Martin O'Malley Explains Why He's Presenting His 15 Goals to Rebuild the American Dream

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Martin O'Malley: 'My 15 Goals to Rebuild the American Dream"

America has always realized its greatest potential through its greatest challenges. Driven by our national ingenuity, compassion, and sheer grit in the face of adversity, we landed a man on the moon, healed the world after war, and built the strongest middle class the world has ever seen.

But today, our country faces new challenges — including a changing climate, a justice system in need of reform, and an economy where 70 percent of Americans are making less today than they were 12 years ago. What’s even worse? Americans increasingly believe that our government is unwilling to address these challenges and unable to achieve big things anymore.

We could shrug our shoulders and accept that Washington will never change — and if anything, it will continue to get worse.
But I see a world in which our creativity and imagination have expanded the outer bounds of human achievement and potential as never before. Government helped make so much of this progress possible.

And yet, creativity and imagination are not exactly the first words people today associate with our government.

I want to change that.

As president, I will put new ideas, bold approaches, and measurable results front and center in how we govern. That’s why, today, I am releasing my 15 Goals to Rebuild the American Dream, which will serve as a guide — day in and day out — for what I would do as President.

These goals are grounded in a more just and forward-thinking vision for our country. I believe we should be a nation where wages rise — not fall — with productivity; where every child has the opportunity to go to college debt-free and get a good job; where our criminal justice system treats everyone equally; where immigrants no longer live in the shadows of our society; where we face down the threat posed by climate change; and where no bank is too big-to-fail, too-big-to-jail, and too-big-to-manage. These aren’t just commonsense ideas — they’re also achievable goals that we should begin setting today.

To lay out and achieve these goals, we need to forge a new consensus — grounded not in the tyranny of how things are always done, but in our shared desire to move our nation forward and achieve greatness.
As a people, we have a long legacy of investing in a brighter future for our children. And today, at a time of rising inequality, it is urgent that we elect leaders who know how to deliver real, measurable results for the most vulnerable people.

I have a record of doing just that. As Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Maryland — I put goal-oriented, data-driven governing at the center of every thing I did. I made our goals — whether it was our 48-hour pothole guarantee in Baltimore or our specific goals to improve college and career readiness, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and end childhood hunger in Maryland— fully transparent as a roadmap for how I would govern.

Goals are fundamentally about leadership: the ability to lay out a vision and march towards it in the face of adversity.

If we hope to rebuild the American Dream, we need to ensure that every American — in every community — has a fighting chance. All it takes is a commitment to action over rhetoric; courage over convenience; and compassion over close-mindedness.

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read goals: https://martinomalley.com/category/15-goals/

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2. Good

The "why" needs to come before the list of policy proposals.

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3. "Goals are fundamentally about leadership: the ability to lay out a vision and march towards it in t

the face of adversity." - Martin O'Malley

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4. And today at a time of rising inequality, it is urgent that we elect leaders who know how to deliver

real, measurable results for the most vulnerable people.

I have a record of doing just that. As Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Maryland — I put goal-oriented, data-driven governing at the center of every thing I did. I made our goals — whether it was our 48-hour pothole guarantee in Baltimore or our specific goals to improve college and career readiness, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and end childhood hunger in Maryland— fully transparent as a roadmap for how I would govern.

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5. I agree with him. Good message but he needs to do more Bernie style ass-kicking

"What’s even worse? Americans increasingly believe that our government is unwilling to address these challenges and unable to achieve big things anymore."

Every election, politicians -- left, right and center -- say that. But they do not identify the root causes, and so it is dismissed (rightly or wrongly) as empty platitudes.

WHY has government become unwilling to address these challenges? It's not a failure of government. It's because we have allowed corporations and mega owners and investors to hijack our economy and society, including government.