Ten Simple Things to Restore the American Dream

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About the author:
Craig Allen learned about governance first hand when he was elected to his city council. That led to positions on the Executive Board of the League of Oregon Cities, where he chaired the Legislative committee and led the interaction between cities and the State government. Through numerous appointments, he also worked with other city and county governments throughout the Portland metropolitan region.

He's had the chance to see firsthand what works, and, more importantly, what doesn't.

He is the winner of the 2008 Great American Think Off, successfully tackling the question "Does immigration strengthen or threaten the United States?" In that debate, he demonstrated that the threat comes solely from our own inability to even discuss the issue rationally, and some of that thinking led him to this book.

He has written a number of novels, in multiple genres in addition to many non-fiction submissions to magazines and other media. In his spare time, he is a skilled artist, working with wood to create one-of-a-kind pieces on a very small scale.

Ten Simple Things to Restore the American Dream
 

Authored by Craig Allen

The American Dream began 250 years ago with simple phrases: created equal, unalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, no taxation without representation. In the ensuing years, those things have served to guide much of our development, even as we have strayed away from them.

In the United States of today, more than 600,000 legal citizens are denied representation, created equal doesn't mean treated equally, and the leaders who fought for those revolutionary ideas have been replaced with invective and diatribe.

In this book, author Craig Allen identifies 10 places where the American Dream has been derailed, sometimes by the very Constitution that created it. He proposes simple, though sometimes gutsy, changes that will re-level the playing field and ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to prosper, limited only by their own abilities and drive.

This is not a book advocating bigger Government, or the creation of a nanny State, for, in the words of the author, neither of those was ever a part of the Dream.

He structures his suggestions based upon Abraham Lincoln's principles that: "The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere."

He seeks neither bigger Government, nor more regulation by Government. What he proposes is Functional Government...and Simple Government.

Drawing upon his own experiences in local and state governance, he has assembled ten ideas to make you think, proposing his own solutions without demanding that you blindly agree. He thoughtfully provides enough background so you can make up your own mind. By his own words, he says if he made you think, he met his goal.


Publication Date:
2011-01-15
ISBN/EAN13:
1456467964 / 9781456467968
Page Count:
122
Binding Type:
US Trade Paper
Trim Size:
6" x 9"
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Related Categories:
Political Science / Government / National




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