Democrat leadership hopeful Rahm Emanuel sounding like a Republican 

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Rahm Emanuel wants to take over the Democratic Party and push for the 2028 presidential nomination.

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He shared his thoughts in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. This is the first time a Democrat has made me smile since President Bill Clinton declared in his 1996 State of the Union address that “the era of big government is over.”

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Emanuel has a stellar political resume that includes stints as a senior adviser in the Clinton White House, chief of staff to President Barack Obama, a member of Congress, mayor of Chicago and ambassador to Japan.

He has a reputation as a political astute, a tough fighter and the father of the oft-quoted saying: “You never want a major crisis to go to waste. And what I mean is that it's an opportunity to do things you didn't think you could do before.”

Those instincts raise his finely honed political mustache that his party has lost its direction badly and devastatingly.

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And here he could not be more right.

Politics based on values, not the oppressed.

Emanuel strives for “values-based politics.” Not the politics of “identity, grievance or victimhood,” “oppressors” and “oppressed.”

He says he speaks of values ​​that state that “the proper role of government is to clear the way so that those who have given their best can succeed.”

Hey, he talks like a Republican.

Emanuel should follow the example of Clinton's former boss, who in 1992 announced his intention to “change welfare as we know it.”

“For too long, our welfare system has undermined the values ​​of family and work rather than upholding them,” Clinton said in her 1996 book “The State of the Union.” And then, working with a Republican Congress, he signed into law historic welfare reform, replacing disastrous aid for families with dependent children with temporary aid for needy families. Work requirements were introduced and benefit rolls were sharply reduced.

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Clinton also called in the 1996 State of the Union that “persistent deficit spending must end.” He was the last president to leave office with a budget surplus.

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However, one reform that Clinton sought, which was lost in the political mire of his impeachment after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, was welfare reform.

In December 1998, Clinton convened the first-ever White House conference on Social Security. Clinton wanted real reform that would fix a broken and flawed system. Among the options that caught his attention was a reform carried out in Chile that converted a system very similar to ours into a personal and personal retirement account system. The White House invited José Pinera, the architect of the Chilean reform, to speak at the conference and talk about the success of the reform in Chile.

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In his 1999 State of the Union, Clinton proposed creating personal retirement accounts into which people could contribute tax-advantaged funds and then claim additional matching funds.

An economy based on “American values”

Emanuel says his party “needs an economic agenda based on American values.”

“Everyone should feel like they are in the game, and all citizens should feel like they can contribute to the renewal of the nation,” he says.

Our existing social security is unsustainable in its current form. According to the trustees' latest report, cash flow from the system will not be enough to meet obligations by 2034, just nine years from now.

Nothing can give every American more “skin in the game” than participating in the ownership and growth of our nation's economy.

Let every American invest rather than pay taxes. Let every American become an owner and share in the experience of capitalism and economic growth.

Let's not let the crisis of our broken social security system go to waste.

Emanuel must take the ball back from his former boss, Clinton.

Nothing could be better for the American people than Democrats and Republicans competing to make every American an owner and a capitalist.

Star Parker is the founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education.

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