GOP SHOULD USE FERGUSON RIOTS TO PROMOTE THE FACT THAT LIBERAL POLICIES HAVE FAILED BACKS AND CITIES...

ALL CITIES WITH HIGH CRIME, HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT, HIGH RATES OF HIGH SCHOOL DROP OUTS AND LOTS OF RACIAL STRIFE ARE CONTROLLED BY THE DEMOCRATS AND HAVE BEEN LIVING UNDER LIBERAL POLICIES FOR GENERATIONS.

IT'S TIME THE GOP AGGRESSIVELY WENT AFTER THESE VOTERS BY PLAINLY SAYING THIS AND REVEALING A 21ST CENTURY AGENDA FOR URBAN AMERICA.

We must take the fight to the cities - and we can do this by merely articulating AN URBAN AGENDA FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM which is based on the core principles of the GOP: empowerment, opportunity, and ownership.

(1-a) Push for school choice and school vouchers. These empower parents and dis-empower the teacher's unions (and other unions - like custodians and principals) which are bleeding school budgets without improving the academic results.

(1 -b) We should also make all school systems accountable to mayors - not school boards - so that there is political accountability for results. We do this by making federal aid to schools conditional on these two changes.

(2) Privatize public housing. This uplifts the working poor and makes them independent stakeholders, instead of people dependent on the state. Jack Kemp floated this idea 20 years ago; it's time to dust it off and implement it - perhaps by bringing him back as HUD Secretary! We need to ramp up low cost loans for this purpose and dispatch co-op advisers and incentivize local general contractors to undertake much needed improvements to these newly privately held assets.

(3) Incentivize economic activity by cutting taxes on new businesses in the cities - and make this a federal/state/local partnership by making the federal portion of tax incentives dependent on equal participation of the state and the city. This would be a twist on revenue sharing; this would be "tax-cut sharing." This would incentivize the states and cities to "buy into" supply-side economics (which have been proven to work).

BOTTOM-LINE: BLUE cities all have higher unemployment, and lower high school graduation rates, and more crime than RED counties. This is in part due to several decades of failing Left-wing policies foisted on the the cities by the Democrat machines merely to get votes.

The aggressive 3-point GOP program for the cities will end the decline of the cities, improve the lives of city-dwellers, and end the Left-wing Democrat Party's cynical and demagogic stranglehold on the cities.

That's a win-win-win for everyone.