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Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare | 
| Authors: J. Kenneth Blackwell, Jerome R. Corsi
Publisher: WND Books
Category: Book
Buy New: $24.95
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1288250
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 255
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 1581825013
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.973
EAN: 9781581825015
Publication Date: May 4, 2006
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Product Description
In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty as a centerpiece of the Great Society's effort to eliminate poverty in America. Forty years and many trillions of dollars later, poverty in America has increased despite the efforts of the largest governmental welfare system ever created in human history.
In direct challenge to the liberal political thinking that built the welfare state, John Kenneth Blackwell and Jerome R. Corsi have developed a blueprint for a new War on Poverty, utilizing an innovative approach to mobilizing urban capital to strengthen African American families, build wealth through meaningful employment among those now in poverty, and develop America's urban landscape without imposing additional tax burdens on the American people.
Rebuilding America directly attacks the problems of African American poverty, arguing that abortion and AIDS threaten to inflect genocide upon black communities unless we find a way to utilize urban capital to end the welfare dependency that threatens the survival of the African American family.
After four decades of failure of the welfare state, Blackwell and Corsi argue for its phase-out through applying new techniques of public financenot dependent upon new taxesto enlist financial institutions in deploying new urban capital into rebuilding our cities. The goal is to work with established and newly formed corporations that integrate jobs and re-training programs to advance an "ownership society" in which families can thrive.
Rebuilding America is meant to be a blueprint for John Kenneth Blackwell's campaign for governor of Ohio. In it, he argues that as governor of Ohio he can implement the action plan described in the book as an alternative, conservative model for attacking urban poverty that can be applied in other states as well.
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 Highly anticipated May 17, 2006
32 out of 51 found this review helpful
When I heard J. Kenneth Blackwell would be writing a book I was most excited. As a family values conservative I was also pleased to hear Jerome Corsi would also be working with him after his most accurate statements about John Kerry while blogging on a conservative website.
Unfortunately, upon receiving my advanced copy I was unable to actually read this masterpiece as it wasn't printed on the right weight of paper.
The Story of the Judas Goat May 17, 2006
26 out of 54 found this review helpful
Once upon a time, there was a Judas goat. His mission was to lead the other goats and sheep into the slaughterhouse....But I digress.
Ken Blackwell's new book is a reminder of the real meaning of compassionate conservatism. It is neither compassionate nor conservative. Rather, it is an attempt to impose a theocratic dictatorship on America. That's Mr. Blackwell. He can't run an election in Cuyahoga County, and now he wants to run the entire state! Wow.
Bilge May 17, 2006
24 out of 46 found this review helpful
The man writes in such an eloquent way that the welfare system needs a progressive makeover by "allowing" corporations to adopt an undesigned future system of providing to the community. He neglects to mention how the Ohio Mental Health System will be gutted, immediately upon entering office, to the point of ineffectiveness which will then allow the State the right to shut it down completely. Those who need the services the most will not receive much needed rehabilitation. The type of rehabilitation a corporate trainer or consultant will not be able to provide. A recipe for disaster. I'm sure the man who is the head of the Ohio GOP, the Sec. of State, Gubernatorial candidate, and Supervisor of Ohio Elections (conflict of interest?) felt pressed to get a book out during his campaign because his consultant told him to.
Drivel June 25, 2006
17 out of 33 found this review helpful
This book is conservative claptrap under the guise of a political roadmap. I'm immediately suspicious of any book that writes about liberals with a capital "L" as if they are the devil incarnate.
Blackwell rails against "Liberals" who have allowed AIDS to spread through the African American community, while ignoring that his conservative idol, Ronald Reagan, allowed the crisis to go on for years without ever bothering to mention it. However, a balanced view to any issue would be beyond this candidate.
His co-author, Corsi, is tied to the Swift Boat guys, and I thought was downplayed after it came to light that he was a rabid anti-Catholic bigot..
The truth is that Blackwell is tied to everything that is wrong in Ohio, taking money from Tom Noe and Coingate, his inability to run a fair election in 2004 and 2006, and his repeated snafus with publishing Ohio residents' private data (social security number and more) on the state website.
 Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare June 22, 2006
12 out of 22 found this review helpful
Intrigued by Kenneth Blackwell's progressive approach theory regarding wealth building for working people and the end of the degradation of welfare, I bought his book and read it cover to cover. I know Mr. Blackwell is a social and fiscal conservative and yet I still think his ideas are "progressive" in that they are brilliantly aware of what needs to be done in order to allow people of any color to take back control over their lives and create an atmosphere in which they can distinguish themselves in the most positive way possible. It is the welfare state that is obsolete and that has failed to better the lives of those people who are trapped by it. Bravo Ken Blackwell for your thoughtful, positive and brave plan to set Ohio and perhaps the country on a course that would actually succeed rather than go in circles.
--- D. Swanson
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