Newt Gingrich : 2014-07-02 : A Sobering Report for America’s Birthday

Newt Gingrich ^ | 2014-07-02 | Newt Gingrich

[Patton@Bastogne]

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July 2, 2014

Newt Gingrich : A Sobering Report for America’s Birthday

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Americans are in a period of amazingly negative thinking about the state of our country.

A recent Gallup analysis drove home how deep and how threatening the current mood is.

Gallup asked Americans in early June how much confidence they had in our nation's institutions. The answer: not much. Only 30% had "a great deal" or "quite a lot of confidence" in the Supreme Court. Just 29% felt that way about the presidency. And an abysmal 7% had faith in the Congress.

Think about what this means. Our most trusted national institution, the unelected Supreme Court, has the confidence of almost (but not quite) one out of every three Americans. The presidency is slightly weaker and the Congress collapses to fewer than 1 in 10 Americans.

Gallup also did some comparative analysis using findings from its World Poll and the trends regarding Americans' views on government are even more sobering. In the poll, 79% of the American people believe corruption is widespread in government. That is a jump of 20 points since 2006, when 59% of the country thought government was corrupt (a year when the country was dissatisfied enough that the ruling Republicans lost control of both the House and Senate).

The Gallup analysis demonstrates that Americans are more likely to believe their government is corrupt than people in Brazil, Hungary or Tajikistan, to cite just three examples.

In January of this year, Gallup found that more Americans picked bad government and corruption as our biggest problem than picked any other challenge, including the economy and unemployment. These are stunning numbers.

When four out of five Americans believe government is corrupt, something is profoundly wrong. It is a lot bigger than Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or for that matter George W. Bush.

Under the weight of this negativity, there has been a dramatic decline in satisfaction with the freedom we have to choose how we live our own lives. The number of people saying they are dissatisfied has jumped from 9% in 2006 to 21% in 2013.

This 12-point jump in dissatisfaction tied the United States for No. 10 among countries suffering the most rapid decline in satisfaction. The other countries that have experienced drops of that scale are seriously troubled places, including Pakistan, Yemen, Cyprus, and Spain (where youth unemployment is approaching 60%).

To put this in context, the Gallup numbers show that in 2006 the United States was one of the top countries in the world when it came to satisfaction with freedom. By 2013 it had dropped out of the top 25% of all countries.

A country in which 4 out of 5 people believe their government is corrupt is a country teetering between a populist uprising and a collapse into cynicism, passivity, and fatalism.

These results suggest we will either renew our commitment to the rule of law, the punishment of corruption and the insistence on honest self-government or we will cease to be America as the land of the free and the land of opportunity.

This Fourth of July weekend, we need to remember what our Founding Fathers did to create the liberty we enjoy and dedicate ourselves to a new burst of freedom and a new wave of political reform that cleans up the corruption and re-establishes the right of every American to dream and to work to fulfill that dream.

Your Friends,

Newt and Callista


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"We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart."

~Newt Gingrich, 2012

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[Diogenesis]

Gov. Palin and the Speaker were BOTH attacked by
operatives in the GOP for their Master.

The GOP continues the attacks because they
are the Gave-Obama-Power party ... and proud of it.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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The GOPe is in it's death throes, and they can't even see it ...

In fact, they may not win the Senate in 2014.



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[Jacquerie]

. . . dedicate ourselves to a new burst of freedom and a new wave of political reform that cleans up the corruption and re-establishes the right of every American to dream and to work to fulfill that dream.

Amen. The corruption isn't merely monetary. It is the structure of our government.

As our history has shown, two popularly derived houses of congress are certain to have similar views.

The easiest way for both congressmen and senators to be reelected is to give taxpayer money away and avoid major media criticism at any cost.

Until that operating envelope is changed our slide into executive tyranny is assured.

[knarf]

According to Mirriam-Webster;

in·sti·tu·tion noun \ˌin(t)-stə-ˈtü-shən, -ˈtyü-\

: an established organization

: a place where an organization takes care of people for a usually long period of time

: a custom, practice, or law that is accepted and used by many people

I don't see where the se0paration of powers are "institutions"

So, what WOULD an American institution be ?

Enacting blue laws and going to church;
Prayer before meals;
Baseball on a Saturday afternoon;
punching a factory clock, coming home dirty and tired and enjoying the rest of the evening with family .... and a beer;

THOSE, to me, would be American institutions.

[PGalt]

This Fourth of July weekend, we need to remember what our Founding Fathers did to create the liberty we enjoy and dedicate ourselves to a new burst of freedom and a new wave of political reform that cleans up the corruption and re-establishes the right of every American to dream and to work to fulfill that dream.

DEFUND socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic. The U.S.A. (United Socialists of America) are destroying the republic.

How many examples can be listed in this one grievance?…

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

Not to mention the longer list of abuses and usurpations

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security

--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

[Starboard]

they may not win the Senate in 2014

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If they win the senate it will be like winning a race because other runners stumbled and fell, not because of swiftness, fitness or endurance.

The Pubbies will quickly squander any advantage they gain.

[PGalt]

BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY $OCIALI$M

DISMANTLE it.

Go ahead, pick one…any one…

http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/

Watch the gluttonous, socialist pigs squeal (apologies to pigs).

[kevslisababy]

It sounds to me like we are truly back in the Carter era....what was the catch word then? Malaise?

[PGalt]

Socialism Is Legal Plunder

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation.

/Bastiat

[sneakers]

bttt

[Lake Living]

Doesn’t all this show our country has a morality problem? Political solutions will not solve our difficulties. What institution/s make citizens more moral? Perhaps that is where we need to focus our attention and energies. Moral people follow the two basic commandments - they love the Lord God with all their hearts and their neighbor as themselves. As a result, they are more concerned with God’s honor than their own survival, convenience or reputation. They are selfless, do their neighbor no harm and seek the good of others. This type of person is in short supply in our nation.

[Georgia Girl 2]

That catch word back then was “malaise” but I think the catchword now is “pi$$ed”. Infinitely more dangerous.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Gingrich just endorsed my execrable RINO Senator Lamar! in Tennessee. Sorry, Newtie, you’re a part of the problem.