"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." - Ronald Reagan
The Canadian Government participated in the 2009 bailout of GM. The Canadians spent 2 million tax dollars per union job at GM to 'save' those jobs. Mexico really appreciates the USA and Canada saving GM since many of those jobs are headed to Mexico who spent 0 on bailing out GM.
The US Government spent billions of tax dollars in the so-called stimulus bills to create jobs. Their definition of jobs includes many that are short term construction jobs or seed money jobs that leave local and state governments responsible for long term funding of those jobs. Government created jobs always come at the cost of private sector spending because government must take from taxpayers to give to the chosen group.
Kansas Senator Brownback is touting a new animal research facility coming to Manhattan Kansas. The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility will deal with highly contagious diseases such as foot-and-mouth. Brownback said entrepreneurs working to turn the lab's discoveries into products for farmers and ranchers will want to set up shop in Kansas, creating jobs. This will be the first time foot and mouth live virus will exist on the North American continent since 1929. USDA plans to bring all these live viruses right to the heart of livestock country. The risk? Foot and Mouth disease is one of the most contagious viruses known. In 2001, an outbreak of the airborne disease in England devastated the livestock industry causing hundreds of thousands of animals to be killed and burned, Buildings were burned and and some farmers committed suicide. The total cost of the catastrophe was estimated at $13 billion dollars. The source of the live virus was a research facility similar to what the USDA is planning to put in Manhattan Kansas. The cause of the outbreak was human error. USDA says it will be safe to put this facility in Kansas. Of course, Kansas is known for Tornadoes. Think of a little girl, a house, a dog named TOTO and now a vial of live virus tumbling through the air. Just last week, former Missouri Senator Jim Talent warned Missourians to be vigilant and prepared for agro-terrorism. Please don't share the location of the new research facility or the truck routes to it with any potential terrorists. Jobs for Kansas! At what risk and cost?
The recession is over! 3rd quarter GDP numbers show that the US economy grew in the 3rd quarter of 2009. So by the dictionary definition, the recession is over. Of course that increase in spending that caused the 3rd quarter increase was fueled by government spending of stimulus dollars and cash for clunkers. All of those stimulus dollars were borrowed money that you the taxpayer are now paying interest on. Meanwhile the unemployment rate is still hovering near 10%. Consumers are being frugal and spending cash while borrowing less. Nearly every economic recovery in history was created by private businesses hiring new workers. The only exception was recession ended by War Time Spending.
The number one creator of jobs in America are small businesses. When a small business creates a job, it is a win / win situation. The worker must create value and profit for the company. The worker benefits with a fair wage and the company benefits with a fair profit.
If Pelosi/Reid/Obama pass their Cap & Trade bill or Health Care Control Bill or if they raise taxes as they have clearly indicated they want to do, then they will squeeze small businesses to the point of not being able to hire more workers and expand. The result: This recession will be back in 2010 with a fury similar to the heat felt in the 1930's. Please call your Congressman and Senators and tell them No Cap & Trade! No Government controlled Health Care! No New Taxes!
Posted by Paul Hamby on 09/22/09 Last updated 09/22/09
The U.S. dairy farm business is at a critical point. Record low wholesale milk prices have caused farmers to burn through their cash on hand and most have borrowed to the full extent of their credit lines. In the next 6 months, we will see hundreds of cow dairies fail. Why is it that a 2% change in consumption of fluid milk caused a 50% drop in mail box prices to our farmers? Meanwhile Dean Foods and other milk processors are posting record profits.
The simple answer is Monopolies. Through exploitation of the COOP laws, the US Federal Government allowed the merger and buyout of milk processors throughout the country; there are now a small enough number of folks controlling milk markets to allow them to manipulate prices. An effective monopoly. This is not a failure of free markets. This is a failure of government meddling.
I don't know the best short term answer for our dairy farmers. The best long term solution is to pull all government involvement in agriculture, but that won't happen soon.
The government response so far is to hold hearings and 'listen'. Meanwhile Rome is burning. After hundreds more dairy farmers go bankrupt, the next thing that will happen is record high milk prices - Probably $6 and $7 per gallon milk in 2010.
USDA will use that as reasons that we need even more government regulation. What we have is a system that creates boom and bust cycles, then the very government agencies that create the problems stand up and propose more regulations as solutions, giving them even more power to create more boom and bust cycles.
The financial crisis of last year was created the same way. You can change a few names from the above examples. Substitute The Federal Reserve, The Treasury, SEC, Goldman Sachs, private banks and draw the same parallels. Just like the Dairy Industry, they have not yet dealt with the core causes of the crises and the solutions proposed so far are more regulation.
The gasoline crisis of the past couple summers was created the same way. Government over regulation prevented building new refineries, while another government bureaucracy allowed the merger of hundreds of small oil companies over 30 years. Now we have just a few players who have an effective Monopoly over the price of oil and gas. Through another round of government meddling, the fate of GM and Chrysler are nearly sealed for certain demise. For those of you who think Cash for Clunkers was a success, all that did was push buyers forward to August and now the showrooms are barren of customers. More dealers and automakers will go broke in the next few months.
Who approved selling AMOCO, our American Oil Company to a foreign nation? The idiots running Washington for the past 20 years. Folks they are the same. Clinton / Bush / Obama = same big government economic policies
Too Big to Fail is the rallying cry to 'save' chosen corporations. The government answer is more bailouts and regulation. The common sense answer for Too Big To Fail is to stop allowing monopolies. More companies competing on a level playing field with less regulation will make a healthy economy.
To learn more about free market economics visit www.mises.org
More of the same - the well-connected are raking in profits at the expense of everyone else. The only solution is to only elect representatives/Senators who have the moral backbone to do what is in the best interest of the country instead what is in the best interest of their own campaign fund.
It's like watching a train wreck: Congress, Obama, & the bailout/stimulus binge spending. You can't look away, yet you feel powerless to do anything.
In December, the Federal Reserve refused a request by Bloomberg News to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.
In February, Ben Bernanke told the House finance committee that it is NOT YOUR MONEY and they had no intention of sharing where the (now) 3 trillion dollars went.
Congress gave your money to The Federal Reserve (THE FED) to dispense at will with no accountability under the direction of Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke. You and I have a right to know where our money went. In Missouri, if you think your town or city has not fully disclosed how your tax money was spent, you and your neighbors can request an audit by the state of Missouri. And that happens about 20 times a year in the Show Me State.
Now Congress has given THE FED 3 trillion dollars to 'bailout' private businesses, stimulate the economy, save Wall Street, prop up the banks they like, control U.S. automakers and the power to take over any bank or private company in America.
All this power and they don't have to answer toanyone.
Their policy could be summed up as; Don't Ask 'cause we ain't gonna Tell you.
Isn't it time we hold THE FED to the same standard as every town, city and county in Missouri?
Congress created the Fed in 1913. Congress has the power to require a complete thorough audit of THE FED in 2009. A complete audit has not been done in more than 90 years. HR 1207 will demand a full audit and transparency for THE FED. HR 1207 was introduced by Congressman Ron Paul and has already been co-signed by 48 other Congressmen including Missouri's Roy Blunt & Todd Akin. We need to get the number of sponsors over 100 and get this bill out of committee.
Two things you can do to help get this bill passed.
1. Contact Congressman Sam Graves (or your Congressman) and ask him to cosponsor HR 1207
Congressman Sam Graves
201 S. 8th Street Room 330 St. Joseph, Missouri 64501 Phone: (816) 233-9818 Fax: (816) 233-9848
Health Care - This is the time to step up and make a difference. Health care is not a right. Rights come from God. God never advocated stealing, fining and jailing as methods of providing individual rights. Pelosi and Reid's bill is not about helping poor people. It is about Control, raising taxes and helping Wall Street. The attempt at government takeover of the Health Care Industry will forever change the course of our country. We can fight now or surrender our country to total control by a Socialist/Communist/Marxist agenda implemented by Obama, Pelosi and Harry Reid
Your focus this week [in Missouri] should be on Senator McCaskill, Senator Bond and Harry Reid.
Campaign for Liberty is taking the battle against Big Government's takeover of health care and health freedom to the television airwaves, and we need your help to mobilize more Americans in key target states!
As you know, the House passed a massive takeover of the health care industry a few days ago - and the Senate is poised to begin action in the coming days.
With that in mind, Campaign for Liberty has begun to run the first of our hard-hitting TV ads in Nebraska urging voters to contact Senator Ben Nelson and tell him they oppose the Obama/Pelosi/Reid power grab. We're also airing ads in Nevada informing Harry Reid's constituents of his plans for their health care.
Thanks to the support of C4L members, we've purchased a week's worth of prime airtime in both states.
But in order to make sure we win this battle in the Senate, we have much more to do.
We have set a fund-raising goal of $100,000 to continue airing our Nebraska ads and to expand into Arkansas, where possible swing vote Senator Blanche Lincoln faces a tough reelection bid.
Money raised above that amount will go toward extending this campaign into other key states to get more people to turn up the heat on their senators.
You and I can stop this bureaucratic nightmare in the Senate, but to do so, we have to keep the focus squarely on this attempted power grab in Washington.
Please help us spread the message by donating today!
Watch the ad here:
We need about $40,000 more for the next ad buy. Time is critical. You can donate here and watch the thermometer rise as patriots across the country step up and donate to fund our ads. http://www.campaignforliberty.com/
For immediate release - contact Paul Hamby 816 632 0602, Missouri Campaign for Liberty
Sedalia Mo. Campaign for Liberty held a regional conference in Sedalia Saturday November 14. MO state Senator Chuck Purgason and Mo state Rep Jim Guest were among the speakers to the group who stand for free markets, low taxes and a non interventionist foreign policy.
The 5 hour conference was organized by volunteer Randy Langkraehr, an insurance agent from Warrensburg.
Senator Purgason R- Caulfield, who is also a Republican candidate for US Senate, pledged to block any attempts to raise taxes as the state Legislature wrestles with dwindling revenue in 2010 and 2011. He stated that the Republican Party has lost their way. "In 2002 Congress under Republican control had a 30 billion dollar deficit. I could live with that given the downturn in the economy and the 9/11 tragedy, but in the next 2 year the budget deficit grew to $792 billion dollars under Republican control of Congress. Purgason held up a chart showing the budget deficits over the past 8 years. Purgason stated that he is the first one from his family to run for office and chose to run as Republican based on the party's platform. "People wanted change in 2008, I believe the change they wanted was for elected Republicans to vote along the Republican Party Platform" "In 2008, a bad election year for Republicans nationwide, the Missouri Senate gained 3 Republican seats because we stood on conservative Republican principles." Purgason discussed tax credits, tax abatements and TIFFS. "The reality of TIFFS is that we often TIFF an area for economic development, and that hurts an existing area of businesses so then we TIFF that area. We should just stop TIFFS in Missouri.
Rep Jim Guest, R - King City, read the 10th amendment to the US Constitution and discussed his resolution to reassert Missouri's 10th amendment rights. In 2009 his bill passed the house and passed the Senate committee but failed to make it to the Senate floor for a vote on the last week of the session. He stated he will file his bill again in January 2010 and that it has even more support after all the tea parties and town hall events. "There is a growing movement across the country. 10th amendment legislation will be filed in many states next year" The tenth amendment states that the Federal Government can only do what is spelled out in the constitution and all other rights are reserved to states and individuals. Campaign for Liberty members will be actively working to pass legislation that supports states rights and pushes back the federal government. Guest spoke about unfunded federal mandates that force state and local government to pay for the cost of compliance.
In the recent health care debate, Rep Nancy Pelosi was asked where in the constitution is a National Health Care Plan authorized? She replied "Are you serious?" and scoffed at the reporter. But the reporter's question was valid. There is no constitutional authority for national health care. Campaign for Liberty is opposed to Pelosi's National Health Care bill.
Glen Nielsen, State chair of the Libertarian Party spoke about the MIAC center. Nielsen praised the efforts of Libertarian party members working along with Campaign for Liberty members and Liberty Restoration Project members to bring sunshine to the MIAC center report and functions. Last spring a copy of the MIAC report was leaked to alternative media. That report profiled groups such as supporters of Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin and Ron Paul, home schoolers, Christians and gun owners as persons of interest that law enforcement should watch. Campaign for Liberty believes strongly in the first amendment rights to free speech and opposes political profiling of any groups. Nielsen said the combined efforts against MIAC led to the controversial report being rescinded and the Director of the MIAC center being reassigned. In May 2009, House Speaker Ron Richards set up a Legislative investigative committee that held hearings in St Louis, Grandview and Springfield. The committee is tasked with determining the future of the MIAC center.
Cisse Spragins, vice chair of the Libertarian party testified at the MIAC hearing. She wondered if she is 'on the list' because she had attended a rally to End The Fed. Campaign for Liberty's honorary chairman, Ron Paul, released a new book this fall, End the Fed, that is already a best seller. Campaign for Liberty has worked hard all year to get the Federal Reserve audited. Ron Paul, a Republican Congressman from Texas, introduced HR 1207 to Audit The Federal Reserve. That bill now has 303 co-sponsors in the US House. Spragins talked about the importance of small business to create the jobs needed for economic recovery. "Federal regulations from Washington are killing small businesses." Spragins hinted she may join the race for US Senate.
Ron Calzone, Chairman, Missouri Citizens for Property Rights, discussed their petition for Eminent Domain reform. "Missouri is ranked third of the worst states for private property eminent domain abuse" The secretary of state has challenged our ballot language and we are waiting for a court to approve the language so we can start collecting signatures. Calzone stated that they hope to have the issue on the November 2010 ballot. "We want to give Missourians an opportunity to vote on this issue, but we are fighting the Missouri secretary of state and the Missouri Municipal League. They are using your tax dollars to try and stop you from voting on this Missouri issue.
Robyn Hamlin and Paul Hamby, Missouri state co-coordinators for Campaign for Liberty, both spoke to the group. Hamlin urged the group to recruit new members and step up as local coordinators. Hamby said "The vice chairman of the communist party spoke in Columbia Missouri this week. He believes that Obama is a transitional President and the next President will fully implement the Communist Manifesto. It is up to you and me to make sure that does not happen." To learn more visit http://www.campaignforliberty.com/usa/MO/
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