Newt Gingrich in Window of Opportunity

On Welfare & Poverty: Build opportunity society to oppose the welfare state

1. Holistic vs. reductionist views of reality: reductionism has worked very well in the sciences, but whole beings need spiritual understanding.
2. Systematic thinking vs. linear thinking: For example, the inter-relationship of crime, downtown business, and the chance for minority business to be successful.
3. Organic life vs. mechanistic life: Compare our modern impatience with the more tolerant attitude of a traditional farmer.
4. Traditional dreams vs. instant gratification: Liberalism tends to ignore the future by discounting the power of great dreams to move people.
5. Long-term considerations vs. short-term expediency
6. Geopolitical realities vs. the arrogance of a self-centered America
7. Citizen emphasis vs. bureaucratic emphasis
8. Personal ethics vs. governmentally-enforced rules Source: Window of Opportunity, by Newt Gingrich, p.124-42 Sep 1, 1984

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