Read Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works Online
Authors: Rick Santorum
14
.
Yvonne Zipp, “Stryker Corp. to Complete Planned Layoffs of 1,000 Workers by End of 2012,”
MLive.com
, November 19, 2012,
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2012/11/stryker_corp_to_complete_layof.html
.
15
.
“Cook Medical Shelves Plans to Open Five News Plants in the Next Five Years,”
Canton Daily Ledger
, August 1, 2012,
http://www.cantondailyledger.com/article/20120801/NEWS/308019977
.
16
.
Tom Gara, “Union Letter: Obamacare Will ‘Destroy the Very Health and Wellbeing’ of Workers,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 12, 2013,
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/07/12/union-letter-obamacare-will-destroy-the-very-health-and-wellbeing-of-workers/
.
17
.
Betsy McCaughey,
Beating Obamacare
,
2014
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2014), 53.
18
.
Howard Dean, “The Affordable Care Act’s Rate-Setting Won’t Work,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 28, 2013,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324110404578628542498014414
.
Chapter 8: Innovating and Personalizing Education
1
.
Rick Santorum, “Vision & Values: Goodness and Greatness,” Center for Vision & Values, Grove City College, transcript, speech given May 1, 1998,
http://www.visionandvalues.org/1998/05/vision-a-values-goodness-and-greatness/
.
2
.
See the Common Core State Standards Mission Statement:
http://www.corestandards.org/
.
3
.
Lyndsey Layton, “National Public High School Graduation Rate at a Four-Decade High,”
Washington Post
, January 22, 2013,
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-22/local/36472838_1_graduation-rate-dropout-rate-asian-students
.
4
.
“Mathematics: National Results,” The Nation’s Report Card, 2011, National Association of Education Progress, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://nationsreportcard.gov/math_2011/summary.aspx#
; and “Reading: National Results,” The Nation’s Report Card, 2011, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://nationsreportcard.gov/reading_2011/summary.aspx#
.
5
.
Sally Lovejoy and Chad Miller, “Collective Bargaining and Student Academic Achievement,” American Action Forum, June 2013,
http://americanactionforum.org/sites/default/files/Collective%20Bargaining.pdf
.
6
.
“College Participation Rates: Percent of 18- to 24-Year-Olds Enrolled in College,” NCHEMS Information Center, 2009, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/index.php?measure=104
.
7
.
Society for Human Resource Management Poll, cited in Glenn Thompson, “Join the Congressional Career & Technical Education Caucus,” Dear Colleague Letter, accessed January 29, 2014,
https://www.acteonline.org/uploadedFiles/Assets_and_Documents/Global/files/Policy/CTEDearColleague113.pdf
. See also Cassandria Dortch,
Career and Technical Education (CTE): A Primer
(Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, September 20, 2012).
Chapter 9: Giving the American Worker a Fighting Chance
1
.
Christopher Goodman, “Employment Loss and the 2007–09 Recession: An Overview,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 2011, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/04/art1full.pdf
.
2
.
Douglas McIntyre, “North Dakota Jobless Rate at 2.6%,” 24/7 Wall St., January 29, 2014,
http://247wallst.com/economy/2014/01/29/north-dakota-jobless-rate-at-2-6/
.
3
.
President Barack Obama, State of the Union address, January 25, 2012.
4
.
“Local Area Unemployment Statistics,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 2013, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
.
5
.
Jim Snyder, “Obama Pushes Natural-Gas Fracking to Create 600,000 U.S. Jobs,”
Bloomberg.com
News, January 25, 2012,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-25/obama-backs-fracking-to-create-600-000-jobs-vows-safe-drilling.html
.
6
.
Rob Bluey, “Video: Victims of the Obama Drilling Moratorium,” Heritage Foundation, May 24, 2011,
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/05/24/video-victims-of-the-obama-drilling-moratorium/
.
7
.
Rebecca Rolfes, “What’s It Worth to You?” MSCI,
http://forward.msci.org/articles/?id=57
.
8
.
Ibid.
9
.
James L. Gattuso, “Red Tape Rising: A 2011 Mid-Year Report,” Heritage Foundation, July 25, 2011,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/red-tape-rising-a-2011-mid-year-report
.
Chapter 10: Raising Hope instead of Taxes
1
.
Rick Shenkmen, “When Did Social Security Become the Third Rail of American Politics?,” History News Network,
http://hnn.us/article/10522
.
2
.
Emily Brandon, “4 Changes to Social Security Coming in 2011,”
U
.
S
.
News & World Report
, January 18, 2011,
http://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/2011/01/18/4-social-security-changes-coming-in-2011
.
3
.
“Status of the Social Security and Medicare Programs,” Social Security Administration, 2013, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/
.
4
.
“Rick Santorum on Social Security,” On The Issues, March 7, 2012,
http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Rick_Santorum_Social_Security.htm
.
5
.
Doug Short, “U.S. Median Household Incomes by Age Bracket: 1967–2012,” Advisor Perspectives, September 17, 2013,
http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/Household-Incomes-by-Age-Brackets.php
.
6
.
“National Health Expenditures 2012 Highlights,” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, January 18, 2011, accessed January 29, 2014,
http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/highlights.pdf
.
7
.
Grace-Marie Turner, “Part D Can Be a Model for Medicare Reform,”
Hill
, March 14, 2013,
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/288147-part-d-can-be-a-model-for-medicare-reform
; Doug Schoen, “Medicare Part D Continues to Improve Access to Drugs,”
Forbes
, August 9, 2013,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/doug-schoen/2013/08/09/medicare-part-d-continues-to-improve-access-to-drugs/
; and “Medicare Spending and Financing Fact Sheet,” Kaiser Family Foundation, November 14, 2012,
http://kff.org/medicare/fact-sheet/medicare-spending-and-financing-fact-sheet/
.
8
.
Richard Finger, “Fraud and Disability Equal a Multibillion Dollar Black Hole for Tax Payers,”
Forbes
, January 14, 2013,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardfinger/2013/01/14/fraud-and-disability-equal-a-multibillion-dollar-balck-hole-for-taxpayers/
.
9
.
Thomas Jefferson, “Inaugural Address,” transcript, speech given March 4, 1801, available online through Georgia Tech,
http://ahp.gatech.edu/jefferson_inaug_1801.html
.
10
.
Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner, “A Conservative Vision of Government,”
National Affairs
, no. 18, Winter 2014,
eppc.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be333e74ea841be93db60da61&id=8b359623a7&e=ef43c68b76
.
11
.
Tom A. Coburn,
Department of Everything
, November 2012,
http://www.coburn.senate.gov//files/21/14/32/f211432/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=00783b5a-f0fe-4f80-90d6-019695e52d2d
.
12
.
Christopher Bedford, “Hagel to Shrink Army to Pre-WWII Level,” Daily Caller, February 24, 2014,
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/24/hagel-to-shrink-army-to-pre-wwii-level/
.
13
.
See
FairTax.org
.
14
.
Blake Ellis, “4 Tax Breaks for Parents on the Chopping Block,” CNN Money, October 11, 2012,
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/11/pf/taxes/tax-breaks-parents/
.
15
.
Annalyn Kurtz, “Baby Bust: U.S. Births at Record Low,” CNN Money, September 6, 2013,
http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/06/news/economy/birth-rate-low/
.
Chapter 11: Believing in America’s Future
1
.
Kevin Hall, “Iowa GOP Mourns Passing of Super Volunteer Wendy Jensen,”
Iowa Republican
, December 17, 2011,
http://theiowarepublican.com/2011/iowa-gop-mourns-passing-of-super-volunteer-wendy-jensen/
.
99 percent, the,
3
9-9-9 tax plan,
51–52
1964 Civil Rights Act,
48
1996 Welfare Reform Act,
32
,
60
,
73
,
100–1
,
166
.
See also
welfare reform
A
Adams, James Truslow,
27–28
in elections,
9
out-of-wedlock births and,
44
,
89–91
,
95
AK Steel,
15
America.
See also
American Dream
;
Middle America
;
United States
Balkanization in,
62–66
blue collar conservatives and,
4
,
6–10
,
13–14
,
20–21
,
28–29
,
37
,
43–44
,
47
,
66
,
77
,
84
,
121–23
,
139
,
140
,
148–50
,
158
,
173–74
,
184
culture of,
78–83
,
92
,
102–3
,
128–29
demographics of,
8–9
,
17–18
,
36
,
44
,
52
,
87
,
93
,
133–34
economy of,
27
,
43–44
,
52–55
,
146
,
152–54
generosity in,
45–46
greatness of,
10–11
,
21–22
,
24–25
,
27
,
36–37
,
39–40
,
107
,
119
,
178
,
184–86
manufacturing in,
150–58
natural resources of,
147–49
politics in,
1–11
,
21–22
,
28
,
31–32
,
37
,
40–44
,
47–49
,
71
,
123
,
179
American Dream.
See also
America
belief in the,
7
,
14
,
24–25
,
29
,
36–37
,
164
destruction of the,
27
,
29
,
31–35
,
68
,
78–84
,
160
,
178
elements of the,
9–10
,
23–25
,
27
,
34–35
,
45
,
63
,
73–74
,
82
,
87
,
178
Republicans and the,
8–9