Is our government broken? It depends on who you ask – the American people, or the special interests. I’m Newt Gingrich, more in a moment.
 
Time after time, we witness the failures of the bureaucracy in Washington: Failure to secure the border; failure to adequately respond to Hurricane Katrina; failures of implementation in Iraq and Afghanistan, and on and on.
 
And yet, even though these failures are unacceptable to most Americans, nothing changes. Why? Because we don’t have government of, by, and for the people today. We have a permanent government of bureaucrats, unions, lawyers, and politically correct elites – all protected by special interest groups. This system doesn’t exist to serve you and me. It exists to serve itself. And by its self-interested standards, our government works just fine, thank you.
 
For example, from the standpoint of the bureaucracy, the Detroit schools are a great success and they prove it every time they issue a check.   After all, the bureaucracy consistently meets its most important metric: being paid on time and paid well. Never mind the Detroit schools’ catastrophically low graduation rate. From the perspective of the bureaucrats, unions and interest groups that form the permanent government, everything is as it should be.
 
This system of self-reinforcing power can never be reformed from within. It has to be replaced with a system that works for the American people.
 
I’m Newt Gingrich, and together we can win the future.