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    America the Strong: Conservative Ideas to Spark the Next Generation
    America the Strong: Conservative Ideas to Spark the Next Generation
    America the Strong: Conservative Ideas to Spark the Next Generation
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    America the Strong: Conservative Ideas to Spark the Next Generation

    By William J. Bennett and John T.E. Cribb

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    We live in a culture that often dismisses and ridicules conservative values. By the time liberal professors, the news media, and Hollywood get through with them, many young Americans are convinced “conservative” means extremist and intolerant. It’s a distortion that endangers America’s future. Bill Bennett and coauthor John Cribb explain what conservatism really means, using five fundamental principles summarized by the word FLINT: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, and Traditional values. America the Strong shows the next generation how these principles have made the United States a great nation and why they are worth preserving. It answers more than one hundred questions, from “Do conservatives hate the government?” to “What’s wrong with having an open border?” to “Why can’t rich people pay all the taxes?”

    Discover a strong, clear conservative vision of America for the next generation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTyndale House Publishers
    Release dateSep 22, 2015
    ISBN9781496409751
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    William J. Bennett

    Dr. William J. Bennett is one of America's most influential and respected voices on cultural, political, and educational issues. Host of "The Bill Bennett Show" podcast, he is also the Washington Fellow of the American Strategy Group. He is the author and editor of more than twenty-five books, and lives in North Carolina.

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      America the Strong - William J. Bennett

      THE AMERICAN RECORD

      N

      ORMAN

      B

      ORLAUG,

      a descendent of Norwegian immigrants, grew up in the early part of the twentieth century on an Iowa farm, where a boy couldn’t help but learn a thing or two about how corn and wheat grow. He attended a one-room school, worked his way through college during the Great Depression, and then earned a doctorate in plant pathology.

      During World War II, when massive destruction raised fears of widespread hunger, he plunged into the work of helping impoverished countries grow more food. He headed to Mexico to join a program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to help farmers produce more crops.

      His initial efforts didn’t turn out very well. Borlaug taught the farmers to feed their wheat crops extra nitrogen to increase yields, but the stalks grew so tall and heavy that they collapsed. He tackled the problem by developing shorter, stouter plants that could support abundant wheat grains. For years he battled the tropical sun, floods, disease, and drought as he showed farmers the best way to plant, fertilize, and irrigate.

      By the 1960s, when experts were warning that global famine was just a few years away, Mexican farmers were producing enough grain to feed their own people and even export a surplus. It was the beginning of an agricultural revolution that swept much of the world. Pleas for help arrived from other poor countries with starving populations. Dr. Borlaug and his colleagues traveled throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America to spread their techniques and breed new plants. Grain production soared.

      Before he died in 2009, Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and scores of other tributes. By some estimates, his work helped save the lives of one billion people around the world.[13]

      His is an extraordinary story, a very American story, because America is the place where, more than any other country, extraordinary efforts are launched and ideas born. In many ways the United States has been, and continues to be, one of the most amazing countries in history.

      What’s so great about the American record?

      If you listen to the cynics and critics, there isn’t much to admire about America. Some history books and professors give the impression that this country is fundamentally flawed and unfair and that Americans have much to apologize for: stealing land from Native Americans, fouling the environment, enslaving Africans, withholding rights from women, exploiting laborers, discriminating against people of color, and waging imperialist wars against the third world.

      Even Norman Borlaug was denounced by left-wing environmentalists who said his techniques used too many chemicals and caused small farmers in Africa and other parts of the world to be replaced by large-scale, corporate operations. Borlaug responded that if his critics lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for 50 years, they’d be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists in wealthy nations were trying to deny them these things.[14]

      If you take a step back and look at the broad picture, you see just how remarkable the American record is. For example:

      The United States was the first nation in history created out of the belief that people should govern themselves. As James Madison said, this country’s birth was a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.[15] The US Constitution is the oldest written national constitution in operation. It has been a model for country after country as democracy has spread across the world.

      The US military is the greatest defender of freedom in the world. From the time of the Revolutionary War, Americans have been willing to put themselves in harm’s way for freedom. The US military led the way in defeating Fascism during World War II, then led the free world in the decades-long struggle against communism during the Cold War. It continues the fight against Islamic terrorism.

      As General Colin Powell said, We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years . . . and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home . . . to live our own lives in peace.[16]

      No other country has done a better job of establishing equal rights for all citizens. Certainly there have been times when the United States has fallen tragically short of its founding principles. But especially in recent decades, no country has worked harder to eliminate discrimination and protect the rights of minorities. There are plenty of nations where people’s ethnicity, religion, or gender define them as second-class citizens. In contrast, America has been a pioneer in striving toward the ideal that all people are created equal.

      No other country has welcomed and united so many people from so many different shores. Never before have so many people from different backgrounds, races, nationalities, and religions lived and worked together so peacefully. In no other nation has the spirit of brotherhood accomplished more than it has in the United

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