The Agenda for America [Hardcover]

Haley Barbour (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 25, 1996

The Republican vision for America's future presented by conservative leaders such as William Bennett, Robert Bork, and Jean Kirkpatrick.

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From Publishers Weekly

Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Barbour also heads the National Policy Forum, a Republican think tank that recently sponsored a series of Washington, D.C.-based forums bringing together congressional and industry leaders, policy experts and ordinary citizens. Those conferences form the basis for this Republican policy blueprint, a set of grassroots-influenced recommendations that contain few surprises but could serve as a springboard for debate in the upcoming presidential election. Proposals include a sharp scaling down of welfare, with time limits on eligibility; a "simpler, flatter" tax system that provides relief to families, eliminates corporate taxes and banishes or reduces the capital gains tax; less federal regulation in the workplace; and tax-free medical savings accounts as an incentive to workers to control their own health care expenditures. Charging the Clinton administration with abdicating America's global leadership role, this manifesto advocates strong U.S. support for NATO, beefed-up counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations and a foreign aid policy that makes U.S. strategic interests paramount.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 318 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.; First Edition edition (April 25, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895267217
• ISBN-13: 978-0895267214
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,927,232 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 6 STARS, May 30, 2003

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Thomas Phelan (Newport, RI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Agenda for America (Hardcover)

This was a excellent book that tells of a great nation with a great future. I would suggest borrowing this from your local library if you are not sure if you like the subject matter.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest book ever!, November 17, 2000

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A republican (D.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Agenda for America (Hardcover)

Great book and very inspiring for young republicans and undiciders.

2 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Yet another 'government is the enemy' right wing tale, April 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Agenda for America (Hardcover)

Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee Chairman whose recent political tangos with the tobacco lobby are getting him and his buddies in political trouble, here wrote a book which was a kneejerk reaction to his party's 1994 Contract with America victory. In here, Barbour offers few specifics, only generalities('a government closer to the people' and 'smaller government'). The few specifics he does offer, such as on Medicare, are terribly deceptive. He offers the view that the Republican 1995 plan to trim Medicare costs by $270 billion over 7 years through partial privatization, higher premiums, squeezed payments to poor hospitals and more jamming of the elderly into HMO's is not harsh, but in fact in the best interest of the elderly and a 'small government' society. He ignores the need for universal health care instead of cutting Medicare to 'save it.' He bashes labor laws, environmental regulations, civil rights, public education and universal health care investments.

In all, Haley Barbour offers an anti-government view. Government is not the answer, but the problem, Barbour seems to say. To those who want an ideological book which veers to the right excessively and panders to the anti-civil rights and anti-government activism crowd, this one is a winner. Yet, to those who favor compassionate government which gives a darn about the working man and woman and family, then this book is just another proof of how out of touch conservatism truly is.