The
evidence to support the case is strong. For starters, we face an unsustainable
national debt that continues to grow at an accelerating rate. Our job market
has failed to support our population growth for over four years. Our increasing
income gap has been eroding the purchasing power of America’s middle class families for
decades. These are just a sample of the mounting problems we face as a nation.
Through
our Constitution, we empower our political leaders to solve our national
problems. Unfortunately, our political leaders have become more of a problem
than a solution. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have offered
anything substantively new from their anemic economic playbooks. Democrats once
again want to increase taxes and spending while Republicans want to cut taxes
and slow down spending. Both approaches are nothing more than Keynesian
band-aids that shift pain from one group to another as we continue our gradual
decline.
Neither party has articulated a strategic vision that reverses the
decades old policies that are responsible for our protracted economic decay. By
pitting American against American and group against group, our political class
ensures an equally divided, never-ending tug-of-war among the electorate.
Neither side appears capable of offering solutions the other side will accept.
How could they? If you despise, distrust and believe your opponent is
inherently evil, you are unlikely to accept that they could ever have your best
interests at heart.
Confronted
with an overly partisan and hopelessly gridlocked government that is either
unwilling or unable to solve our nation’s fiscal problems, a concerned
electorate has learned that we have been chipping away at our economic
foundation since globalization began over forty years ago. While our economy
declines against the backdrop of an expanding industrialized world, we are
being conditioned by our political leadership and our national press to accept
our decline as the “new normal”. Well, this is not the new normal. America’s
decline is not a foregone conclusion.
Our decline is the result of irresponsible mismanagement perpetrated by both
political parties, fueled by an ideologically biased media and funded by the inherent corruption of deep pocket special interest groups that have managed to isolate
our elected representatives from “we the people”. As President Kennedy
said during his speech at The American University on June 10, 1963,
- Our problems are man made; therefore, they may be solved by man.
Our man
made economic decline is fully reversible, but only if Americans can forge a
solutions-based strategic plan that unifies the majority of Americans around
its implementation and allows us to reject the emotional ploys that keep us a
nation divided.
Carting out
a retread crop of previously rejected solutions will not be any more palatable
to the opposition groups then they were in their previous incarnations. We need
a different framework. We need a framework designed to appeal to the majority
of Americans. A framework that is so founded in common sense that even the
deep-pocket media blitz from the status quo seeking special interest groups
will find it difficult to demagogue.
Recognizing that the only positive way
forward is through consensus building, the Americans United Party has developed a comprehensive economic road map that
addresses the root causes of our economic decline and prescribes a remedy that
places America
back on the path to prosperity.
The AUP
Economic Road map appeals to the financial aspirations and common sense of most
Americans. Our solutions based approach was not locked into the rigors of any
entrenched ideology nor were we forced to settle for middle of the road
mediocrity in order to gain widespread acceptance. On the contrary, our
strategy transcends political ideology because our plan puts the financial
aspirations of Americans, all Americans, first.
The AUP
plan addresses the six economic components whose deterioration is most
responsible for our protracted economic decline - Jobs, Debt, Safety Net, Energy,
Education and Government. Our Economic Road map presents a plan that coordinates
and optimizes these six facets of our economy into a cohesive economic model designed to
accomplish one simple and universally acceptable economic goal. Namely;
Continuously
improve the standard of living of all Americans.
We invite you to review, comment and
support our economic road map.
I look forward to hearing your
constructive suggestions.
Jim
Schneider
CEO
Americans United Party
