For many members of Congress, this August recess will be unlike any they've experienced in a long time. As elected officials get shouted down at town hall meetings across America, the sheer mistrust toward all-things Washington is palpable.It's because the American people are being asked to believe the unbelievable. We're being told that a $1 trillion health care bill will not add to the deficit, that a $1 trillion national energy tax affecting every business in America will not kill jobs, and that a $787 billion unread spending bill is actually saving our economy.
It is this mind-set and denial of reality that gave us the subprime lending disaster, an IOU-issuing Sacramento, and a dysfunctional Detroit. Simply put, people are fed up. To get America back on the right track, we must re-establish a simple premise: 2+2=4.
In its fight to defeat the Communist Party in 1989, the Polish Solidarity Movement adopted the slogan "for Poland to be Poland, 2 + 2 must always = 4." For 44 years of communist rule, the Poles had been lied to, in effect told that 2+2=5. To challenge the authority of the communists and prosper as a free society, Solidarity chose this slogan because they knew they had to be grounded in truth and reality.
Unlike communist-era Poland, Americans live in a free society. But our government is not being honest with us. For 20 years, politicians told us there was no problem with putting people who couldn't afford to buy homes, into homes they couldn't afford. This was a failure of 2+2=4, and every day we're seeing the consequences.
When Sacramento, a city run by bureaucrats and politicians who avoid hard spending decisions, is forced to issue IOUs with a $26 billion budget shortfall, this is a failure to admit that 2+2=4.
When Detroit, which graduates 27 percent of its freshmen on time, has one of the country's most expensive education systems, this is a failure to admit that 2+2=4, and reform.
To get real change, we must be honest about what works. Only then can we find solutions.
It's a fact that small businesses create most new jobs in America. So if we want to create jobs, we should take steps to liberate small-business owners. A two-year, 50 percent reduction in the payroll tax would immediately free up money for every employer to invest, save or hire new workers, and immediately increase the take home pay for every working American.
It's a fact that having the highest corporate tax rate doesn't help our competitiveness. If we want to create more jobs here, we should match Ireland's corporate tax rate of 12.5 percent.
And just as 2+2=4, China has learned that taxing capital gains reduces investment. It's for this reason that their capital gains rate is zero. This has helped China achieve the highest level of growth over the past 25 years of any country in the world. Why haven't we matched them?
Americans are tired of Washington's "solutions" that are often more about taking care of politicians than creating opportunity for hard-working Americans. If we want America, not China or India, to be the best place in the world to build the next factory, create the next job and invent the next product, we must shift power from politicians to small business, from lobbyists to entrepreneurs, and from bureaucrats to investors.
America is the safest, freest and most prosperous nation in the world because our government exists to protect the individual's God-given right to live freely and pursue happiness.
That's the America we've been bestowed by our founders. That is our reality. That is our 2+2=4.
If our representatives in Washington today understood that, perhaps back home this August they would find fewer angry crowds and more helping hands, eager to move forward together.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is general chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future. Adam Waldeck also contributed.
This piece was originally published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Tax cuts are certainly a recipe for growth, investment, and prosperity. However, as was made evident by the Bush administration and a largely Republican Congress, tax cuts without the spending cuts to match, generate huge budget deficits and increase the national debt. In addition, as these tax cuts were accompanied by a huge increase in government spending, the value of the U.S. Dollar dropped by approximately 25-30%.
So, while tax cuts are critical to sustained economic growth, cutting federal spending may even be more important in laying the foundation for an authentic, long-term recovery.
If this is truly a country where "representatives" are to represent the will of the people, there can be a way to make it happen. When an issue is as personal as health care for all, each state should set up for a vote. The outcome of the vote needs to be the way that the representative of your state will vote on the issues. I live in Ct. and I know that my senators do not come close to representing my view point or that of many people I know. I write letters to them and it means nothing. The people need to be allowed to speak on such important issues. This is what made this country the great country that it is. It is very painful for me to watch the dismantling of free enterprise and majority rule. I want my voice heard!
Let's not also neglect the fact that we desperately need a cold, hard dose of reality in war as well...
http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2009/08/10-more-years-in-afghanistan.html
Paul - think you guys in CT will get rid of Dodd this year? Keep hearing he's not polling well...but I don't put a lot of faith in polling.
Paul - sorry, instead of "this year", I should've put in the '10 election.
Great article Mr. Speaker. Concise and to the point.
Paul, I'm a South Carolinian, and it has always amazed me that our state could continue re-electing two senators, Thurmond and Hollings, who almost always voted against each other. Hollings brought home the bacon, and Thurmond helped to keep our country strong and free. Today we have no statesmen like Thurmond - only pork barrel politicians working for their own re-elections.
The reason they keep getting elected, I think, is expressed in this quote from Ben Franklin:
"When the people find they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic."
If we want to change the direction this country is going, we must educate through the computer, but our voices are also needed on the street. In Southern California, a fiscally conservative group called Stop Taxing Us is successfully using Facebook, Twitter, their Web page and other social media to effectively educate the silent majority. The only thing they ask in return is that supporters attend one to two demonstrations yearly for about one hour of their time. The result is a group that is spreading nationwide and rallies that draw THOUSANDS. Visit their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Carlsbad-CA/Stop-Taxing-Us/76188233163?ref=sgm
If the people of my state do not vote him out, I am going to have to seriously consider moving out. His actions and record are very clear for all to see.
I did get a chance to meet Sam Caligiuri in person and I like the fact that he is running against Dodd with a self imposed term limit of 2 terms. He is doing this so he can not be pushed around by special intrest groups and no worries about re-elections. Term limits should be the law!
Paul - I live in KS and we have a Senator (Brownback) that run on the self-imposed 2 term limit as well and is stepping down this year....to run for Gov of KS. The one thing I can say, is that even when Dems were in the minority, at least your Senator still managed to have a national voice in the debate...not that I agree with much that comes out of his piehole..but he was heard. Our 2 Senators are like Big Foot...they supposedly exist, some people claim to have seen them, but there's no specific proof.
But I do hope you guys are successful in getting him out of there, even if it's only for another Dem. Think he's had enough drink from the public well. He's due for some tough love from the private sector. Or, he can spend more time in his house on the Irish coast. I'm good with either, so long as he's not running the Sen Finance Comm anymore!
government health care is simple: just a new line on the W2, right under withholdings and FICA called HICA, for 'healthcare'. it will work just like 'social security' and the government will spend the 'surplus' just as fast, if not faster, as it comes in the IRS doors. when you are hospitalized, just have the government send an IOU, just like Milo Minderbender in Catch 22 ... remember those parachutes in the B25 bombers ???
Paul,
I understand your frustration with "non-representatives" however I think a better answer is to put true representatives in office and expect them to do their job... represent the will of the people in their voting district.
That would be a person not put on the ballot by the political party powers-to-be but selected by the people of the district. A person NOT funded by any large money groups. A person with a limited term.
I think Tim Cox and the Goooh party has a viable approach if enough people will participate in the process.
Darrin,
As expected. A small number of honest, conscientious, non-political, well intentioned representatives will be ineffective in congress because of the majority of long term partisans who determine who has power via committee appointments etc.
A true reform / revolution will require that the majority of the house is replaced with honest conscientious, representatives via a coordinated nationwide effort. This is one of the things I like about the Goooh plan.
VERITAS TO YO ALL: (Darrin, George, Paul, Burt, Gary, Ryan and of course the original writer of the string.
OBAMA'S GRADUALISM: THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
The president has boasted to union crowds that his health care program would not pass the first time through but he would get some of his initiatives a bit at a time. So gradually, he's going to have his way with us. He has indicated that his programs such as cap and trade will be implemented in his first 4 years. The big impenetrable wall of seperation of the federal government and the sovereign state must become a reality or this gradualism will put us on the road to serfdom.Someday soon we may awaken as foreigners in our own land.
The 10th amendment makes it quite clear that only a handful of custodial duties are assigned to the Congress and that the innumerable other objects are to the sovereign states.
Prinz v. United States (95-1478) 521 U.S. 898 (1997) states:
"the conferral upon Congress of not all governmental powers, but only discreet enumerated ones." The states or other political subdivisions, "are not subject to federal direction."
Federalist Paper #39 states, "...the local and municipal authorities from distinct and independent portions of supremacy, no more subject, with their respective spheres, to the general authority (federal government) than the general is subject to them within its own sphere."
In other words, the federal government has no more authority to impose its cap and trade mandates on the sovereign states; their health care mandates on the sovereign states than Russia has to impose the same upon our sovereign states.
The only problem is that the federal judges will point the guns of the federal government on our sovereign states for not complying with their illegal encoroachments of our sovereignties, putting many of us in prison for merely exercising our Constitutional rights.
Marchetti v. U.S. 390 U.S., 39, 57 states: "If the exercise of a constitutional right can become the cause for imprisonment, the Constitution has been nullified and there is no security from omnipotent government."
YES WE CAN. Sound familiar? We can elect an entire congress of constitutionally libertarian Reps and senators who will then in turn fire all of these federal judges replacing them with constitutionally responsible ones and therefore recapturing our liberties and our rightful sovereignties without any violence. WE MUST DO THIS SOON.
Send the word out and organize to take back our sovereignties. Thank you
A Friend of Liberty,
Ronald Pray
Ronald Pray
P.S. If you think the government gives great service, consider the fact that you get 26 cents on every dollar that is taxed; the rest is to be churned by the bureacracy. Such a Deal!! They do the same thing with the money they borrow!!
If we want the truth and for it to add up, we must be given breathing room to allow for the facts to sink in and for real debate to occur. Sad but true, the death of Senator Edward Kennedy created that respite provided that the Massachusetts state legislature does not pass a bill allowing for an interim US Senator to be appointed.
The problem with this interim Senator is that he/she cannot run for the permanent slot making threat of re-election due to voting record null and void. This would compel this interim senator to vote in favor of the most radical health care bill regardless of the ill effects it will have on the people, the economy, and the freedoms we have. The same cane be said about cap and trade. This interim senator would vote no matter what his/ her popularitty may suffer as a result.
We must point out the pitfalls to the Massachusetts state legislators of the consequences of enabling the Democrats to pass filibuster proof bills in both aforementioned regards and that restraint is necessary to let all of the facts be brought forward. Convince these state legislators to let the law stand which bars an interim senator from being selected which would afford all of America the much required time to make spot on choices which would effect our country for generations to come.
Here is a website you can go to in order to e-mail these Massachusetts Representatives and Senators:
www.mass.gov/legis/city_town.htm
Please send this info to 10 people and exhort them all to send to ten as well. If all do so faithfully, after 10 tiers of e-mailing we ought to have reached one million people. (10 to the sixth power= 1 million)
With The Urgency of the times,
Samuel P. Adams, Rutland Vermont
Yes indeed Mr. Adams and Mr. Pray,
we need to get the word out to as many people as we can so we can get a groud swell of support. Imagine, sending out 10 e-mails who then send out 10 e-mails till several million people get the word. I am going to send e-mails out to the Massachusetts state legislature asking them not to appoint a temporary senator who would be barred from running for that same position in the special election thereby making him/her immune from electorate pressure.
Also, we need to send the U.S. Representatives and the U.S. Senators letters of protest telling them that we will not tolerate any new entitlements through a healthcare bill or any huge tax increases from either cap and trade or any other means to pay for these massive bills.
I like the idea of exponentially sending out e-mails to 10 and then 100 then 1000 and so on. Let's organize and throw these rascals out of the congress and put in our own people who will represent us.
With Best Regards,
Harold Goodwin
Dear Fellow Bloggers,
Here are the e-mail addresses of some of the Massachusetts legislators you should lobby.
For the rest of the Legislators e-mail addresses, please go to the below addresses. Note that the e-mail addresses of some of the legislators are listed below
www.mass.gov/legis/city_town.htm
Michael.W.Morrissey@state.ma.us;Rep.AllenMcCarthy@Hou.State.MA.US;
Rep.CoryAtkins@hou.state.ma.us; Rep.JenniferBenson@hou.state.ma.us; Mark.Montigny@state.ma.us;Rep.RobertKoczera@hou.state.ma.us; Benjamin.Downing@state.ma.us; Rep.Smitty@Hou.State.MA.US; Rep.MichaelCostello@hou.state.ma.us; Stan.Rosenberg@state.ma.us; Rep.EllenStory@hou.state.ma.us; Rep.BarryFinegold@hou.state.ma.us;
Aloha,
We need to network on the internet like Obama is right now or we will lose not only the debate on healthcare and cap and trade but the rights our founding fathers secured for us.
Please send out the vital truths on this blog to millions by sending scores of e-mails and urging all we send to to do the same; It's exponential!!
We can turn this catastrophe around if we ORGANIZE.
Thanx with much ALOHA,
Ronald Pray, Honolulu, HI
PROPAGANDA AT THE WHITE HOUSE
The truth is being controlled at the whitehous so it must be dispensed by all of you exponentially by the e-mail. Here is the sign of the times made manifest by this exchange between Helen Thomas and Robert Gibbs at a whitehouse press conference.
Gibbs then had an exchange involving Reid and Thomas that went as follows:
Gibbs: “… But, again, let's--How about we do this? I promise we will interrupt the AP's tradition of asking the first question. I will let you [Chip Reid] ask me a question tomorrow as to whether you thought the questions at the town hall meeting that the President conducted in Annandale—“
Chip Reid: “I'm perfectly happy to—”
Helen Thomas: “That's not his point. The point is the control--”
Reid: “Exactly.”
Thomas: “We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some, but not-- This White House.”
Gibbs: “Yes, I was going to say, I'll let you amend her question.”
Thomas: “I'm amazed. I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and—”
Gibbs: “Helen, you haven't even heard the questions.”
Reid: “It doesn't matter. It's the process.”
Thomas: “You have left open—”
Reid: “Even if there's a tough question, it's a question coming from somebody who was invited or was screened, or the question was screened.”
Thomas: “It's shocking. It's really shocking.”
Gibbs: “Chip, let's have this discussion at the conclusion of the town hall meeting. How about that?”
Reid: “Okay.”
Gibbs: “I think—“
Thomas: “No, no, no, we're having it now--”
Gibbs: “Well, I'd be happy to have it now.”
Thomas: “It's a pattern.”
Gibbs: “Which question did you object to at the town hall meeting, Helen?”
Thomas: “It's a pattern. It isn't the question—”
Gibbs: “What's a pattern?”
Thomas: “It's a pattern of controlling the press.”
Gibbs: “How so? Is there any evidence currently going on that I'm controlling the press--poorly, I might add.”
Thomas: “Your formal engagements are pre-packaged.”
Gibbs: “How so?”
Reid: “Well, and controlling the public—”
Thomas: “How so? By calling reporters the night before to tell them they're going to be called on. That is shocking.”
Gibbs: “We had this discussion ad nauseam and—”
Thomas: “Of course you would, because you don't have any answers.”
Gibbs: “Well, because I didn't know you were going to ask a question, Helen.
Go ahead.”
Thomas: “Well, you should have.”
Reporter: Thank you for your support.
Gibbs: “That's good. Have you e-mailed your question today?”
Thomas: “I don't have to e-mail it. I can tell you right now what I want to ask.”
Gibbs: “I don't doubt that at all, Helen. I don't doubt that at all.”
Thomas, 89, has covered the White House during every presidency since John F. Kennedy’s.
It's the eleventh hour to save our Republic from ruin. Please tell your US Senators what you think. Thanx
DEAR SENATOR, IF YOU PASS ANY MONEY AND DEBT SPENDING BILL, YOU ARE DOWN THE ROAD WITH YOUR HAT IN YOUR HAND!!
Send your Senators a letter telling them that you disapprove of the Health care Insurance Bill and Cap and Trade.
Here are their web addresses:
Akaka, Daniel K. - (D - HI) Class I
141 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6361
Web Form: akaka.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
Alexander, Lamar - (R - TN) Class II
455 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4944
Web Form: alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact....
Barrasso, John - (R - WY) Class I
307 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6441
Web Form: barrasso.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs...
Baucus, Max - (D - MT) Class II
511 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2651
Web Form: baucus.senate.gov/contact/emailForm.cfm?subj=issue
Bayh, Evan - (D - IN) Class III
131 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5623
Web Form: bayh.senate.gov/contact/email/
Begich, Mark - (D - AK) Class II
144 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3004
Web Form: begich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=EmailSenator
Bennet, Michael F. - (D - CO) Class III
702 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5852
Web Form: bennet.senate.gov/contact/
Bennett, Robert F. - (R - UT) Class III
431 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5444
Web Form: bennett.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Email
Bingaman, Jeff - (D - NM) Class I
703 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5521
Web Form: bingaman.senate.gov/contact/
Bond, Christopher S. - (R - MO) Class III
274 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5721
Web Form: bond.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.Con...
Boxer, Barbara - (D - CA) Class III
112 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3553
Web Form: boxer.senate.gov/contact/email/policy.cfm
Brown, Sherrod - (D - OH) Class I
713 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2315
Web Form: brown.senate.gov/contact/
Brownback, Sam - (R - KS) Class III
303 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6521
Web Form: brownback.senate.gov/public/contact/emailsam.cfm
Bunning, Jim - (R - KY) Class III
316 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4343
Web Form: bunning.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Co...
Burr, Richard - (R - NC) Class III
217 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3154
Web Form: burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Conta...
Burris, Roland W. - (D - IL) Class III
387 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2854
Web Form: burris.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm
Byrd, Robert C. - (D - WV) Class I
311 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3954
Web Form: byrd.senate.gov/contacts/
Cantwell, Maria - (D - WA) Class I
511 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3441
Web Form: cantwell.senate.gov/contact/
Cardin, Benjamin L. - (D - MD) Class I
509 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4524
Web Form: cardin.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
Carper, Thomas R. - (D - DE) Class I
513 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2441
Web Form: carper.senate.gov/contact/
Casey, Robert P., Jr. - (D - PA) Class I
393 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6324
Web Form: casey.senate.gov/contact/
Chambliss, Saxby - (R - GA) Class II
416 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3521
Web Form: chambliss.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Email
Coburn, Tom - (R - OK) Class III
172 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5754
Web Form: coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSena...
Cochran, Thad - (R - MS) Class II
113 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5054
Web Form: cochran.senate.gov/email.html
Collins, Susan M. - (R - ME) Class II
413 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2523
Web Form: collins.senate.gov/public/continue.cfm?FuseAction=Contact...
Conrad, Kent - (D - ND) Class I
530 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2043
Web Form: conrad.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm
Corker, Bob - (R - TN) Class I
185 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3344
Web Form: corker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInfo...
Cornyn, John - (R - TX) Class II
517 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2934
Web Form: cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Con...
Crapo, Mike - (R - ID) Class III
239 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6142
Web Form: crapo.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
DeMint, Jim - (R - SC) Class III
340 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6121
Web Form: demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
Dodd, Christopher J. - (D - CT) Class III
448 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2823
Web Form: dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/3130
Dorgan, Byron L. - (D - ND) Class III
322 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2551
Web Form: dorgan.senate.gov/contact/contact_form.cfm
Durbin, Richard J. - (D - IL) Class II
309 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2152
Web Form: durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Ensign, John - (R - NV) Class I
119 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6244
Web Form: ensign.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Con...
Enzi, Michael B. - (R - WY) Class II
379A RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3424
Web Form: enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInform...
Feingold, Russell D. - (D - WI) Class III
506 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5323
Web Form: feingold.senate.gov/contact_opinion.html
Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA) Class I
331 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3841
Web Form: feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactU...
Franken, Al - (D - MN) Class II
320 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5641
E-mail: info@franken.senate.gov
Gillibrand, Kirsten E. - (D - NY) Class I
478 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4451
Web Form: gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/
Graham, Lindsey - (R - SC) Class II
290 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5972
Web Form: lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Em...
Grassley, Chuck - (R - IA) Class III
135 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3744
Web Form: grassley.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Gregg, Judd - (R - NH) Class III
201 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3324
Web Form: gregg.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Cont...
Hagan, Kay R. - (D - NC) Class II
521 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6342
Web Form: hagan.senate.gov/?p=contact
Harkin, Tom - (D - IA) Class II
731 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3254
Web Form: harkin.senate.gov/c/index.cfm
Hatch, Orrin G. - (R - UT) Class I
104 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5251
Web Form: hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Offices.Cont...
Hutchison, Kay Bailey - (R - TX) Class I
284 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5922
Web Form: hutchison.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Inhofe, James M. - (R - OK) Class II
453 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4721
Web Form: inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Con...
Inouye, Daniel K. - (D - HI) Class III
722 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3934
Web Form: inouye.senate.gov/Contact/Email-Form.cfm
Isakson, Johnny - (R - GA) Class III
120 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3643
Web Form: isakson.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Johanns, Mike - (R - NE) Class II
404 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4224
Web Form: johanns.senate.gov/public/?p=ContactSenatorJohanns
Johnson, Tim - (D - SD) Class II
136 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5842
Web Form: johnson.senate.gov/contact/
Kaufman, Edward E. - (D - DE) Class II
383 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5042
Web Form: kaufman.senate.gov/services/contact/
Kerry, John F. - (D - MA) Class II
218 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2742
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Dear Fellow Bloggers for Liberty,
I have worked in several banks in my lifetime and, well, I have a healthy understanding of money, banking and credit.
Well, there you go again Mr. President,
misleading the American people about healthcare and the so called cure of your new entitlement added onto the three devastating ones that will ultimately take down our economy if left unchecked. You and I both know that Medicare, Medicaid grow 1.5 times the growth of our economy. Healthcare in 1960 accounted for 5% of our GNP;Both private and government health care accounted for 18% today and will account for 34% of the gross domestic product in the year 2040. This is the status quo you accurately pinpoint as a major problem for the well being of our people in the not too distant future. This is a problem you will add to with the bills your party have crafted as healthcare policy and has been declared by Doug Elmendorf of the Congressional Budget Office to increase dramatically the spending and debt curve of the fiscal budget.If you wish to strike down the status quo that you rant and rave about then let the free market solutions that you ignore and have replaced with your easy do nothing strawman and truly see a real world solution to what we see as a collision between what the cost of health care is with what we can afford.
Everyone knows that when we deregulated the telephone companies we watched the prices for service plummet and choices explode. We watched the $1 per minute call plummet to 1cent per minute. CLEC lines were created which brought in competition that created innovation that made these companies become more efficient. The same phenomenon happened when we deregulated ophthalmology and eye care. We see all over America entrepreneurs creating surgical eye clinics which has seen a drastic reduction in eye surgery from keratotomy to cataract surgery putting ophthalmologic medicine within the price range of virtually every American whereas while under regulation it was only for the middle class and upper class, The cost for prescription reading glasses went from several hundred dollars to under twenty dollars; dollar store reading glasses not withstanding. Even poor people can get 1$ reading glasses where before, they were kept out of their price range.
|The same deregulation can render miracles to our overregulated Health profession If we would stop regulating healthcare to employers and make it so that every plan is portable and not a matter of being employed. Health care should be capable of being purchased in any state which would expand choices exponentially giving competition at the market place. The bottleneck of a certificate of need every time a clinic or hospital is proposed, the supply of health care facilities could catch up with the demand bringing down the price which has been proven time again through market forces that even Keynes swears by not to mention the ocean of evidence supporting the fact that when a market increases the supply of a given commodity, the price falls commensurately like what we’ve seen in Ophthalmology, Optometry, and the telephone companies.
Now, you want to blame those Flabby Tabbies (Fat Cats) on Wall Street for market crash last year that you know very well is largely your fault. You now want to regulate them even more when you and I both know it was over regulation in conjunction with the in-your face-tactics against bank presidents in front of their homes you taught ACORN to do and the lawsuits leveled by you ACORN and the government which caused this crash Everyone who has read up on the subject know that the Community Reinvestment Act was used by ACORN to bully banks into making mortgage loans to people who in good business sense shouldn't have gotten those loans. This was done to cover the banks in order to make the numbers for affirmative action loans reflect the community at large. The standards were lowered, the banks sold their mounting bad loans to Fannie and Freddie and when the number of bad loans accumulated, Fannie and Freddie collapsed and this created a domino effect thus collapsing the market. Yes, Mr. President, you can say it was ACORN but you trained them and as you very well know, the fruit doesn’t fall very far from the tree. It’s true as you and I both know, If we don’t learn from history, well, we’ll just have to fail through it’s repeated failures and I know that’s not what most Americans with mouths to feed and futures to nurture
|Well Mr. President, you can fool some of the people some of the time and it’s getting to the point where you can’t fool most of the people most of the time. Yes, it’s true that you have made a religion out of your garbage heap of history philosophy of socialism that has been proven time and again to be a failure. The stakes are too high in this coming day of reckoning on our abuses of the economy. Well, what I’m saying is “If you can’t beat us “, don’t you think it would be the smart move to join us?” |
Well you should know what I know, when the ship hits the spam, I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes. |
With the utmost urgency of the Times
Ronald Pray, PO Box 61032 , Honolulu , HI96839
Ph (808)-779-4282
Fellow Bloggers,
This is an open letter I sent for publication in 230 newspapers.
Dear Senators
I have worked in several banks in my lifetime and, well, I have a healthy understanding of money, banking and credit. If you go ahead with what has been recently reported as an $867 billion dollar cost over the next ten years you will be mistaken. The cost of cap and trade will erode the tax base catastrophically. Please read Dr. Calzada's report on how cap and trade and the effects on Spain at: "http:// tinyurl.com/d79ye". This caused a doubling of their unemployment numbers to its present reate at 18.1%. The cost per Green job is anywhere from $780 thousand to $1.4 million. Cap and trade will bankrupt half of the coal burning plants in America. The West Virginia Record, May 4, 2009 states. that Allegheny Power would be levied a $490 million dollar tax per year
Well, there you go again Mr. President,
misleading the American people about healthcare and the so called cure of your new entitlement added onto the three devastating ones that will ultimately take down our economy if left unchecked. You and I both know that Medicare, Medicaid grow 1.5 times the growth of our economy. Healthcare in 1960 accounted for 5% of our GNP; Both private and government health care accounted for 18% today and will account for 34% of the gross domestic product in the year 2040. This is the status quo you accurately pinpoint as a major problem for the well being of our people in the not too distant future. This is a problem you will add to with the bills your party have crafted as healthcare policy. Doug Elmendorf of the Congressional Budget Office testified before the Congress that the present proposals would increase dramatically the spending and debt curve of the fiscal budget. If you wish to strike down the status quo that you rant and rave about then let the free market solutions that you ignore and have replaced with your easy do nothing strawman. We must find a real world solution to what we see as a collision between what the cost of health care is with what we can afford.
Everyone knows that when we deregulated the telephone companies w e watched the prices for service plummet and choices explode. We watched the $1 per minute call plummet to 1 cent per minute. The creation of CLEC lines were created which brought in competition which created innovation that made these companies become more efficient through competition. The same phenomenon happened when we deregulated ophthalmology and eye care. We see all over America entrepreneurs creating surgical eye clinics to Lasik eye surgery clinics which has seen a drastic reduction in cost putting ophthalmologic medicine within the price range of virtually every American. While under previous regulation, eye surgery was only for the middle class and upper class. The cost for prescription reading glasses went from several hundred dollars to under twenty dollars. Even the poor can get $1 reading glasses at the dollar stores whereas before, they were kept out of their price range.
The same deregulation can render miracles to our overregulated Health profession If we would stop regulating healthcare to employers and make it so that every plan is portable and not a matter of being employed. Health care should be capable of being purchased in any state which would expand choices exponentially giving competition at the market place. There is a bottleneck the certificate of need, which is required by most, states prior to the construction of a new hospital. This has caused an artificial scarcity in the supply of health care facilities. The supply increasingly falls farther behind the demand bringing increasing the cost for health care. If market forces alone regulated when and where a hospital or clinic was built then by supply and demand and more choices for consumers, the cost would come down. This is germane to Keynesian theory of supply and demand. There is an ocean of evidence supporting the fact that when a market increases the supply of a given commodity, the price falls commensurately like what we have seen in Ophthalmology, Optometry, and the telephone companies.
Now, you want to blame those Flabby Tabbies (Fat Cats) on Wall Street for the market crash last year. You know very well that this was largely your fault. You now want to regulate them even more when you and I both know it was over regulation with in-your face-tactics against bank presidents in front of their homes you taught ACORN which caused the bad loans be made to avoid government sanctions. Furthermore the lawsuits leveled by you, ACORN and the government caused this mortgage market crash. Everyone who has read up on the subject know that the Community Reinvestment Act was used by ACORN to bully banks into making mortgage loans to people who in good business sense shouldn't have gotten those loans. This was done to cover the banks in order to make the numbers for affirmative action loans was made to reflect the community at large. The standards therefore were lowered, the banks then sold their mounting bad loans to Fannie and Freddie and when the number of bad loans accumulated, Fannie and Freddie collapsed and this created a domino effect thus collapsing the market. Yes, Mr. President, you can say it was ACORN but you trained them and as you very well know, the fruit does not fall very far from the tree. It’s true as you and I both know, If we don’t learn from history, well, we’ll just have to fail through it’s repeated failures and I know that’s not what most Americans with mouths to feed and futures to nurture
Well Mr. President, you can fool some of the people some of the time and it is getting to the point where you cannot fool most of the people most of the time. Yes, it’s true that you have made a religion out of your garbage heap of history philosophy of socialism that has been proven time and again to be a failure. The stakes are too high in this coming day of reckoning on our abuses of the economy. Well, what I’m saying is “If you can’t beat us “, don’t you think it would be the smart move to join us?” |
Well you should know what I know, when the ship hits the spam, I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes. |
With the utmost urgency of the Times
Ronald Pray, PO Box 61032 , Honolulu , HI96839
Ph (808)-779-4282
Understandably, 'the people' want and deserve 'the truth'
Is it possible to sound the alarm bells out of concern that Obama just might try to 'earn' the Nobel Peace Prize by signing the UN Climate Treaty in Copenhagen this December 2009. . . . a treaty that will cede US sovereignty and redistribute wealth (US corporate technology and US funds) from developed countries to undeveloped countries.
In Obama's own words . . . 'to fundamentally transform the United States of America'.
Let's see now. Giving up to the Russians the missile defense shield as a bone to get them to approve sanctioning the Iranians on nuclear proliferation? Nope, they sent Hillary home with a no go on that one. Giving up American heavy industry through a Cap and Trade bill in order to goad China, India, Japan and the other G-20 members to follow our lead? Fat chance, India has a newly burgeoning middle class and China is growing at a pace which would require a 30% increase in their use of coal to finance their expanding economy.
And of course to put us on par with the rest of the left leaning world National health "reform" which would add more than a $Trillion in ten years to our national debt and shrinking tax base. This, of course, would have the World Bank dump the dollar as the world reserve currency. Oh great a minimalized America. The thing that won Obama his Nobel "prize" from the socialist Nobel Committee.
Anything else?
RP
There are certain things a government must do which this administration is not doing to insure a safe business climate:
1. we should have a stable dollar which is as John Kennedy once said should be as good as Gold. This administration has made the dollar very elastic as a matter of policy which drives away investors and when there is excessive debt is continually monetized it puts fear into the foreign purchasers of Treasuries and also drives the World Bank in considering replacing the dollar as the reserve currency.
2. The Rule of Law should be ironclad and not arbitrarily flouted by any administration. The property rights of the Indiana retired teachers and retired police officers having their retirement accounts held in Chrysler Bonds should have never had the assets of Chrysler given to the UAW by the Obama administration which violates 150 years of securities laws. This is the road taken by Argentina which is why it is not a wealthy nation today.
3. This administration has misled us on every aspect of reform of the health care industry and cap and trade. On health care, the Congressional Budget Office has on many occasions belied the financial information the president has given us. Cap and Trade is based on the Spanish model whereby carbon emissions are strictly regulated and alternate energy like wind power and solar power are promoted. The Spanish economy as result has an 18.1 percent unemployment rate, double that of any EU nation, the cost per green job is any where from $780 thousand to $1.4 million, and take 2.2 jobs away from other sectors of the economy. Please see Dr. Calzada’s study at: http:// tinyurl.com/d79ye.
3. Property rights should be protected by government in order to insure that entrepreneurs who wish to use their property, buildings or whatever they own as collateral in risk taking activities. Also, property rights that are preserved under the rule of law attract entrepreneurs from all over the world to start businesses in this country. This administration has had a certain amount of disregard for property rights as mentioned in the Retirement accounts of Indiana retirees as well as the rights of companies to set the reward for their labor in regards to bonuses given to employees of financial institutions along with risk management by this administration. These initiatives of this administration drive out investors to places like India .
4. In order to start any heavy industry project here, especially in California , the requirement of licensing and environmental impact statements, EISs, and community input virtually makes doing business impossible. The business of government should be to loosen up the regulatory constraints and make starting up business relatively easy.=3D20
We need not ask why businesses are migrating offshore when the government makes the business climate unattractive.=3D20
5. Tariffs should never be excessively high or it would kill free trade across borders and drive up the cost of doing business. A case in point is the Smoot Hawley Tariff of 1929-1930 which ignited a tariff war which set off the Great Depression of the 1930s.
6. Taxes ought not to be excessive which is what followed Smoot Hawley by both Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s which killed any chance of a recovery. The Cap and Trade Bill is considered to be an opaque tax due to its hidden nature in billing energy companies and corporate manufacturers as well as conveyances of goods like trucking companies. The bill is basically a Value Added Tax on every level of production and distribution which is supposed to be the biggest tax increase in recent history. The costs will be passed down to the consumers.
It seems like the education of the American people in economics is a daunting task which is a little short in time and may come too late. One thing for sure is that the results will definitely draw them to the polls in 2012.
Regards,
Ronald Pray
Dear Editor,
Rush Limbaugh has nothing to do with why I am opposed to a government takeover of health care. The reason why I am against a government takeover of health care is because the present government entitlement programs be they health (medicare, medicaid) or retirement, are growing in cost faster than the economy. Medical costs presently make up around 16 percent of the GDP and should grow to 34 percent by 2040. Social Security will go bust within eight years unless we infuse a larger percentage of our paychecks which would bankrupt business in these United States .
There have been quite an uproar by the economic intelligencia about a virtual brown-out of real open and free market solutions that always have worked in the past in other markets such as the telephone industry, Opthalmology etc. which have driven the costs down dramatically in those markets.
I would rather not come to the conclusion of an "I told you so" posture when addressing the congress after our economy comes crashing down upon us. I would rather there be a real debate in health care reform which has been conspicuously missing on capitol hill whereas political chicanery has been its stead.
Racism in any political debate has no place and that includes the President as well. I do not have any proof pro or con as to Mr. Limbaugh's comments and whether or not he made racist slurs. However, in the Books written by our President, I have found egregious examples of overt racism. Furthermore, the press has been more than replete in quoting the pastor of his church the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his highly divisive and inflammatory remarks concerning race.
The following are comments made by our own President in two of his own publications which you can acquire at Sam's Club. Here are some footnotes from "Dreams of My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope".
To wit:
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at age 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.” Introduction of “Dreams from My Father” (pg xv)
“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race”. March 12, 2007 article about Barach Obama in The American Conservative
“There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.” (pg 142 “Dreams of My Father)
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” “The Audacity of Hope” (pg 261,)
Breathtakingly racist, right? Well here are some quotes from the Reverend Jeremiah Wright with whom our president was a member of his church for over twenty years. Bear in mind, Mr. Obama sat through twenty plus years of this ideology.
To wit:
"In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01," Wright wrote in a church-affiliated magazine:
"White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns."…
" Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!…We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God."
The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now,"
" Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."
Best Regards,
SP Adams
LEFTIST PROPAGANDISTS ON MSNBC CAUGHT AIRING A PHONY PICTURING ALLEGING TO BE SARAH PALIN IN A BIKINI HOLDING A GUN...PROPAGANDISTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ALLEGE ERSATZ SPEAKING STYLE...THE PHONY HERE IS BARACH OBAMA IN HIS ERSATZ SPEACH!!
Sarah Palin is Getting the Propaganda Treatment from the phony photo alleging to be her in a bikini holding a gun. Now she is being called down onto the carpet by linguistic "experts" at the University of Wisconsin claiming that she puts on some of her idioms and ruralisms that are not her real way of speaking.
First, the left tried to make her seem like she was faking a northern midwest accent since Alaskans allegedly do not speak like her. These propagandists found that in the 1930s, the federal government transplanted thousands of folks from the upper midwest to the Wassila Alaska area to get a fresh start during the great depression. So their initial false alarm about an ersatz midwest accent was ultimitely disproved leaving some egg on them.
These people were not to have it that way so they "parsed" her idioms and ruralisms and claimed that she does not use those same idioms when "speaking to Alaskans".
Ronald Reagan said that in order to communiacate to iron workers you don't speak like a banker, you use ironworker idioms and words; when speaking to bankers, you use proprietary language privy to those in the banking industry.
Ronald Reagan was known as "the Great Communicator" because he could connect with any audience and never spoke over their heads. Sarah Palin has this same ability in connecting with the group she is speaking to.
The left seemingly wishes to have her shed her most powerful virtue, which is her ability to connect with the people she is speaking to. It is a virtue to be able to use the terms and idioms of those you are communicating with. The left is very clever in smearing her as a phony when in reality she is the "Great Communicator II"
Ms. Palin! Never give in to this style of chicanery.
Second thought: Barach Obama was raised and educated in Hawaii where he went to one of the most prestigious schools in the country, Punahou School. His english that he learned was impeccable upper class vernacular but when you hear him speak while he was a Senator in Chicago and while he was organizing, he puts on a black inner city accent which is nothing the way he really speaks! His ersatz ebon inner city accent is as phony as his deceitfullness.
So why don't all of you propagandists at the University of Wisconsin compare Obama's english from video made of him while he was at the Buff and Blue at Punahou with his english while in Chicago with the english he now uses?
The president is a phony baloney!! Just Compare.
Aloha Pumehana,
RPray
pres Obama and his economic team neve ever made or ran a company.
i like ttthe corperate tax cut from 35% to 10 or less.cut capital gains tax in half or less too.
no more free trade we go back to fair trade. fair trade means we wwould collect duties aand tarifs on foriegn made good.if the USA haad to pay a 30% duty or tax tto sell our stuff in a countryy we maytch it with a 30% ttax or taif if tthey want sell in our country then! it would bring jobs to the USA for no body like paying taxes.