Two Paths America is a non-profit 501(c)4 organization created to promote reasonable and proven solutions to America’s challenges. Two Paths America is focused broadly on public policy that encourages a Balanced Budget Amendment to the United States Constitution, the need for a strong national defense rooted in America’s international leadership, a forward-looking national energy plan that meets current needs economically while developing renewable energy resources for the future, and a renewal of a national sense of community and exemplary citizenship. Specifically, Two Paths America will provide infrastructure to support this agenda, including staff, list management, social media, public relations and educational events.

Two Paths America is convinced that the United States cannot achieve an effective, sustainable and internationally respected cybersecurity defense with half measures, decentralized defenses and a reliance solely on hindsight. To achieve the cybersecurity ideal, government and the private sector must build a strong new system of cyber deterrence, centralize federal policy and decision making, reach allied agreement on responsible cyberworld norms, strengthen public/private and international partnerships, and maintain a prioritized focus on the future of this all.

Climate change is here. Environmental and economic disruption from a warming planet is our new reality and with every missed opportunity has become more difficult and costly to reverse. After decades of warnings and accumulating evidence, most of the world can at long last see this challenge with their own eyes. For all but the most determined holdouts, the truth of worldwide climate change can no longer be ignored.

Sadly, the United States, like too many other industrial nations, had chosen to dismiss years of growing evidence and held steady to a path of denial and inaction. But despite America’s tardy awakening to the truth, it is not too late for our nation and the world to escape the worst of otherwise irreversible adversity.

America is broken. A nation so often united in times of war or disaster by a sense of common purpose now finds itself divided more than at any time since the Civil War. We see our once trusted, if sometimes untidy, system of politics, elections and governance no longer working in the ways it should. Yet agreement on how to fix what’s broken has become impossible because compromise, moderation and reasoned debate have been banished from the public square.

Civility – our long-held respect for common decency, fair play and open-mindedness – has been replaced by an increasingly radical and intolerant partisanship that has poisoned not only our politics but so much else in our daily lives as well.

From the end of World War II, through the restoration of war-ravaged economies and creation of a strong, free-market system of trade, the dominant force for progress among the world’s democracies has been American leadership – economic, diplomatic and technological. Seven postwar decades of robust, purposeful American foreign policy, largely a product of bipartisan consensus and supported by strong international alliances for defense and free trade, have produced enormous benefits for this nation and its allies.

An independent national poll from Two Paths America conducted over the past two years shows that political and racial divisions are the most serious problems facing the country. Fortunately, more than 70 percent of voters believe America can heal today’s divisions, and they are not counting on elected officials, media, or community leaders to drive that change.

Continued deficit spending and resulting increases in the national debt are seriously weakening our nation, and must be stopped.  The political system, including both political parties, has proven incapable of the discipline and restraint necessary at the national level to solve the problem, yet in states across the nation, members of the political system balance budgets routinely because of state constitutional requirements.  By amending the Constitution to require balanced budgets, we will make a firm and emphatic commitment to sound financial management of our country, and we will end the deficits that are undermining us.

Two Paths America is committed to passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment.

To date, 28 states have passed resolutions calling for action towards a federal balanced budget amendment. Only six more are needed to trigger change.

Where Effort Stands Today?

To date, 28 states have passed resolutions calling for a federal balanced budget amendment. Just six more states are needed to trigger change.

Momentum

Recent passage in Wisconsin, Arizona, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Ohio, Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida, Michigan, West Virginia & Wyoming has brought the total to 28 states that have passed a Balanced Budget Article 5 resolution: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Only 6 more states legislatures are needed to pass resolutions calling for the first Article V convention in US history. Momentum is building in states as former Ohio Governor and former U.S. Congressman & House Budget Chairman John Kasich travels the country to bring national attention to the issue.

A bountiful supply of reliable, reasonably priced energy is a principal key to our economic competitiveness, and therefore to our prosperity as a nation.

We must institute a forward-looking energy plan that keeps present energy prices as low as possible, respects the environment, and applies the American innovative spirit to the development of renewable energy supplies for our future.

Energy must be used as a tool of economic growth rather than a weapon of political ideology.  America has the capacity not only to solve its own energy challenges, but through its technological superiority to raise the entire world’s standard of living. It is a challenge we must embrace and conquer.