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Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and current senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute of Public Policy Research (AEI), gave a speech today focused on the problems America faces domestically and his thoughts about correcting such problems.

Gingrich's speech was critical of Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, and American culture in general. Gingrich expressed a desire for America's poor to learn to bring wealth into their communities for themselves, not by doing so with the benefits of government programs.

Gingrich criticized Obama's plans to improve urban education, even opining, "no one on the left is prepared to rebuild Detroit," a city the former member of Congress was particularly adamant about rebuilding.

Gingrich's plan to rebuild America focused primarily upon improving the cultural values that dominate our society today. Also, Gingrich praised former Mayor of New York City Rudy Guliani for his efforts to curtail crime in New York. Gingrich explained that American education must be reformed for our students to be able to compete with Chinese and Indian students.