gingrich\u2019s call to redirect the 99 weeks of unemployment payments into a human capital program.\u00a0 It would require recipients to enroll and complete job training programs, effectively turning welfare into workfare.\u00a0 Moreover, the explosion of online education makes finding the right program easy to find and flexible to complete.\u00a0 In today\u2019s tech-heavy, certification-obsessed economy, tying the $133 billion spent on unemployment payments to job training is a great way to get out-of-work Americans on and off the welfare rolls as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>As a former radio spot writer for Gingrich Communications, I\u2019ll admit I\u2019m partial to Newt\u2019s way of thinking.\u00a0 The former speaker\u2019s speech to the House GOP shows why.\u00a0 With conservatives unlikely to move any major legislation due to Democratic control of the White House and Senate, Gingrich is proposing \u2013 I believe \u2013 the next best thing: changing the discussion from \u201cthe party of no\u201d to \u201cthe party that restores American Exceptionalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love him or hate him, there is no denying that Newt Gingrich is the conservative movement\u2019s best policy entrepreneur \/ political consultant \/ motivational speaker.\u00a0 At today\u2019s House Republican retreat, the former speaker laid down the gauntlet for restoring America\u2019s greatness. His speech before the new House majority framed the multiple crises facing the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2275,928,2154,2277,869,18,1286,2276],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-american-exceptionalism","tag-conservative","tag-house-gop","tag-human-capital","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-unemployment","tag-welfare","tag-workfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}