Restarting American Success to Compete in the 21st Century!
CIVIL Roadmap to American Greatness!
Once we get through the challenges of the COVID, having a plan to increase economic growth is essential. China wants to kick the western economies to the curb, and will, if we can’t find a path from 2.0% to 4.5% growth. Neither the Democrat or Republican economic approaches will get us to 3.0%. The following proposals are solutions upon which Americans and both parties should be able to find common ground. CIVIL is not only committed to providing a plan but to be the referee that mitigates the anger and animus in Washington and creates the common ground to move America up the scale of greatness.
America needs to grow faster if we are to keep China’s 30-year plan to dominate the world at bay. They are growing about about 6% compared to our 2% growth for this century, and only a bit faster under Trump’s economic plan. Both countries will likely grow at these rates for 30 years. If so, China will surpass the US in 10 years, be 50% larger in 20 years, and double our size in 30 years.
So, let’s not stay on the same path. CIVIL’s plan will assure America growth near 4.5%, which should keep China sidelined from the goals through the rest of the century.
Ten Innovations
CIVIL $195 Pledge: Our Pledge: No big money and no donations that exceed a total of $195 per election cycle.
The Problem: Big donations from 1% of voters accounted for $2.25 billion (70% of all donations) in the last election cycle with another $3.2 billion from lobbyists. This is big money, from rich donors, big business, big unions and big special interest.
Big Donors are buying influence and power, choosing which candidate you vote for, and writing the laws. If you donate $10 dollars you can’t buy a vowel. Your donation keeps the lights on in a distance country party headquarters. The rich don’t need help be rich. Take the CIVIL Pledge.
Press Release for CIVIL $195 Pledge
CIVIL 501K: Making federal retirement programs financially sustainable.
A retirement transformation that builds individual wealth (approximately $100 Trillion over 40 years) and reduces $50 trillion in unfunded mandates to zero over the next 40 years; produces the biggest tax cut for the poor in history; and, were the program in place for the last 50 years, a lifetime minimum wage worker retiring today would have a $100,000 nest egg to complement his/her retirement. The key economic benefit: reduced taxes and the vast increase in private/savings investment will increase in GDP between ½% and 1% annually.
The 501K will also produce the largest tax cut in history for the poor, middle class and small business! More info:
Simplify the Most Complex Institution if History.
A culture of Simplicity (and Innovation) for a best run, smart government: By addressing the vastly complex federal government – a $4.8 trillion enterprise – with solutions like a Chief Simplicity Officer, crowd-sourcing and X-Prizes (no more lobbyists) to streamline regulation, the size and cost of government will likely fall 20% to 30%. Result: lower taxes.
More: PR for Chief Simplicity Office
CIVIL Education Enterprise Zones: Objective: Education Opportunity Equality for All. The mission of Education Enterprise Zones is to close the gap between children attending one of America’s 8000 failing schools and the abundant choices in the well to do in suburban districts. This is education inequality at it worst. Giving the most challenged parents the freedom to choose is only fair.
More: Repairing Education for Failing Schools
CIVIL Success anti-poverty programs: Ninety-eight percent of citizens that acquire a good education, get and job and improve their skills on the job, and get married do not need government assistance. Welfare will only work if our schools maximize our student’s human capital. When they do, a work-based welfare system will reduce poverty. The poverty rate has been about 14% for 40 years. It’s time this changed. Citizens in most need deserve better. PR for T4C CIVIL Success Factor 6 4
21st Century Immigration Policy to Increase Growth: Immigration policy that entices the world’s innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to America to implement while also emphasizing high caliber talent in research and technology. Forty percent of the Fortune 500 are headed by immigrants or sons/daughters of immigrants. As international competition for the best and brightest increases, we need more of this very important group to come to the US.
New Option for Sensible Health Financing: America needs smarter health financing. The HMO/PPO is the most expensive solution for paying health costs because its term is annual and our health costs cover a lifetime and usually have one very large and unplanned cost. Whole Life Health insurance with policy terms of fifty years will reduce costs for younger workers by up to 80% and cover everything from the first dollar. No Deductibles or copays.
21st Century Information Technology for Digital Government: American businesses and voters need a government that is operating in the same century we are. Citizens are running on iPhones and the federal government is still using faxes and snail mail. This must change. Though the government has produced a general plan information technology, the plan doesn’t prioritize replacement of aging systems, an accelerated schedule for deployment of new technology, nor estimated budgets to transform to a fully digital landscape. The federal IT budget is about $90 billion, most of the dollars for maintenance and operations. The first CIVIL priority is to create an estimate for costs and shorter timetables for execution this decade for implementation of a digital government.
21st Century Space Exploration: America needs a common goal and space is something we already agree about. Seven in ten Americans believe the future of space should be a priority. Space also has huge financial paybacks for the economy, by some estimates for each dollar invested, ten are returned. Accelerating moon, Mars, Phobos missions, deeper trip to the outer our solar system, and laying our prospective schedules for deep space exploration are top priorities. As America’s space budget has fallen by half since the beginning of the century, additional budget should be allocated to accelerate our plans.