Rebuilding America
A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare
Jerome R Corsi author J Kenneth Blackwell author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Turner Publishing Company
Published:13th Apr '06
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In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty as a centerpiece of the Great Society's effort to eliminate poverty in America. Forty years and many trillions of dollars later, poverty in America has increased, not decreased, despite the vast efforts of the largest governmental welfare system ever created in human history. In direct challenge to the political thinking that built the welfare state, Rebuilding America presents the outline of a bold plan for the overall elimination of poverty. The strategy of this new effort focuses on mobilizing the assets of urban America that have been largely cast aside and ignored by forty years of Great Society schemes. The approach proposed by J. Kenneth Blackwell emphasizes developing the urban landscape and creating meaningful employment for the poor without imposing additional tax burdens on the American people. Unlike the programs of the Great Society, this new approach can actually break the welfare dependency that has encouraged mothers to remain single and has dispossessed so many fathers from their families. Rebuilding America argues for a phase-out of the welfare state by applying new techniques of public finance, not imposing additional taxes. It calls for financial institutions to deploy new capital into rebuilding our cities, providing them with incentives to work with established and newly formed corporations to integrate jobs with retraining programs in communities. By encouraging an "ownership society," the new initiative will correct the old flaw that sacrificed families and self-respect for the sake of bureaucratic systems and regulations. Rebuilding America aims at encouraging all families to thrive and be successful instead of depending on the governmental programs that stole their futures from them. While the focus of this book is on the state of Ohio, it has much wider implications. It serves as an alternative, conservative model for attacking urban poverty that can be applied nationwide.
“Ken Blackwell has developed a series of thoughtful and practical reforms which will save Ohio taxpayers money while increasing the number of jobs in Ohio. He has a vision for reform in a state that needs reform.” —Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives “Blackwell and Corsi correctly identify the root causes of poverty in America—the breakdown of the two-parent family structure and government programs. Their solutions serve as a blueprint for removing the barriers to every citizen achieving his or her economic freedom.” —Herman Cain, Executive Director, Economic Freedom Coalition and author of They Think You’re Stupid “At a time when many conservatives have given up, Ken Blackwell and Jerry Corsi have given us a blueprint for turning our nation around. They eagerly put aside partisanship and present a way for the nation to rebuild. By unleashing the forces of free enterprise while at the same time not worshiping at the altar of free trade, they have come up with exactly the right approach to actually change things.” —Paul Weyrich, Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Research and Education Fund
ISBN: 9781581825015
Dimensions: 229mm x 161mm x 26mm
Weight: 508g
255 pages