To Save America, by Newt Gingrich: on Jobs
Newt Gingrich:
Union power games the system to minimize work
Soviet workers had a motto: "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us." American had a remarkably different slogan: "An honest day's work for an honest day's pay."
American today is still filled with small businesses, self-employed people, professionals, and others who live by that principle every day.Because we are self-reliant and operate in markets where people won't pay us if we cheat,
Americans have created an environment where honesty pays. In contrast, the secular-socialist machine, with its commitment to a socialist vision of wealth redistribution, has undermined the very
concept of "an honest day's work," especially through its union power, In fact, it spreads the opposite ethic: game the system to get as many benefits as you can while working as little as possible.
Source: To Save America, by Newt Gingrich, p. 8
May 17, 2010
Newt Gingrich:
Card Check strips workers of right to secret ballot
Last year, the House passed the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) card check legislation that would strip American workers of the right to a secret ballot when deciding whether to join a union.
It would also institute "binding arbitration" that takes power away from the US employers and employees and gives it to new arbitration bureaucracies.
The political rationale for this bill is that unions--long-time power centers of the global socialist movement and a powerful Democratic constituency--have been shrinking in size and influence over the past fifty years
(with the notable exception of public employee unions). This bill is a clear attempt to reinvigorate them with new powers, even if workers don't agree.
Source: To Save America, by Newt Gingrich, p. 43
May 17, 2010
Newt Gingrich:
Jobs plan: lower taxes; lower spending; domestic energy
During the present job crisis, leaders at all levels of government must understand the needs of our small-business job creators. With that Goal, American Solutions, a citizens action network for which I serve as general chairman, developed the following
3-step job-creation plan:- Reduce spending and replace inefficient and often corrupt government programs with limited, effective government in order to balance the budget.
- Enact five key tax reforms to reward job creation, entrepreneurship,
savings, and investment.
- Immediate payroll tax relief.
- Incentives for investing in new equipment.
- Zero taxes on capital gains.
- Reduced tax rate for businesses
- Eliminate the death tax.
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Implement an American energy plan to create American jobs and keep American money at home. Developing more domestic energy while protecting the environment would means millions of new American jobs.
Source: To Save America, by Newt Gingrich, p.179-182
May 17, 2010
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