Approved
for immediate release March 26, 2013
What is our
federal government’s National Objective? Would it surprise you to learn that we
don’t have one?
Whether in
business or government, whenever there are large problems to solve or great
opportunities to go after, most people understand that the chances for success
are greatly enhanced when the participants share a common objective. Working
from a formalized objective allows the stakeholders to actively contribute to
the planning and execution necessary to achieve the desired results. A well
communicated and closely followed objective is crucial for maintaining focus
and reining in the scope creep that invariably occurs when those with alternate
objectives and differing priorities develop clever ways to influence decisions
and divert resources. If detours from the primary mission are not thwarted
quickly then the mission becomes obscured and subservient to the multitude of
parochial priorities that are allowed to take hold.
As the
challenges that our nation faces grow in size and complexity, the greater
becomes the importance of a widely shared and closely followed National Objective.
As basic to our national success as a National Objective may be in these
critical times, neither political party has presented their vision for a
federal government national objective. Recognizing this fundamental failure of
leadership from both Parties, the Republican Party presents our National
Objective.
National Objective:
Continuously improve the standard of
living of all Americans.
That’s it!
That’s as complicated as our federal government’s national objective needs to
be. Just think of what we could accomplish as a nation if all Americans and every
elected official were fully committed to this simple yet powerful perpetual
goal.
Formalizing a Republican Party National Objective will serve four
purposes.
First it will
help the Party sustain a consistent focus as we engage in a constructive
dialogue with all Americans to develop policy recommendations that are designed
expressly to achieve our National Objective.
Second, it
will brand the Republican Party with the public and will provide us with the foundation
we need to explain how our public policy proposals interrelate and how they
will work in unison to achieve our national objective at the individual as well
as the national level.
Third, it
will serve to help prioritize and apply constant pressure on those opportunities
that portend the greatest impact on our national objective while also allowing our
nation to address separately those issues that may be vitally important but
often serve as emotional wedge issues strategically designed to divide our
nation and impede progress on our nation’s most pressing problems.
And finally,
and perhaps most importantly, a shared national objective will unite our
divided nation along a common set of enduring solutions designed to resolve our
most pressing problems.
To be
clear, there is considerable difference between agreeing upon a National
Objective and agreeing to the public policies that are intended to best achieve
that objective. But nonetheless, the first step is for our nation to agree to a
single National Objective.
With a
National Objective in hand, we can engage in a respectful debate of how best to
achieve our goal. At the start of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
presented a one word national objective that the American people roundly
accepted and wholeheartedly supported – “Win!” The economic challenges facing our
nation today may be no less important.
Job Policy:
Republican Values: The most effective way for an individual to improve their standard of living as well as increase their sense of worth and well being is through a job. The best way for our economy to grow and generate jobs is through a vibrant private sector offering goods and services that people want at prices they can afford with enough profit to warrant their continued offering.
Republican Values: The most effective way for an individual to improve their standard of living as well as increase their sense of worth and well being is through a job. The best way for our economy to grow and generate jobs is through a vibrant private sector offering goods and services that people want at prices they can afford with enough profit to warrant their continued offering.
The objective of the Republican Party Job Policies is to help the private sector maximize the quantity, quality and sustainability of
Republican Values: The Republican Party supports a socially responsible, closely coordinated, efficiently administered and economically viable Social Safety Net that
Does not negatively impact our nation’s ability to generate U.S. based private sector jobs
Does not hide the costs of the safety Net by passing them on to future generations
Rewards work, independence and self-improvement
Healthcare Policy:Republican Values: Allow the free market system to work up to a point of catastrophic need. Employer sponsored healthcare significantly increases the cost of U.S. based labor and costs Americans their jobs. Our policy will replace employer sponsored health insurance and all government sponsored healthcare programs, except Medicare, with the two-tiered, private to public health coverage, provided by the American Catastrophic Health Insurance plan. ACHI is a high-deductible health insurance plan in which the annual deductible amount is based on individual or household income. Once the deductible has been met, the ACHI plan funds all medically necessary care and is financed by the Safety Net Tax.
For more policy discussions, please see America's Get Well Plan.
