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Jeff Hunt (center), Centennial Institutes marketing director since 2013 and a veteran
of Romney 2012, was named by CCU President Bill Armstrong (right) to succeed John
Andrews (left), who has led the think tank since its founding in 2009. Andrews called Hunt
one of the ablest and most visionary Christian conservatives of the rising generation.
Bring home a
$2.1 trillion
stimulus.
Nothing is Free
That comes with being the number one economy in the
world, but now were in a struggle with China for that
position. It looks like theyve recently passed us up. If
tomorrow we were not the reserve currency and we couldnt
print moneyalbeit irresponsibly as we are doingour
economy could face collapse. Wall Street 1929 would be a
walk in the park by comparison.
So we need to take warning. The next time some politician
comes along and says free college for everyone, we need to
know how to evaluate that. There is nothing free, nothing,
when you have that kind of debt. We have to reverse this.
Start with our gigantic, bloated government. We do not
need 4.1 million federal employees. I would just let them
retire, thousands of them every year, and not replace them.
You can shift people around.
There are 645 federal agencies and sub-agencies. No one
can convince me there isnt fat in every single one, so I
would require a certain percentage of that fat to be cut.
Thats going to reduce costs very significantly.
Then I would make sure we have a taxation system that
Invest in People
Remember how the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson
was going to eliminate poverty? Nineteen trillion dollars
later, we have ten times more people on food stamps, more
poverty and welfare, more crime and incarceration, more
out-of-wedlock births. Everything that was supposed to be
better is worse.
I dont want to demonize the governmentmuch as they
deserve itbut the fact is, they dont do a good job. The
ones who do a good job are us. For example, all the nongovernment programs, including one here in Denver, Save
Our Youth, where individuals become mentors for students
who are heading in the wrong direction.
That mentor brings a kid into his or her world, teaches
them things they would never have known, and almost all
of those kids then graduate from high school. Many go
on to college and do very useful things in life, when the
trajectory before was just the opposite.
That happens when people invest in people, and its another
of the reasons America got to the pinnacle so quickly. Not
only because of our countrys can do attitude, but also
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MY VISION FOR AMERICA
By Dr. Ben Carson
Citizen Statesmen
Its not true. Were not the divided states of America, were
the United States. This nation was
designed around We the People, not
Now its
we the government. The government is
our turn. there to facilitate life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness for usled by
citizen statesmen, not career politicians.
February 8, 7:00pm