Former President Bill Clinton has written a new book about America’s future that will be published by Knopf in November
NEW YORK, September 22, 2011 –Former President Bill Clinton has written a new book on the urgent challenges facing the United States and offering a plan to get America “back into the future business.” BACK TO WORK will be published in November by Alfred A. Knopf. The announcement was made today by Sonny Mehta, Knopf’s Chairman and Editor in Chief. Mr. Mehta acquired world publishing rights to the book from Robert B. Barnett of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., who represented Mr. Clinton in the negotiations. The terms of the agreement are not being disclosed.
“I wrote this book because I love my country and I’m concerned about our future,” writes Clinton. “As I often said when I first ran for President in 1992, America at its core is an idea — the idea that no matter who you are or where you’re from, if you work hard and play by the rules, you’ll have the freedom and opportunity to pursue your own dreams and leave your kids a country where they can chase theirs.”
In BACK TO WORK, Clinton details how we can get out of the current economic crisis and lay a foundation for long-term prosperity. He offers specific recommendations on how we can put people back to work, increase bank lending and corporate investment, double our exports, restore our manufacturing base, and create new businesses. He supports President Obama’s emphasis on green technology, saying that change in the way we produce and consume energy is the strategy most likely to spark a fast growing economy and enhance our national security.
Clinton also says that we need both a strong economy and a smart government working together to restore prosperity and progress. He demonstrates that whenever we’ve given into the temptation to blame government for our problems, we’ve lost our commitment to shared prosperity, balanced growth, financial responsibility, and investment in the future. That has led our nation into trouble because there are some things we have to do together. For example, he says, “Our ability to compete in the twenty-first century is dependent on our willingness to invest in infrastructure: we need faster broadband, a state-of-the-art national electrical grid, modernized water and sewer systems, and the best airports, trains, roads, and bridges.
“There is no evidence that we can succeed in the twenty-first century with an antigovernment strategy,” writes Clinton, “with a philosophy grounded in ‘You’re on your own’ rather than ‘We’re all in this together.’” Clinton believes that conflict between government and the private sector has proved to be remarkably good politics, but it has produced bad policies, giving us a weak economy with few jobs, growing income inequality and poverty, and a decline in our competitive position. In the real world, cooperation works much better than conflict, and “we need victories in the real world.”
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I sure hope the former president has a book tour with his upcoming release with a few more stops than his last book had!! My wife and I stood in line for 9.5 hours to get copies of “My Life” signed some years ago now, and what a thrill it was to shake the hand of a former president!! We have also had the priviledge of meeting Mrs. Clinton, and getting her autograph, and what a wonderful person she is as well!!!
What a lot of bull. He uses a typical tactic, set up a strawman and then proceed to knock him down.
Conservatives are not anti-government, we are anti-big government. The big government that sees itself as the parent taking care of its little children. Conservative philosophy is not about “you’re on your own,” it’s about being left alone, free of an overwheening government dictating what is good for you and what isn’t.
Consider these questions; Why would anyone willingly subordinate themselves to an elected politician? Why would you let yourself become the dependent of a person whose only qualification is that they convinced enough people to elect him?
Politicians and government need to be viewed as the founders viewed them, necessary evils, but never, ever trusted and certainly never allowed to gain sufficient power to become a tyranny. The more powerful the politician and the bigger the government the more threatening to our individual liberties they are.
Some government to do the governmental roles assigned it in the Constitution but not enough government to destroy the individual protections of liberty provided in that remarkable document.
Last, “smart government” is an oxymoron. The government cannot “restore prosperity and progress.” By it’s very nature government is destructive. It prohibits, mandates, and directs. None of this is constructive in nature, it’s all prohibitve. They can “give” money to some only by taking from others. Government takes no risks when picking winners and losers instead, the government risks the wealth and prosperty of the citizens. See Solyndra, Fannie and Freddy as recent examples. Prosperity and progress will be restored when government gets out of the way and allows the citizens to innovate, invent, and take risks with new ideas on their own a formula which has created the greatest country on Earth.
“(He, Bill Clinton) understands the politics and economics of globalization and the dynamics of the technological information age.” -M. Kakutani
“Think how exciting it would be if all of us had real arguments based on real facts that produced real results through principled compromise based on what works….” -B.Clinton (about changing things)
Idea: “…“if the Fed has legal authority to invest in an infrastructure bank that would pay back the investment plus interest, but if it is legal to do so, I think it’s a good idea.” -B. Clinton”
Note: the argument goes that the Fed could ever get back monies paid to an infrastructure bank (feasibly through tolls and the likes) in order to pay back the Fed with interest. Taxation against created monies….
-Eg. 2 “Mr. Clinton writes that “the troubling thing about all these rankings” is “not what they say about where we are but what they reveal about where we’re going.” He adds, “We simply are not doing what we have to do to stay ahead of the competition for good jobs, new businesses, and breakthrough innovations.” ”
They’ve (The U.S. has) spent close to 500 billion on study/student loans, [was about 8o billion ten years ago] etc. and the value of the outcome to R&D in the U. S. of A. is slipping. -The argument goes that the money isn’t producing incentive, as opposed to foreign graduates whom are poised to fill these jobs towards innovation. Therefore, the linkage to failure is an ever-increasing spiral downward. Facts (as a) supporting argument for Clinton: “Moneyed people are not inspired to do anything.”)
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He (Clinton) believes that conflict between government and the private sector has proved to be good politics but has produced bad policies, giving us a weak economy with not enough jobs, growing income inequality and poverty, and a decline in our competitive position. In the real world, cooperation works much better than conflict, and “Americans need victories in real life.”
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The Book’s Identification/Premise :
-( Reality(?), to be addressed or an idealistic view [ ie."co-operative politics on a large national scale"?] of the current financial situation ‘Americanized’ which has now come about, in which the argument either does or does not hold up over the very historical facts therein to support it? Question: Does American politics warrant “national party cooperation” outside of war? Has it ever? [The assumption is that Mr. Clinton is speaking in terms of the past twenty to thirty years as the reference concerning what constitutes American decline.])