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A Road Map to a Better Future | Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works | Newt Gingrich

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	• Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works Newt Gingrich Regnery Publishing, 2008 - 310 pages average customer review:based on 67 reviews view larger image
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Real Change

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich makes the case for
a proactive public involvement, as well as a
transformational one. Basically, the USA is united
on immigration, taxes, defense and freedom of religion.
Taxes can be simplified in the form of a single page
flat tax along the lines enunciated by Malcolm Forbes.

According to the author, burdensome regulations and taxes
discourage the deployment of new refineries. While new
extraction is needed, progress must be made on migrating
solar energy to households, municipal government buildings
and small businesses of every kind. The Artificial Sun
is a multi-nation fusion project making considerable progress
toward practical implementation. Coal Gasification is another
encouraging area together with wind mill power. Let's not
forget nuclear power or electric cars.

The reconstitution of the middle class will be a more
difficult problem to handle. This task can be
accomplished with increments in small business investment,
a higher collegiate graduation rate, investment in
blue collar infrastructure jobs, tax simplification,
simpler health care delivery protocols, energy
independence, new savings instruments,
simplification of the FDA approval process for new
drugs and streamlining housing codes.

The Speaker faulted the Army Corps of Engineers for Katrina.
In reality, the whole USA coastline should be reviewed
by order of flood exposure to major population areas and
the economic consequences to businesses large and small.
Let's not forget volcanic activity and the possibility of a
tsunami . Disaster recovery and contingency planning for
earthquake activity are continuing priorities.

The book states that the failure of the education system
is the death knell of the old order. In some places,
graduation rates are falling and math/science test scores
are declining. The news is not uniformly bad. Many private
schools , charter schools, targeted inner city schools and
specialized schools perform at consistently high levels.

The ultimate question involves choosing the appropriate
change agent. Is the agent of change bureaucratic or
entrepreneurial in nature ? Clearly, the largest growth
in the economy has been with small business.

The Speaker believes that the Iraq engagement required
an effective counterinsurgency, more law enforcement,
intelligence and troop strength. I would add to this
an elite commando force to penetrate the neighborhoods
on the ground. Knowledge of Arabic is a condition
precedent to success on a personal level. Municipal
accounting systems are needed to restore normalcy to
routine governmental operations in Iraq. Current troop
levels are not sustainable indefinitely. At some point,
there must be an iterative withdrawal of forces so that
Iraqi forces shoulder more of the burden together with
a small United Nations Peacekeeping Force.

Lastly, I believe that our foreign policy must achieve
a political equilibrium; such that, no one foreign
state predominates regionally to the detriment of
global security. We must achieve this goal in the
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan spheres of influence.

Next, political equilibrium must be achieved in
Iraq, Iran, Turkey and the various constituencies
bordering the Straits. An Israeli/Palestinian peace
may be possible with a political equilibrium
amongst Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and
the various subgroups of every political predisposition.

In the scheme of things, Russia must cooperate in
refusing to make available weaponry of any kind to
disturb the existing political equilibrium between
and amongst the key regional constituencies enunciated
above. The IAEA is an important boundary spanner in
verifying compliance with existing nuclear treaties and
protocols.

The work is an important contribution to the ongoing
discussion aimed at moving the global agenda forward.
The implications for action are multi-disciplinary.
The group formation to accomplish these meritable
goals crosses political party lines and philosophies.

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Outstanding !

Here is a politician who actually makes sense when he talks. He has the answers.

A Road Map to a Better Future

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich has written this timely book calling for real change in American governance. He calls for reforms in education, immigration, entitlements, the judiciary, and many other areas, and is even willing to have the government offer cash prizes to individuals who develop necessary innovations such as hydrogen cars.

Gingrich rightly states that meaningful change to our current bureaucratic government system will never come from the Left, given that it is beholden to the usual liberal interest groups, and that the current Right so lacks a spine that it will not be bold enough to offer real change. The GOP, he says, fell into the trap of holding onto power for power's sake instead of trying hard enough to work for reforms that would replace the bureaucratic model with a more free-market approach. In order to make the necessary reforms that will prevent the slow national decline that will come if we refuse to cut the size of government, it is important to replace the current, stale order of politicians with limited-government conservatives.

However, no one on the presidential ballot in 2008 is likely to offer the reforms that we need to ensure that America remains peaceful and prosperous for decades to come. Hopefully, in 2012 someone will run as a conservative reformer who will adopt a platform defined by ideas similar to the ones in this book.

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Good Ideas, but........

I am a long time fan of Speaker Gingrich, and I believe that he is one of the smartest and most innovative thinkers on the political scene. I always love it when he shows up on television to comment on something, and I was anxious to tackle this book.

Unfortunately, I was disappointed. While I agreed with most of the ideas offered, I felt that the book was little more than a collection of position statements whose primary support was the author's belief and the fact that x% of Americans polled agreed with the position stated. I was also disappointed that, after a promising start in which the author spoke about the shrill tone of today's highly partisan political climate, a number of the subsequent discussions seemed rather partisan with numerous unflattering references to "the left," the Democrats," "unions" and the like.

While it contains many excellent ideas, "Real Change" would have been far more effective had Speaker Gingrich really delved into the questions at hand, presented some meaningfull point/counterpoint discussion and then backed his positions with well thought out arguments. The final positions probably would have been the same, but the book would have been more satisfying and more useful.

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