The Republican Party has been captive of the Wall Street financial elites for far too long, and conservatives need to declare their allegiance to Main Street USA. What’s good for AIG, Citi-group, JP Morgan, Merrill, and dearly departed Lehman is really not good for America (or for Wall Street). Conservatives in the Republican Party need to lead the fight for Main Street USA. For Wall Street is best seen as our servant and not our master. There is certainly plenty of opportunity to get rich on the Street so no one will be denied here, but Main Street is the strength of the nation and support of that proposition needs to be realized by conservatives within the Republican Party or the Party sinks into history.
So as the Party wrestles with finding direction for the future, conservatives need to start by shouting the new rallying cry for energy independence “Think, Baby, Think.” Without an effective independent strategy on energy in the very near term the trade imbalance from petro-dollars, the insane funding of the terror culture with petro-dollars, and the deficits piling up from hubris on Wall Street will destroy the generational progress in this nation. We are a nation at risk as long as we are dependent on oil as our primary energy source, and doubly so since we are dependent on foreign oil. The time is now for conservatives to lead the reform of the Republican Party, and the first step is a policy of comprehensive energy independence.
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Glenn R. Jackson is the founder of the American Reformation Project, Board Member of Hire American Citizens, and Member National Board of Advisors for FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform). Glenn was a founding Board member and first President of the National Association for the Employment of Americans (NAEA), and organizer of American Jobs Coalition (organizations fighting against the American Worker Replacement Program). Glenn is also a former State Chairman for Buchanan 2000 Presidential campaign, and former state Chairman of the Georgia Freedom Party (a Reform Party affiliate). Glenn holds an MA in Philosophy from Georgia State University in Atlanta.
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