Posted by christinajeffrey on 08/30/09

I attended the Organizing for America (OFA) Town Hall Meeting on August 18 at the Chapman Cultural Center in downtown Spartanburg. While Tea Party Organizers have to search for genuine grass on which to hold their rallies, ACORN and its allies can pay the rent for fancy digs. There was room for 500 people, but only about 150 showed up. (See the WSPA video link below.) Last Spring, when she got an email inviting her to join the list of people getting information from OFA, Maria Brady, publisher of Boiling Springs Today Magazine, seized it. That was how she learned of the meeting. It was not advertised to non-members. It was not a real townhall meeting. Maria also publicized the meeting and many curious Boiling Springs Tea Partiers also came.

After I stood up to endorse a free market approach, one lady said most people in the room were for the public option and not for a market-based approach. So I asked the audience how many people were in favor of the free market and 1/3 raised their hands. Not all of them were from our group. Considering this ACORN sponsored town hall was not announced publicly, I was delighted to learn I had so much support. It emboldened me to actually engage in a mini-debate with this lady (Lucy).

Most of the people who spoke to me after wards were really perplexed. They do not seem to know how the free market works and thus trust the government over the private sector. "Don't you trust the government?", asked some. I explained that I don't trust either the government or the private sector to take care of me. I am a free American and a sovereign citizen and if my fellow citizens will assume their rightful authority, we can insure an orderly and sound market in health care or anything else. When we compared notes, I learned that Maria was telling others the same thing!

No sensible person wants health care to be nationalized. It is disingenuous for Democrats to insist on competition for the private sector when the government already controls nearly half of the health care market. (And what about competition for the public sector in education--hmmm, they aren't so keen on that!) "Government competition" is no competition at all. It's like the people in the audience bragging on their peaceful townhall meeting when they aren't having a real townhall meeting. The legislators who conducted the meeting did not represent the people there--one was from Columbia and there were very few of Harold Mitchell's South-side constituents--most were white Democrats from the East-side of Spartanburg--my neighbors.

Instead of the government soaking up even more of the private sector, we need less government medicine and more private. We need deregulation. If insurance companies want to operate completely inside a state, then they would not be subject to interstate commerce rules, but those that want to compete nationally, across state lines like other industries do, should do so since that would actually create more competition and more choice for consumers.

Instead of limiting medical savings accounts, these should be encouraged as well as more use of catastrophic insurance products (real insurance). Instead of encouraging a Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) with Canada and Mexico(the latter has the gross national product of Hartford, Connecticut), we should remind voters that the states comprise what is potentially the world's most effective economic community or common market. To realize its full potential we should remove the barriers that states and the federal government have imposed.

If the Federal government gets out of the way, states can pass reforms that are appropriate for the people in that state. These reforms could allow insurance to be sold across state lines. Legislators just have to be willing to stand up to the interests and do the right thing for the people. We the people have to keep replacing legislators until we get guys and gals who will look out for us.

Link:

http://www2.wspa.com/spa/news/local/article/dnc_led_health_insurance_reform_town
_hall_tuesday_night/25296/#fragment-1

Posted by christinajeffrey on 05/20/09

Great meeting--there are some smart, smart people in this organization. I learned more about the organization and wow, is it a potentially powerful organization.  As someone who has a gift for friendship but not for organizing my friends (it seems sort of anti-friendly and anti-liberty to "organize" your friends, but that's what leadership is all about. Your friends really do want to be organized, especially if you have the RIGHT friends and they are PAYING ATTENTION--again, that's your job and mine, as leaders and true friends to make sure that the country is not goint to "hell in a handbasket" while our friends are sipping mint julips (or whatever) on their porches (or wherever) and playing their fiddles while Rome (AKA the USA) burns.

The highlight of the meeting?  It had to be holding a Zimbawe $3,000,000,000 note with an expiration date on it! 

Inflation is a terrible thing and most of the people in C4L have never experienced it. But it works like this--and you know this but just to add a little reality to what you know. My mother's father was a Scottish-born accountant. She always told us that his prudence as Comptroller of International Harvester kept them solvent through the Great Depression and IH was able to sell tractors on credit to farmers when no one else could and carry them through that awful time. He died in in 1934 and prudently trust funds for his wife and children.

My mothr's trust fund paid $100.00 per month. That income enabled her to go to Northwestern University, join a sorority and study journalism. She also spent a few years traveling and lived in India and Europe on that income. She saw the rise of Hitler first hand.

But when she died in 2002, her income wasn't enough to rent the meanest dwelling in Columbia, SC.  Fortunately, she was married to a man even more prudent than her father-- his Army retirement goes up every year. But if she had had her way, that kind of prudence would not trump the private prudence of a Scotish comptroller. She wanted the military to pay its employees better and let them buy their own health insurance and provide their own retirement. What the Democrats have done to our financial system is criminal--I am glad she didn't live to see it because after the Great Depression and the 1986 Savings and Loan Scandal (which took more than 10 years to pay off), there are no excuses for what has happened. And the Republicans who were present at the scene and said nothing (NOT RON) should be held to account as well.

A Party of Dr. NO's would not have let this happen

My mother believed that every child was entitled to her opinion and so we heard a lot about inflation and its ravages. Her name was Patricia Kelly Fawcett and you probably read her letters to the editor in The State newspaper. The subject of inflation was a popular one with her--she considered it theft of a high and grevious nature since it affects widows and orphans! She also thought every paper was entitled to her opinion and wrote letters every day to papers across the country. Someday I will gather them all up.

Posted by christinajeffrey on 09/03/09

Friends, here's something you need to know about:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama's-Address-to-Students
-Across-America-September-8-2009

The word about this has been out a while and some state superintendents have given in and are allowing individual districts to decide whether or not the schools will
participate in turning children into lobbyists for Obama.

If you do not want the classroom politicized in this way, tell both your local school superintendent and the state superintendent. In SC, that's Jim Rex. They need to know what you think about having children forced to watch Obama (grades K-6) or otherwise propagandized.

If you are as concerned as I am, then please hurry, we only have a week to stop this.

Contact information for the SC State Superintendent's Office: 803-734-8492

Another video is already being shown in some schools - be sure to watch the end--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcPA1ysSbw

Article about Parents reaction: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13249171?_requestid=5883011     You can discuss this on facebook, if you like: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=10335&uid=84461674422

Posted by christinajeffrey on 08/15/09

Please visit www.JeffreyforCongress.com

Posted by christinajeffrey on 05/29/09

At 8 AM tomorrow morning, I will give a speech in Marietta, GA.  It has

been announced in the press in Atlanta, so I think there will be a fair

turnout. The forum is called "The Madison Forum" and the members of

that group are serious students and advocates of Founding principles. It

will be a good audience to unveil my "stump speech" .  This is what

I wrote to my friends in Georgia by way of an announcement:

When I wrote you earlier this month, I did not have a title, or even a
tentative title for my speech--but I do now. 

"Operation Pink Slip" begins tomorrow at 8 AM  "Be there or be square"
as my folks used to say--that expression may be a bit dated, but I hope

you'll want to be in on the ground floor of this necessary move-
ment.

Madison Forum President Michael Opitz says space is limited, so the hardcore folks need
to be early.

Here's the address:

Rib Ranch: 2063 Canton Rd Marietta, GA 30066 (770) 422-5755

Posted 09/26/09 Lawful Money ,

Hi Christina, How did your presentation go? Was it well received? And, what impression did you get from the Madison Forum and its spokesman: Michael Opitz?