On any given day when you turn on the TV or scroll through your newsfeed, you’re likely to see the latest story on gun laws, Target’s restrooms, or even stories that aren’t even actual facts but just opinions. While those issues are important, I believe we have much larger, more pressing issues we should be talking about. This is the third piece of a five-part series in which I will address four issues and then tie everything back into our 2016 Election.
First off, If you haven’t read Parts 1 and 2, stop where you are right now and go read them. I promise this will make much more sense if you go in order.
As you recall, in my first piece I claimed that in order for poverty to disappear, the first thing we have to do is change how we lead our households. That is the first all important step. And if you remember last week's article, you’ll remember that I said the second step is education. Well, today is a different topic.
Part 3: Small Business Really Does Work, Look at the Rest of the World.
Let’s rewind back a century, we have World War I, then the Great Depression, then World War II, and then the 1950s. Now we know much of our country’s success was due to our superpower status in terms of military, population and money. Well all three of these things boomed in the 50s and 60s. We had the Cold War against communism, we had the baby boomers and we also had a 4.39 percent economic growth rate.
Well I am going to talk about the 4.39 percent economic growth rate. To give you some perspective, that is two and a half times the growth rates we’ve averaged this past decade.
So to boil things down, America was at an all time high. Things were good, but why is that? The answer is because of opportunity. Opportunity is the whole reason why people came to America in the first place. It’s a principle that we are founded upon. Like I said in the first article of this series, people want to have honest work where they feel that they earned their paycheck. This can’t happen without jobs and opportunity. Regardless of the education level, we have to get back into the business of creating jobs.
Here's the formula: Good Family Values + Better Education + More Jobs = Less Poverty.
Again, this is the third of a five-part series in which I will discuss a handful of political topics, tie each of them together, and then relate them back to the 2016 Election. Be on the lookout for next week's piece as I dive into foreign policy.
