Presidential Candidate Newt
Presidential Candidate, Newt Gingrich, came to Morningside College on Tuesday to talk about his plans for presidency. Presidential Candidate Newt is a Republican and former speaker of the House. He started with an opener, talking about some things he has done previously, then moved to open questions. During the entire speech he kept emphasizing making more jobs for the American people. He wants to take people off of Welfare and Food stamps and help get them jobs, this way government debt would be reduced and it would increase government revenue. He expanded on the jobs by saying that the main reason why people are on Food Stamps is because some people don’t know how to keep a job. He wants to teach teenagers how to work and save money because, “America only works when America is working.” Newt wants to work with China to make sure everybody makes more money from their job than what they would make on Food Stamps. He asked everybody in the room “Don’t be for me, be with me.” He said it would take as much as 8 years for the change to completely happen.
One of the things a lot of people in the room cheered for was the fact that Newt wants to control the boarders more. This way America would have less drug trafficking and more jobs for the American people. Newt also wants to make English the official language, which a lot of people liked. As far as citizenship goes for illegal immigrants, he would not kick out those aliens that already have families and ties to Americans. However, he would deport those who have only been here for a couple of years. Also, immigrants that moved here at a significantly young age and immigrants with ties would receive worker cards. The cards would have to be swiped by the immigrant’s employers. Newt does not believe that illegal immigrants should be able to gain citizenship.
Newt went on to talk about how Obama is hurting America and how he is preventing jobs and costing money. He gave the example of the “Canadian Buses” Obama uses. He said that our tax dollars were spent on those buses and we pay for them to get air lifted from city to city. He also went on to talk about how Obama was more concerned about Gibson Guitars than controlling our boarders. He sent 26 armed agents from Homeland Security to raid places that had Gibson guitars because of their use of Indian Wood. However, the Indian government gave Gibson permission to use their wood for Gibson’s guitars. He said Obama is not using his resources well. Newt talked about education saying he wants to make a Pell Grant for K-12 so parents can pick which schools their kids attend.