The Big Answer

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In an interview with Newt Gingrich, he says that unionized big-city schools fail. “For 40 years we have shifted money out of the classroom, hired more labor bureaucracy, and it’s all garbage.”

Newt Gingrich

He says to redress the rise in income inequality, eliminate the welfare state, which effectively strips the poor of their opportunities to be true Americans by making them dependent and needful, defining them in terms of their deficiencies rather than their assets, when what they need is to be resourceful, innovative, entrepreneurial, and full of a feeling of self-responsibility and ambition. See Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets.

He said, during his successful but controversial reign as Speaker, that the key to his success is: “. . . leading the culture, not the government. Because if you change the direction of the entire dialogue, everything else falls in place behind it.” This is another way of saying that we need big cultural movements, not big government. We concur. See:

1. Newt Gingrich: Speaker to America
   
2. Newt vs. the '60s
   
3. The Cultural Contradictions Of Newt Gingrich
   
4. Forging Ahead With Newt's Favorite Fortune Tellers
   
5. The Future According To Newt
   
6. A Think Tank With One Idea: The Newt World Order
   
7. To Renew America
   
8. Contract with America
   
9. Future Tense: Why Washington Can't Stand Newt's Futurism