Newt Notes on Freedom in America
By Gordon Bishop (09/25/07)
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the most brilliant political analyst in America.
As a reporter/columnist for the past 48 years, I have covered umpteen politicians, from Presidents and Governors down to U.S. Senators, Congressmen, Mayors and elected local council and committee members.
They’re not all bad. But they all seem to fall into the same bottomless pit after getting elected: Tax & Spend, Spend & Tax.
Only a handful knows how to balance a budget at the federal, state, county and local levels of government.
Of the 566 municipalities in the great State of New Jersey, only one – the town of Bogota, Bergen County – has balanced its annual budget the last 10 years without raising taxes.
That’s why my own home-state of New Jersey today has the pathetic distinction of having the highest property taxes in America.
And that’s one of the reasons why those who can are moving to Florida and other southeastern and southwestern states, as well the Garden State’s businesses, both large and small.
It’s like an exodus of the best and the brightest, even though Princeton University has been ranked the No. 1 school of higher education in the nation over the past five years.
I have to admit I couldn’t go to Princeton after high school because it was too costly, compared to my alma mater, Rutgers-The State University, a sad institution of socialism and, yes, even Marxism. I never wear my Rutgers graduation ring or Scarlet jackets and T-shirts. I’m an Independent Entrepreneurial Libertarian.
But back to Newt and his Notes.
“Our leaders in Washington have lost their way,” Newt writes in his latest mailing to me and others in our purist conservative camp (meaning not “politically-correct”).
“Our government officials fail to move aggressively on the conservative agenda,” Newt notes. “Too many politicians believe they are entitled to your hard-earned income. The leftist-spawned welfare state is well-entrenched after decades of creating ‘entitlements’”
Newt, a big believer in President Reagan, is pushing the Reagan Agenda, which the liberal Democrats are doing everything they can do to deep-six the Reagan legacy.
Newt is leading the charge to rid America of liberals by working with the “children” of the Reagan Revolution (fewer taxes, or the “best government is less government”).
Led by the Reagan children, they will “lift this country out of its dark, liberal valley,” Newt envisions.
As a teacher, Newt knows that learning begins in the classroom. Over the years, the public schools have been hijacked by liberals, along with the liberal teachers’ unions – the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), the State’s most powerful union, and the NEA – the National Education Association, another powerful arm of the liberal Democrat party.
“We know where great American ideas do not come from,” Newt says. “They do not come from Big Government – the dead hand of the past propping up failure. Great ideas come from the marketplace, the entrepreneur, and America’s future conservative leaders.”
Imagine what it would be like without the successes of the Reagan Revolution:
- The Iron Curtain would still be intact and the Evil Empire still on the march.
- Top federal tax rates would remain at 70 percent.
- Supreme Court replacements would be wishy-washy moderates.
“We have slowly and steadily expanded freedom,” Newt emphasized.
“Have you noticed the (liberals) hostility toward our conservative leaders and groups?”
- Letfist leaders pushed the IRS to harass conservative groups, including The
Heritage Foundation, the NRA, American Spectator, and the Christian Coalition
average Americans enjoy.
- Nightly news is little more than a half-hour of liberal propaganda and no
organizations or conservatives receive favorable coverage.
- The Left attacks talk radio, cable news, and other conservative media.
Newt warns his audiences of the “Leftist teachers’ unions that keep conservative ideas out of the classroom, even though good teachers would ensure that students hear the conservative point of view.”
Newt continues: “We have to decide whether we want our children and grandchildren living in a future controlled by bureaucrats and leftist professors or by leaders who respect traditional American values and our remarkable country.
“Washington won’t change Washington – it is 61 square miles surrounded by reality. The Washington environment is pro-government, pro-liberal, and pro-elite. Young Americans can help us reach to a higher level by being pro-God, pro-freedom, and anti-bureaucracy.”
Thank you, Newt – and God Bless America!
Gordon Bishop
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