House Speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to attend to announce his support for the ideas contained within the legislation, which will be introduced in the House in early spring. Floor votes are expected in the late spring. Rather than impose an agenda on people living in low-income communities, the Task Force says its agenda comes from meeting with people in local communities to find out what should be done. The realization that federal programs cannot replace and cannot rebuild families and neighborhoods.
All communities have individuals and neighborhood groups working to rebuild their communities.
The federal government's role should be to remove tax and regulatory obstacles, and give neighborhood groups and individuals the power to revitalize their communities. This groundbreaking economic freedom is hopefully just the beginning of Congress's attempts to get the government to release its stranglehold on the economic life of the black community. The consequences of big government 'compassion' are exasperating. Since 1960, public education expenditures have tripled with little positive effect on our children. The Task Force on Empowerment and Race Relations clearly seems interested in stepping out of the failed policies of the past into a future of hope and opportunity.