HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 5-25-2012 EDITION: TEA PARTY UNVEILS JOB CREATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION STRATEGY, AS IT SLATES REDUCING FEDERAL WORKFORCE 1/5, BY REPEAL AND INJUNCTION TO HIRE WITHOUT OBAMACARE, THE TEA PARTY JOINS ROMNEY ON A 30 STATES IN 30 WEEKS STRATEGY...
GEORGIA REVISITS PENNY SALES TAX T-SPLOST INITIATIVES, AND THE TEA PARTY DISCUSSES FEDERAL BUDGET PROCESSES, TWO CRUCIAL DATES SEPTEMBER 30TH--FACING 5TH GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN AS WE TRANSITION OFF OF CONTINUING RESOLUTION BUDGETING, AND DECEMBER 31ST--BEWARE OF TAX INCREASES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fqvJV2AWN1gRDYcs3GXFQv2ID2xXsH6-n1cooUVlY10/edit
A HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS TO RON PAUL-IDEOLOGY=DELEGATES
RON PAUL SWEEPS MINNESOTA
Reports TwinCities.com:
The Ron Paul revolution has completed its sweep over the Minnesota Republican Party convention here.
Paul backers won 12 of 13 Republican National Convention delegate slots filled in balloting Saturday, May 19, at Rivers Edge Civic Center.
They might have taken all 13 seats if a Paul state delegate had not graciously conceded the final slot to Rep. Michele Bachmann.
The results mean 32 of Minnesota’s 40 national delegates to the Republican convention in Tampa in August will be committed to Paul. Supporters of the Texas congressman and presidential candidate won 20 of the 24 national delegate slots filled at Republican congressional district conventions earlier this spring.
The vote was a well-organized coup by the Paul newcomers over longtime party activists.
“It shows that the Ron Paul people are extremely organized and very serious about winning those spots, and the non-Ron Paul folks were not as well organized,” said Republican National Committeeman Jeff Johnson.
Marianne Stebbins, Paul’s state campaign chairwoman, said their victory “sends a message that we’re not just giving lip service to liberty and smaller government — we’re serious about it…”
Paul has all but conceded the GOP nomination to Romney, but his supporters reportedly hope to influence the party platform…
His victory in Minnesota also could have a practical impact. He needs the support of five state delegations in order to have his name placed in nomination at the national convention, which would allow him to give a prime-time speech.
Stebbins said if national party leaders are smart, they will welcome Paul supporters with open arms…
“We have had bitter battles in the past at endorsing conventions, where people were at each other’s throats, but we came together in the end and stood by the candidates,” she said. “I think we’re already unifying.”
The Paul crowd pulled off a bloodless coup. Unlike other states where brawls broke out between Paul fans and Romney supporters, the Minnesota convention was a relatively civil affair. There were no fistfights or shouting matches on the convention floor…
As tension mounted between the Paul newcomers and the longtime activists they displaced, Johnson took the microphone to address that issue head on. He told the delegates to acknowledge their disagreements.
To the “Ron Paul lovers,” he said that many in the old guard think “you don’t care about the Republican Party.”
“If that makes you mad, make sure it doesn’t happen,” Johnson said. He called on Paul’s supporters to stay active and help elect all GOP candidates.
To the “Ron Paul haters,” he said, “get over it. If we don’t grow, we die as a party…”
TEA PARTY UNVEILS.... STATE-BY-STATE STRATEGIC UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION PLAN: http://lnk.ms/c665V #30states30weeks #MittRomney #GovernorPerry #RickSantorum
STATE-BY-STATE STRATEGIC UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION PLAN: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L2ZmGM-izViR2QkN_RRhV9lG82z-n7VZcUpetHQi2F0/edit
30 STATES IN 30 WEEKS: http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
TEA PARTY SLATES REDUCING FEDERAL WORKFORCE 1/5, REPEAL BY INJUNCTION TO HIRE WITHOUT OBAMACARE, 30 STATE UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION STRATEGY BY RETURNING 30 MILLION-150 MILLION ON FEDERAL PAYROLL TO PRIVATE SECTOR WITH GRANTS TO HIRE AND CREATE JOBS...
Federal, state, local employees 150 million relieved to work in private sector/create small businesses
http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm #30states30weeks
WEEKLY TEA PARTY NEWSLETTER FEATURES 1 STATE PER WEEK,
AS ROMNEY TAKES 1 STATE PER WEEK, FOR 30 WEEKS
TEA PARTY BUDGET $2.5 TRILLION ANNUAL REVENUE http://lnk.ms/Wb6nV
The Tea Party is here to REFORM and REVOLUTIONIZE -- D.C. - 37 fed pgms. to be cut/govt. employees don't contribute as private sector employees: it takes 5 private sector employees to fund one govt. employee=Tea Party to shrink federal workforce 150 million employees to private sector.... 150 million federal employees need to get a federal grant NOW, and start your OWN small business, BEFORE YOU LOSE YOUR JOB TO CUTS !!!!
We are working with Mitt Romney, Governor Perry, and Senator Santorum to create 1 million jobs in 30 of the worst disaffected states, and challenge Romney to make a promise to create 10 million jobs, as Obama lost over 30 million jobs, and Obama had not nor does he have the influence in the private sector to create 10 million jobs without taxpayer money!!
Barry L. Camp
Anyone want to see narcissim face-to-face? Go to http://whitehouse.gov/ and see the latest change. It's seriously creepy.
Barbara Welch go to the web site they are llying their asses off they have not produced jobs in fact the jobs they "produced" cost tax payerw over 1 million dollars for one stinking job
Tina DaBella Going to this website while the Traitor is in office is like going to moveon.org's website. Its full of lies, and bull
http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
THE SHOCKING TRUTH THAT THE STIMULUS DID NOT WORK, OTHER THAN TO STABILIZE STOCKS AND LINE THE PURSES OF BANKERS:
#51st rank WORST STATE - NEVADA - Senator Harry Reid’s area of responsibility
STATE MOTTO SHOULD BE “SIN AS A BUSINESS” OR “WE TRADE IN SINFUL COMMODITIES”
Nevada’s unemployment drops from 13.6% from 2011 to 12% in March, and 11.7% in April, but this is due to even more people leaving the workforce, so while the figures are positive this is offset by that many people exiting the workforce. National unemployment is 8.1%, meaning the stimulus did not even get or keep unemployment levels at 7% or lower and most have run out of their ability to re-apply for 2nd or 3rd tier federal unemployment extensions...
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/18553885/breaking-news-nevadas-unemployment-rate-drops
STRATEGY:
1) ANALYZE NEVADA’S ECONOMIC CAPABILITY/ECONOMIC PROFILE: (this includes natural resources, state government budget, and crime rate)
ECONOMIC PROFILE: http://www.nevadaworkforce.com/
NATURAL RESOURCES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada
Nevada (
i/nəˈvædə/ or /nəˈvɒdə/) is a state in the western, mountain west, andsouthwestern regions of the United States. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 35th most populous, and the 9th least densely populated of the 50 United States. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area,[6] which contains its three largest incorporated cities.[7] Nevada's capital is Carson City.Nevada is largely desert and semiarid, with much of it located within the Great Basin. Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoeand the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge. Approximately 86% of the state's land is owned by the US government under various jurisdictions, both civilian and military.[8]
STATE GOVERNMENT REVENUE/BUDGET - EDUCATION ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK TO BALANCE THE BUDGET
Brian Sandoval, Nevada’s newly inaugurated Republican governor, has proposed a budget of $5.8 billion for the next two years, which would reduce the budget to the 2007-2008 level, while the Democrats have countered with a proposal of close to $7 billion, but which is not entirely funded. Under either proposal, major cuts would take place.
http://open.nv.gov/OpenGov/ViewBudgetSummary.aep
DEFICIT - Nevada currently leads the US in unemployment, bankruptcies and foreclosures, and now has a budget deficit that stands at 54 percent of the total state budget, the highest percentage in the nation.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/neva-m25.shtml
CRIME RATE - OLD MINING COMMUNITY, GAMBLING, AND PROSTITUTION
Financial institutions
Similarly, many U.S. states have usury laws limiting the amount of interest a lender can charge, but federal law allows corporations to 'import' these laws from their home state.[edit]Drugs and alcohol
Non-alcohol drug laws are a notable exception to Nevada's otherwise libertarian principles. It is notable for having the harshest penalties for drug offenders in the country. Nevada remains the only state to still use mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines for marijuana possession. However, it is now a misdemeanor for possession of less than one ounce but only for persons age 21 and older. In 2006, voters in Nevada defeated attempts to allow possession of 1 ounce of marijuana (for personal use) without being criminally prosecuted, (55% against legalization, 45% in favor of legalization). However, Nevada is one of the states that allows for use of marijuana for medical reasons (though this remains illegal under federal law).Nevada has very liberal alcohol laws. Bars are permitted to remain open 24 hours, with no "last call". Liquor stores, convenience storesand supermarkets may also sell alcohol 24 hours per day, and may sell beer, wine and spirits.
[edit]Smoking
Nevada voters enacted a smoking ban ("the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act") in November 2006 that became effective on December 8, 2006. It outlaws smoking in most workplaces and public places. Smoking is permitted in bars, but only if the bar serves no food, or the bar is inside a larger casino. Smoking is also permitted in casinos, hotel rooms, tobacco shops, and brothels.[56] However, some businesses do not obey this law and the government tends not to enforce it.[57] Yet, in one case, they did prosecute an establishment called "Bilbo's." As of 2008, the trial was still pending.[58][edit]Crime
Nevada has been ranked as the most dangerous state in the U.S. for five years in a row, just ahead of Louisiana[59][60] In 2006, the crime rate in Nevada was approximately 24% higher than the national average rate. Property crimes accounted for approximately 84.6% of the crime rate in Nevada which was 21% higher than the national rate. The remaining 20.3% were violent crimes and were approximately 45% higher than other states.[61] In 2008, Nevada had the third highest murder rate, and the highest rate of robbery and motor vehicle theft.[59]The economy of Nevada has long been tied to vice industries. "[Nevada was] founded on mining and refounded on sin—-beginning with prizefighting and easy divorce a century ago and later extending to gaming and prostitution", said the August 21, 2010 issue of The Economist.[36]
The Bureau of Economic Analysis[37][38] estimates that Nevada's total state product in 2010 was $126 billion. Resort areas such as Las Vegas, Reno, Lake Tahoe, and Laughlin attract visitors from around the nation and world. In FY08 the total of 266 casinos with gaming revenue over $1m for the year, brought in revenue of $12 billion in gaming revenue, and $13 billion in non-gaming revenue. A review of gaming statistics can be found at Nevada gaming area.
The state's Per capita personal income in 2009 was $38,578, ranking nineteenth in the nation.[39]
As of August 2011, the state's unemployment rate is the worst in the nation at 13.4%.[40]
Its agricultural outputs are cattle, hay, alfalfa, dairy products, onions, and potatoes. Its industrial outputs are tourism, mining, machinery, printing and publishing, food processing, and electric equipment.
In portions of the state outside of the Las Vegas and Reno metropolitan areas, mining and cattle ranching are the major economic activities. By value, gold is by far the most important mineral mined. In 2004, 6,800,000 ounces (190,000,000 g) of gold worth $2.84 billion were mined in Nevada, and the state accounted for 8.7% of world gold production (see Gold mining in Nevada). Silver is a distant second, with 10,300,000 ounces (290,000,000 g) worth $69 million mined in 2004 (see Silver mining in Nevada).[41] Other minerals mined in Nevada include construction aggregates, copper, gypsum, diatomite and lithium. Despite its rich deposits, the cost of mining in Nevada is generally high, and output is very sensitive to world commodity prices.
As of January 1, 2006, there were an estimated 500,000 head of cattle and 70,000 head of sheep in Nevada.[42] Most of these animals forage on rangeland in the summer, with supplemental feed in the winter. Calves are generally shipped to out-of-state feedlots in the fall to be fattened for market. Over 90% of Nevada's 484,000 acres (196,000 ha) of cropland is used to grow hay, mostly alfalfa, for livestock feed.
Further information: Nevada locations by per capita income
The state sales tax in Nevada is variable depending upon the county. The minimum statewide tax rate is 6.85%, with five counties (Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Humboldt, and Mineral) charging this minimum amount. All other counties assess various option taxes, making the combined state/county sales taxes rate in one county as high as 8.1%, which is the amount charged in Clark County. Sales tax in the other major counties: Carson at 7.475%, Washoe at 7.725%. The minimum Nevada sales tax rate changed on July 1, 2009.[43]
Nevada has by far the most hotel rooms per capita in the United States. According to the American Hotel and Lodging Association, there were 187,301 rooms in 584 hotels (of 15 or more rooms). The state is ranked just below California, Texas, Florida, and New York in total number of rooms, but those states have much larger populations. Nevada has one hotel room for every 14 residents, far above the national average of one hotel room per 67 residents.[44]
Prostitution is legal in parts of Nevada in licensed brothels, but only counties with populations under 400,000 residents have the option to legalize it. Although prostitution employs roughly 300 women as independent contractors, and not a major part of the Nevada economy, it is a very visible endeavor. Of the 14 counties that are permitted to legalize prostitution under state law, about 8 have chosen to legalize brothels. State law prohibits prostitution in Clark County (which contains Las Vegas), and Washoe County (which contains Reno). However, prostitution is legal in Storey County, which is part of the Reno–Sparks metropolitan area.
[edit]Largest employers
The largest employers in the state, as of the first fiscal quarter of 2011, are the following, according to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation:[45]
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2) COORDINATE WITH STATE LEADERSHIP: (employment agencies, state government budget balancing, crime reduction/community prevention)
THE FIRST PROBLEM IS NEVADA’S STATE EMPLOYMENT SITE DIRECTS YOU TO FILE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT, NOT TO APPLY FOR A JOB: http://nvdetr.org/ESD%20Pages/File%20UI%20claim%20.htm
*COORDINATE REGARDING COSTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION SUFFERING FROM STATE BUDGET CUTS. THIS FALLS UNDER UMBRELLA #3 IN CONSTITUTIONAL PRIORITY, IN JUDICIAL AND EDUCATION REFORM FROM THE FEDERAL BUDGET
TEA PARTY BUDGET $2.5 TRILLION ANNUAL REVENUE http://lnk.ms/Wb6nV
*CONSIDERATION OF LEGALIZATION LEGISLATION FOR MARIJUANA LAWS AND NO MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES FOR NONVIOLENT DRUG OFFENDERS, (SEE GA MODEL).
*UPGRADE AND INCREASE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN TO OWN THEIR OWN SMALL BUSINESSES TO REDUCE CRIME, GET THEM OUT OF POVERTY AND OUT OF THE PROSTITUTION RACKET.
3) CREATE LOCAL JOBS AND ATTRACT INVESTORS: (DETERMINE IMMEDIATE JOB GROWTH AREAS AND ABILITY TO REPAY FEDERAL LOANS)
CREDIT RATING: STABLE AA https://nevadatreasurer.gov/debt/default.aspx?ID=CreditReport.ascx
INVEST IN SMALL BUSINESS CREATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION - FEDERAL GRANT PROGRAMS
SINCE MOST LAND IS OWNED BY THE GOVERNMENT, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT CITIZENS OWN ONLINE SMALL BUSINESSES TO GET OUT OF POVERTY. OUR TARGET POPULATION IS WOMEN, WE NEED JOB TRAINING ON BUDGETING, SMALL BUSINESS CREATION, AND PERCENTAGE OF FEDERAL GRANTS TO NEVADA FOR THE CREATION OF JOBS FOR WOMEN.
4) ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRACKING PROGRESS: (DELEGATION OF DUTIES, CONTRIBUTIONS AND ORCHESTRATION BY LEADERSHIP, CUMULATIVE RESULTS)
THESE DUTIES ARE DELEGATED TO SENATOR DEAN HELLER.
CONTRIBUTIONS BY REPUBLICAN/TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP: TEA PARTY CHIEF AJA BROOKS RECORDS AND UPDATES REPORTS FOR MITT ROMNEY, GOVERNOR PERRY ASSISTS WITH STATE OFFICES, AND RICK SANTORUM IS DESIGNATED TO SPEAK REGARDING THESE MATTERS, AS IS THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN.
RESULTS:
GRANTS ARE TO BE APPORTIONED, 1 MILLION FOR EACH OF THE 30 STATES, OR AS TARGETED WITHIN THE STATE TO CREATE JOBS BASED ON INDUSTRY ANALYZATION.
#50TH rank NEXT TO THE WORST STATE - RHODE ISLAND - State Senator Jack Reed’s area of responsibility
STRATEGY:
1) ANALYZE NEVADA’S ECONOMIC CAPABILITY/ECONOMIC PROFILE: (this includes natural resources, state government budget, and crime rate)
Rhode Island (
i/ˌroʊd ˈaɪlɨnd/ or /rɵˈdaɪlɨnd/), officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,[6] is a state in the New England region of the United States. Rhode Island is the smallest in area, the 8th least populous, but the 2nd most densely populated of the 50 United States. Rhode Island is bordered by Connecticut to the west and Massachusetts to the north and east, and it shares a water boundary with New York's Long Island to the southwest.Rhode Island was the first of the 13 original colonies to declare independence from British rule, declaring itself independent on May 4, 1776, two months before any other state in the whole U.S. and the convention. The state was also the last to ratify the United States Constitution.[7][8]
Rhode Island's official nickname is "The Ocean State", a reference to the state's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about 14% of its total area. Its land area is 1,045 square miles (2706 km2), but its total area is significantly larger.
ECONOMIC PROFILE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island
Economy
Textron's headquarters, in the company of One Financial Plaza and the Rhode Island Hospital Trust building.
Narragansett Towers and Narragansett Town Beach, one of Rhode Island's tourist destinations.
The Rhode Island economy had a colonial base in fishing. The Blackstone River Valley was a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution". It was in Pawtucket that Samuel Slater set up Slater Mill in 1793,[61] using the waterpower of the Blackstone River to power his cotton mill. For a while, Rhode Island was one of the leaders in textiles. However, with the Great Depression, most textile factories relocated to southern US states. The textile industry still constitutes a part of the Rhode Island economy, but does not have the same power that it once had.Other important industries in Rhode Island's past included toolmaking, costume jewelry and silverware. An interesting by-product of Rhode Island's industrial history is the number of abandoned factories—many of them now being used for condominiums, museums, offices, and low-income and elderly housing. Today, much of the economy of Rhode Island is based in services, particularly healthcare and education, and still to some extent, manufacturing.[62][63]
The headquarters of Citizens Financial Group, the 14th largest bank in the United States, is located in Providence.[64] The Fortune 500 companies CVS Caremark and Textron are based in Woonsocket and Providence, respectively. FM Global, GTECH Corporation, Hasbro,American Power Conversion, Nortek, and Amica Mutual Insurance are all Fortune 1000 companies that are based in Rhode Island.[65]
Rhode Island's 2000 total gross state product was $33 billion, placing it 45th in the nation. Its 2000 per capita personal income was $29,685, 16th in the nation. Rhode Island has the lowest level of energy consumption per capita of any state.[66][67][68] Additionally, Rhode Island is a rated as the 5th most energy efficient state in the country.[69][70] As of Dec. 2010, the state's unemployment rate is 11.5%.[71]
Health services are Rhode Island's largest industry. Second is tourism, supporting 39,000 jobs, with tourism-related sales at $3.26 billion in the year 2000. The third-largest industry is manufacturing.[72] Its industrial outputs are costume jewelry, fabricated metal products, electrical equipment, machinery, shipbuilding and boatbuilding. Rhode Island's agricultural outputs are nursery stock, vegetables, dairy products and eggs.
Rhode Island's taxes were appreciably higher than neighboring states,[44] because Rhode Island's income tax was based on 25% of the payer's federal income tax payment.[73] Governor Carcieri has claimed that the higher tax rate had an inhibitory effect on business growth in the state and called for reductions to increase the competitiveness of the state's business environment. In 2010, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a new state income tax structure that was then signed into law on June 9, 2010, by Governor Carcieri.[74] The income tax overhaul has now made Rhode Island competitive with other New England states by lowering its maximum tax rate to 5.99% and has reduced the number of tax brackets to three.[75] The state's first income tax was first enacted in 1971.[76]
[edit]Largest employers
As of March 2011, the largest employers in Rhode Island (excluding employees of municipalities) are the following:[77]| Rank | Employer | Employees | Notes |
| 1 | State of Rhode Island | 14,904 | Full-time equivalents |
| 2 | Lifespan Hospital Group | 11,869 | Rhode Island Hospital (7,024 employees), The Miriam Hospital (2,410), Newport Hospital (919), Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital (800), Lifespan Corporate Services (580), Newport Alliance Newport (68), Lifespan MSO (53), and Home Medical (15) |
| 3 | U.S. federal government | 11,581 | Excludes 3,000 active duty military personnel and 7,000 reservists, but includes 250 employees of the Naval War College. |
| 4 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence | 6,200 | |
| 5 | Care New England | 5953 | Plans to merge with Lifespan within the next year. Employees at: Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island (3,134), Kent County Memorial Hospital (1,850),Butler Hospital (800), VNA of Care New England (140), and Care New England (29) |
| 6 | CVS Caremark | 5800 | The corporate headquarters are at Woonsocket (5,630 employees). The corporation also has 170 employees at Pharmacare |
| 7 | Citizens Financial Group (subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland Group) | 4,991 | |
| 8 | Brown University | 4,800 | Excludes student employees. |
| 9 | Stop & Shop Supermarket (subsidiary of Ahold) | 3,632 | |
| 10 | Bank of America | 3,500 | |
| 11 | Fidelity Investments | 2,934 | 2,434 employees in Smithfield and 500 in Providence |
| 12 | Rhode Island ARC | 2,851 | Employees at James L. Maher Center (700), The Homestead Group (650), Cranston Arc (374), The ARC of Blackstone Valley (350), Kent County ARC (500), The Fogarty Center (225), and Westerly Chariho, ARC (52) |
| 13 | MetLife Insurance Co. | 2,604 | |
| 14 | General Dynamics Corp. | 2,243 | 2,200 employees at General Dynamics Electric Boat in North Kingstown, and 43 employees at General Dynamics Information Technology – Newport in Middletown adjacent to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center[78] |
| 15 | University of Rhode Island | 2,155 | |
| 16 | Wal-Mart | 2,078 | |
| 17 | The Jan Companies | 2050 | Employees at Jan-Co Burger King (1,500) (Burger King franchiser); Newport Creamery, LLC (400), Quidnessett Country Club (100), and The Country Inn (50) |
| 18 | Shaw's Supermarkets (subsidiary of SuperValu Inc.) | 1,900 | |
| 19 | St. Joseph Health Services and Hospitals of Rhode Island/CharterCARE Health Partners | 1,865 | Employees at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital (1,343) and St. Joseph Hospital for Specialty Care (522) |
| 20 | The Home Depot, Inc. | 1,780 |
NATURAL RESOURCES:
THE OCEAN, ABANDONED FACTORIES, TEXTILES, AND MILITARY
(LIKE GEORGIA, IN THAT WE NEED AMERICAN PRODUCTS AND MANUFACTURING TO RETURN HERE, BY REDUCING REGULATION OR LIMITING BY PERCENTAGE BUSINESS CONTRACTS TO OVERSEAS BUSINESSES UNTIL WE HAVE AN ECONOMY THAT CAN SUPPORT THOSE IMPORTS/EXPORT RATIOS)
STATE GOVERNMENT REVENUE/BUDGET - EDUCATION ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK TO BALANCE THE BUDGET
DEFICIT -
MANAGED BY ADDRESSING MEDICAID COSTS http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/us/politics/16medicaid.html?pagewanted=all
EVEN WITH STATE TAX REVENUES UP, BUDGET CRISIS STILL NOT OVER
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/04/23/state-tax-revenues-up-budget-crisis-not-over/
CRIME RATE -
2011 http://www.risp.state.ri.us/docs/UCR/2011_JanFebMar.pdf
2) COORDINATE WITH STATE LEADERSHIP: (employment agencies, state government budget balancing, crime reduction/community prevention)
BIG PROBLEM -- IN 2 CLICKS, YOU GET A LINK ON RHODE ISLAND TO “FIND A STATE JOB” NOT A PRIVATE SECTOR JOB http://www.ri.gov/links/?tags=state+jobs
3) CREATE LOCAL JOBS AND ATTRACT INVESTORS: (DETERMINE IMMEDIATE JOB GROWTH AREAS AND ABILITY TO REPAY FEDERAL LOANS)
CREDIT RATING:
Aa2 Moody's, AA Standard & Poor's and AA Fitch. The state's recent pension reform legislation, the Rhode Island Retirement Security Act of 2011, was noted positively in all the rating reports.
http://www.ri.gov/press/view/16387
PROVIDENCE-BBB--TWO STEPS ABOVE JUNK BOND RATING
http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2012/03/credit-rating-a-1.html
"We must reform our pension system, and our large tax-exempt institutions must do more to help the city and rebuild a strong fiscal foundation,"
4) ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRACKING PROGRESS: (DELEGATION OF DUTIES, CONTRIBUTIONS AND ORCHESTRATION BY LEADERSHIP, CUMULATIVE RESULTS)
THESE DUTIES ARE DELEGATED TO SENATOR JACK REED.
CONTRIBUTIONS BY REPUBLICAN/TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP: TEA PARTY CHIEF AJA BROOKS RECORDS AND UPDATES REPORTS FOR MITT ROMNEY, GOVERNOR PERRY ASSISTS WITH STATE OFFICES, AND RICK SANTORUM IS DESIGNATED TO SPEAK REGARDING THESE MATTERS, AS IS THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN.
RESULTS:
GRANTS ARE TO BE APPORTIONED, 1 MILLION FOR EACH OF THE 30 STATES, OR AS TARGETED WITHIN THE STATE TO CREATE JOBS BASED ON INDUSTRY ANALYZATION.
T-SPLOST REVISITED:
That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen
Local governments tout the benefits of SPLOST projects. What are seen are the benefits that those projects provide. What is not seen are the benefits that the money spent on that project might have provided had it been spent differently. Frederic Bastiat pointed this out 160 years ago in his essayThat Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen from 1850. Click here to read his famous essay.
What does one penny mean?
SPLOST initiatives are often sold to the public on the basis that it is just one penny, but those pennies add up. The typical family will pay several hundred dollars of tax over the course of a SPLOST. The accompanying table shows how much tax will be paid over the course of a SPLOST based upon monthly household spending. We provide this table to help voters make better informed decisions.
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$240
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$144
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$288
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$720
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$168
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$336
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$840
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$1,600
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$192
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$384
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$216
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$432
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$1,080
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$240
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$480
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$264
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$528
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$1,320
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$288
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$576
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$1,440
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$312
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$624
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$1,560
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$336
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$672
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$1,680
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$3,000
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$360
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$722
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LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL ASPECTS OF GEORGIA’S SPLOST LAW
LOCAL OPTION SALES TAXES
In addition to the 4% sales tax collected by the State of Georgia, three other sales taxes may be collected at the county level. The first of these is the Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) dating from 1978, the revenue from which is allocated between a county and the municipalities located therein. This was followed in 1985 by the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST), designed to assist counties in fulfilling their obligations as legal extensions of the State. Finally, the Educational Local Option Sales Tax (ELOST), operating as a variation of SPLOST, extended this method of funding to county and independent school districts in 1997, though control of the levy resides with the county government.LEGAL AUTHORIZATION OF SPLOST LEVIES
SPLOST levies are authorized under the “special districts” provision of the Constitution of the State of Georgia (see Article IX, Section II, Paragraph VI). The SPLOST legislation itself is found in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (see Title 48, Chapter 8, Article 3, Part 1, commonly referred to as section 48-8-110 et seq.). As indicated above, Georgia’s original SPLOST law dates from 1985. Over the last quarter of a century, though, that legislation has been amended any number of times. Rather than take readers through the myriad changes and additions that have been made to the law, the pertinent aspects of the legislation are summarized below.EXTENT AND CONTROL OF SPLOST LEVIES
At first, the SPLOST law pertained only to projects undertaken by county governments in their capacities as legal extensions of the State, such as the construction of courthouses and jails. “Qualified” municipalities followed, becoming eligible to receive funding through SPLOST levies in 2004. A municipality is considered to be qualified if it offers any three of the twelve services specified in the law, such as fire protection and solid waste management, either directly or by contract. It is important to note that SPLOST levies are enacted countywide by county governments; they cannot be levied by school districts, which lack the authority to levy taxes, or municipalities. Unlike Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) levies, SPLOST levies are not joint county-municipal levies. Insofar as a SPLOST is concerned, it is only counties that can constitute “special districts” in a legal sense. Also, contrary to the state sales tax, SPLOST levies are applicable to food and beverage purchases.SPLOST RESOLUTIONS
In order to implement a SPLOST levy, state law requires approval of a resolution establishing the levy via a countywide referendum. The levy can only be for specified capital improvement projects and must include a defined end date. By law, maintenance and operations expenses cannot be paid through SPLOST funding, nor can any other county or municipal facilities or services. The resolution must include a list of the county and municipal projects for which the levy is to be used, the estimated cost of each project, and (normally) the time period of the levy stated in either calendar years or calendar quarters. If the resolution calls for the issuance of general obligation debt in the form of bonds, it must also include the principal amount of the debt, the purpose for which the debt is being issued, the identity of the local government issuing the debt, the maximum interest rate or rates applicable to the debt, and the amount of principal to be paid during each year over the life of the debt.SPLOST AND GENERAL OBLIGATION DEBT
Counties and qualified municipalities may use SPLOST revenues to retire existing general obligation debt. They may also issue general obligation debt in conjunction with SPLOST levies if that debt is used for the purposes of those capital projects specified in the SPLOST resolution. However, if general obligation debt is issued in this manner, a separate ballot resolution permitting such debt must also be approved via a countywide referendum.DURATION OF SPLOST LEVIES
The duration of a specific SPLOST levy can vary according to a number of factors. The original iteration of the law, applicable to county governments only, limited collection of SPLOST taxes to a period of four years. Later, that duration was extended to five years.When municipal governments became eligible for SPLOST funding, two other possibilities emerged. The duration of the levy would be five years under the three conditions that the county and its qualified municipalities did not enter into an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) concerning the allocation of the revenue generated by the levy, a “Level One” project was included, defined as a project intended to benefit the county acting in its capacity as a legal extension of the State of Georgia, and the estimated costs of all Level One projects was less than 24 months of anticipated revenues; the duration of the levy would be six years if the estimated costs of all Level One projects was equal or more than 24 months of anticipated revenues.
Consolidated city-county governments form yet another special case. If general obligation debt is to be issued in conjunction with the imposition of the tax, consolidated city-county governments need only to specify the maximum dollar amount to be raised by the SPLOST levy. No maximum duration for the levy, either in terms of calendar years or calendar quarters, need be specified.
ALLOCATION OF SPLOST REVENUES
Just as is the case with state sales tax levies, the Georgia Department of Revenue collects SPLOST levies. The Department of Revenue retains 1% of the revenue collected to defray its expenses. The remainder of the revenue collected is allocated among a county and its qualified municipalities according to either of two methods; by an intergovernmental agreement reached by the county and those municipalities or, absent such an intergovernmental agreement, by a population-based formula.LEGAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE SPLOST LAW
The Georgia Attorney General’s office issued an unofficial opinion in 1990 (U90-18) that said the list of projects that appears on a SPLOST resolution need not give the voters a high level of specificity, as the statute governing SPLOST resolution does not require it . According to the unofficial opinion, “There is no necessity that the description of the purpose or purposes for the tax be in exacting detail. Rather . . . the description and the purposes must be only so specific as to place the electorate on fair notice of the projects to which the tax will be devoted.” Merely noting the types of projects to be funded, assuming that they are in accord with the types of projects specified by state Code, is sufficient.In September 1992, the Georgia Supreme Court decided the landmark case Dickey et al v. Storey et al. The Court ruled that the Floyd County Board of Commissioners erred by deviating from the specific list of projects included in the SPLOST resolution and by abandoning projects before their completions. According to the official opinion, “Construing these Code sections, we hold that the Board is not authorized to use proceeds from the SPLOST tax for a purpose entirely different from that contained in the SPLOST budget and account reports. We further hold that the Board is bound by the SPLOST budget and account reports to complete all projects listed therein unless circumstances arise which dictate that projects which initially seemed feasible are no longer so. In this regard the governing authority has discretion to make adjustments in the plans for these projects, but may not abandon the projects altogether.” The definition of “feasible” is conspicuous by its absence in the state law governing SPLOST and therefore remains open to interpretation. Even so, the Court’s decision clearly requires some condition outside the control of the county or municipality to render a project infeasible.
The Georgia Attorney General’s office issued an official opinion in March 1997 (97-7) concerning the ELOST variation of SPLOST. At issue was the definition of “capital outlay projects for educational purposes.” The Attorney General opined that expenditures for things such as school buses and equipment that have an extended useful life, and not just school buildings, did indeed qualify for ELSOT funding. According to the official opinion, “Therefore the term ‘capital outlay projects’ as used in the educational sales tax purpose amendment should be read as well to refer to major, permanent, or long-lived improvements or betterments, such as would be properly chargeable to a capital asset account and as distinguished from current expenditures and ordinary maintenance expenses.” Even so, such expenditures could only be paid through ELOST revenues directly and not through the issuance of general obligation debt.
Later that same year, in October 1997, the Attorney General’s office issued another official opinion (97-30) concerning ELOST. According to the official opinion, “. . . a referendum is required before a school board may borrow money for a term longer than twelve calendar months even if the borrowing is to be repaid from expected STEP collections. It is also my opinion, however, that a school may, without such referendum, engage in certain short-term borrowing for less than twelve calendar months, against the expectation of receipt of STEP collections, subject to certain constitutional and statutory constraints.” It appears that STEP is an acronym for “special purpose local option sales tax for educational purposes,” a precursor to the current ELOST terminology.
In May 2001, the Attorney General’s office issued a third official opinion dealing with ELOST and by extension SPLOST (2001-3). According to the official opinion, “Under the ‘interest follows principal’ rule, interest earned on public funds is an incident of principal and becomes a part of the account fund. . . Consequently, interest earned on educational taxes and on special county taxes becomes part of the tax proceeds in the account fund, which fund is required to be used exclusively for the purposes or purposes specified in the resolution or ordinance calling for the imposition of the respective tax.” Thus, any interest earned on ELOST or SPLOS tax revenues is considered to be the same as the revenue generated by the tax itself and may not be used for other, unrelated purposes.
Finally, the Attorney General’s office issued another official opinion (2007-5) in October 2007 concerning the interest earned on SPLOST revenue. According to the official opinion, “I have previously opined that the statuary restrictions . . . require that all accrued interest on the separately maintained SPLOST account also be used exclusively for the approved projects and likewise kept in the separate account maintained for SPLOST revenues. . . The plain language of the statute as well as prior construction of statutory language regarding the use of SPLOST funds requires that the SPLOST funds be kept in an account separate from other count funds and withdrawn only for the payment of expenses incurred with regard to the projects approved in the resolution or ordinance calling for the imposition for the tax.
In addition to the Dickey v. Storey decision noted above, other Georgia Supreme Court case law has bearing on the implementation of ELOST and SPLOST. For example, see Haugen v. Henry County (2004), a decision that says an “excess” of SPLOST funds cannot be declared until all projects identified in the SPLOST resolution have been completed, and Johnston v. Thompson (2006), a decision that that says counties cannot use SPLOST levies intended to fund school system-wide technology to fund the purchase of laptop computers for students.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Though care has been taken to be accurate, the information provided above is neither comprehensive nor exhaustive. Those readers desiring further information concerning the various qualifications, requirements, and technicalities of SPLOST levies are referred to publications from the Association County Commissioners of Georgia (2008) and the Georgia Municipal Association (2004).Our mission is to provide voters with information about SPLOST referenda in their county and to change state law to maximize voter and taxpayer control over the selection of SPLOST projects. Consistent with this mission and our below stated beliefs we strive to provide the voters with information about and analysis of the individual projects included in SPLOST referenda in their county. In our analysis some of the things that we look at are:
- Cost effectiveness
- Number of people served
- Past performance
- Mandates
- Other alternatives
We believe that a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) can provide an excellent means of financing projects that have broad community support. It allows the citizens to authorize and fund specific projects without giving their elected officials a blanck checkbook. Another appealing feature of a SPLOST is that once the project(s) are paid for it goes away and the taxpayers are not left with a permanent tax. This is the idea and we agree with that idea.
In practice the SPLOSTs combine many projects into one referendum. Often many of the projects do not enjoy broad community support but are included in the list as a favor to certain special interests. The voters often have to vote for five or ten projects that they oppose inorder to pass the two or three that they strongly support. Another probelem with current practice is that SPLOST referendums are often held concurrent with elections with low expected voter turnout and the special interests promoting the SPLOST can have a greater effect on the referendum.
State laws can be changed or passed to correct these deficiencies in SPLOST practice. In the mean time voters can reject these bad practices by voting agains SPLOST referendums that combine many projects into one referendum or that are held consurrent with special or low turnout elections.
- SPLOST referendums should be held concurrent with general elections when there is the largest voter turnout.
- SPLOST projects should be individually voted upon and approved or rejected by the voters in the general election.
- SPLOST projects should be specific enough that the voter can know what they are approving or rejecting.
- SPLOST projects that materially change whether in cost or scope should be brought back before the voters for approval.
- SPLOST programs should be limited in duration to no more than six years to ensure that the people that approved the projects as voters are still around to pay for it as taxpayers.
Taxpayer Friendly Recomendation: Vote No
The recent tennis center controversy is a good example of a project that was ill defined but inserted into an earlier SPLOST referendum that was passed. Now, years later, we find that there is only enough money to buy land or build the tennis center but not both. A number of neighborhoods have said that they do not want it in their parks. Had this project been better defined and voted upon individually it is doubtful that it would have ever passed. | The table below lists the amount of additional sales taxes that the taxpayer will pay over the course of this proposed SPLOST. The voters should ask themselves if they are willing to pay the following amounts for the listed projects. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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List of Projects: Click on a project name or description below to go to an enhanced description of the project. The enhanced descriptions are currently under under development and not all have been completed.
| Title | Cost | Operating Cost | Short Description |
| Jail Expansion | $76.6 million | $1.83 million | Renovate and expand the existing Clarke County Jail from 360 beds to 752 beds with room for further expansion. |
| Classic Center Expansion | $23.7 million | None Claimed | Classic Center officials want to add exhibit hall space and increase seating to 4,500, provide for an enclosed atrium, and add additional parking. |
| Fire Protection Services & Safety Equipment | $5.2 million | $6,000 | A pot of money for unspecified Fire Station facilities and equipment. |
| Integrated Public Safety/Judicial Information System | $2.6 million | $288,000 | A new computer system for law enforcement agencies, judges and other court officials that will allow them to better share information. |
| Public Safety Communications Systems Improvements | $11 million | $126,000 | A pot of money for unspecified public safety communications. It may provide but is not rquired to provide a new E911 phone system. |
| Bicycle Transportation Improvements | $4.5 million | none claimed | Includes money for unspecified bike lanes, paths and signs at locations the commission will choose at later dates. |
| Transit Vehicles & Bus Stop Improvements Program | $1.85 million | $152,000 | Provides money for new buses, bus stops, signage, bike racks, landscaping, etc. |
| Rail-To-Trails Network Program | $7.7 million | $23,000 | Complete the planned conversion of an abandoned railroad into a trail from downtown to Old Winterville Road and initiates a new project from Old Winterville Road to the city of Winterville. |
| Oconee Rivers Greenway Network Connectors | $6 million | $82,000 | Provides money for improvements along the Oconee River Greenway. |
| Cooperative Extension Service Center | $2.57 million | $39,800 | A new facility for the Athens-Clarke Cooperative Extension to replace the existing facility on Atlanta Highway. |
| Athens-Clarke County Library Improvements | $2.36 million | None Claimed | Includes money for books, computers, enhanced book security and energy management improvements. |
| Pedestrian Safety & Safe Routes to Schools Program | $5.2 million | $2,500 | Includes money for Safe Routes to Schools program, flashing and or colorized crosswalks, crosswalk timers, sidewalks and radar speed checksigns. |
| Morton Theatre Facility Repair & Renovation | $600,000 | None | Will replace windows, the roof, heating and air conditioning where money for routine maintenace has not been set aside. |
| Sandy Creek Park Renovation and Development | $2 million | $95,000 | Includes money for a new visitor center, renovating restrooms and improving the campground and the park roadways. |
| Rocksprings Park Pool Renovations | $1.4 million | None Claimed | Will replace the existing pool that was not funded by the SPLOST 2005 Rocksprings project. |
| Park Facilities Improvements | $4 million | None Claimed | Includes funding for small projects like playgrounds, new gym floors and field lights at various parks. |
| Dudley Park Improvements | $1 million | $95,000 | Unspecified wish list. Potential uses include building an amphitheater, restrooms, a field and a playground. |
| Satterfield Park Renovations and Upgrades | $631,000 | $16,000 | Includes field improvements, scoreboards, fencing, lights and equipment storage. |
| Animal Shelter Expansion | $620,000 | $12,000 | Includes office space for six employees and six additional dog runs and space for cats. |
| Government Facilities Fire Protection | $1.2 million | $26,000 | Installation of sprinklers in five buildings. |
| Public Art Program | $410,000 | $7,000 | A pot of money for unspecified projects to be selected and administered by the Athens Area Arts Council. |
| Youth & Community Enrichment Facility Partnership | $2.9 million | $8,000 | While unspecified in the project summary the project request was for a 9,075 square foor Boys & Girls Club Facility for Garnett Ridge |
| Energy Sustainability Program | $1 million | None Claimed | Funding to improve government buildings' energy efficiency by adding LED lighting, solar heating and power generation, geothermal heating and cooling, charging outlets for electric cars and alternative-fuel vehicles. |
| Infrastructure Improvements for Affordable Housing | $515,000 | None Claimed | Will fund water, sewer and stormwater infrastructure for subsidized houses supported through HOME and other federal and non-federal sources. |
| Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials | $193,000 | $66,000 | A CHARM is a place where residents can take materials recycling centers ordinarily do not accept, like furniture and hazardous chemicals. |
| Road and Bridge Improvement and Replacement Program | $15.6 million | None Claimed | A pool of money to use as a local match for federal and state funding of unspecified projects, as well as build unspecified local road projects, bike lane improvements, etc.. |
| Areawide Stormwater Improvement Program | $2 million | None Claimed | Funds 20 projects to improve stormwater drainage around the county. |
| Greenspace Acquisition | $1 million | $20,000 | Pot of money to purchase land for greenspace. |
| Facilities Management Facility Relocation | $2.5 million | $100,000 | An additional cost of the jail expansion project to replace a facility that will be displaced by the jail expansion. |
| Expansion of Property & Evidence Facility | $1.918 million | $20,000 | Build a new 4,500 square foot evidence storage building. |
| Neighborhood Traffic Management Program | $500,000 | None Claimed | Unspecified Projects. Includes funding for traffic-calming devices like speed humps on side streets where residents request them. |
| Costa Building Renovation | $3.6 million | $48,000 | Renovation of the Costa building which currently houses the downtown police substation. |
| Ware-Lyndon House Historic Garden | $225,000 | $5,000 | Funding for a historic formal garden at the Ware-Lyndon house. The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation has agreed to pay for upkeep |
| City Of Winterville | $1.77 million | City Of Winterville's portion of the funds to be collected by the proposed SPLOST. | |
| Town of Bogart | $227,000 | City Of Bogart's portion of the funds to be collected by the proposed SPLOST. |
BASICALLY, L.O.S.T., S.P.L.O.S.T., E.L.O.S.T. ARE TAX INCREASES THAT YOU CAN AVOID BY CHOOSING TO SPEND OR RESTRICT YOUR SPENDING. THESE WERE CREATED TO MEET POPULATION SURGES, INCREASES IN USE OF SERVICES THAT EAT INTO REGULARLY BUDGETED REVENUE, AND GIVE VOTER ACCOUNTABILITY AS TO PROJECTS THAT WERE ABOVE AND BEYOND CURRENT BUDGET WOES, BUT NECESSARY TO DELIVER SERVICES TO THE COUNTY, WITHOUT PROPERTY TAX INCREASES.
Aja Brooks
If Debbie Dooley doesn't have money to advertise, she should've talked to a REAL Tea Party writer: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/supporters-tsplost-doubt-results-wsb-tv-poll/nPB7F/
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Debbie Dooley is a grown woman, though she doesn't act like it-Debbie Dooley I am a grown woman and you lost the vote because of how you act
Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
IN YOUR FACE, DEBBIE DOOLEY -- IN YOUR FACE
56s Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
I also tell Debbie Dooley that being REAL is not about trashing people in closed groups on Facebook, but about saying it to their face.
2m Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
So I publicly tell Debbie Dooley if she wanted to win the vote to vote down Penny Sales Tax, she should talk to a REAL Tea Party writer - ME
3m Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
in fact in order to talk and discuss with REAL people Debbie Dooley, you must allow people to make up their own minds and the voting booth
5m Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
When ideas are presented in my REAL newsletter, Debbie Dooley must understand issues are not solely symbolic political Tea Party ideology...
6m Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
This is where Debbie Dooley said I was fake for supporting Pridemore https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PREXKHVpI_c_RRWPJXABLz6oIvwtSY2B0lmVYx_Wic4/edit?hl=en# and here she lost the vote https://docs.google.com/document/d/14B2uG-ub6SMZZEfwUlRrxrXNCMc2fntfocDt57tMMZQ/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
7m Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
Debbie Dooley lost the vote on Penny Sales Tax Increase 6 months after she was called out publicly for calling me fake https://docs.google.com/document/d/14B2uG-ub6SMZZEfwUlRrxrXNCMc2fntfocDt57tMMZQ/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
Aja Brooks
29 minutes ago via Twitter
Debbie Dooley also got mad Tricia Pridemore should be our GOP Chairman, so someone hacked hotel reservations, though I don't give her that.
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Aja Brooks
29 minutes ago via Twitter
Debbie Dooley doesn't realize that I have been writing Tea Party literature for 3 years, so she called me fake online http://t.co/81EqZv3
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Aja Brooks
42 minutes ago via Twitter
Debbie Dooley doesn't have 125,000 read her newsletters weekly, nor do her ideas receive consideration by thousands... I'm #real, mine do...
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Aja Brooks 46 minutes ago via Twitter
Debbie Dooley is Capitol TEA... a lot of her statements are politicized rather than actuary when it comes to taxes, tax reform, and projects
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Members of Atlanta’s Tea Party Patriots say they’re not surprised by a Channel 2 Action News poll that showed a proposed penny sales tax for transportation may not get past voters.
Posted: 5:56 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012Supporters of TSPLOST doubt results of WSB-TV poll
ATLANTA —
Members of Atlanta’s Tea Party Patriots say they’re not surprised by a Channel 2 Action News poll that showed a proposed penny sales tax for transportation may not get past voters. The Rosetta Stone poll showed 42 percent of voters support the referendum and 45 percent oppose it, with that number drastically higher in the suburbs.
The one cent sales tax is on the ballot in the July 31 state primary. It would raise more than $6 billion for transportation projects in 10 metro Atlanta counties. Other regions of Georgia will vote on their own version.
Members of the Tea Party Patriots told Channel 2 political reporter Lori Geary that they are just starting their push to defeat the TSPLOST, but supporters dispute the poll and say the tea party is against traffic relief and thousands of new jobs.
“Eighty-seven percent of metro Atlantans agree we have a transportation problem," Jeff Dickerson told Geary. Dickerson represents a group that is pushing for the transportation tax.
“People who live the farthest out and have to commute the farthest distance are going to get the most benefit," Dickerson said.
Dickerson’s group showed Geary the results of its own poll that showed support for the transportation referendum at 51 percent compared with 36 percent against the plan.
"[They are] saying no to 200,000 new jobs that are going to be created. No to $19 billion in new income and yes to a lot more congestion," Dickerson said.
Debbie Dooley, cofounder of the Tea Party Patriots, is teaming up with the DeKalb County NAACP and the Sierra Club against the referendum. Dooley told Geary she has to think outside the box because she doesn’t have the money to advertise.
"People have to ask themselves, ‘Have my elected officials been spending my tax dollars wisely,’ If the answer is no, then why on earth would you vote to give them more tax dollars?" Dooley said. "We've been saying all along we would defeat this because this is a tax."
| Rosetta Stone Poll- 5/20 | Total | DeKalb/Fulton | Other Counties | Black | White | Republican | Democrat |
| Support TSPLOST | 41.5% | 52% | 33.4% | 55.1% | 33.4% | 27.8% | 58.6 |
| Oppose TSPLOST | 45% | 33.3% | 53.9% | 27.2% | 56.5% | 62.7% | 26.7 |
| Undecided | 13.5% | 14.7% | 12.7% | 17.7% | 10.1% | 9.5% | 14.7% |
| margin of error +/-3% |
Channel 2's Lori Geary contributed to this story. Follow her on Twitter @lorigeary.
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WHILE A PENNY WAS WORTH OUR THOUGHTS ON T-SPLOST, I RAILED GOVERNOR DEAL ON THE HOT LANES... THAT IS WHAT I CALL REVENUE DRAFTING:
IN THE POST-ERA FALLOUT OF THE PATRIOT ACT VIOLATING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND LOCAL JUDICIAL DRUG REFORM LAWS, HOT LANES WERE THE SECOND THING USED TO CREATE REVENUE THROUGH EGREGIOUS ENFORCEMENT OF THINGS ALREADY NEEDING TO BE DONE, NEXT TO $300 LOBBYIST BADGE FEES.... BASICALLY, IT IS THE GOVERNMENT’S WAY OF GETTING AHEAD OF THE EIGHT BALL FROM WHEN KAREN HANDEL AND GOVERNOR PERDUE WERE BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL.... IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN... LET US NOT BRING BACK UP TOM GRAVES INVOLVEMENT WITH A PROPERTY KNOWN AS “THE METHAMPHETAMINE 6”.... (IF YOU MISSED THAT DISCUSSION LAST YEAR YOU CAN REVISIT THAT HERE)
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Thankfully, Georgia can pay its debts because of its GDP and AAA credit rating, despite stubborn but budging unemployment (finally!)
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Georgia is 32 in the world for GDP, still has a AAA credit rating, and we and Texas are the only places still exhibiting job growth. Governor Deal began his tenure as Governor with the invitation to employment, because the Georgia Department of Labor absolutely sucked, and it was not doing its job for the tax money spent on it. Governor Deal has used his connections from the Georgia Legislature to create jobs and bring businesses to the state of Georgia, and we look forward to the 2-3% growth once we address the federal budget deficit, cuts, and removing 1/5 of the federal government workforce to reduce the size of government current to 30 million unemployed. It takes 5 private sector employees to pay for 1 government employee; therefore, we will encourage at least 30 million to leave the federal government, be given grants, and start small businesses to hire those who are unemployed currently. Atlanta Update @ AtlantaUpdateMetro Atlanta's jobless rate falls to lowest level in more than 3 years - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)http://blogs.ajc.com/business-beat/2012/05/24/metro-atlantas-jobless-rate-falls-to-lowest-level-in-more-than-3-years/?cxntfid=blogs_business_beat
Metro Atlanta’s jobless rate falls to lowest level in more than 3 years | The Biz Beat
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Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent in April -- its lowest level since December 2008 when it was 7.7 percent, the state labor department said
Metro Atlanta’s jobless rate falls to lowest level in more
than 3 years
4:35 am May 24, 2012, by Henry UngerMetro Atlanta’s unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent in April — its lowest level since December 2008 when it was 7.7 percent, the state labor department said Thursday.
The jobless rate dropped from 8.7 percent in March and 9.3 percent a year ago.
The rate declined because the number of new jobs grew by 14,800 to 2,331,100. That was highest number of jobs in metro Atlanta since November 2011.
For the core metro counties, Gwinnett posted the lowest rate at 7.6 percent. Cobb was next with 8 percent, followed by DeKalb (8.9 percent), Fulton (9.2 percent) and Clayton (10.5 percent).
Statewide, Metro Athens had the lowest area rate at 6.5 percent, while metro Dalton had the highest at 11.4 percent.
Last week, the labor department said Georgia’s unemployment rate declined for the ninth consecutive month in April to 8.9 percent. It the first time in more than three years the rate has dropped below 9 percent.
Statewide, the rate declined as the number of new jobs grew by 31,900, to 3,926,000. That was the highest number of jobs in Georgia since January 2009.
The industries showing growth were: trade and transportation; leisure and hospitality; professional and business services; construction; and education and healthcare. While the state gained jobs overall, state and local governments shed 3,300 jobs.
Georgia and metro Atlanta still trail the national unemployment rate, currently at 8.1 percent.
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Obama
May 24th, 2012
5:54 am
Thanks for your support of the stimulus. Otherwise, the unemployment rate would be above 8%.
Billy
May 24th, 2012
6:34 am
LOL, yeah, right. The stimulus DIDN’T help; otherwise, the employment level would have immediately stopped falling and went back up.The economy has barely grown since PBO and the Dims took office in 2008; all the growth has happened in spite of what they did, not because of it.
Why are people sitting on their money instead of investing it if the gov’t environment for business is so good? Because it isn’t.
When, (not if), PBO and the Dims are replaced in November, business and employment will vault into positive territory, almost overnight.
There’s a new generation of suckers born every thirty years that falls for the ultraleftist propaganda. It takes abject failure, like in the late 70s, to jolt people out of the fog and to realize that the liberals don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. They know a lot about deceiving people, but as for gov’t and business, they don’t know stump.
Can’t wait for November…
Will
May 24th, 2012
6:56 am
What really happned is that the republicans took back the house. When the democrats took over congress in 2006, the problems accelerated. Thankfully, Pelosi was ejected from the speaker’s chair and the accelerating insanity stopped.
Mary A
May 24th, 2012
7:29 am
Another bogus article…really have you talked to all those that lost their benefits and are under employed and not employed at all, or never were counted in the first place. Great job AJC on reporting fair, sad to say some people will continue to believe this instead of researching and knowing the facts.
Progress
May 24th, 2012
7:42 am
26 straight months of job growth nationally. The economy started turning around the month the stimulus was enacted, and unemployment would have improved more quickly if it had been bigger. Obama is spending at a lower rate (less increase) than any president since Eisenhower, despite what the Republican lemmings are led to believe. The Republican messiahs, Reagan and W. Bush, spent more than any other president during that time. We’ve already tried the policies that Romney advocates and they have repeatedly proved to be a resounding failure. But unfortunately, we’ll continue to have uneducated, lower middle class “conservatives” (like above) who try to pin the blame on Democrats when they don’t know enough about the economy to realize they are in the position they’re in because of their own ideology (Georgia’s recovery has been slower than the rest of the country because of the policies of the state Republicans). It’s unfortunate that they’ll keep voting against their interests and put themselves in a worse position over time.
Carlos
May 24th, 2012
7:50 am
Now Romney is promising unemployment rate of 6 % or lower. Truth of the matter is the recovery is slow and anyone promising a rapid change is selling you snake oil.
Underpaid
May 24th, 2012
8:29 am
Progress, to talk about what Obama has done they way you are is crazy. Once the Republicans took back the house that is when things began to get better. The Democrats were what ruined this country to begin with.
Ricky Bobby
May 24th, 2012
8:38 am
GOPers, who needs facts when you have a good lie to cling on? Face it, your message is not the same as the reality. I would rather have Obama spending money on Americans than Bush spending money on foreign nations.
no jobs
May 24th, 2012
8:39 am
I can’t find any good jobs–the only things out there are low rent jobs in retail working with a bunch of morons. I’m staying on unemployment until something good comes along
KD
May 24th, 2012
8:40 am
@ Mary A….ditto!TO PREVENT THE 5TH GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER:
- WE HAVE TO HIRE AND REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT THIS SUMMER
- MAKE CUTS AS AGREED TO BY PAUL RYAN AND THE TEA PARTY
- ENTER INTO A DEFICIT REDUCTION PAYMENT PLAN FOR 10 YEARS THAT CUTS $1.7 TRILLION ANNUALLY OR CREATES NEW REVENUES THAT WILL PAY THAT OFF EACH YEAR, BY ADHERENCE TO A $2.5 TRILLION ANNUAL BUDGET MODEL PROPOSED
Food Stamp Fraud: Agriculture Department Taking New Steps To Combat Selling Benefit Cards
By SAM HANANEL 05/24/12 05:32 PM ET
Video, Agriculture Department, Food Stamp, Food Stamp Fraud, Food Stamps, Food Stamps Online, Usda, Politics NewsWASHINGTON — Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash – sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist – and then asking the government for replacement cards.
The Agriculture Department wants to curb the practice by giving states more power to investigate people who repeatedly claim to lose their benefit cards.
It is proposing new rules Thursday that would allow states to demand formal explanations from people who seek replacement cards more than three times a year. Those who don't comply can be denied further cards.
"Up to this point, the state's hands have been tied unless they absolutely suspected fraudulent activity," said Kevin Concannon, the department's undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services.
Overall, food stamp fraud costs taxpayers about $750 million a year, or 1 percent of the $75 billion program that makes up the bulk of the department's total budget for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Most fraud occurs when unscrupulous retailers allow customers to turn in their benefits cards for lesser amounts of cash. But USDA officials are also concerned about people selling or trading cards in the open market, including through websites.
Last year, the department sent letters urging eBay and Craigslist to notify customers that it's illegal to buy and sell food stamps. USDA officials followed up last month, saying they are still getting complaints that people are using the websites to illegally market food stamps.
Both eBay and Craigslist have told the government they are actively reviewing their sites for illegal activity and would take down ads offering food stamp benefits for cash. The USDA also has warned Facebook and Twitter about the practice.
South Dakota, Oklahoma, Washington, D.C., Minnesota and Washington state have the highest percentage of recipients seeking four or more replacement cards over a year. But USDA officials said that doesn't necessarily indicate a high rate of fraud. All states are required by law to reissue lost or stolen cards to those who are eligible for benefits.
Wyoming, Idaho, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Alabama have the lowest percentage of households requesting four or more cards in a 12-month period.
In North Carolina, the state already issues warning letters to people who request four replacement cards in a year, letting them know that officials are monitoring them closely. Dean Simpson, chief of economic family services for the North Carolina Division of Social Services, said the new rules would give her state even more of a boost in curbing food stamp fraud.
"I think it would help with the trafficking and let individuals know they are being observed and watched," said Simpson, who oversees the state's distribution of food stamps.
More than 46 million people receive food stamps, nearly half of them children. The average monthly benefit is $132 per person.
Benefit cards work like debit cards, allowing users to swipe them for food purchases at some 231,000 stores around the country that are authorized to take part in the food stamp program. Once a card is reported lost or stolen, it can be disabled immediately. But the USDA does not require photo identification, since several members of a family, including children, may use the cards at different times.
Concannon stressed that the USDA wants to be sensitive to vulnerable people who may lose their cards for innocent reasons. While it may sound suspicious for someone to lose a card two or three times a year, food stamp recipients include many people who are homeless or have dementia or mental illness, he said.
"Our concern is that in many instances, it may point to a trafficking issue," he said.
Last year, about 850,000 people were investigated for possible food stamp fraud. About 2,000 stores were sanctioned for illegal conduct, and 1,200 stores were permanently removed from the food stamp program.
Large supermarkets are seldom involved in illegal activity, Concannon said. The vast majority of fraud is found in smaller shops and convenience stores.
The USDA is currently developing tougher sanctions and penalties for retailers engaging in food stamp fraud. It is also taking steps to make sure that people disqualified from the program for illegal activity are not able to use it again in other states.
REWIND -- THIS WAS THE 3RD NEAR-GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, WHERE THE TEA PARTY NEGOTIATED A COMPROMISE.... I GUESS SENATOR REID HAS SELECTIVE MEMORY...
April 6, 2011
Americans Favor Budget Compromise Over Shutdown, 58%-33%
Democrats have slight upper hand on ratings of budget dealings
by Lydia SaadPRINCETON, NJ -- With Congress facing a midnight Friday deadline to pass a federal budget before a partial government shutdown occurs, a new Gallup poll finds Americans rooting for a deal. By 58% to 33%, more Americans want government leaders who share their views on the budget to back a compromise and avert a shutdown rather than hold out for a budget they agree with.
The difficulty for House Speaker John Boehner and other Republican leaders is that rank-and-file Republicans' views on this question are starkly different from those of the public at large. The slight majority of Republicans nationwide, 51%, want the people in government who share their views to hold out for a budget they agree with rather than compromise. This compares with 27% of Democrats and 29% of independents who say the same.
Obama and Democrats Get Better Marks on Budget Dealings Than Republicans
The same poll finds that slightly more Americans believe President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress are doing the better job on the budget dealings than say the Republicans in Congress are, 41% to 34%.
The percentage of Americans preferring the Republicans in Congress on this question slipped to 34% from 42% in late February. At the same time, the percentage of Americans having no preference for either side (those who say both parties are doing an equally good job or who have no opinion) rose from 19% to 25%, while their preference for Obama and the Democrats held steady at close to 40%.
Center of Balance on Spending Cuts Is Still to the Right
Despite Americans' preference for Obama's and the Democrats' handling of the budget dealings, and their penchant for compromise, their appetite for spending cuts is a bit more in line with the Republicans' proposals rather than the Democrats'.
According to the new poll, 45% of Americans believe the budget proposals made by Obama and the Democrats do not go far enough in cutting federal spending. By contrast, significantly fewer, 32%, believe the Republicans' proposals go too far. These figures, essentially the same as in February, represent the percentage of Americans agreeing with the criticisms each party is leveling against the other.
Bottom Line
The American public has clearly and consistently expressed a desire for elected officials in Washington to pass a new fiscal year budget without bringing government operations to a halt. While a shutdown poses political risks to Republicans and Democrats, both sides also bring slight advantages in public opinion to the negotiating table. Obama and the Democrats in Congress currently hold a slight edge over the Republicans in Congress in public perceptions of which group is better handling the negotiations. Republicans are on stronger footing when the subject is spending cuts: more Americans believe the Democrats have come up short on this front than say the Republicans have gone too far.
Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone interviews conducted April 5, 2011, on the Gallup Daily tracking survey, with a random sample of 1,014 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, selected using random sampling methods.
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of error is ±4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each daily sample of 1,000 national adults includes a minimum quota of 400 cell phone respondents and 600 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline numbers are chosen at random among listed telephone numbers; cell phone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, phone status (cell phone only/landline only/both, having an unlisted landline number, and cell phone mostly). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2010 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18+ non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
Polls conducted entirely in one day, such as this one, are subject to additional error or bias not found in polls conducted over several days.
View methodology, full question results, and trend data.
For more details on Gallup's polling methodology, visit www.gallup.com.
THE FOURTH NEAR-GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN WAS GOING TO OCCUR AT THE END OF MARCH THIS YEAR, UNTIL THE TEA PARTY AGAIN FIGURED OUT HOW TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OPERATIONAL BEFORE NEW REVENUE CAME IN BY WRITING THE BUDGET
AND WORKING CLOSELY WITH SPEAKER BOEHNER ON BUDGET MARKUPS...
TEA PARTY BUDGET $2.5 TRILLION ANNUAL REVENUE http://lnk.ms/Wb6nV
TEA PARTY ENCOURAGES PASSAGE OF HOUSE REVISED/SENATE CONFERENCE 2011-2012 CONTINUING RESOLUTION:
TEA PARTY APPROVES OF SENATE CONFERENCE ON H.R. 3630, WITHSTANDING LACK OF BUFFALO PRESERVE FOR KEYSTONE PIPELINE, AND NEED OF WAIVER FOR STATE DISPERSAL OF UNEMPLOYMENT TO PREVENT USAGE FOR UNSCRUPULOUS PURPOSES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bm2snW4DpVtjxAnZza8lvhjRyGy5e6Ii672_f--ebgk/edit?hl=en_US
Think the U.S. deficit is bad? Check out the interest payments
By Jeremy Pelofsky
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
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The U.S. debt is roughly $10.6 trillion and the government spent $253 billion servicing it last year. With the mounting yearly deficits, that cost is skyrocketing.
During the debate over the $787 billion economic stimulus plan aimed at pulling the U.S. economy out of its downward spiral, Republicans argued that the cost was really over $1.1 trillion because of the cost to service the additional debt.
Lest folks think that current low borrowing costs would make the burden a little lighter, Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget projected that during his upcoming four years in office the cost will run roughly $1 trillion.
How does spending $447 billion just in interest payments on the debt in 2013 sound? And $694 billion in 2019 alone? If you want to see those shocking figures in black and white, see page 117 of Obama’s budget. It’s worse than opening your monthly credit card bill and looking at the finance charges on the unpaid balance.
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- Photo credit: Reuters/Jim Young (A government employee looks over a sheet of partially printed U.S. currency.)
2012 TEA PARTY BUDGET PROCESS WITH CONGRESS: DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS DONE, NOW WE MOVE ONTO PATENT FUNDING, WHICH IS SQUABBLING OVER FACEBOOK.... PRETTY PREDICTABLE, SO WE WILL FOCUS ON JUDICIAL REFORM, COURT COSTS, AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS, MOVING FROM THE SECOND UMBRELLA TO THE THIRD UMBRELLA, AS CONGRESS HAS 2 HEARINGS ON FACEBOOK ISSUES AND COMMITTEE WORK:
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING ACT OF 2011-2012, also known as “the four umbrellas of original design of Constitutional government” and “implementation of budget cuts”:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ULySpYYNt2uHOsKCr4QwrhYrx60LNjBrk8jJrxHDHyw/edit
Effective 11/2/2011:
In upholding the Tenth Amendment, states are not required to be taxed or suffer from federal appropriation beyond the measure or design of Constitutional government. The closest thing our nation has seen since the secession of the South preemptive to the Civil War, has now in our time been the financial departure from over half of the individual states to federal obligations to spare remanding of citizens over upholding the unconstitutional H.R. 4872. In conjunction with the Commerce Clause, the majority of states filed injunction to not force citizens to be imprisoned, fined, or taxed for bogus and federally over-reaching legislation, over their own health care policies/provisions, or over the debt/public burden of care for welfare of a state’s individuals.
Unfortunately H.R. 4872 is the tip of the iceberg for unwanted and unsequestered appropriation of taxpayer dollars. Government gluttony has been the cause of a $15 trillion dollar deficit, a credit downgrade and near total default, along with a failure to restrict the budget and entitlement spending while being a nation at war for 10 years. For these reasons, we must spare ourselves and our economy the damage of another credit downgrade, charge Obama with misappropriation and fraud, or we stand on the brink of watching our nation burn for the freedom that begat financial enslavement to the government.
I wish in writing this my hands had not seen the toil and fruitlessness of these recent years: in raising the debt ceiling twice since 2006, the current government has not remained accountable to the citizens it serves. Instead, our country has begun to function like a flowering Empire or a budding dictatorship. No President in U.S. history has indebted half our credit to China, lowing the value of the dollar to be worth less than 50 cents, and if we are to uphold the Constitution as the law of the land, Obama can not remain President based solely upon fear of retraction of his removal or feigned allegations of racism. In fact, Obama’s misappropriation has been called treacherous and treasonous, being unable to account for responsible use of nearly $10 trillion since 2006, something that goes beyond categorical misappropriation.
As Osama bin Laden said it best: “We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.” The last time I checked, we still trust in God, and while we have lost faith in Obama’s deceit over his birth certificate and subpoena issued on 8-8-11 and evidence that judicial websites were altered to conceal public records search of the matter, even obscuring and corrupting Supreme Court records, the subsequent revelation of Gaddafi dumping $15 million into CAIR, with Muslim Moderates being some of Obama’s biggest donors is a matter of national security and of interest in the preservation of our country’s best interests. Obama’s misrepresentation of his motives for Office is now magnified by this inability and now unwillingness to work with Congress by threatening perpetual veto of any Conservative legislation to create jobs or cut the budget he hasn’t written, albeit the Senate passes it, Obama still says he intends to veto any of it.
Additionally, the government must be realigned to its original design of the four umbrellas of government, or the government will inherently fail with or without Obama at the helm, to suffice the purpose for which it was created to do. In accordance with the cuts already petitioned to the Senate and Super Committee, we pray that this model assist in government restructuring, permitting the removal of programs that do not meet the basic funding requirements of government design. Our main problem is that we have deviated form Constitutional priorities on spending, as originally there were only 4 cabinets under President Washington, or 4 umbrellas that government expenditures from tax revenue were to cover:
1) Defense
2) Patents/intellectual property
3) Courts/judiciary
4) Diplomacy/international affairs
What is included now in mandatory spending is really discretionary, outside of these four umbrellas of government. Any program that is not exclusively one of these four umbrellas is subject to budget cuts or being struck through entirely; as this is the basis for zero-based budgeting. With a $15 trillion dollar deficit, we need to cut our way back to funding these four umbrellas of government, until we achieve an overage of projected revenue, which will be applied to paying off the deficit to absorb the interest at an annual rate of reduction of debt.
While there are a whole host of programs, it is crucial we consider that with $.42 of every tax dollar spent on defense that with the other $.50 being leveraged as unfunded spending, now in the form of public debt, versus real revenue and actual deficit, this is breaking the American dollar note if half. Going to coins, especially dollar coins, reduces the cost of replacing used notes while moderating inflation with a new monetary control. Primarily, just as much as H.R. 4872 was passed by reconciliation, it may also be declared today as repealed, in that it is outside Constitutional government and budgeting, and thereby dead; in effects of its requirements and punishments, given the fact it is gross misappropriation. Now that we have declared H.R. 4872 dead this day by budgetary control, we may apply this process to other programs acting outside Constitutional law.
Here are the programs slated under budgetary control, as identified and agreed for Tea Party cuts and targets that go further to address the lack of any budget the Obama Administration failed to produce:
1) Department of Education - how we go about cutting or eliminating this program is crucial, in that it would be absorbed under the courts and judiciary. An uneducated society becomes a burden to the courts; therefore, the courts should share funding with DOE or divide it with the judiciary, to give checks and balances as to where and how money should be spent and to prevent corruption in the judiciary from being a wheel or turn-style mechanism for cranking out corruption and sucking up taxpayer dollars with no results or societal returns.
2) Department of Energy - we can split some funding between the Department of Defense or patents. We have a serious issue when global warming has been elevated to a political issue, when it is a factor of environmental science. Based on popular political opinions global warming has become a god requiring exorbitant funding, but if people were educated to taking Physics in high school, they would already know that kinetic energy and over-population are driving destructive weather patterns and trends: this does not require another limb of government to address it.
3) Federal Housing Programs - have pandered to race, and the Clinton Administration put us on a path to where we could not sustain the expense of government involvement. The government is to enforce the financial reform legislation; which Obama refuses to do, because of his donor ties and constituencies related to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This falls under no umbrella, except if strains the judiciary and only a small amount should be appropriated from taxpayer dollars to deal with this issue. The government should be amassing penalties for bailouts and fraud against taxpayers for unethical operation. The government must enforce the laws it creates, or it is ineffective.
4) Highway and Transit - as we meet the Iraq withdrawal and continue to address defense issues, what is cut from defense can be spent on infrastructure. This way, we can tangibly spend responsibly as we gear toward a peace time economy.
5) Department of Agriculture - falls under the patent division. As farming advances, and we must teach self-sufficiency rather than food stamp allotments, we are to regroup this under patent funding appropriation.
**Welfare and debt are local issues; the state must be accountable for their use of federal money, not states straining the entire nation as a whole!
Anything else that is not covered here may be considered for privatization, and this is extremely important, because it creates jobs and sparks innovation. In order for the government to become a respected, relevant, and lawfully operating entity as it should be, it must be relegated back to its original design and act within the means that taxpayers fund the government that they want to have. Texas, that shining star, has been a micro model for the use of the 10th Amendment principles under Texas Governor Rick Perry. If you want to see a successful model of this in action, look at Texas.
We support these methods of cutting the budget, and we suggest that the Super Committee not just pick enough cuts from the Tea Party sanctioned cuts, but continue this process though the end of this year, before likely adopting the Paul Ryan or Coburn budget plans for 2012. The Tea Party has plenty of steam to continue pressing for Conservative government and leadership in all areas of federal government that will produce conducive results for what we want for the future.
“Federal Skeleton Budget Implementation Act of 2011-2012”
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U318AW5XYBjzgEhPvvcW59RUHdSehnOVdGiquZyxj6Q/edit?hl=en_US
$2.5 TRILLION BASE BUDGET WITH UPDATED PART 1&PART 2:
PART 1: APPLICATION OF THE FOLLOWING ACT
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U318AW5XYBjzgEhPvvcW59RUHdSehnOVdGiquZyxj6Q/edit?hl=en_US
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING ACT OF 2011-2012, also known as “the four umbrellas of original design of Constitutional government” and “implementation of budget cuts”:
"The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security."
--James Madison, Federalist No. 45, 1788
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ULySpYYNt2uHOsKCr4QwrhYrx60LNjBrk8jJrxHDHyw/edit?hl=en_US
As we gear to a peace time economy, we MUST focus on basic tenets of budgeting; zero-based and prioritized budgeting, in nation building, by rebuilding at home:
4 umbrellas that government expenditures from tax revenue ARE to cover:
1) Defense
2) Patents/intellectual property
3) Courts/judiciary
4) Diplomacy/international affairs
THESE UMBRELLAS ARE TO MONITOR OR OVERSEE COSTS AS TO WHICH DEPARTMENT FALLS UNDER THEIR UMBRELLA, AND THEY ARE TO ADDRESS WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE, BECAUSE IT PUTS HOLES IN THE BUDGET FOR FUNDING THAT PARTICULAR UMBRELLA.
YELLOW - PROGRAMS UNDER THE SPECIFIED UMBRELLA SUBJECT TO CUTS
ORANGE - PROGRAMS THAT MAY NEED TO BE DONE AWAY WITH PERMANENTLY OR SERIOUSLY LIMIT FUNDING
* FOLLOWS THE REASON GIVEN WHY
RED - THIS PROGRAM NEEDS TO BE ERADICATED, OR SIMPLY RELEGATED TO SPECIFIC LEGISLATION WITH COST OF FUNDING THE PROGRAM OR APPROPRIATION, LIMITED TO 20 PGS. IN LENGTH, BY ACT OF CONGRESS WITH A SIMPLE UP OR DOWN VOTE
GREEN - HOW TO MAKE THIS DEPARTMENT FUNCTION WITH THE QUALITY EXPECTED TO JUSTIFY FUNDING ITS OPERATIONS
DEFENSE HAS INDICATED THE FOLLOWING DEFICITS CAUSED BY OBAMA NOT WRITING A BUDGET IN 3YRS., NOT RESTRICTING ANY OF BUSH JR.’S BUDGETING POLICIES, AND MISAPPROPRIATING ENTITLEMENT REFORM:
• Military pay raise of 1.6%
– Matches the Employment Cost Index (ECI)
– Civilians under a pay freeze
**CONGRESSIONAL PAY AND FEDERAL EMPLOYEES NEED TO HAVE PAY FROZEN OR CUT IN HALF, UNTIL THERE IS A BUDGET WRITTEN, AND THE DEFICIT RECTIFIED.
OTHERWISE, TAX INCREASES ARE TO BE LEVIED APPROPRIATELY ON CIVILIANS WHO ARE SUBJECT TO IRS AUDITS, FOR ENTITLEMENT USAGE BEYOND WHAT THEY’VE PAID INTO SOCIAL SECURITY, FRAUD, ETC.
2008 REVENUE FIGURE: $2.5 TRILLION = $2,500,000,000,000
$1 TRILLION ON DEFENSE -- $1.5 TRILLION SPENT ON THESE THREE:
| DEFENSE PRIORITY #1 40% of REVENUE | PATENTS/ INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PRIORITY #2 35% OF REVENUE | COURTS/ JUDICIARY PRIORITY #3 40% OF REVENUE | DIPLOMACY/ INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS PRIORITY #4 25% OF REVENUE |
| DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY *FRAUD, I.E.; SOLYNDRA, ETC. | TORT REFORM TO PREVENT LAWSUITS: AREAS MUSIC, HEALTH CARE, TECHNOLOGY, ETC. | DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION *FRAUD: TEST SCORES CHANGED, FEDERAL MONEY MISSPENT, CHEATING WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT EDUCATED THEY BURDEN THE COURTS | FOREIGN AID *TERRORISM FINANCING MECHANISM FOR FOREIGN ENTITIES |
| HOMELAND SECURITY *TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS MAKE CUTS AND THE CUTS YOU MAKE TO PERSONNEL UPGRADE WITH TECHNOLOGY | POSTAL SERVICE *NEEDS TO ADAPT TO ELECTRONIC MAIL IN CONSIDERATION OF SERVICES NOT NEEDED, CLOSING FRI-SUN | CONGRESS *HAS BEEN INEFFECTIVE TO WRITE A BUDGET IN 3YRS., HOLD OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE, IMPEACH HIM, CHARGE HIM WITH ELECTION FRAUD AND MISAPPROPRIATION - IT IS TIME FOR CONGRESS’ SALARY TO BE CUT UNTIL THEY PASS A BBA AND A BUDGET THAT PASSES HOUSE AND SENATE *CONGRESSIONAL REFORM ACT MAKES IT A PART-TIME POST | STOP TRAVEL - NEEDS TO BE RESTRICTED TO EMERGENCY ONLY VISITS IF IT IS CONCERNING TRADE MATTERS, HOST THE COUNTRY’S LEADER AT THE WHITE HOUSE GROUND AF1 |
| MEDIA FUNDING/ EMERGENCY, PUBLIC BROADCASTING | FDA, INSPECTORS *STREAMLINING AGENCIES | LAW ENFORCEMENT: PENSIONS, HEALTH PROGRAMS, TRAINING | CUT OFF FUNDING TO PAKISTAN, EXCEPT FOR SECRET OPS |
| INFRASTRUCTURE - AS DEFENSE CUTS ARE MADE, MONEY CAN BE REINVESTED TO RESTRUCTURE AND FACE LIFT FEDERAL ROADS, BUILDINGS, AND GIVE GRANTS TO STATES FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS | DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE - *SUBSIDIES ARE A CONCERN WHEN WE ARE BEING POISONED/MADE TOXIC BY TOXINS IF THERE WAS EVER A WAY TO GO GREEN, FARM SUBSIDIES MUST BE GREEN, NATURAL PEST CONTROL INITIATIVES, DO AWAY WITH COMMERCIALIZED PESTICIDES AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE | GOVERNMENT MUST GET OUT OF INDUSTRIES: THE GOVERNMENT MUST GET OUT OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE BUSINESS, HOUSING BUSINESS, ETC. BY REPEALING HR 4872/OBAMACARE- RELATED LEGISLATION THROUGH PASSAGE OF REPEAL BILL https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jK6-kGCB_Dbb5K98YSS9o9kSNBwLJsSb7XQ5GQSvTks/edit?authkey=CIS_je8I&hl=en_US&authkey=CIS_je8I AS CBO DIRECTED THROUGH THE TAX ID# OR TAX CODE AND THEY MUST REPEAL 200+ REGULATIONS ON BUSINESSES OR FACE BEING INUNDATED WITH LAWSUITS BY COMPANIES WHO SUE FOR FEDERAL OVER-REACH OF THE CONSTITUTION | CUT OFF FUNDING TO AFGHANISTAN, EXCEPT FOR SECRET OPS *FOR HARBORING A TERRORIST PROPAGANDA CENTER FOR TALIBAN CUT OFF IRAN’S FUNDS/BANKING: *FOR LYING ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPON TECHNOLOGY TESTING, VIOLATING NATO RULES AND TESTIMONY GIVEN TO NATO |
| FEDERAL RESERVE - *TO BE AUDITED BY THE I.R.S. AND CONGRESS IS TO HAVE A HEARING BY 7/1/2012 REGARDING FRAUD THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS TO ADJUST THEIR COST BY GOING TO COINS, AND REDUCING COSTS OF INK AND PAPER, IN ACCORDANCE TO GREEN STANDARDS, AS WE CAN NOT SUPPORT PRINTING MORE BILLS AT THIS TIME | VACCINES AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS: *NEED TO BE BETTER REGULATED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FOR THE PATENTS IT PASSES OUT LIKE CANDY TO BIG PHARMACEUTICALS OR FACE LAWSUITS TO THE COMPANIES INVOLVED AND THE PATENT OFFICE FOR CORROBORATION | COURTS *MUST ADHERE TO ENTITLEMENT REFORM AND POLICY, INCLUDING BEING BANNED FROM USE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS, OR FACE LAWSUITS FOR MORAL TURPITUDE, CORRUPTION, AND ETHICS VIOLATIONS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SVZ_6BpS3i6BWtkeY58wYhknothG6S7Ba9EjwLS2pYQ/edit?hl=en_US | CUT OFF FUNDING TO IRAQ *WE CAN’T BE CLEANING UP THEIR MESS AND RESTORING IRAQ IN NEGLECTING ATTENDING TO MATTERS HERE FIRST |
PART 2: APPLICATION OF THE FOLLOWING ACT
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U318AW5XYBjzgEhPvvcW59RUHdSehnOVdGiquZyxj6Q/edit?hl=en_US
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING ACT OF 2011-2012, also known as “the four umbrellas of original design of Constitutional government” and “implementation of budget cuts”:
TAKEN FROM THE 2012 UNAPPROVED BUDGET
The Numbers: What are the federal government’s sources of revenue?
Individual income taxes and payroll taxes now account for four out of every five federal revenue dollars. Corporate income taxes contribute another 12 percent. Excise taxes, estate and gift taxes, customs duties, and miscellaneous receipts (earnings of the Federal Reserve System and various fees and charges) make up the balance. The composition of tax revenue has changed markedly over the past half century, with payroll taxes contributing an increasing, and corporate income and excise taxes a decreasing, share of the total, but the share provided by individual income taxes has remained roughly constant.
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JOHN BOEHNER’S ADDENDUM:
WHY OBAMA IS POLITICIZING THE RICH, WHEN THERE ARE PLENTY OF RICH DEMOCRATS AND WHY IT’S REALLY A CAMPAIGN PLOY....
By Doug Powers • May 24, 2012 04:33 PM
**Written by Doug Powers
The “Obama the Frugal” reinvention probably won’t go over successfully with anybody who has spent the last few years, you know, conscious — but he’s trying:
At a fundraiser for his re-election campaign in Denver tonight, President Obama set out to upend conventional Republican wisdom that his administration has been defined by excessive government spending.
“I’m running to pay down our debt in a way that’s balanced and responsible. After inheriting a $1 trillion deficit, I signed $2 trillion of spending cuts into law,” he told a crowd of donors at the Hyatt Regency. “My opponent won’t admit it, but it’s starting to appear in places, like real liberal outlets, like the Wall Street Journal: Since I’ve been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years. Think about that.”
Obama was referring to an analysis released this week by Rex Nutting, a reporter for CBS MarketWatch who is also affiliated with the Wall Street Journal. Nutting concluded that Obama has presided over the slowest growth in federal spending in decades.
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The Romney campaign noted that more than $5 trillion has been added to the debt during Obama’s first term, though in 2008 Obama called the $4 trillion added under Bush ”unpatriotic.”
The Republican National Committee pointed out that while growth of spending and debt may have slowed, Obama has overseen the three largest deficits in U.S. history. (They also pass along fact-checker Politifact’s 2011 designation of Obama as the “undisputed debt king” of the last five presidents.)
Every White House suggestion I’ve seen to pay down the debt involvesincreasing the debt massively and then flinging it off the charts within a decade, along with the rest of the country. Somehow that saves money in the long run.
Political Math has a good tutorial about the Rex Nutting analysis to which Obama is now referencing as evidence of his administration’s spend-thrift nature. Click the graphic to give it a read:
And since we’re talking actual deficits, we have this from the USA Today: Applying accounting practices the government insists we use in the real world but won’t apply to themselves, last year’s federal deficit wasn’t $1.3 trillion, but rather… $5 trillion (h/t Ed Morrissey):
The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
Under those accounting practices, the government ran red ink last year equal to $42,054 per household — nearly four times the official number reported under unique rules set by Congress.
A U.S. household’s median income is $49,445, the Census reports.
The big difference between the official deficit and standard accounting: Congress exempts itself from including the cost of promised retirement benefits. Yet companies, states and local governments must include retirement commitments in financial statements, as required by federal law and private boards that set accounting rules.
The deficit was $5 trillion last year under those rules. The official number was $1.3 trillion. Liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and other retirement programs rose by $3.7 trillion in 2011, according to government actuaries, but the amount was not registered on the government’s books.
The White House, and much of Congress for that matter, should save any laughable braggadocio about frugality for “Inside the Beltway night” at the Improv.
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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- In 2008 the federal government collected $2.5 trillion, an amount equal to 17.7 percent of GDP. Federal revenue has ranged from 14.4 to 20.9 percent of GDP over the past five decades, averaging 18.2 percent.
- The individual income tax has been the largest single source of federal revenue since 1950, averaging just over 8 percent of GDP.
- Payroll taxes swelled following the creation of Medicare in 1965. Taxes for Medicare, combined with periodic increases in Social Security taxes, caused payroll tax revenue to grow from 1.6 percent of GDP in 1950 to more than 6 percent since 1990. Payroll taxes also include railroad retirement, unemployment insurance, and federal workers’ pension contributions.
- Revenue from the corporate income tax fell from between 5 and 6 percent of GDP in the early 1950s to 2.1 percent of GDP in 2008.
- Excise taxes fell steadily throughout the same period, from nearly 3 percent of GDP in 1950 to 0.5 percent in recent years.
| Dept. of Defense - must make 5% in cuts from their submitted budget to be spent on infrastructure/ taxpayers can not afford to pay for child care when it should be handled on base or through PX facility Overseas Contingency Operations: some of these are dual funded programs, under Dept. of State/International pgms. | Department of the Treasury: You can cut the $14 billion and repeal Dodd-Frank. We have had no budget pass in 3yrs. and no one has been held accountable for bailouts or charging Fannie/Freddie | Department of Housing and Urban Development: CUT THIS DEPARTMENT IN HALF | Department of Health and Human Services: strike funding for the Affordable Care Act, as 25-30 million lost their jobs and their existing insurance and no one has received any health care whatsoever, it is a fraudulent program/unconsitutional 1 in 3 children are living in poverty because of this misappropriation -- the government needs to get out of the insurance business and competing with insurance providers |
| National Intelligence Program: exact amounts are not listed | Corps of Engineers/Civil Works: can be combined with the EPA | Department of Justice: the courts do not deserve a 2% raise for law enforcement using confidential informants with the foreclosure rate and prescription pill addiction explosion | Department of State and Other International Programs: cut off Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan and spend the money on Africa or cut it out entirely!!! |
| Department of the Interior: Cut this department, unless you approve Keystone Pipeline with buffalo preserves | EPA: cut funding, quit camouflaging Native funding for things we don’t see | Department of Labor: this is one of the most bogus uses of money, and should be cut an additional 5-10% to match the unemployment level for being ineffective | |
| Department of Transportation: this is the only department whose funding should be increased 5% directly from defense cuts | NASA: restore funding to NASA through defense cuts | Corporation for National and Community Service: the government is not a charity subsidy; the government must outsource issues like this, not pick one and fund it over 10% of budgeting. No program will get any increases in a deficit!! | |
| Department of Veterans Affairs: while there is a great need to address PTSD, Spirulina can be taken for a dopamine deficiency, $5 a bottle private purchase/this should be outsourced to state health departments. | NSF: you can not increase funding 13% with no budget, no deficit payment plan with rampant fraud at the Department of energy; no increases in funding, increases are frozen | ||
| Small Business Administration: cut this department entirely, grants can be used to start businesses |
JOHN BOEHNER’S ADDENDUM:
- House GOP to Pass Bill Keeping Pledge to Cut Spending, Eliminate Wasteful Programs
- Posted by Katie Boyd on November 17, 2011
- This week, House Republicans will continue keeping their pledge to stop the spending binge and reduce the size of government by passing a measure (H.R. 2112) that decreases spending for several government agencies by $7 billion from last year, and represents a savings of $98 billion compared to the President’s request. According to an Appropriations Committee summary, the measure also fulfills Republicans’ pledge to “root out government waste” and sunset “costly and duplicative programs,” saving taxpayers more than $450 million by eliminating 20 wasteful programs, including:
- Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- New era/rural technology - $1 M
- Microbiological data program - $4.2 M
- Healthy Food Financing Initiative - $35 M
- Subsidized Guaranteed Farm Loans - $17 M
- Rural Microenterprise Investment Program - $6 M
- 12 Federal Agricultural Research Laboratories at 10 Locations - $38 M
- Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
- EDA Sustainable Economic Development/Global Climate Change - $16.5 M
- NTIA Public Telecommunications Facilities, Planning and Construction - $ 1M
- NIST Technology Innovation Program - $44.8M
- NIST Baldrige Performance Excellence Program - $9.6M
- NOAA Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning - $1.5M
- DOJ National Drug Intelligence Center - $34M
- DEA Mobile Enforcement Teams Program - $40M
- Community-Based Violence Prevention Initiative - $8.3M
- COPS Technology - $1.2M
- NSF Graduate STEM Fellowships in K-12 Education - $26M
- NSF Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory - $12M
- NSF National STEM Education Distributed Learning - $10M
- Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
- TIGGER Grants (FTA) - $50M
- Sustainable Communities Grants (HUD) - $100M
- This week’s funding measure follows on the progress made earlier this year when House Republicans passed legislation that eliminated more than 40 wasteful programs in the Department of Education alone, and cut or eliminated hundreds more (see full list here).
- Republicans are focused on removing barriers to economic growth and private-sector job creation (see: Plan for America’s Job Creators), including the threat of higher taxes stemming from Washington Democrats’ out-of-control spending binge. A statement signed earlier this year by 150 economists and sent to the White House by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) reiterated that “to support real economic growth and support the creation of private-sector jobs, immediate action is needed to rein in federal spending.”
- With the debt now topping an astronomical $15 trillion, it is critical for Democrats to stop insisting on more ‘failed’ stimulus spending and start working with Republicans on solutions that will put America on a more sustainable fiscal path. A good first step would be passing the House’s pro-growth Path to Prosperity budget, and supporting the Balanced Budget Amendment the House will pass this week. If Senate Democrats continue blocking the House-passed budget, they owe it to Americans to put forth a plan of their own. They have, after all, had more than 900 days to come up with one. “We can’t wait” to hear what they have to offer.
- ALL PROGRAMS LISTED BELOW ARE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE EXPANDED PAST THE INTENDED SCOPE AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT AND YEARLY APPROPRIATION FOR TAX REVENUE RECEIVED; MANY ARE WHAT IS REFERRED TO AS ENTITLEMENTS, WHICH ARE NOT MANDATORY SPENDING, BUT DISCRETIONARY YIELD, AS APPROPRIATED TO STATES.
- OBAMA HAS ABUSED THIS PRACTICE, AND CONTINUED ALL OF BUSH JR.’S BUDGETING AND POLICIES TO GROSS MISAPPROPRIATION:
- MEDICARE/MEDICAID, PARTICULARLY MEDICARE PART D
- TANF
- SOCIAL SECURITY PAYOUTS
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD
- WELFARE
- UNEMPLOYMENT EXTENSIONS, PAST WHAT SOMEONE HAS PAID IN
- HR 4872/OBUMMERCARE LEGISLATION
- PENSIONS
- FANNIE AND FREDDIE MORTGAGE FRAUD HANDOUTS
- ALL HOUSING ASSISTANCE
- BANK BAILOUTS
- GRANTS
- NPR
- WIC
- OTHER PROBLEMS EATING AWAY FEDERAL TAXPAYER DOLLARS LIKE MOTHS:
- CAMPAIGN/LOBBYING CORRUPTION *FINANCE REFORM - REQUIRES ADOPTION OF LEGISLATION TO PREVENT MORAL TURPITUDE
- TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ISSUES - ENFORCEMENT
- MAKING THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME FOR ENFORCING BREACH OF FINANCIAL REFORM LEGISLATION - ENFORCEMENT
TEA PARTY STRATEGY
The Tea Party's top 10 preferred cuts:
1. Repeal Obamacare (93%)
2. Reduce duplicative purchases of Pentagon Supplies (90%)
3. Eliminate Department of Education (81%)
4. Privatize Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (81%)
5. Reduce discretionary spending to 2008 levels (76%)
6. Block grant Medicaid (74%)
7. End ethanol tax credits (71%)
8. Sell needless federal buildings (71%)
9. Eliminate HUD (70%)
10. Reduce Medicare teaching subsidies (68%)
******AS THE BUDGET IS ADDRESSED IN THIS MANNER, THE RESULTING PERCENTAGES AFTER PRIORITY BUDGETING IS MET, CAN THEN BE USED ON PROGRAMS IN THE RED.
- DEFENSE HAS $300 BILLION LEFT, BEFORE THEY MAX OUT OF BUDGET, AND WE MAY APPROPRIATE $100 BILLION FOR SYRIA OPERATIONS, BUT SOME OF THAT IS BEING USED NOW FOR SENATORS TO VISIT AND REFUGEE CAMPS IN TURKEY: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq5m9QEGEZpOdDE0R0o1YmFJRDdyVkFIcVE0dkthUXc#gid=0
- PATENTS HAVE $525 BILLION, THE TWO FACEBOOK HEARINGS WILL TAKE FROM THAT, AS WELL AS ANY PATENTS APPROVED THIS YEAR, AS WE ARE CONCENTRATING ON TORT REFORM, POSTAL SERVICES CUTS AND RESTRUCTURING, FDA STREAMLINING/RESTRUCTURING, AGRICULTURE SUBSIDIES, VACCINES, AND PHARMACEUTICAL CONTRACT REFORM
- COURTS HAVE $390 BILLION, BANNED FROM USING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS AND MUST ADHERE TO ENTITLEMENT REFORM POLICIES, REPEALING OBAMACARE WITH SENATOR SANTORUM’S PLATFORM AND PAUL BROUN’S LEGISLATION, FEDERAL MONEY MISSPENT WITH EDUCATION GRANTS AND RACE-TO-THE-TOP, LAW ENFORCEMENT PENSIONS, PROGRAMS, AND TRAINING, AND WHEN PEOPLE ARE EDUCATED THEY COMMIT LESS CRIME... CUTS TO JUDICIARY WILL SUPPLEMENT EDUCATION, NOT PROMOTE CRIME FOR PROFIT BY INDIVIDUALS OR GOVERNMENT
- DIPLOMACY BUDGET IS MAXED OUT - OBAMA HAS BEEN BANNED FROM TRAVELING, AND THERE IS CONSIDERATION OF SUING OVER HIS TRAVEL VIOLATING THE BUDGET... AID HAS BEEN CUT OFF TO PAKISTAN, AND ENTITLEMENT REFORM MEANS BLOCK GRANTING TO STATES.
WHY OBAMA IS POLITICIZING THE RICH, WHEN THERE ARE PLENTY OF RICH DEMOCRATS AND WHY IT’S REALLY A CAMPAIGN PLOY....
Fact check: Obama's trillion-dollar exaggeration
By Eugene Kiely, FactCheck.org
Updated 2/15/2012 12:52 PM
By Jewel Samad, AFP/Getty Images
President Obama discusses his budget proposal in Annandale, Va., on Monday.
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The White House told us that the president is referring to the $968 billion that "we save" over 10 years by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire as scheduled for high-income wage earners and returning the estate tax rate to 2009 levels. But that's money "saved" compared with extending the expiring cuts, not compared with current law. The fact is that the U.S. is not "scheduled to spend" that money and can't spend it without changes to current law.
On the day he released his fiscal year 2013 budget, Obama visited Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., to discuss his budget proposals. He talked about "shared responsibility" — referring to his belief that the Bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire, as planned, at the end of 2012 for the families making more than $250,000 a year and individuals earning more than $200,000.
Obama, Feb. 13: Right now, we're scheduled to spend nearly $1 trillion more on what was intended to be a temporary tax cut for the wealthiest 2% of Americans. We've already spent about that much. Now we're scheduled to spend another trillion.
This has become a standard line in the president's stump speech as he begins to campaign for reelection in earnest. He made a similar statement in his Jan. 24 State of the Union address and again and again in a string of follow-up speeches in Arizona, Michigan and Iowa.
Obama, State of the Union, Jan. 24: Right now, we're poised to spend nearly $1 trillion more on what was supposed to be a temporary tax break for the wealthiest 2% of Americans.
The president often refers to families earning more than $250,000 a year (and individuals earning more than $200,000) as "the wealthiest 2% of Americans." He did it throughout the debate in the final months of 2010, when he failed to convince Congress to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire as scheduled on Dec. 31, 2010, for "the wealthiest 2% of Americans," and keep them for those earning less than that. We figured — correctly — that the president was referring to the temporary income tax cuts enacted by Bush in 2001 and 2003 and extended by Obama in 2010.
But we were puzzled by Obama's repeated claim that the U.S. "right now" is "poised" to spend "nearly $1 trillion more" on the Bush tax cuts. The fact is that when Obama and Congress negotiated a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers, the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimated it would cost $363.5 billion through Dec. 31, 2012. That's not close to "nearly $1 trillion" and that was the cost for all taxpayers, not just the wealthy.
We asked the White House to explain the president's claim. In an email exchange with us, the White House pointed us to Table S-9 on page 236 of the budget summary tables. The White House said that the federal government would realize a "combined savings" of $968 billion by allowing the income tax cuts to expire for high-income taxpayers and returning the estate tax to 2009 rates.
But saving money is not the same thing as spending money if the payments are automatically scheduled to stop. By the president's logic, a car owner is scheduled to spend $36,000 in car payments over the next 10 years, even though the $300 monthly car payments are due to end on Dec. 31, 2012. Unless, of course, the car owner goes out and buys a new car. Likewise, the only way the tax cut can be extended beyond 2012 is if Obama signs a law extending it, or if Congress overrides his veto — or if Obama loses reelection and the next president retroactively reinstates the tax cut.
It's true that Republicans would like to extend the Bush tax cuts, and there is legislation that proposes to make them permanent. But right now the Bush tax cuts are due to expire, so claiming the U.S. is "scheduled" or "poised" to pay "another trillion" is just wrong.
In delivering his $1 trillion talking point in Michigan, the president was interrupted by a member of the audience, who shouted out, "That's not fair!" The president agreed. "That's not fair," he said. To which, we would add: It's also not true.
It would be true, however, if the president said it would cost the U.S. nearly $1 trillion in lost tax revenue to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans for another 10 years and return to the 2009 estate tax rates.
Now, Obama also said that "we've already spent" about a trillion dollars on the Bush tax cuts. It wasn't clear whether he was talking about lost revenue from just the wealthy or all taxpayers. The tax cuts cost the federal government $1 trillion in lost revenue over 10 years from all taxpayers, according to a December 2010 report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. And, as we said earlier, the two-year extension cost an additional $363.5 billion in lost revenue. Other partisan groups have put the figure much higher. Citizens for Tax Justice puts the total at more than $2 trillion over 10 years. The Tax Foundation says that "there is no definitive answer" for how much the Bush tax cuts cost in lost revenue.
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By Doug Powers • May 24, 2012 04:33 PM
**Written by Doug Powers
The “Obama the Frugal” reinvention probably won’t go over successfully with anybody who has spent the last few years, you know, conscious — but he’s trying:
At a fundraiser for his re-election campaign in Denver tonight, President Obama set out to upend conventional Republican wisdom that his administration has been defined by excessive government spending.
“I’m running to pay down our debt in a way that’s balanced and responsible. After inheriting a $1 trillion deficit, I signed $2 trillion of spending cuts into law,” he told a crowd of donors at the Hyatt Regency. “My opponent won’t admit it, but it’s starting to appear in places, like real liberal outlets, like the Wall Street Journal: Since I’ve been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years. Think about that.”
Obama was referring to an analysis released this week by Rex Nutting, a reporter for CBS MarketWatch who is also affiliated with the Wall Street Journal. Nutting concluded that Obama has presided over the slowest growth in federal spending in decades.
[...]
The Romney campaign noted that more than $5 trillion has been added to the debt during Obama’s first term, though in 2008 Obama called the $4 trillion added under Bush ”unpatriotic.”
The Republican National Committee pointed out that while growth of spending and debt may have slowed, Obama has overseen the three largest deficits in U.S. history. (They also pass along fact-checker Politifact’s 2011 designation of Obama as the “undisputed debt king” of the last five presidents.)
Every White House suggestion I’ve seen to pay down the debt involvesincreasing the debt massively and then flinging it off the charts within a decade, along with the rest of the country. Somehow that saves money in the long run.
Political Math has a good tutorial about the Rex Nutting analysis to which Obama is now referencing as evidence of his administration’s spend-thrift nature. Click the graphic to give it a read:
And since we’re talking actual deficits, we have this from the USA Today: Applying accounting practices the government insists we use in the real world but won’t apply to themselves, last year’s federal deficit wasn’t $1.3 trillion, but rather… $5 trillion (h/t Ed Morrissey):
The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit, a USA TODAY analysis finds.
Under those accounting practices, the government ran red ink last year equal to $42,054 per household — nearly four times the official number reported under unique rules set by Congress.
A U.S. household’s median income is $49,445, the Census reports.
The big difference between the official deficit and standard accounting: Congress exempts itself from including the cost of promised retirement benefits. Yet companies, states and local governments must include retirement commitments in financial statements, as required by federal law and private boards that set accounting rules.
The deficit was $5 trillion last year under those rules. The official number was $1.3 trillion. Liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and other retirement programs rose by $3.7 trillion in 2011, according to government actuaries, but the amount was not registered on the government’s books.
The White House, and much of Congress for that matter, should save any laughable braggadocio about frugality for “Inside the Beltway night” at the Improv.
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Memorial Day is a federal holiday observed annually in the United States on the last Monday of May.[1] Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. (Southern ladies organizations and southern schoolchildren had decorated Confederate graves in Richmond and other cities during the Civil War, but each region had its own date. Most dates were in May.) By the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died in all wars. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.[2] As a marker it typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.
Many people visit cemeteries and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries.[3]
By the early 20th century, Memorial Day was an occasion for more general expressions of memory, as people visited the graves of their deceased relatives in church cemeteries, whether they had served in the military or not. It also became a long weekend increasingly devoted to shopping, family gatherings, fireworks, trips to the beach, and national media events such as the Indianapolis 500 auto race, held since 1911 on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.[4]
Annual Decoration Days for particular cemeteries are held on a Sunday in late spring or early summer in some rural areas of the American South, notably in the mountains. In cases involving a family graveyard where remote ancestors as well as those who were deceased more recently are buried, this may take on the character of an extended family reunion to which some people travel hundreds of miles. People gather on the designated day and put flowers on graves and renew contacts with kinfolk and others. There often is a religious service and a "dinner on the ground," the traditional term for a potluck meal in which people used to spread the dishes out on sheets or tablecloths on the grass. It is believed that this practice began before the American Civil War and thus may reflect the real origin of the "memorial day" idea. See Jabbour and Jabbour (listed below).
History
Following President Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, there were a variety of events of commemoration. The first known observance of a Memorial Day-type observance was in Charleston, South Carolina on May 1, 1865. During the war, Union soldiers who were prisoners of war had been held at the Charleston Race Course; at least 257 Union prisoners died there and were hastily buried in unmarked graves.[5]
Freedmen (freed slaves) knew of the Union dead and decided to honor them. Together with teachers and missionaries, blacks in Charleston organized a May Day ceremony covered by the New York Tribune and other national papers. Years later, it came to be called the "First Decoration Day" in the North. Beforehand the freedmen had cleaned up and landscaped the burial ground, building an enclosure and an arch labeled, "Martyrs of the Race Course." Nearly ten thousand people, mostly freedmen, gathered on May 1 to commemorate the dead. Involved were 3,000 schoolchildren newly enrolled in freedmen's schools, mutual aid societies, Union troops, and black ministers and white northern missionaries. Most brought flowers to lay on the burial field. Today the site is used as Hampton Park.[6]
The historian David W. Blight described the day:
"This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the War had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.”[7]
Events were held in 183 cemeteries in 27 states in 1868, and 336 in 1869. The northern states quickly adopted the holiday; Michigan made "Decoration Day" an official state holiday in 1871 and by 1890, every northern state followed suit. The ceremonies were sponsored by the Women's Relief Corps, which had 100,000 members. By 1870, the remains of nearly 300,000 Union dead had been reinterred in 73 national cemeteries, located near the battlefields and therefore mostly in the South. The most famous are Gettysburg National Cemetery in Pennsylvania andArlington National Cemetery, near Washington.
The Memorial Day speech became an occasion for veterans, politicians and ministers to commemorate the War - and at first to rehash the atrocities of the enemy. They mixed religion and celebratory nationalism and provided a means for the people to make sense of their history in terms of sacrifice for a better nation. People of all religious beliefs joined together, and the point was often made that the German and Irish soldiers had become true Americans in the "baptism of blood" on the battlefield. By the end of the 1870s much of the rancor was gone, and the speeches praised the brave soldiers both Blue and Gray. By the 1950s, the theme was American exceptionalism and duty to uphold freedom in the world.
Ironton, Ohio, lays claim to the nation's oldest continuously running Memorial Day parade. Its first parade was held May 5, 1868, and the town has held it every year since. However, the Memorial Day parade in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, predates Ironton's by one year.[10]
On April 25, 1866 women in Columbus, Mississippi laid flowers at the graves of both the Union and Confederate casualties buried in its cemetery.[13] The early Confederate Memorial Day celebrations were simple, somber occasions for veterans and their families to honor the day and attend to local cemeteries. Around 1890, there was a shift from this consolatory emphasis on honoring specific soldiers to public commemoration of the Confederate cause.[citation needed] Changes in the ceremony's hymns and speeches reflect an evolution of the ritual into a symbol of cultural renewal and conservatism in the South. By 1913, Blight argues, the theme of American nationalism shared equal time with the Lost Cause.[14]
The four-day "Blue-Gray Reunion" featured parades, re-enactments, and speeches from a host of dignitaries, including PresidentWoodrow Wilson, the first Southerner elected to the White House since the War. James Heflin of Alabama was given the honor of the main address. Heflin was a noted orator; two of his best-known speeches were an endorsement of the Lincoln Memorial and his call to make Mother's Day a holiday. His choice as Memorial Day speaker was criticized, as he was opposed for his racism. His speech was moderate in tone and stressed national unity and goodwill, which gained praise from newspapers.
The half-staff position remembers the more than one million men and women who gave their lives in service of their country. At noon their memory is raised by the living, who resolve not to let their sacrifice be in vain, but to rise up in their stead and continue the fight for liberty and justice for all.
Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed a lot to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.[16]
Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator Daniel Inouye, a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day to its traditional date.[17]
After some initial confusion and unwillingness to comply, all 50 states adopted Congress's change of date within a few years. Memorial Day endures as a holiday which most businesses observe because it marks the unofficial beginning of summer.
For many Americans, the central event is attending one of the thousands of parades held on Memorial Day in large and small cities all over the country. Most of these feature marching bands and an overall military theme with the National Guard and other servicemen participating along with veterans and military vehicles from various wars.
One of the longest-standing traditions is the running of the Indianapolis 500, an auto race which has been held in conjunction with Memorial Day since 1911. It runs on the Sunday preceding the Memorial Day holiday. The Coca-Cola 600 stock car race has been held later the same day since 1961. The Memorial Tournament golf event has been held on or close to the Memorial Day weekend since 1976.
Because Memorial Day is generally associated with the start of the summer season, it is common tradition to inaugurate the outdoor cooking season on Memorial Day with a barbecue.[18]
The National Memorial Day Concert takes place on the west lawn of the United States Capitol. The concert is broadcast on PBS andNPR. Music is performed, and respect is paid to the men and women who gave their lives for their country.
Across most of the central and southern continental United States, summer-like weather generally does begin reasonably close to Memorial Day time (somewhere between mid-May and early June being the norm). But in the northernmost and westernmost parts of the country, the holiday makes a far less reliable seasonal marker. In these areas, cooler and unsettled spring weather often continues into June. (In the Pacific Northwest, there is a somewhat popular expression that "real" summer begins on the 5th of July.)
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"THE SYNTHESIS" ARCHIVES, LINKS TO READ AND SHARE AT YOUR NEXT TEA PARTY OR WITH FRIENDS:
12-13-09 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNTAzaG16MnN2aGg&hl=en
1-17-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMTA5Z3BxY3ZmY2Q&hl=en
1-24-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMTI2aGt0dm02cHc&hl=en
1-31-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMTM4ZDlrajIycHQ&hl=en
2-7-2010 EDITION
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMjAyeng3M3Q1Yzk&hl=en
2-21-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMjM3YzJ6a3MyYzk&hl=en
2-28-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMzI5Z3p6Z2tqZzU&hl=en
3-7-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMzg0ZmRiZHF4ZHQ&hl=en
3-14-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNDMyYzQyNnc1ZDU&hl=en
3-25-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNTQ5cmZkOTVtZmc&hl=en
4-25-2010 TEA PARTY EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNjMwZmo5ajI1cDQ&hl=en
5-2-2010&5-9-2010 DOUBLE FEATURE BOY IT SURE LOOKS BAD FOR OBAMA EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNjM4Y2h0M3o4aGM&hl=en
5-16-2010 THE GUESS WHAT?! EDITION https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNjY3ZDV4ZHo4ZGY&hl=en
5-23-2010 : 6 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL LATER... your rights and the government EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNjg4Z3h6M2NzZ2M&hl=en
5-29-2010: 39 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL LATER, MEMORIAL DAY 2010 WEEKEND EDITION https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNzE1aHJmZjcyZ3Y&hl=en
6-6-2010: an oil cap, a GAYTOPIA, and T-R-E-A-S-O-N.... THE FIRST SUMMER EDITION OF 2010, THE REST OF THE PRESS IS ON SUMMER VACATION (NO "MEET THE PRESS" JUST SUMMER TENNIS? NO CHRIS MATTHEWS EITHER)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNzkyZzhwOTRtYzk&hl=en
6-13-2010: YOU GOT NO MONEY, MAYBE NO CAR, AND ABOUT TO HAVE NO HOUSE.... 2010
SUMMERTIME BLUES, BUT AT LEAST YOU HAVE A FREE 6 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO "THE SYNTHESIS" http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfODA4Z2Jrczl3YzM&hl=en
8-13-2010: CAPPING OFF THE SUMMER, 2010 SUMMER’S END EDITION: THE KIDDIES ARE BACK IN SCHOOL, AND IT TOOK OBAMA NEARLY 4 MONTHS TO ‘PLUG THE HOLE’--- BUT AT LEAST YOU HAVE A FREE 6 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO "THE SYNTHESIS"
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1cf3eTsBF0MiFrPJSAKHMKhOSPDHS1kEzXIlOyBaAJc4&hl=en&authkey=CPWpyaMD
8-22-2010: EXPOSING THE 2010 CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES OF THE DEMOCRATS: UNFUNDED FOOD STAMPS, FAKE BUDGET CUTS, AND HOUSING GIMMICKS FOR VOTES... WHY IT’S SO HARD TO DO THE RIGHT THING FIRST BECAUSE OF REGRESSIVE POLITICS https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1cV67sYM99nyZBT1DY-C8D87UedFevwg0e_ZYz_A7zGE&hl=en#
12-1-2010: POST 2010 ELECTION-THANKSGIVING EDITION: OBAMA IS FACING $26 BILLION IN CUTS TO HIS 2011 BUDGET/REPUBLICAN THANKFULNESS SHOWS ITSELF IN MANY FORMS, AS AMERICANS ARE NO TURKEYS WHEN IT COMES TO WALKING AWAY FROM OBAMA’S LACKLUSTER PRESIDENTIAL POLICIES.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a5_JeRPE70CNhMtkEC_DdRJFG9DQYHP7IsP9xosHryU/edit?hl=en&authkey=CIXJw5oH
12-5-2010: THE UN-CENSURED EDITION... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iYvA-ynRJE8rRkWnegrpeO6A6pVuE68M45ghIuUccUo/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJO1negB
12-20-2010: VICTORY FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
THE RECON. ACT IS CONFIRMED AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL: OBAMA’S CITIZENSHIP CONTESTED BY SUPREME COURT 1-7-2011.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1viNttdmZCklOjSJ2dyAz2IlF4VGrtzNlMN_uwCaqvDg/edit?authkey=CIDK0q0J&hl=en&pli=1#
12-27-2010: MERRY CHRISTMAS -- THE PERSON OF THE YEAR IS OF COURSE, GLENN BECK: https://docs1.google.com/document/d/1iI5xix4pBLfubYV2mdd9mN-0Hk2c-rBgC_Rv8NCKti8/edit?hl=en#
1-4-2011 EDITION: HAPPY NEW YEAR!! SO I GUESS I’M STILL JUST A LITTLE P-SSED....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ru29au_nNz6Nge6BRPE62ZCj85br2mJ5YDXFwGidyME/edit?hl=en#
1-7-2011 JUDGEMENT DAY EDITION:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11aXEL9UCYYPSCUc2nmg4YDsrmy5hI0RR5QUoFA2BYf8/edit?hl=en#
1-14-2011 EDITION: HEY, YOU CAN’T SAY THAT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-LZANvBs58rC9OsYYPfU7bY63svuRfYBGKPA7qQH3Mk/edit?hl=en&pli=1#
1-23-2011 EDITION: 50th Anniversary of JFK’S INAUGURATION.... remembering those affected by the Arizona shooting tragedy https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Em3-CdaZXv_SS00ZzYK3IlwvZqrXL-41oGZA_sR49F4/edit?hl=en&pli=1#
1-25-2011 EDITION: THE 2011 STATE OF THE TEA PARTY ADDRESS https://docs3.google.com/document/d/1cuNaMf2I9K08ntMgXlN5h0XXVX7Oo42rnqZRLPykn-8/edit?pli=1&hl=en#
1-30-2011 EDITION: THE CAPITOL IS NO PLACE FOR A TEA PARTY !!! https://docs2.google.com/document/d/1VdK9fOfOgYX2LgcCNPJCxDDtui3taT7NEi_3PDVyguk/edit?hl=en#
2-2-2011 GROUND HOG EDITION: OBAMA IS NULLIFIED; WE DON’T HAVE TO FOLLOW HIM! https://docs0.google.com/document/d/1KTnz7OL-BH3XjpYzY1AkwzYk1AyPfQ8ognja90YfBLo/edit?hl=en#
2-6-2011 IMPEACHMENT EDITION: WITH H.R. 4872, OBAMA TO USE YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO BED PLANNED PARENTHOOD WITH SEX TRAFFICKERS TO ENACT CORRUPT CONTRACTS WITH STERICYCLE AS ABORTION FOR PROFIT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/14PDQAADUP3sPwsBGMjuQk8p5wq6oyyt9lxyzK8gud5g/edit?hl=en#
2-20-2011 EXPLOSION EDITION: EVERYTHING IS EXPLODING: STATE BUDGET COSTS, POLITICIAN’S EGOS, AND EVEN HOMES IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rrCQPBHqdyrbMBOtvUFYM9VeYatg-iB1GoRAkdF-6Vg/edit?hl=en#
2-27-2011 EDITION: WAS IT A PRESIDENTIAL WEEK OR THE MOMENT FOR IMPEACHMENT? THIS WEEK OBAMA’S WTF MOMENT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wS_FBeLHOHensYpCHn7ZsIr1SP8lNrFz-v2BMFyKwx4/edit?hl=en&pli=1#
3-11-2011 EDITION: WOULD OBAMA PLEASE COMMENCE TO NOT SPEAK, AND WOULD THE SUPREME COURT PLEASE SPEAK UP?? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LhbpchXYpmO3F8dYFX28yP5yXtKHaam8S5a0g3-DLGY/edit?hl=en#
3-18-2011/3-25-2011 MARCH-MADNESS DOUBLE-FEATURE EDITION: ONE YEAR LATER, OBAMACARE HAS GIVEN YOU UNEMPLOYMENT, STILL NO HEALTH INSURANCE, AND A $14 TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT...https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EBferxQ1r_evna1B2x-6q3mL21kxex517s5RLWSneik/edit?hl=en#
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4-01-2011/4-08-2011 THE-JOKE-IS-ON-OBAMA DOUBLE-FEATURE EDITION: GOP GIVES OBAMA DOUBLE WHAMMY WITH THE PATH TO PROSPERITY! https://docs.google.com/document/d/13zVuOv0mv1i00O_NYCEQ5V_mupk-eZ-7O7yq9SFiwsE/edit?hl=en#
4-20-2011 SPECIAL FEATURE EDITION: THE TEA PARTY DECLARES WAR ON OBAMA DEFICIT! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D6NuunT6oyljKRs2N5pHCOBlTG7K_Utn9Butvcwp3IE/edit?hl=en#
5-1-2011 EDITION: “MONEY ISN’T EVERYTHING” … https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uqsIJuauYRdtwi6B88vlRH_s_V2us7nNPrR3zXM7etI/edit?hl=en#
5-8-2011 EDITION: NOPE, NOT BLUNDERER IN CHIEF, “LIAR IN CHIEF”: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j_IfOwQbfN839fqcQ9BNcZ7BCCgKjHxgmvpDJnl2rI8/edit?hl=en#
5-14-2011 EDITION: CORRUPTION... CONGRESS SINCE 2006, OTHER LOCAL GA GOP GROUPS, AND CROOKED LAW ENFORCEMENT! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PREXKHVpI_c_RRWPJXABLz6oIvwtSY2B0lmVYx_Wic4/edit?hl=en#
5-20-2011 EDITION: THE TYRANNY OF OBAMA, DICTATOR OF THE CONGRESSIONAL PURSE, IS UNFORTUNATELY ALIVE AND WELL.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nIp03RGVBOrMEipEIEutEYoX1QvbXHhBAYbt0WzpiDk/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1#
5-27-2011 EDITION: OBAMA THE TRAITOR, THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN LEGACY: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4T0XhS1PHvBxwWY8t_uf-NvFnNbFKJuHQbmsxVPwkE/edit?hl=en_US#
6-03-2011 EDITION: SUMMERTIME IS ANTI-OBAMA AGENDA ERADICATION PLANNING AND STEAM FOR TEA PARTY CAMPAIGNING 2012 !! https://docs.google.com/document/d/11AHGYsh7b5M6G8vLFNKNUTTipupD_HODibL-9UMoiCw/edit?hl=en_US
6-10-2011 EDITION: THE GREAT UNRAVELING... HEY I HEARD THE WHITE HOUSE IS HIRING... THE COUNTRY IS FALLING APART UNDER OBAMA !! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HjzTDFlhfE2PTumdaH0iX9vfb3eA3ywtODiwdDtMTys/edit?hl=en_US
7-4-2011 POST-FATHER’S DAY SPECIAL EDITION: A TRIBUTE TO OUR FOUNDING FATHERS, AND OUR ELDERS ON AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM; HOW TO WIN-THE-FUTURE IN THE WTF GENERATION:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rAuBBJ70xp7y965EGoyhviyKW6z8TQMkQ1IhjcUs-6U/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
7-11-2011 and 7-17-2011 DOUBLE FEATURE EDITION: UNEMPLOYMENT, A $14 TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT, AND A GOVERNMENT THAT DOESN’T WORK, AS IT CAN’T EVEN GOVERN ITSELF !!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19i_sJ9WPKTcK7Qr1LPh54W8jn3uIzcqONpySKihv81Q/edit?hl=en_US
7-22-2011 MEDIA SELLOUTS AND DEFAULT: CONSIDER THE TEA PARTY AS ANTISEPTIC TO AN INFECTED WOUND OF 2008 UNETHICAL ELECTION POLICIES, LYING MEDIA, AND PARTY POLITICS!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tUo3Pn-S2dkyyDMDmH0M4C5yBNegmyfwXMOcJikBxk0/edit?hl=en_US
7-27-2011 DEFAULT PREVENTION EDITION: A BRIEF HISTORY, THE FACTS ABOUT CUTS, HOW MUCH, WHAT PROGRAMS, THE FEATURES OF EACH PLAN, AND TEA PARTY DISCOURSE ON WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS TO BE A CONSERVATIVE IN A VOLATILE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT https://docs.google.com/document/d/11wxIiTKkaK5OzWzPvWS1wRPzfQSPSioC2Gu7ZgdmeJM/edit?hl=en_US
8-4-2011 IT’S NON-CITIZEN OBAMA’S BDAY EDITION: A BITTERSWEET VICTORY FOR THE TEA PARTY - THE 2012 BATTLEGROUND ESTABLISHED ON CHOOSING FINANCIAL SECURITY RATHER UNLIKE 2008 POLITICAL NOVELTY GAMES... https://docs.google.com/document/d/14bDVsP5N-1lCEjOWAu0WZ4z1mN3ERAAUfOZqavpSAwc/edit?hl=en_US
8-12-2011: OBAMA’S POLITICAL CREDIT DOWNGRADED AND WITH S&P: YOU CAN’T BUILD, FUND, AND MAINTAIN A PRESIDENCY ON LIES.... HIS NON-CITIZEN STATUS BEGETS DEATH KNELL TO ECONOMY BY S&P DOWNGRADE, CORRUPTION WITH BANKS, AND FOREIGN POLICY SLIPPING FROM HIS GRASP... ALSO, IOWA GOP DEBATE REAL-TIME TWEETS WITH A CONGRESSIONAL AUDIT UNDERWAY TO REPLACE THE CESSPOOL OF CONGRESS...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B9SpurfPoC2AUT3R1ZYcCGSyrwxs3-HWLBCaITV0XJs/edit?hl=en_US
8-21-2011: THE TEA PARTY ISN’T THE SAME AS THE GOP... WHY WE’RE NOT SUPPORTING NEWT GRINGRICH 2012, AND WHY THE TEA PARTY ISN’T RACIST OR EXCLUSIVE, UNLIKE DEMOCRATS... (ESPECIALLY RACIST BLACK DEMOCRATS WHO ONLY WANT A BLACK FACE REPRESENTING THEM AND WANT TO REPRESENT BLACK CONSTITUENTS ONLY) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SpuDu2TPPjNz3ARoqwSRNjSuzeVmYyHpqPXi4_yQejY/edit?hl=en_US
8-26-2011: RESTORING FISCAL SANITY AND ECONOMIC STABILITY, UNLIKE OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS, THE TEA PARTY HAS A PLAN AND WE’RE NOT AFRAID TO PUT IT ON PAPER... HOW OBAMA IS TAXING US EMOTIONALLY BEYOND REASON, HOW MUCH IT’S COSTING US, AND WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT !!! EXPOSING WHY WASTING $9 TRILLION WAS DUBBED “TREACHEROUS AND TREASONOUS”...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yHTpdTmd0SmRuseOzKL1yApRbLall0xlxWZNKnl233s/edit?hl=en_US
9-1-2011: UNVEILING THE 2011-2012 TEA PARTY ELECTION BATTLE PLAN “TAKE BACK
AMERICA” CAMPAIGN -- SLAYING THE BEAST OF BIG GOVERNMENT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r6vsH4lkEd32V5UCDYhtohRBo2gXytUtr2p_-FkIbe4/edit?hl=en_US
9-11-2011: REMEMBERING 9-11-01, 10YRS. OF WAR IN THE NEW AGE OF AMERICA... 25-30 MILLION STILL OUT OF WORK; TECHNOLOGY, RACIAL POLITICS, AND CORRUPTION FROM THE HIGHEST OFFICE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YFCRahee9R6YQ-Lxt3p-s4KyjOASJlgRUGeH7cT9fd4/edit?hl=en_US
9-26-2011: LAME- DUCKY, NON-CITIZEN OBAMA IS CLUELESS ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AND HIS SHOVEL IS RUSTING FOR THE “SHOVEL-READY” JOBS HE PROMISED.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Sr5OblkEGbgJvrRMobVv07XBxN5v0ycrbQTjQcP5yU/edit?hl=en_US
9-30-2011 P-DAY EDITION: SO, WILL YA OR WON’T YA?! OH BUT IT’S NOT MY FAULT.... IF I DON’T TURN THE ECONOMY AROUND IN 3 YEARS, "then there is going to be a one term proposition"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f6LS8JA0JB7OjjqUVEb-15FM_lYEFJZilcTPAFDeJ1M/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
10-6-2011 SPECIAL EDITION: CELEBRATING 5 YRS. FREE FROM GOVERNMENT GLUTTONY.... my personal story, my passion, and pertinent relevance that drives the Tea Party movement https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rJBlrKpbz2cmx1bN7uyKLCAykV9om1qnim8j-IPkqKE/edit?hl=en_US
10-16-2011 EDITION: OBAMA’S CORRUPTION LAID BARE: RACIST POLITICAL AGENDAS, A FULLY UNRAVELED PRESIDENCY WITH IMPEACHMENT LONG OVERDUE; OCCUPY WALL STREET A PLOY FOR HIS BSJobsAct, WATCHING THE SOLYNDRA HEARINGS ON C-SPAN AND THE FAST&FURIOUS GUN SCANDAL, GOP KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE AND THE “I’M A MORMON” OBAMONEY ADS...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N8oX2J5lDgkEGemVcfawTt3udNqDoidrObCptw7mKl0/edit?hl=en_US
10-20-2011 SPECIAL EDITION: OSAMA, ANWAR, GADDAFI, ALL DEAD... BUT WHAT ABOUT THE LIVING? CHURCH TITHING AT ALL-TIME LOW, PINK SLIPS A-PLENTY, OCCUPY WHATEVER STREET, LOW FOOD INVENTORIES... THE TEA PARTY CHIEF TELLS OBAMA TO GET HIS ASS IN GEAR.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1va06sK0-_HzJrwLrmTmBbCD49zDLZFcOpE0Mh6rvhhE/edit?hl=en_US
10-23-2011 SUPER SUNDAY EDITION: OBAMA-GADDAFI CORRUPTION TIED TO CAIR DONATIONS FROM 2008, 39,000 COMING HOME FROM IRAQ, NEW FOCUS IS AFRICA: YEAH BUDDY, LET’S TALK ABOUT RACISM... CRACK HAS CONSEQUENCES, OCCUPY WHATEVER STREET FIZZLES AND DOESN’T SURVIVE THE COLD WEATHER OR RATIONAL THINKING TEST, AND THIS IS THE HOMECOMING WE GIVE OUR TROOPS??!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10GklnNKudQ4TT6kXfcUCFK8OKpjSmHKqKGruLQvvy3E/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
10-28-2011 FAT AMERICA EDITION: PAYING FOR AMERICA’S GLUTTONY AND GREED-BINGING, BAD HABITS, AND SPENDING ADDICTIONS ARE COSTING OUR COUNTRY’S BRIGHT FUTURE, AND HOW AND WHY CONSERVATISM WORKS AS A SOLUTION, AS A WAY OF LIFE, AND A POLITICAL IDEOLOGY WHEN OTHERS DON’T...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Y2MEwS4i0K-DSBYAuMR_0CKzqjndOImItJjngT1haI/edit?hl=en_US
11-3-2011 NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH EDITION #1: THE HISTORY OF THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX REVISITED, 34 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CALL FOR HOLDER’S RESIGNATION, FOLLOWED BY THE TEA PARTY’S INSISTENCE THAT OBAMA BE CHARGED WITH MISAPPROPRIATION AND FRAUD FOR NOT PRODUCING A BUDGET, WHATSOEVER....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Ha8nD2H2eRd8QUeiMhfsQB0ttQaTiSV3ARH_kZ0COA/edit?hl=en_US
11-8-2011 GA VOTES EDITION: ON SUNDAY ALCOHOL SALES, PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, EARTHQUAKES, SALACIOUS SCANDALS, AND POVERTY RATE CLIMBS FROM 42 MILLION IN ONE YEAR TO AN ALL-TIME 30YR. HIGH IN 2011 TO 49 MILLION.... THIS YEAR’S CLIMATE A GOOD BAROMETER OF 2012 ELECTION TRENDS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14B2uG-ub6SMZZEfwUlRrxrXNCMc2fntfocDt57tMMZQ/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
11-19-2011 EDITION: GA MARKS REMEMBRANCE OF THE BURNING OF ATLANTA WITH A FULL NIGHT WATCH, #OWS INSURRECTION, THWARTED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, TEA PARTY PUTS GPS ON CONGRESS, SUPER COMMITTEE, BUDGET AND CUTS, WITH FOUR GRUMPY OLD MEN FROM GA.... (and 3 stories of VINDICATION, in AZ, GA, AND EVEN JUSTIN BIEBER....)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVSd_lx2-Hf437aGufgYl5hgaa9B8efxBFsoluD9MQY/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
11-26-2011 EDITION: NOMINEES GET THEIR REPORT CARD, WHO’S THIS YEAR’S TURKEY, NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH REACHES THE CLIMAX, HOW GEORGIA CELEBRATES BLACK FRIDAY....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kzUO3DImTWtyUCY8_ij0uZfyzd676hy2ZjUyhlcWnIo/edit?hl=en_US
11-29-2011 SPECIAL EDITION: PROMISES, PROMISES... VIRTUES, AND THE STUFF THAT POLITICS IS REALLY MADE OF, AND WELL, WHAT IT ISN’T:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BQduznv39KwrNHlFdaUbyQwSEKe690STZS7JLvJdlHs/edit?hl=en_US
12-08-2011 SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION: WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AMERICA’S PRESIDENT IN THE AFTERMATH OF DNC CORRUPTION AND TO REPAIR THE CRACKS OBAMA HAS CAUSED TO OUR NATION’S FOUNDATION... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oIzctEYX0inZ3THn15_8OQyZ-7pWQ5Zk_I6sbTAeIE0/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
12-13-2011 GEARING TO A PEACETIME ECONOMY, THIS EDITION CELEBRATES TWO YEARS IN PRINT TODAY:
THE GOP HAS A NEWTINY ON THEIR HANDS, THE TEA PARTY CHIEF TELLS CONGRESS HELL NO~ ON THEIR CHRISTMAS WISH LIST AND DISCUSSES EU SUMMIT PROGRESS WITH SARKOZY, THE DEBATES ON THE EVE OF THE PRIMARY TO PREPARE FOR THE LAST DEBATE, AND WHY THE GA TEA PARTY ENDORSES RICK PERRY AND RICK SANTORUM AS WORTHY OF NOMINATION: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzQDvD8G7WCEpyi2FpUb5zPJkCQVcOgJ0J-3jUqJEfY/edit?hl=en_US
MARKING MILESTONES AND SETTING MONUMENTS 12-18-11 EDITION: U.S. DRAWS FORMAL END TO IRAQ WAR AND OCCUPATION, WRAPPING THEIR US-IRAQ FORCES FLAG IN CAMO; SOLDIERS RETURN HOME, THE TEA PARTY REMEMBERS BORDER AGENT BRIAN TERRY, AND CONGRESS GIVES OBAMA AN INFORMAL 60 DAY NOTICE TO VACATE THE OFFICE... (REALLY? I HAVE PEOPLE CONTACTING ME WHEN I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR ROMNEY EMAIL ALERTS ABOUT THE PRIMARY IN GEORGIA IN MARCH? PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE SOME MANNERS WHEN THEY HOST EVENTS, AND DON’T TELL ME WHO TO VOTE FOR...) https://docs.google.com/document/d/10zQwojdjw8MoMOv7yhIIKgz-VDeh_Jh9gwebdgT6CQU/edit?hl=en_US
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HOW OBAMA SAYS MERRY CHRISTMAS 12-23-2011 EDITION: OBAMA HAS A PRESIDENTIAL MELTDOWN; HE THREATENS TO VETO THE UNANIMOUSLY PASSED CONTINUING RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, PHONES IN ON THE BLACKBERRY TO BLAME THE HOUSE, AND GOES ON A $4 MILLION HAWAIIAN VACATION WHEN WE HAVE A $15 TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT, AND STILL NO APPROVED BUDGET.... THE TEA PARTY ISSUES OBAMA’S IMPEACHMENT ORDER, SUBSEQUENT TO THE HOUSE FINISHING THEIR INVESTIGATION OF THE TEA PARTY’S PETITION OF IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES FROM 5-27-11, EFFECTIVE 1-1-12: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XhvtgGcHDQ8C5CSW616QfkVoxj-KQleRPvs0pTR0Bwg/edit?hl=en_US
12-29-11 FIRST PRIMARY PRIMER EDITION: THE IOWA CAUCUS, THE NOMINEES’ STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES, DO THEY GET THE TEA PARTY’S “THUMBS’ UP” OR “THUMBS’ DOWN” , AND WHY OR WHY NOT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19xdYwSB7t6SPAmfErCtcN0tatldqKLB2AkgoF2auR_0/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
1-5-12 POST PRIMARY EDITION: AFTER SANTORUM’S SURGE, IOWA CROWNS SANTORUM NOMINEE CONTENDER: what the numbers reveal... the Tea Party Chief discusses nomination strategy, general election strategy, and beats the drum for Obama’s impeachment and removal from Office:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hvqsqiTMBDjiderB_K9nsqyqtJ2JMBdB8nxJLV0cHas/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
1-9-12 EDITION: GA LEGISLATURE NOW IN SESSION, 2012 IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD (though we were given 2 dates and it didn’t end and Obama thinks he is the Mahdi, when he’s not), SANTORUM REALLY WON IOWA, RON PAUL FOLLOWERS ARE CONVINCED IF YOU DON’T VOTE FOR HIM ARMAGEDDON WILL OCCUR: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ee5L1BmOUSTWz0z4kM_1gAkmTnha47_DvhQvVWrDwus/edit?hl=en_US
1-11-12 SPECIAL EDITION: NEW HAMPSHIRE UNDERSCORES THE NEED FOR JOBS: HUNTSMAN WHO SKIPPED IOWA, COMES IN THIRD, WITH PERRY PULLING A HUNTSMAN... THE RACE, UNLIKE DECIDED BY THE MEDIA IN 2008 AND STILL FACES SCRUTINY BY THE COURTS, NOW MOVES TO THE COVETED SOUTH CAROLINA CONSERVATIVE BATTLEGROUND....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GeNjFHQJcRiWCjRBgX3Z0nBiscn017oJSxy47ledvRM/edit?hl=en_US
1-19-12 SPECIAL EDITION: VINDICATION: SANTORUM DECLARED WINNER BY 34 VOTES OVER ROMNEY, ROMNEY LOSES FALSE FRONTRUNNER STATUS BY MEDIA SHARK POLITICS WHO THREATEN RICK PERRY TO LEAVE THE RACE OVER UNSURENESS OVER THEIR INVESTMENTS, AND VICTOR HILL GETS WHAT HE DESERVES... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq70wKJjAzMyeFUETqWT7wpr_8C66rJKV0dMN-dslJE/edit?hl=en_US
1-16-12 SOUTH CAROLINA SPECIAL EDITION: SOUTH CAROLINA TO WINNOW THE CHAFF OF THE FIELD: CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM FOR THE NOMINEES TO MAKE A PRODUCTIVE AND GREAT CONTEST OF NOMINATION OR A SOUTH CAROLINA STINKER?? SO MANY VIEWED THE PRIMARY PRIMER, IT IS NOW TIME TO REFLECT ON SOME SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS OF THE NOMINATION RACE... WHO WE DO NOT ENDORSE AND WHY: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LdcSFJ1YckFRP0ycj_ciwn0yJC5oJHGDNTXoTvnQHgw/edit?hl=en_US
1-29-12 SPECIAL EDITION: OBAMA’S FAILURE TO APPEAR IN GA COURT 1-26-12 EARNS HIM THE TITLE OF “OBAMA THE COWARD”, GOP CORRUPTION SO DISCONCERTING AS TO PUT OBAMA-ROMNEY-NEWT ALL HOLDING HANDS UNDER THE BAIN UMBRELLA, HELD UP BY ERICK ERICKSON, AND THE 700 CLUB (no, I don’t mean Pat Robertson) the 700 like Romney, who have evaded paying taxes, of the 535 Congress members (tax evading/insider trading), and 165 rich putzes who haven’t paid their taxes, causing us to borrow and creating the deficit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FoSYHTVdM8tMwE-qMB6MPSMtZvkxvWpo9mMyA9vTERw/edit?hl=en_US
2-1-12 SPECIAL EDITION: CHANGE FOR THE WORSE AND DESPAIR IS OBAMA’S STRATEGY TO HANG ON UNTIL HE’S EVICTED AND FORCED TO LEAVE IN TOTAL SHAME, ROMNEY’S STRATEGY ABSENTEE BALLOTS, NEWT IS LACKLUSTER/HAS NO STRATEGY, RON PAUL’S STRATEGY IS DELEGATES, AND RICK SANTORUM QUADRUPLES HIS FUNDRAISING AFTER IOWA PRIMARY WIN GAINING GROUND FOR THE PATH FORWARD TO NOMINATION... WHY WE CALL IT RED FEBRUARY (CBO DEFICIT REPORTS AND WHEN GOP TAKES BACK OVER IN INFLUENCE AND POWER) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TP0TLlyjes0zS1JZiRR4vh0GothNnmfGZiVU_rFoIQg/edit?hl=en_US
2-2-12 EXTRA SPECIAL EDITION: VICTOR HILL’S TIES TO THE ZETAS’ CARTEL(S) EXPOSED; HOLDER ASKED TO RESIGN BEFORE BEING CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION AND CONTEMPT, AND OBAMA’S PRESIDENCY OFFICIALLY IMPLODES ON GROUND HOG DAY, A MONTH AND A DAY AFTER HIS IMPEACHMENT AND EVICTION DATE SET FOR 3/1/12, SUBSEQUENT TO THE ORDER OF IMPEACHMENT 1/1/12...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14XfN1F8l6eSe4yE_QQdBCF1kzaLTDOApNMyofQvivNk/edit?hl=en_US
2-8-12 THE RICK SANTORUM EDITION: RICK SANTORUM GETS HIS POLITICAL SUPERBOWL... THIS HEADLINE WRITTEN BY CONSERVATIVE VOTERS IN AMERICA: IN RESPONSE TO BAIN-GOP CORRUPTION WITH OBAMA-NEWT-ROMNEY IN A 3-RING CIRCUS, GETTING THEIR $ FROM THE SAME TROUGH MAKES CONSERVATIVES RECOIL AND STRIKE VICTORY FOR SANTORUM....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyPCmLZliNMZk8kXk42nWZlZbQ50Ea545qqCUdAjv8s/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
2-22-2012 SPECIAL LENT EDITION: SOUTH ATL TEA PARTY SNIPPET, HOW BAIN IS THE BANE OF ALL SMALL BUSINESSES, LOCAL STUFF AND MORE ON COMMUNITY CONCERNS RELATED TO POLICY AND INTERPRETATION
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nD0Bv9MAPhrL6AZonqMqp5kDRZ8DqZCWTuRd7CJuUsI/edit
3-1-2012 GA PRE-PRIMARY EDITION: OBAMA NO LONGER RECOGNIZED AS PRESIDENT OR LEGALLY OCCUPYING THE OFFICE AS HIS 60-DAY NOTICE TO VACATE EXPIRED AFTER IMPEACHMENT ORDER 1/1/2012 ON 3/1/12, ROMNEY’S MICHIGAN DRAW WITH RICK SANTORUM REVEALS SERIOUS ISSUES OF CORRUPTION WITH BAIN, UNETHICAL LOBBYING, AND VOTE BRIBERY, AS BAIN BOYCOTT SPREADS, ELECTION 2012 AT FEVER PITCH, AND PART 1 BOOK REVIEWS FROM NOMINEES, WHAT’S WORTH READING AND WHAT’S NOT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XKRDfkzfsUYwbSahZMeH7fwBrQCcJSeAduScEQDqLZE/edit?pli=1
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3-9-2012 “FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY” EDITION: WITH OBAMA’S FORMAL IMPEACHMENT HEARING FAST APPROACHING AFTER HOLDER’S, IS IT ANY WONDER THE HOUSE WILL GET TO IT BEFORE THE ELECTION? RECORDS WERE PURPOSEFULLY HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC RECORD IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, TO COVER UP THAT OBAMA WAS INDEED BORN IN KENYA AND HIS MOTHER FLEW BACK AFTERWARDS! WHY ROMNEY MAKING A LOT OF MONEY DOESN’T MEAN HE KNOWS EVERYTHING OR EVEN HOW TO BE PRESIDENT, WHY RICK SANTORUM IS THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB IN THE NOMINATION RACE, AND WHY NEWT’S $2.50 GAS IS A CAMPAIGN GIMMICK, ALSO WHY RON PAUL’S “END THE FED” THEORY IS NOT A SOLUTION OR VIABLE POLICY FOR PRESIDENCY:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fbvej2TbPq6r2UB14_arKhPheV0z_SwFRt-AeS9xkZM/edit?pli=1
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3-16-2012 “FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY”, PART 2 EDITION: MANAGING THE BUDGET, CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM, AND INFLATION ARE WHY CONSERVATIVE VOTERS COALESCE AROUND SANTORUM, AS OBAMA PROPOSES MORE ECONOMIC ENSLAVEMENT THROUGH INFLATION, AS HIS IMPEACHMENT BILL IS ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE: EXPLORING OUR ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS, CAMPAIGN DONORS, AND OUR DEFICIT....
WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON HERE?! GINGRICH DONOR TIED TO CHINESE ORGANIZED CRIME - NASTY NEWT !! AFGHANISTAN, SYRIA, AND WHAT’S UP WITH THAT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kkfiJNEQkvybb6RmAQe70Q6sWhS4Asm9Z-LLBkw3Vmk/edit
3-21-2012 “FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY” PART 3 EDITION: DRUM ROLL PLEASE... HAWAII OFFICIAL SWEARS UNDER OATH WHAT WE KNEW TO BE TRUE ALL ALONG - OBAMA HAS NO HAWAII BIRTH CERTIFICATE, WHICH IS WHY HIS MOTHER'S FLIGHT RECORDS WERE REMOVED FROM PUBLIC RECORD AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, RON PAUL, NEWT, AND ROMNEY ARE UNDER SUSPICION OF FRAUD, VERY MUCH LIKE OBAMA’S, AND MAY BE DISQUALIFIED AT THE CONVENTION, AND FORGING AHEAD... REP. PAUL RYAN’S MEDICARE AND BUDGET PLAN COME UP FOR HOUSE SOLUTIONS TO END THE INFLATION OF THE OBAMA DEFICIT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KorzlzEk0UDF31l4HDwf0jH217ov3oLwgruAxmQNYzA/edit?pli=1
3-29-2012 “FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY” PART 4 EDITION: THE PRIMARY IS A SOAPBOX FOR ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS AND DIFFERING STRATEGIES WITH AMERICA AIRING CONCERNS THAT OBAMA IS THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT TO OFFICE AND AN IMPEDIMENT TO OUR FUTURE, SUPREME COURT ARGUMENTS HAVE MADE CLEAR THE NEED FOR PROPOSED REPEAL SO PEOPLE HAVE THEIR HEALTH-IN ORDER TO WORK AND BE PRODUCTIVE IN SOCIETY, AS REPEAL IS PROPOSING APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNINSURED WITHOUT PENALIZATION OR DEPRIVING PEOPLE FREEDOM, BUT “NO AMERICAN LEFT ALONE”: HOW GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESS ARE EXPLOITING THE USE OF MONEY AND PERCEIVED RACIAL DIFFERENCES TO UNDERMINE THE UNITY AND PURPOSE OF OUR NATION -- DON’T BE DECEIVED, BE INFORMED!! THIS EDITION DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ANDREW WORDES...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RYR2zTmMsYjLqjAwBFE4_1OkZm8qnztDU9EvQyFS9pw/edit?pli=1
4-3-2012 THE REPUBLICAN REVENGE: THE GOP HAS CRAFTED A FLAWED PRIMARY WITH ROMNEY AT CENTER THAT LOOKS VERY MUCH LIKE OBAMA’S 2008 CAMPAIGN, THE BAIN BOYCOTT CONTINUES TO DRAIN OBAMA, ROMNEY, AND NEWT OF ‘CASH FOR NEGATIVE ADS’ AND STRAINS THEIR STOCK PORTFOLIOS AND INVESTMENTS, AS OBAMA CAMPAIGN CONTINUES WHEEL OF FRAUD: A WEEK OF BAD PRESS, AND ANAAN SETS SYRIAN DEADLINE FOR PEACE AT 4-10-12: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Le9af9ff6LyTVd3zQJGssXjdlUVEzhdd9mcd6j0TBto/edit
4-6-2012 GOOD FRIDAY EDITION: WELL WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT IT?? A LOT... EASTER EGGS, CANDY, FELLOWSHIP, AND HOPE... AND I MEAN REAL HOPE !! HOPE THAT IS ETERNAL, NOT “HOPE” USED MERELY AS A CAMPAIGN SLOGAN... IMPEACHMENT IS ON THE TABLE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W621iTOAFmIjk3YT6ABZIVIJKJZ7LxxhJ4Zs28cAFh4/edit
4-11-2012 FYI EDITION: SECURING OUR FUTURE - AFTER CONFRONTING OBAMA, A SURPRISE SUNDAY AGREEMENT SIGNED ON EASTER CRYSTALLIZES AFGHANISTAN POLICY AND UNEXPECTED PARTNERSHIP, SYRIAN PEACE AGREEMENT IMPLODES, AL QAEDA IN YEMEN, FRANCE PENSIVE ON RADICALIZATION FROM IMPRISONING TOULOUSE SHOOTER WHO TARGETED JEWS, 2ND NAVY SHIP IN HORMUZ, AND SAUDI ARABIA DELIVERS JUSTICE TO 50 AL QAEDA MEMBERS THAT ATTACKED THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND EMBASSIES... AND RICK SANTORUM SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN FOR FAMILY REASONS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gn1E5U8YQkAUMWg8JX4Xe-v5xpmx09E0SNJ2gomZXsk/edit
4-15-2012 ANNUAL TEA PARTY EDITION: DID YOU PAY YOUR TAXES?? I DID... WHAT LITTLE I MAKE!! FOLKS, THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF IDEAS THROWN AROUND ABOUT TAXATION: FLAT TAX, FAIR TAX, TAX GIMMICKS LIKE 9-9-9, BUT WHEN GOVERNMENT IS MISAPPROPRIATING FUNDS AND LOCAL POLLSTERS RIG PRIMARIES OR DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT YOU FROM VOTING, WHO NEEDS DEAD PEOPLE?? WE HAVE GOT TO DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT, INSTEAD OF IT BEING THE CONSTANT BATTLE OF THE GOP BEING THE LESS STUPID, VS. DEMOCRATS THE MOST STUPID... https://docs.google.com/document/d/19_uIj5Fp7zz_kM_cyIxZJG3DbQ1I36H_YsOZuOXYD7Y/edit
4-20-12 FULL IMPEACHMENT EDITION: HOW MANY SCANDALS DOES IT TAKE BEFORE OBAMA IS FULLY IMPEACHED AND PREVENTED FROM EVER HOLDING OFFICE AGAIN, SO THAT HE IS HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE?? #LobbyGate #VoterGate #Certifigate #RenumerationGate #GibbsGate #ClimateGate #FastAndFuriousGunGate #GaddafiGate #KoranGate #HookerGate #AssadGate https://docs.google.com/document/d/17i1UZnb6MOelC_8RRlwQzguskSIdy-DYuvOXgd3aN4M/edit?pli=1
CORRUPTION CAUSES BLEEDING OF TAX DOLLARS, ACCOUNTABILITY 4-28-12 ISSUE: HOUSE ISSUES 48PG. CITATION AGAINST ERIC HOLDER, FOR BEING IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS, SUMMARIZING OUTCOME OF FAST AND FURIOUS HEARINGS TO PRESS TOWARD FULL IMPEACHMENT OF OBAMA, BUDGET PARTICULARS HEAT UP OVER SAVING MEDICARE AND NOT USING IT AS A SLUSH FUND BUT ADDRESSING STUDENT LOAN POLICY, AS OBAMA THREATENS TO VETO EVERYTHING THE HOUSE DOES, THOUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER POWER HAS BEEN ARRESTED: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x3bpLxnDaw6Es0Y0N7CxleDW6ZKK-9_dbXctU2eG8BE/edit
SUMMER REVIVAL PREPARATION EDITION 5-13-2012 DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF DOROTHY LINDSEY AND EVERY MOTHER: CHRONIC JOBLESSNESS, CONGRESS TOO AFRAID TO GET REAL FOR FEAR OF DISPOSSESSING THE POLITICALLY CORRECT OR IN KEEPING THE STATUS QUO, GAY MARRIAGE BEING A CAMPAIGN SLOGAN TO MANIPULATE GAY VOTERS ON IDEOLOGY, AND HOW ALL OF THIS IS AFFECTING OUR COMMUNITIES HERE IN GA.... LET US HONOR OUR MOTHERS AND THEIR WISDOM WITH WHAT THEY TAUGHT US, IN FERVENT PRAYER AND BEING COMMITTED TO ACT ON BEHALF ON THE GOOD OF OTHERS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V2aTtZE4tNvFmWHhwfWckYwoSDhXmyUYU2X8SftIczk/edit
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HOUSE PASSES FIRST PRIORITY OF CONSTITUTIONAL BUDGETING TO FUND DEFENSE, JUST BEFORE SATURDAY ARMED FORCES DAY, OBAMA IGNORES JOB CREATION OTHER THAN TO LIE ABOUT IT ON THE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE AND TO STOKE VOTER EMOTION RATHER THAN PRODUCE RESULTS, HOUSE PUTS ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE REGARDING CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AND ERIC HOLDER...
PLUS, THE DOG ATE MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13DaEJ9Ip1VLURM8zqI4jYaCPnTLK6whcsbQgETqnBI8/edit
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 5-25-2012 EDITION: TEA PARTY UNVEILS JOB CREATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION STRATEGY, AS IT SLATES REDUCING FEDERAL WORKFORCE 1/5, BY REPEAL AND INJUNCTION TO HIRE WITHOUT OBAMACARE, THE TEA PARTY JOINS ROMNEY ON A 30 STATES IN 30 WEEKS STRATEGY...
GEORGIA REVISITS PENNY SALES TAX T-SPLOST INITIATIVES, AND THE TEA PARTY DISCUSSES FEDERAL BUDGET PROCESSES, TWO CRUCIAL DATES SEPTEMBER 30TH--FACING 5TH GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN AS WE TRANSITION OFF OF CONTINUING RESOLUTION BUDGETING, AND DECEMBER 31ST--BEWARE OF TAX INCREASES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fqvJV2AWN1gRDYcs3GXFQv2ID2xXsH6-n1cooUVlY10/edit
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- In 2008 the federal government collected $2.5 trillion, an amount equal to 17.7 percent of GDP. Federal revenue has ranged from 14.4 to 20.9 percent of GDP over the past five decades, averaging 18.2 percent.
- The individual income tax has been the largest single source of federal revenue since 1950, averaging just over 8 percent of GDP.
- Payroll taxes swelled following the creation of Medicare in 1965. Taxes for Medicare, combined with periodic increases in Social Security taxes, caused payroll tax revenue to grow from 1.6 percent of GDP in 1950 to more than 6 percent since 1990. Payroll taxes also include railroad retirement, unemployment insurance, and federal workers’ pension contributions.
- Revenue from the corporate income tax fell from between 5 and 6 percent of GDP in the early 1950s to 2.1 percent of GDP in 2008.
- Excise taxes fell steadily throughout the same period, from nearly 3 percent of GDP in 1950 to 0.5 percent in recent years.
NO MORE SOLYNDRA BUDGET-BUSTING WINDFALLS.......
WHY GREEN INITIATIVES ARE IMPORTANT TO COMMUNITY HEALTH... TEA PARTY CHIEF PERSONALLY BAGGED UP 100 BAGS OF TRASH SINCE LAST OCTOBER, IN GEORGIA, IN CONJUNCTION WITH VOLUNTARY ROADSIDE CLEANUP, TO CLEAN UP POLLUTANTS AND TRASH AFFECTING WATER SOURCES IN HENRY COUNTY... WHY??? WITHIN 3 DAYS AIMEE COPELAND WAS ON LIFE SUPPORT FROM AN INJURY RECEIVED IN AN AREA CONTAMINATED WITH FLESH-EATING STREP BACTERIA....
Donors overwhelm blood drive for Aimee Copeland
byWinston Jones/Times-Georgian
8 days ago | 3030 views | 0
That was part of the huge response created by a University of West Georgia benefit blood drive for Aimee Copeland, 24, a UWG graduate psychology student who contracted a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection from a May 1 homemade zip line accident.
“It was an overwhelming turnout,” said Claire Rossie, spokesperson for Shepeard Community Blood Center, the blood supplier for JMS Burn Center of Doctors Hospital of Augusta, where Copeland remains in critical condition. “We had 163 registered donors. Blood was drawn from 127 and 113 good units were collected.”
Rossie said because of the long waiting lines, 15 people had to leave and another 75 left their names and contact information for a later blood drive.
That second UWG drive has already been scheduled for Friday, June 1, from noon to 5 p.m. at the same location, the Campus Center gymnasium.
“We were prepared for 200 people, but due to the overwhelming numbers, we ran out of time,” Rossie said Wednesday. “We didn’t get back to Augusta until midnight and we had other drives this morning. People were excited about giving blood and we want to go back there to help.”
Rossie said while Copeland has not required a large amount of blood, the Copeland family partnered with Shepeard because it supplies the burn center.
“They’ve met so many families going through the same thing and they want to help others in need,” she said. “They said that Aimee is such a caring person that this is something she would want.”
Rossie said burn patients often require a lot of blood and many will be helped by the donations.
Aimee’s problems began May 1 when she fell from a homemade zip line onto rocks in the Little Tallapoosa River. She suffered a large gash on her left calf that was closed by 22 staples. After a few days of worsening pain, she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, often called “flesh eating bacteria.” The bacteria causing the infection, Aeromonas hydrophila, lives in warm river water, but infection from it usually causes only minor illness.
Copeland was airlifted to the Augusta burn center, where her left leg was amputated, and doctors at one point gave her little chance of survival. She has since rallied.
Although she still remains on a ventilator, she has been communicating with family members for several days and her family is hopeful she won’t lose her other foot and her hands, as originally feared.
“The University of West Georgia community wishes to thank all of the people who donated blood in honor of Aimee Copeland,” said Dr. Beheruz N. Sethna, the university’s president and professor of business education. “We’re very grateful for their support. We continue to send our very best wishes for her recovery and ask everyone to keep her in their thoughts and prayers as she continues her fight.”
Meanwhile, the first of a series of benefit fundraisers for the Aimee Copeland Fund will be held at 8 p.m. Friday in the Moonshadow Music Hall at Sunnyside Cafe in Carrollton, where Copeland is employed. The theme of Friday’s show will be folk and gospel-bluegrass. Admission will be $10 and all proceeds will go to the fund.
People can also donate to “Aimee’s Fund”, c/o United Community Bank, 119 Maple St., Carrollton, GA 30117. Or, they can go to the online site and use PayPal to donate.
Collection jars for the fund can be found in Sunnyside Cafe and several other businesses around Carrollton.
A similar blood drive is being held for Copeland in her hometown of Snellville in Gwinnett County. The South Gwinnett Rotary Club is hosting a blood drive May 21 at the First Baptist Church of Snellville from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to the Gwinnett Daily Post.
The UWG Psychology Department is maintaining a website, http://uwgpsychology.org/2012/aimee-copeland, to provide updated information on Copeland’s condition from her parents.
Read more:Tallapoosa Journal - Donors overwhelm blood drive for Aimee Copeland
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What began as a beautiful time in nature with friends turned tragic when Aimee encountered an equipment malfunction while playing on a homemade zip line. Her fall set the stage for the development of necrotizing fasciitis which led to amputations and the failure of her five major organs.
Aimee’s timeline, in brief:
5/1/12 Tuesday: Zip line accident
Tuesday- Thursday: multiple visits to hospital and doctors
5/4/12 Friday: necrotizing fasciitis takes over leg, leg is amputated, goes into arrest, transferred hospitals
Since Friday: on life support
Earlier this week slowly regains consciousness. In and out.
Blood vessels in hands and remaining foot die. More amputations are necessary. Hopefully the palms of her hands will survive.
5/11/12 Friday: Regains enough conscious to mouth the question “where am I?”
5/17/12 Thursday: Amputation of remaining foot and most of both hands.
5/20/12 Sunday: Aimee breathes on her own.
8:55 PM, May 18, 2012 | 3 comments
Aimee CopelandCARROLTON, Ga. -- Many have asked what was in the Little Tallapoosa River that got Aimee Copeland so sick? We wanted to know too, so we took a sample a got it tested.
We dropped the samples off to Emory's Center for Global Safe Water to test for Aeromonas Hydrophilia, the bacteria that caused Aimee's condition.
Researcher's grew the cultures overnight and told us that the bacteria is common and usually not a threat unless you have a deep cut.
"We found a concentration of about 140 cells per mL, which is roughly a tablespoon," said Amy Kirby. "That means in every tablespoon of water in the Little Tallapoosa River, there are 140 cells of aeromonas."
That may seem like a lot, but we're told it's nothing to be alarmed about.
Aeromonas is a bacteria you'd find in almost any untreated water -- like a lake or river.
But it alarmed many people after that same bacteria gave Aimee Copeland necrotizing fasciitis, a disease that has her fighting for her life.
Researchers at Emory University say the levels of Aeromonas change daily.
They've seen up to 10,000 cells per mL in the water, but since the disease is so rare- there's no way to tell how much will make you sick.
The main risk is how you're exposed to it.
"You have to be cautious when there is a deep cut or traumatic wound," said Joshua Shak.
"The water and the bacteria get forced into the really deep tissue and then it's difficult to get them back out when you clean," added Kirby.
The bacteria is then able to grow...and spread... and in rare cases...cause necrotizing fasciitis.
Aeromonas is not even the main cause of the infection.
"It's actually rare," Kirby said. "The most common form of necrotizing fasciitis is actually caused by the bacteria streptococcus."
Strep, a name many are familiar with, caused the same disease for a South Carolina Woman.
Lana Kuykendall noticed a black and blue bruise that spread all over her body after she gave birth to twins.
"Like Aeromonas, streptococcus is a very ubiquitous bacteria so you are going to be exposed to it every day," Kirby said. "It's just a matter of getting more dangerous exposures."
Researchers urge that it is still safe to swim and play in the water, as long as you don't have a cut. Aeromonas can also cause stomach cramps and diarrhea if contaminated water is ingested.
We can prevent pollution in river water in many ways and some of them are as follows:
River pollution can be controlled by:
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_can_river_pollution_be_prevented#ixzz1vtfcyIVi
MEMORIAL DAY 2012...
MORE THAN BBQ’S AND OUTDOOR PARTIES....
THIS YEAR, IT IS SOME POLITICALLY VAMPED MUSIC CONCERT FOR IRAQ VETERANS, SO I’VE HEARD...
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WHY GREEN INITIATIVES ARE IMPORTANT TO COMMUNITY HEALTH... TEA PARTY CHIEF PERSONALLY BAGGED UP 100 BAGS OF TRASH SINCE LAST OCTOBER, IN GEORGIA, IN CONJUNCTION WITH VOLUNTARY ROADSIDE CLEANUP, TO CLEAN UP POLLUTANTS AND TRASH AFFECTING WATER SOURCES IN HENRY COUNTY... WHY??? WITHIN 3 DAYS AIMEE COPELAND WAS ON LIFE SUPPORT FROM AN INJURY RECEIVED IN AN AREA CONTAMINATED WITH FLESH-EATING STREP BACTERIA....
Donors overwhelm blood drive for Aimee Copeland
byWinston Jones/Times-Georgian
8 days ago | 3030 views | 0
Hundreds of people line up in the Campus Center on the University of West Georgia campus Tuesday for a blood drive for the Shepeard Community Blood Center of Augusta where UWG student Amiee Copeland has been hospitalized since an accident involving a homemade zip line May 1. Students, faculty and local residents took part in the drive. (Photo by Cliff Williams/Times-Georgian)
One first-time donor drove more than two hours and a Knoxville, Tenn., resident detoured from her Gulf Shores vacation itinerary Tuesday, both wanting to give blood to help a woman they’ve never met, but whose story tore at their hearts.That was part of the huge response created by a University of West Georgia benefit blood drive for Aimee Copeland, 24, a UWG graduate psychology student who contracted a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection from a May 1 homemade zip line accident.
“It was an overwhelming turnout,” said Claire Rossie, spokesperson for Shepeard Community Blood Center, the blood supplier for JMS Burn Center of Doctors Hospital of Augusta, where Copeland remains in critical condition. “We had 163 registered donors. Blood was drawn from 127 and 113 good units were collected.”
Rossie said because of the long waiting lines, 15 people had to leave and another 75 left their names and contact information for a later blood drive.
That second UWG drive has already been scheduled for Friday, June 1, from noon to 5 p.m. at the same location, the Campus Center gymnasium.
“We were prepared for 200 people, but due to the overwhelming numbers, we ran out of time,” Rossie said Wednesday. “We didn’t get back to Augusta until midnight and we had other drives this morning. People were excited about giving blood and we want to go back there to help.”
Rossie said while Copeland has not required a large amount of blood, the Copeland family partnered with Shepeard because it supplies the burn center.
“They’ve met so many families going through the same thing and they want to help others in need,” she said. “They said that Aimee is such a caring person that this is something she would want.”
Rossie said burn patients often require a lot of blood and many will be helped by the donations.
Aimee’s problems began May 1 when she fell from a homemade zip line onto rocks in the Little Tallapoosa River. She suffered a large gash on her left calf that was closed by 22 staples. After a few days of worsening pain, she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, often called “flesh eating bacteria.” The bacteria causing the infection, Aeromonas hydrophila, lives in warm river water, but infection from it usually causes only minor illness.
Copeland was airlifted to the Augusta burn center, where her left leg was amputated, and doctors at one point gave her little chance of survival. She has since rallied.
Although she still remains on a ventilator, she has been communicating with family members for several days and her family is hopeful she won’t lose her other foot and her hands, as originally feared.
“The University of West Georgia community wishes to thank all of the people who donated blood in honor of Aimee Copeland,” said Dr. Beheruz N. Sethna, the university’s president and professor of business education. “We’re very grateful for their support. We continue to send our very best wishes for her recovery and ask everyone to keep her in their thoughts and prayers as she continues her fight.”
Meanwhile, the first of a series of benefit fundraisers for the Aimee Copeland Fund will be held at 8 p.m. Friday in the Moonshadow Music Hall at Sunnyside Cafe in Carrollton, where Copeland is employed. The theme of Friday’s show will be folk and gospel-bluegrass. Admission will be $10 and all proceeds will go to the fund.
People can also donate to “Aimee’s Fund”, c/o United Community Bank, 119 Maple St., Carrollton, GA 30117. Or, they can go to the online site and use PayPal to donate.
Collection jars for the fund can be found in Sunnyside Cafe and several other businesses around Carrollton.
A similar blood drive is being held for Copeland in her hometown of Snellville in Gwinnett County. The South Gwinnett Rotary Club is hosting a blood drive May 21 at the First Baptist Church of Snellville from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to the Gwinnett Daily Post.
The UWG Psychology Department is maintaining a website, http://uwgpsychology.org/2012/aimee-copeland, to provide updated information on Copeland’s condition from her parents.
Read more:Tallapoosa Journal - Donors overwhelm blood drive for Aimee Copeland
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What began as a beautiful time in nature with friends turned tragic when Aimee encountered an equipment malfunction while playing on a homemade zip line. Her fall set the stage for the development of necrotizing fasciitis which led to amputations and the failure of her five major organs.
Aimee’s timeline, in brief:
5/1/12 Tuesday: Zip line accident
Tuesday- Thursday: multiple visits to hospital and doctors
5/4/12 Friday: necrotizing fasciitis takes over leg, leg is amputated, goes into arrest, transferred hospitals
Since Friday: on life support
Earlier this week slowly regains consciousness. In and out.
Blood vessels in hands and remaining foot die. More amputations are necessary. Hopefully the palms of her hands will survive.
5/11/12 Friday: Regains enough conscious to mouth the question “where am I?”
5/17/12 Thursday: Amputation of remaining foot and most of both hands.
5/20/12 Sunday: Aimee breathes on her own.
What's in the water that got Aimee Copeland sick???
8:55 PM, May 18, 2012 | 3 comments
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Lionel MoiseAimee CopelandCARROLTON, Ga. -- Many have asked what was in the Little Tallapoosa River that got Aimee Copeland so sick? We wanted to know too, so we took a sample a got it tested. We dropped the samples off to Emory's Center for Global Safe Water to test for Aeromonas Hydrophilia, the bacteria that caused Aimee's condition.
Researcher's grew the cultures overnight and told us that the bacteria is common and usually not a threat unless you have a deep cut.
"We found a concentration of about 140 cells per mL, which is roughly a tablespoon," said Amy Kirby. "That means in every tablespoon of water in the Little Tallapoosa River, there are 140 cells of aeromonas."
That may seem like a lot, but we're told it's nothing to be alarmed about.
Aeromonas is a bacteria you'd find in almost any untreated water -- like a lake or river.
But it alarmed many people after that same bacteria gave Aimee Copeland necrotizing fasciitis, a disease that has her fighting for her life.
Researchers at Emory University say the levels of Aeromonas change daily.
They've seen up to 10,000 cells per mL in the water, but since the disease is so rare- there's no way to tell how much will make you sick.
The main risk is how you're exposed to it.
"You have to be cautious when there is a deep cut or traumatic wound," said Joshua Shak.
"The water and the bacteria get forced into the really deep tissue and then it's difficult to get them back out when you clean," added Kirby.
The bacteria is then able to grow...and spread... and in rare cases...cause necrotizing fasciitis.
Aeromonas is not even the main cause of the infection.
"It's actually rare," Kirby said. "The most common form of necrotizing fasciitis is actually caused by the bacteria streptococcus."
Strep, a name many are familiar with, caused the same disease for a South Carolina Woman.
Lana Kuykendall noticed a black and blue bruise that spread all over her body after she gave birth to twins.
"Like Aeromonas, streptococcus is a very ubiquitous bacteria so you are going to be exposed to it every day," Kirby said. "It's just a matter of getting more dangerous exposures."
Researchers urge that it is still safe to swim and play in the water, as long as you don't have a cut. Aeromonas can also cause stomach cramps and diarrhea if contaminated water is ingested.
How can river pollution be prevented?
Answer:PREVENTION OF RIVER WATER POLLUTION
We can prevent pollution in river water in many ways and some of them are as follows:
- not discharging untreated sewage and other industrial waste water into rivers
- not dumping solid wastes, garbage and medical wastes in river banks
- not using river banks as open toilets
- not disposing dead human bodies/animal carcasses in rivers
- not quarrying sand in river beds which is a key factor in river bank stability and erosion of banks
- not washing vehicles directly in the flowing river water
- and in many other ways according to the life style of local people
River pollution can be controlled by:
- Reducing agricultural run-off
- Preventing or treating industrial discharges
- Preventing or treating municipal sanitary sewage discharges
- Preventing or treating municipal storm water discharges
- Preventing or controlling resource recovery in river channels
- Controlling shipping (ballast, swage) discharges
- Controlling marina operations
- Most fresh water pollution is caused by organic material. Humans bring organisms from one body of water to another causing aquatic plants and animals to die. Littering, sewage, food waste and farm effluent also cause under water plants and animals to die.
- Some other kinds of water pollution are industrial waste, fertilisers, oil and warm water. If large amounts of fertiliser or farm waste drains into a river or lake, the algae uses these substances to grow rapidly, turning the water green. Chemical waste is sometimes discharged into lakes and rivers. Some of these pollutants include: cyanide, zinc, lead, copper, cadmium and mercury. If oil enters either a slow moving river or a lake, it causes the surface to turn rainbow colours which prevents oxygen from entering the water. Industry often uses water for cooling processes, sometimes discharging warm water back into rivers or lakes. Making the water warmer makes the level of dissolved oxygen lower.
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This article is about the American holiday. For other uses, see Memorial Day (disambiguation).
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Memorial Day is a federal holiday observed annually in the United States on the last Monday of May.[1] Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. (Southern ladies organizations and southern schoolchildren had decorated Confederate graves in Richmond and other cities during the Civil War, but each region had its own date. Most dates were in May.) By the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died in all wars. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.[2] As a marker it typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end.
Many people visit cemeteries and memorials, particularly to honor those who have died in military service. Many volunteers place an American flag on each grave in national cemeteries.[3]
By the early 20th century, Memorial Day was an occasion for more general expressions of memory, as people visited the graves of their deceased relatives in church cemeteries, whether they had served in the military or not. It also became a long weekend increasingly devoted to shopping, family gatherings, fireworks, trips to the beach, and national media events such as the Indianapolis 500 auto race, held since 1911 on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.[4]
Annual Decoration Days for particular cemeteries are held on a Sunday in late spring or early summer in some rural areas of the American South, notably in the mountains. In cases involving a family graveyard where remote ancestors as well as those who were deceased more recently are buried, this may take on the character of an extended family reunion to which some people travel hundreds of miles. People gather on the designated day and put flowers on graves and renew contacts with kinfolk and others. There often is a religious service and a "dinner on the ground," the traditional term for a potluck meal in which people used to spread the dishes out on sheets or tablecloths on the grass. It is believed that this practice began before the American Civil War and thus may reflect the real origin of the "memorial day" idea. See Jabbour and Jabbour (listed below).
History
Flags flying at gravesites at Fort Logan National Cemetery during Memorial Day, 2006, Denver, Colorado
A boy holding an American flag during the 2009 National Memorial Day Concert on the West Lawn of theUnited States Capitol
The sheer number of dead soldiers, both Union and Confederate, meant that burial and memorialization would become important following the war. People in towns, particularly women, had buried the dead and decorated graves during the war. In 1865, the federal government began a program of creating national cemeteries for the Union dead.Following President Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, there were a variety of events of commemoration. The first known observance of a Memorial Day-type observance was in Charleston, South Carolina on May 1, 1865. During the war, Union soldiers who were prisoners of war had been held at the Charleston Race Course; at least 257 Union prisoners died there and were hastily buried in unmarked graves.[5]
Freedmen (freed slaves) knew of the Union dead and decided to honor them. Together with teachers and missionaries, blacks in Charleston organized a May Day ceremony covered by the New York Tribune and other national papers. Years later, it came to be called the "First Decoration Day" in the North. Beforehand the freedmen had cleaned up and landscaped the burial ground, building an enclosure and an arch labeled, "Martyrs of the Race Course." Nearly ten thousand people, mostly freedmen, gathered on May 1 to commemorate the dead. Involved were 3,000 schoolchildren newly enrolled in freedmen's schools, mutual aid societies, Union troops, and black ministers and white northern missionaries. Most brought flowers to lay on the burial field. Today the site is used as Hampton Park.[6]
The historian David W. Blight described the day:
"This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the War had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.”[7]
[edit]In the North
The friendship between General John Murray, a distinguished citizen of Waterloo, New York, and General John A. Logan, who helped bring attention to the event nationwide, was likely a factor in the holiday's growth.[citation needed] On May 5, 1868, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic - the organization for Union Civil War veterans - Logan issued a proclamation that "Decoration Day" should be observed nationwide.[8] It was observed for the first time on May 30 of the same year; the date was chosen because it was not the anniversary of a battle.[9]Events were held in 183 cemeteries in 27 states in 1868, and 336 in 1869. The northern states quickly adopted the holiday; Michigan made "Decoration Day" an official state holiday in 1871 and by 1890, every northern state followed suit. The ceremonies were sponsored by the Women's Relief Corps, which had 100,000 members. By 1870, the remains of nearly 300,000 Union dead had been reinterred in 73 national cemeteries, located near the battlefields and therefore mostly in the South. The most famous are Gettysburg National Cemetery in Pennsylvania andArlington National Cemetery, near Washington.
The Memorial Day speech became an occasion for veterans, politicians and ministers to commemorate the War - and at first to rehash the atrocities of the enemy. They mixed religion and celebratory nationalism and provided a means for the people to make sense of their history in terms of sacrifice for a better nation. People of all religious beliefs joined together, and the point was often made that the German and Irish soldiers had become true Americans in the "baptism of blood" on the battlefield. By the end of the 1870s much of the rancor was gone, and the speeches praised the brave soldiers both Blue and Gray. By the 1950s, the theme was American exceptionalism and duty to uphold freedom in the world.
Ironton, Ohio, lays claim to the nation's oldest continuously running Memorial Day parade. Its first parade was held May 5, 1868, and the town has held it every year since. However, the Memorial Day parade in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, predates Ironton's by one year.[10]
[edit]In the South
Historians have traced how a separate tradition of memorial Day observance which emerged in the South was linked to the Lost Causeand partially merged into the national day of memory. Historians acknowledge that the Ladies Memorial Association played a key role in that development.[11] Starting in 1866, the Southern states established Confederate Memorial Day, with dates ranging from April 25 to mid-June. By 1916, the June 3 birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was observed as a state holiday in 10 southern states.[citation needed] Across the South, associations were founded after the War, many by women, to establish and care for permanent cemeteries for Confederate soldiers, organize commemorative ceremonies and sponsor impressive monuments as a permanent way of remembering the Confederate cause and tradition. The most important was the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which grew from 17,000 members in 1900 to nearly 100,000 women by World War I. They were "strikingly successful at raising money to build Confederate monuments, lobbying legislatures and Congress for the reburial of Confederate dead, and working to shape the content of history textbooks."[12]On April 25, 1866 women in Columbus, Mississippi laid flowers at the graves of both the Union and Confederate casualties buried in its cemetery.[13] The early Confederate Memorial Day celebrations were simple, somber occasions for veterans and their families to honor the day and attend to local cemeteries. Around 1890, there was a shift from this consolatory emphasis on honoring specific soldiers to public commemoration of the Confederate cause.[citation needed] Changes in the ceremony's hymns and speeches reflect an evolution of the ritual into a symbol of cultural renewal and conservatism in the South. By 1913, Blight argues, the theme of American nationalism shared equal time with the Lost Cause.[14]
[edit]At Gettysburg
The ceremonies and Memorial Day address at Gettysburg National Park became nationally well known, starting in 1868. In July 1913, veterans of the United States and Confederate armies gathered in Gettysburg to commemorate the fifty-year anniversary of one of the Civil War's bloodiest and most famous battle.The four-day "Blue-Gray Reunion" featured parades, re-enactments, and speeches from a host of dignitaries, including PresidentWoodrow Wilson, the first Southerner elected to the White House since the War. James Heflin of Alabama was given the honor of the main address. Heflin was a noted orator; two of his best-known speeches were an endorsement of the Lincoln Memorial and his call to make Mother's Day a holiday. His choice as Memorial Day speaker was criticized, as he was opposed for his racism. His speech was moderate in tone and stressed national unity and goodwill, which gained praise from newspapers.
[edit]Flags at half-staff until noon
On Memorial Day the flag is raised briskly to the top of the staff and then solemnly lowered to the half-staff position, where it remains only until noon. It is then raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day.[15]The half-staff position remembers the more than one million men and women who gave their lives in service of their country. At noon their memory is raised by the living, who resolve not to let their sacrifice be in vain, but to rise up in their stead and continue the fight for liberty and justice for all.
[edit]Name and date
The preferred name for the holiday gradually changed from "Decoration Day" to "Memorial Day", which was first used in 1882. It did not become more common until after World War II, and was not declared the official name by Federal law until 1967. On June 28, 1968, the Congress passed the Uniform Holidays Bill, which moved four holidays, including Memorial Day, from their traditional dates to a specified Monday in order to create a convenient three-day weekend. The change moved Memorial Day from its traditional May 30 date to the last Monday in May. The law took effect at the federal level in 1971. The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) advocate returning to the original date, although the significance of the date is tenuous. The VFW stated in a 2002 Memorial Day Address:Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed a lot to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.[16]
Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator Daniel Inouye, a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day to its traditional date.[17]
After some initial confusion and unwillingness to comply, all 50 states adopted Congress's change of date within a few years. Memorial Day endures as a holiday which most businesses observe because it marks the unofficial beginning of summer.
[edit]Traditional observance
Many people observe Memorial Day by visiting cemeteries and memorials. A national moment of remembrance takes place at 3 pm local time. Another tradition is to fly the flag of the United States at half-staff from dawn until noon local time. Volunteers often place American flags on each grave site at national cemeteries.For many Americans, the central event is attending one of the thousands of parades held on Memorial Day in large and small cities all over the country. Most of these feature marching bands and an overall military theme with the National Guard and other servicemen participating along with veterans and military vehicles from various wars.
One of the longest-standing traditions is the running of the Indianapolis 500, an auto race which has been held in conjunction with Memorial Day since 1911. It runs on the Sunday preceding the Memorial Day holiday. The Coca-Cola 600 stock car race has been held later the same day since 1961. The Memorial Tournament golf event has been held on or close to the Memorial Day weekend since 1976.
Because Memorial Day is generally associated with the start of the summer season, it is common tradition to inaugurate the outdoor cooking season on Memorial Day with a barbecue.[18]
The National Memorial Day Concert takes place on the west lawn of the United States Capitol. The concert is broadcast on PBS andNPR. Music is performed, and respect is paid to the men and women who gave their lives for their country.
[edit]Start of "summer"
Most school districts that had their school year begin in late August will end school on the Friday before this day, while schools that started the school year the day after Labor Day in early September will remain in session until early June.Across most of the central and southern continental United States, summer-like weather generally does begin reasonably close to Memorial Day time (somewhere between mid-May and early June being the norm). But in the northernmost and westernmost parts of the country, the holiday makes a far less reliable seasonal marker. In these areas, cooler and unsettled spring weather often continues into June. (In the Pacific Northwest, there is a somewhat popular expression that "real" summer begins on the 5th of July.)
[edit]Interpretations
Scholars[19][20][21][22], following the lead of sociologist Robert Bellah, often make the argument that the United States has a secular "civil religion" - one with no association with any religious denomination or viewpoint - that has incorporated Memorial Day as a sacred event. The obligation of both collective and individual to carry out God's will on earth is a theme that lies deep in the American tradition. With the Civil War, a new theme of death, sacrifice and rebirth enters the civil religion. Memorial Day gave ritual expression to these themes, integrating the local community into a sense of nationalism. The American civil religion, in contrast to that of France, was never anticlerical or militantly secular; in contrast to Britain, it was not tied to a specific denomination, such as the Church of England. The Americans borrowed from different religious traditions so that the average American saw no conflict between the two, and deep levels of personal motivation were aligned with attaining national goals.[23][edit]In literature and music
Charles Ives's symphonic poem Decoration Day depicted the holiday as he experienced it in his childhood, with his father's band leading the way to the town cemetery, the playing of "Taps" on a trumpet, and a livelier march tune on the way back to the town. It is frequently played with three other Ives works based on holidays as the second movement of A New England Holidays Symphony.DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR COMMUNITY? THE GOVERNMENT? MAKE YOUR MARK ON THE WORLD? DON’T JUST SIT BACK AND SAY NOTHING, GET POLITICALLY INVOLVED BY USING YOUR RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AND PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY!!
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| CIRCULATION: 2,000 by direct email, 125,000+ through Facebook groups, and a blog viewership of 1,000 views to one blog, and 2,500 to the other blog :D UPDATED 3/14/2012 SUBSCRIBERS THROUGH FACEBOOK GROUPS AND CONTRIBUTORS: FACEBOOK GROUP NAMES: MEMBERSHIP ROLL: ACCROP WATCH 1,071 IT’S AJA 110 UAF 154 GOVERNMENT BYTES 115 CONSTITUTION PARTY GREEN BAY WISCONSIN 329 SUPPORTERS OF THE BONNIE AND BLUE FLAG 153 PATRIOTIC DEFENDERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 1,122 PATRIOTIC REVOLUTIONISTS 1,216 PATRIOTIC CONCERNS 1,693 GEORGIANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT 1,228 2012 ANTI-DEFICIT PURPLE AGENDA 244 THE GEORGIA GANG 1,376 CLAYTON COUNTY TEA PARTY 15 FAYETTE COUNTY TEA PARTY 6 HENRY COUNTY TEA PARTY 30 JONES COUNTY TEA PARTY 3 SPALDING COUNTY TEA PARTY 16 PATRIOT ACTION NETWORK 4,186 SYNTHESIS LEGISLATIVE WORK GROUP 296 WOMEN’S ONLINE TEA PARTY 99 ANTI-SECRET SOCIETY 658 CITIZEN DEFENSE COALITION 2,996 CONSERVATIVE VOTER COALITION 5,167 CHIMPY’S REAL AMERICAN 2,236 JAMES GROUP OF ACTIVISTS 116 POLITICAL FRIENDS 61 REFOUNDING AMERICA 2384 SYNTHESIS ARCHIVES 299 TEA PARTY CONSORTIUM 60 US GOVT. AGENCIES-THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH 66 UNIFIED 20 WE WANT A PUBLIC INVESTIGATION INTO CLIMATE 344 WIKILEAKS 55 UNIFIED MILITIA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK 1,670 USMC 10,647 CONSERVATIVE WOMEN, CONSERVATIVE VALUES 264 THE DOCTORS 57,141 SUPPORT CHRIS DROTLEFF 3,698 PROTEST THE ANTI-AMERICAN 1 MILLION MUSLIMS MARCH 153 E-BUSINESS POLAND 458 FALCONIST PARTY 9,443 AFRICAN/LATIN/ASIAN/NATIVE/WHITE,ETC. AGAINST OBAMA 56 RRA INC. 241 REPEMU INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT GROUP 148 LET’S GET HEALTHY 1,462 STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT 291 CONSERVATIVE VOTER COALITION 5,167 WE THE CONSERVATIVE VOTERS OF AMERICA 2,895 |
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IN LIKENESS AND SPIRIT OF THE “CHEROKEE PHOENIX”, THESE
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THESE MAY BE REPRINTED FOR YOUR GROUPS OR DISTRIBUTED AS TEA PARTY LITERATURE, BUT THEY ARE OF THE DIGEST RANGE, 25-75 PGS. IN LENGTH.
"THE SYNTHESIS" ARCHIVES, LINKS TO READ AND SHARE AT YOUR NEXT TEA PARTY OR WITH FRIENDS:
12-13-09 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNTAzaG16MnN2aGg&hl=en
1-17-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMTA5Z3BxY3ZmY2Q&hl=en
1-24-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMTI2aGt0dm02cHc&hl=en
1-31-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMTM4ZDlrajIycHQ&hl=en
2-7-2010 EDITION
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMjAyeng3M3Q1Yzk&hl=en
2-21-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMjM3YzJ6a3MyYzk&hl=en
2-28-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMzI5Z3p6Z2tqZzU&hl=en
3-7-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfMzg0ZmRiZHF4ZHQ&hl=en
3-14-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNDMyYzQyNnc1ZDU&hl=en
3-25-2010 EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNTQ5cmZkOTVtZmc&hl=en
4-25-2010 TEA PARTY EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNjMwZmo5ajI1cDQ&hl=en
5-2-2010&5-9-2010 DOUBLE FEATURE BOY IT SURE LOOKS BAD FOR OBAMA EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNjM4Y2h0M3o4aGM&hl=en
5-16-2010 THE GUESS WHAT?! EDITION https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNjY3ZDV4ZHo4ZGY&hl=en
5-23-2010 : 6 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL LATER... your rights and the government EDITION http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNjg4Z3h6M2NzZ2M&hl=en
5-29-2010: 39 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL LATER, MEMORIAL DAY 2010 WEEKEND EDITION https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNzE1aHJmZjcyZ3Y&hl=en
6-6-2010: an oil cap, a GAYTOPIA, and T-R-E-A-S-O-N.... THE FIRST SUMMER EDITION OF 2010, THE REST OF THE PRESS IS ON SUMMER VACATION (NO "MEET THE PRESS" JUST SUMMER TENNIS? NO CHRIS MATTHEWS EITHER)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfNzkyZzhwOTRtYzk&hl=en
6-13-2010: YOU GOT NO MONEY, MAYBE NO CAR, AND ABOUT TO HAVE NO HOUSE.... 2010
SUMMERTIME BLUES, BUT AT LEAST YOU HAVE A FREE 6 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO "THE SYNTHESIS" http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUUGGGbcuQuZGRya3NyYmZfODA4Z2Jrczl3YzM&hl=en
8-13-2010: CAPPING OFF THE SUMMER, 2010 SUMMER’S END EDITION: THE KIDDIES ARE BACK IN SCHOOL, AND IT TOOK OBAMA NEARLY 4 MONTHS TO ‘PLUG THE HOLE’--- BUT AT LEAST YOU HAVE A FREE 6 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO "THE SYNTHESIS"
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1cf3eTsBF0MiFrPJSAKHMKhOSPDHS1kEzXIlOyBaAJc4&hl=en&authkey=CPWpyaMD
8-22-2010: EXPOSING THE 2010 CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES OF THE DEMOCRATS: UNFUNDED FOOD STAMPS, FAKE BUDGET CUTS, AND HOUSING GIMMICKS FOR VOTES... WHY IT’S SO HARD TO DO THE RIGHT THING FIRST BECAUSE OF REGRESSIVE POLITICS https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1cV67sYM99nyZBT1DY-C8D87UedFevwg0e_ZYz_A7zGE&hl=en#
12-1-2010: POST 2010 ELECTION-THANKSGIVING EDITION: OBAMA IS FACING $26 BILLION IN CUTS TO HIS 2011 BUDGET/REPUBLICAN THANKFULNESS SHOWS ITSELF IN MANY FORMS, AS AMERICANS ARE NO TURKEYS WHEN IT COMES TO WALKING AWAY FROM OBAMA’S LACKLUSTER PRESIDENTIAL POLICIES.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a5_JeRPE70CNhMtkEC_DdRJFG9DQYHP7IsP9xosHryU/edit?hl=en&authkey=CIXJw5oH
12-5-2010: THE UN-CENSURED EDITION... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iYvA-ynRJE8rRkWnegrpeO6A6pVuE68M45ghIuUccUo/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJO1negB
12-20-2010: VICTORY FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
THE RECON. ACT IS CONFIRMED AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL: OBAMA’S CITIZENSHIP CONTESTED BY SUPREME COURT 1-7-2011.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1viNttdmZCklOjSJ2dyAz2IlF4VGrtzNlMN_uwCaqvDg/edit?authkey=CIDK0q0J&hl=en&pli=1#
12-27-2010: MERRY CHRISTMAS -- THE PERSON OF THE YEAR IS OF COURSE, GLENN BECK: https://docs1.google.com/document/d/1iI5xix4pBLfubYV2mdd9mN-0Hk2c-rBgC_Rv8NCKti8/edit?hl=en#
1-4-2011 EDITION: HAPPY NEW YEAR!! SO I GUESS I’M STILL JUST A LITTLE P-SSED....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ru29au_nNz6Nge6BRPE62ZCj85br2mJ5YDXFwGidyME/edit?hl=en#
1-7-2011 JUDGEMENT DAY EDITION:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11aXEL9UCYYPSCUc2nmg4YDsrmy5hI0RR5QUoFA2BYf8/edit?hl=en#
1-14-2011 EDITION: HEY, YOU CAN’T SAY THAT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-LZANvBs58rC9OsYYPfU7bY63svuRfYBGKPA7qQH3Mk/edit?hl=en&pli=1#
1-23-2011 EDITION: 50th Anniversary of JFK’S INAUGURATION.... remembering those affected by the Arizona shooting tragedy https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Em3-CdaZXv_SS00ZzYK3IlwvZqrXL-41oGZA_sR49F4/edit?hl=en&pli=1#
1-25-2011 EDITION: THE 2011 STATE OF THE TEA PARTY ADDRESS https://docs3.google.com/document/d/1cuNaMf2I9K08ntMgXlN5h0XXVX7Oo42rnqZRLPykn-8/edit?pli=1&hl=en#
1-30-2011 EDITION: THE CAPITOL IS NO PLACE FOR A TEA PARTY !!! https://docs2.google.com/document/d/1VdK9fOfOgYX2LgcCNPJCxDDtui3taT7NEi_3PDVyguk/edit?hl=en#
2-2-2011 GROUND HOG EDITION: OBAMA IS NULLIFIED; WE DON’T HAVE TO FOLLOW HIM! https://docs0.google.com/document/d/1KTnz7OL-BH3XjpYzY1AkwzYk1AyPfQ8ognja90YfBLo/edit?hl=en#
2-6-2011 IMPEACHMENT EDITION: WITH H.R. 4872, OBAMA TO USE YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO BED PLANNED PARENTHOOD WITH SEX TRAFFICKERS TO ENACT CORRUPT CONTRACTS WITH STERICYCLE AS ABORTION FOR PROFIT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/14PDQAADUP3sPwsBGMjuQk8p5wq6oyyt9lxyzK8gud5g/edit?hl=en#
2-20-2011 EXPLOSION EDITION: EVERYTHING IS EXPLODING: STATE BUDGET COSTS, POLITICIAN’S EGOS, AND EVEN HOMES IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rrCQPBHqdyrbMBOtvUFYM9VeYatg-iB1GoRAkdF-6Vg/edit?hl=en#
2-27-2011 EDITION: WAS IT A PRESIDENTIAL WEEK OR THE MOMENT FOR IMPEACHMENT? THIS WEEK OBAMA’S WTF MOMENT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wS_FBeLHOHensYpCHn7ZsIr1SP8lNrFz-v2BMFyKwx4/edit?hl=en&pli=1#
3-11-2011 EDITION: WOULD OBAMA PLEASE COMMENCE TO NOT SPEAK, AND WOULD THE SUPREME COURT PLEASE SPEAK UP?? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LhbpchXYpmO3F8dYFX28yP5yXtKHaam8S5a0g3-DLGY/edit?hl=en#
3-18-2011/3-25-2011 MARCH-MADNESS DOUBLE-FEATURE EDITION: ONE YEAR LATER, OBAMACARE HAS GIVEN YOU UNEMPLOYMENT, STILL NO HEALTH INSURANCE, AND A $14 TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT...https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EBferxQ1r_evna1B2x-6q3mL21kxex517s5RLWSneik/edit?hl=en#
CONT.D
4-01-2011/4-08-2011 THE-JOKE-IS-ON-OBAMA DOUBLE-FEATURE EDITION: GOP GIVES OBAMA DOUBLE WHAMMY WITH THE PATH TO PROSPERITY! https://docs.google.com/document/d/13zVuOv0mv1i00O_NYCEQ5V_mupk-eZ-7O7yq9SFiwsE/edit?hl=en#
4-20-2011 SPECIAL FEATURE EDITION: THE TEA PARTY DECLARES WAR ON OBAMA DEFICIT! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D6NuunT6oyljKRs2N5pHCOBlTG7K_Utn9Butvcwp3IE/edit?hl=en#
5-1-2011 EDITION: “MONEY ISN’T EVERYTHING” … https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uqsIJuauYRdtwi6B88vlRH_s_V2us7nNPrR3zXM7etI/edit?hl=en#
5-8-2011 EDITION: NOPE, NOT BLUNDERER IN CHIEF, “LIAR IN CHIEF”: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j_IfOwQbfN839fqcQ9BNcZ7BCCgKjHxgmvpDJnl2rI8/edit?hl=en#
5-14-2011 EDITION: CORRUPTION... CONGRESS SINCE 2006, OTHER LOCAL GA GOP GROUPS, AND CROOKED LAW ENFORCEMENT! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PREXKHVpI_c_RRWPJXABLz6oIvwtSY2B0lmVYx_Wic4/edit?hl=en#
5-20-2011 EDITION: THE TYRANNY OF OBAMA, DICTATOR OF THE CONGRESSIONAL PURSE, IS UNFORTUNATELY ALIVE AND WELL.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nIp03RGVBOrMEipEIEutEYoX1QvbXHhBAYbt0WzpiDk/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1#
5-27-2011 EDITION: OBAMA THE TRAITOR, THE BETRAYAL OF AMERICAN LEGACY: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A4T0XhS1PHvBxwWY8t_uf-NvFnNbFKJuHQbmsxVPwkE/edit?hl=en_US#
6-03-2011 EDITION: SUMMERTIME IS ANTI-OBAMA AGENDA ERADICATION PLANNING AND STEAM FOR TEA PARTY CAMPAIGNING 2012 !! https://docs.google.com/document/d/11AHGYsh7b5M6G8vLFNKNUTTipupD_HODibL-9UMoiCw/edit?hl=en_US
6-10-2011 EDITION: THE GREAT UNRAVELING... HEY I HEARD THE WHITE HOUSE IS HIRING... THE COUNTRY IS FALLING APART UNDER OBAMA !! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HjzTDFlhfE2PTumdaH0iX9vfb3eA3ywtODiwdDtMTys/edit?hl=en_US
7-4-2011 POST-FATHER’S DAY SPECIAL EDITION: A TRIBUTE TO OUR FOUNDING FATHERS, AND OUR ELDERS ON AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM; HOW TO WIN-THE-FUTURE IN THE WTF GENERATION:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rAuBBJ70xp7y965EGoyhviyKW6z8TQMkQ1IhjcUs-6U/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
7-11-2011 and 7-17-2011 DOUBLE FEATURE EDITION: UNEMPLOYMENT, A $14 TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT, AND A GOVERNMENT THAT DOESN’T WORK, AS IT CAN’T EVEN GOVERN ITSELF !!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19i_sJ9WPKTcK7Qr1LPh54W8jn3uIzcqONpySKihv81Q/edit?hl=en_US
7-22-2011 MEDIA SELLOUTS AND DEFAULT: CONSIDER THE TEA PARTY AS ANTISEPTIC TO AN INFECTED WOUND OF 2008 UNETHICAL ELECTION POLICIES, LYING MEDIA, AND PARTY POLITICS!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tUo3Pn-S2dkyyDMDmH0M4C5yBNegmyfwXMOcJikBxk0/edit?hl=en_US
7-27-2011 DEFAULT PREVENTION EDITION: A BRIEF HISTORY, THE FACTS ABOUT CUTS, HOW MUCH, WHAT PROGRAMS, THE FEATURES OF EACH PLAN, AND TEA PARTY DISCOURSE ON WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS TO BE A CONSERVATIVE IN A VOLATILE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT https://docs.google.com/document/d/11wxIiTKkaK5OzWzPvWS1wRPzfQSPSioC2Gu7ZgdmeJM/edit?hl=en_US
8-4-2011 IT’S NON-CITIZEN OBAMA’S BDAY EDITION: A BITTERSWEET VICTORY FOR THE TEA PARTY - THE 2012 BATTLEGROUND ESTABLISHED ON CHOOSING FINANCIAL SECURITY RATHER UNLIKE 2008 POLITICAL NOVELTY GAMES... https://docs.google.com/document/d/14bDVsP5N-1lCEjOWAu0WZ4z1mN3ERAAUfOZqavpSAwc/edit?hl=en_US
8-12-2011: OBAMA’S POLITICAL CREDIT DOWNGRADED AND WITH S&P: YOU CAN’T BUILD, FUND, AND MAINTAIN A PRESIDENCY ON LIES.... HIS NON-CITIZEN STATUS BEGETS DEATH KNELL TO ECONOMY BY S&P DOWNGRADE, CORRUPTION WITH BANKS, AND FOREIGN POLICY SLIPPING FROM HIS GRASP... ALSO, IOWA GOP DEBATE REAL-TIME TWEETS WITH A CONGRESSIONAL AUDIT UNDERWAY TO REPLACE THE CESSPOOL OF CONGRESS...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B9SpurfPoC2AUT3R1ZYcCGSyrwxs3-HWLBCaITV0XJs/edit?hl=en_US
8-21-2011: THE TEA PARTY ISN’T THE SAME AS THE GOP... WHY WE’RE NOT SUPPORTING NEWT GRINGRICH 2012, AND WHY THE TEA PARTY ISN’T RACIST OR EXCLUSIVE, UNLIKE DEMOCRATS... (ESPECIALLY RACIST BLACK DEMOCRATS WHO ONLY WANT A BLACK FACE REPRESENTING THEM AND WANT TO REPRESENT BLACK CONSTITUENTS ONLY) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SpuDu2TPPjNz3ARoqwSRNjSuzeVmYyHpqPXi4_yQejY/edit?hl=en_US
8-26-2011: RESTORING FISCAL SANITY AND ECONOMIC STABILITY, UNLIKE OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS, THE TEA PARTY HAS A PLAN AND WE’RE NOT AFRAID TO PUT IT ON PAPER... HOW OBAMA IS TAXING US EMOTIONALLY BEYOND REASON, HOW MUCH IT’S COSTING US, AND WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT !!! EXPOSING WHY WASTING $9 TRILLION WAS DUBBED “TREACHEROUS AND TREASONOUS”...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yHTpdTmd0SmRuseOzKL1yApRbLall0xlxWZNKnl233s/edit?hl=en_US
9-1-2011: UNVEILING THE 2011-2012 TEA PARTY ELECTION BATTLE PLAN “TAKE BACK
AMERICA” CAMPAIGN -- SLAYING THE BEAST OF BIG GOVERNMENT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r6vsH4lkEd32V5UCDYhtohRBo2gXytUtr2p_-FkIbe4/edit?hl=en_US
9-11-2011: REMEMBERING 9-11-01, 10YRS. OF WAR IN THE NEW AGE OF AMERICA... 25-30 MILLION STILL OUT OF WORK; TECHNOLOGY, RACIAL POLITICS, AND CORRUPTION FROM THE HIGHEST OFFICE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YFCRahee9R6YQ-Lxt3p-s4KyjOASJlgRUGeH7cT9fd4/edit?hl=en_US
9-26-2011: LAME- DUCKY, NON-CITIZEN OBAMA IS CLUELESS ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY AND HIS SHOVEL IS RUSTING FOR THE “SHOVEL-READY” JOBS HE PROMISED.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Sr5OblkEGbgJvrRMobVv07XBxN5v0ycrbQTjQcP5yU/edit?hl=en_US
9-30-2011 P-DAY EDITION: SO, WILL YA OR WON’T YA?! OH BUT IT’S NOT MY FAULT.... IF I DON’T TURN THE ECONOMY AROUND IN 3 YEARS, "then there is going to be a one term proposition"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f6LS8JA0JB7OjjqUVEb-15FM_lYEFJZilcTPAFDeJ1M/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
10-6-2011 SPECIAL EDITION: CELEBRATING 5 YRS. FREE FROM GOVERNMENT GLUTTONY.... my personal story, my passion, and pertinent relevance that drives the Tea Party movement https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rJBlrKpbz2cmx1bN7uyKLCAykV9om1qnim8j-IPkqKE/edit?hl=en_US
10-16-2011 EDITION: OBAMA’S CORRUPTION LAID BARE: RACIST POLITICAL AGENDAS, A FULLY UNRAVELED PRESIDENCY WITH IMPEACHMENT LONG OVERDUE; OCCUPY WALL STREET A PLOY FOR HIS BSJobsAct, WATCHING THE SOLYNDRA HEARINGS ON C-SPAN AND THE FAST&FURIOUS GUN SCANDAL, GOP KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE AND THE “I’M A MORMON” OBAMONEY ADS...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N8oX2J5lDgkEGemVcfawTt3udNqDoidrObCptw7mKl0/edit?hl=en_US
10-20-2011 SPECIAL EDITION: OSAMA, ANWAR, GADDAFI, ALL DEAD... BUT WHAT ABOUT THE LIVING? CHURCH TITHING AT ALL-TIME LOW, PINK SLIPS A-PLENTY, OCCUPY WHATEVER STREET, LOW FOOD INVENTORIES... THE TEA PARTY CHIEF TELLS OBAMA TO GET HIS ASS IN GEAR.... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1va06sK0-_HzJrwLrmTmBbCD49zDLZFcOpE0Mh6rvhhE/edit?hl=en_US
10-23-2011 SUPER SUNDAY EDITION: OBAMA-GADDAFI CORRUPTION TIED TO CAIR DONATIONS FROM 2008, 39,000 COMING HOME FROM IRAQ, NEW FOCUS IS AFRICA: YEAH BUDDY, LET’S TALK ABOUT RACISM... CRACK HAS CONSEQUENCES, OCCUPY WHATEVER STREET FIZZLES AND DOESN’T SURVIVE THE COLD WEATHER OR RATIONAL THINKING TEST, AND THIS IS THE HOMECOMING WE GIVE OUR TROOPS??!!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10GklnNKudQ4TT6kXfcUCFK8OKpjSmHKqKGruLQvvy3E/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
10-28-2011 FAT AMERICA EDITION: PAYING FOR AMERICA’S GLUTTONY AND GREED-BINGING, BAD HABITS, AND SPENDING ADDICTIONS ARE COSTING OUR COUNTRY’S BRIGHT FUTURE, AND HOW AND WHY CONSERVATISM WORKS AS A SOLUTION, AS A WAY OF LIFE, AND A POLITICAL IDEOLOGY WHEN OTHERS DON’T...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Y2MEwS4i0K-DSBYAuMR_0CKzqjndOImItJjngT1haI/edit?hl=en_US
11-3-2011 NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH EDITION #1: THE HISTORY OF THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX REVISITED, 34 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CALL FOR HOLDER’S RESIGNATION, FOLLOWED BY THE TEA PARTY’S INSISTENCE THAT OBAMA BE CHARGED WITH MISAPPROPRIATION AND FRAUD FOR NOT PRODUCING A BUDGET, WHATSOEVER....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Ha8nD2H2eRd8QUeiMhfsQB0ttQaTiSV3ARH_kZ0COA/edit?hl=en_US
11-8-2011 GA VOTES EDITION: ON SUNDAY ALCOHOL SALES, PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, EARTHQUAKES, SALACIOUS SCANDALS, AND POVERTY RATE CLIMBS FROM 42 MILLION IN ONE YEAR TO AN ALL-TIME 30YR. HIGH IN 2011 TO 49 MILLION.... THIS YEAR’S CLIMATE A GOOD BAROMETER OF 2012 ELECTION TRENDS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14B2uG-ub6SMZZEfwUlRrxrXNCMc2fntfocDt57tMMZQ/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
11-19-2011 EDITION: GA MARKS REMEMBRANCE OF THE BURNING OF ATLANTA WITH A FULL NIGHT WATCH, #OWS INSURRECTION, THWARTED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, TEA PARTY PUTS GPS ON CONGRESS, SUPER COMMITTEE, BUDGET AND CUTS, WITH FOUR GRUMPY OLD MEN FROM GA.... (and 3 stories of VINDICATION, in AZ, GA, AND EVEN JUSTIN BIEBER....)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVSd_lx2-Hf437aGufgYl5hgaa9B8efxBFsoluD9MQY/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
11-26-2011 EDITION: NOMINEES GET THEIR REPORT CARD, WHO’S THIS YEAR’S TURKEY, NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH REACHES THE CLIMAX, HOW GEORGIA CELEBRATES BLACK FRIDAY....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kzUO3DImTWtyUCY8_ij0uZfyzd676hy2ZjUyhlcWnIo/edit?hl=en_US
11-29-2011 SPECIAL EDITION: PROMISES, PROMISES... VIRTUES, AND THE STUFF THAT POLITICS IS REALLY MADE OF, AND WELL, WHAT IT ISN’T:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BQduznv39KwrNHlFdaUbyQwSEKe690STZS7JLvJdlHs/edit?hl=en_US
12-08-2011 SOLIDIFYING NOMINATION: WHAT IT TAKES TO BE AMERICA’S PRESIDENT IN THE AFTERMATH OF DNC CORRUPTION AND TO REPAIR THE CRACKS OBAMA HAS CAUSED TO OUR NATION’S FOUNDATION... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oIzctEYX0inZ3THn15_8OQyZ-7pWQ5Zk_I6sbTAeIE0/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
12-13-2011 GEARING TO A PEACETIME ECONOMY, THIS EDITION CELEBRATES TWO YEARS IN PRINT TODAY:
THE GOP HAS A NEWTINY ON THEIR HANDS, THE TEA PARTY CHIEF TELLS CONGRESS HELL NO~ ON THEIR CHRISTMAS WISH LIST AND DISCUSSES EU SUMMIT PROGRESS WITH SARKOZY, THE DEBATES ON THE EVE OF THE PRIMARY TO PREPARE FOR THE LAST DEBATE, AND WHY THE GA TEA PARTY ENDORSES RICK PERRY AND RICK SANTORUM AS WORTHY OF NOMINATION: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzQDvD8G7WCEpyi2FpUb5zPJkCQVcOgJ0J-3jUqJEfY/edit?hl=en_US
MARKING MILESTONES AND SETTING MONUMENTS 12-18-11 EDITION: U.S. DRAWS FORMAL END TO IRAQ WAR AND OCCUPATION, WRAPPING THEIR US-IRAQ FORCES FLAG IN CAMO; SOLDIERS RETURN HOME, THE TEA PARTY REMEMBERS BORDER AGENT BRIAN TERRY, AND CONGRESS GIVES OBAMA AN INFORMAL 60 DAY NOTICE TO VACATE THE OFFICE... (REALLY? I HAVE PEOPLE CONTACTING ME WHEN I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR ROMNEY EMAIL ALERTS ABOUT THE PRIMARY IN GEORGIA IN MARCH? PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE SOME MANNERS WHEN THEY HOST EVENTS, AND DON’T TELL ME WHO TO VOTE FOR...) https://docs.google.com/document/d/10zQwojdjw8MoMOv7yhIIKgz-VDeh_Jh9gwebdgT6CQU/edit?hl=en_US
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HOW OBAMA SAYS MERRY CHRISTMAS 12-23-2011 EDITION: OBAMA HAS A PRESIDENTIAL MELTDOWN; HE THREATENS TO VETO THE UNANIMOUSLY PASSED CONTINUING RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, PHONES IN ON THE BLACKBERRY TO BLAME THE HOUSE, AND GOES ON A $4 MILLION HAWAIIAN VACATION WHEN WE HAVE A $15 TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT, AND STILL NO APPROVED BUDGET.... THE TEA PARTY ISSUES OBAMA’S IMPEACHMENT ORDER, SUBSEQUENT TO THE HOUSE FINISHING THEIR INVESTIGATION OF THE TEA PARTY’S PETITION OF IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES FROM 5-27-11, EFFECTIVE 1-1-12: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XhvtgGcHDQ8C5CSW616QfkVoxj-KQleRPvs0pTR0Bwg/edit?hl=en_US
12-29-11 FIRST PRIMARY PRIMER EDITION: THE IOWA CAUCUS, THE NOMINEES’ STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES, DO THEY GET THE TEA PARTY’S “THUMBS’ UP” OR “THUMBS’ DOWN” , AND WHY OR WHY NOT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19xdYwSB7t6SPAmfErCtcN0tatldqKLB2AkgoF2auR_0/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
1-5-12 POST PRIMARY EDITION: AFTER SANTORUM’S SURGE, IOWA CROWNS SANTORUM NOMINEE CONTENDER: what the numbers reveal... the Tea Party Chief discusses nomination strategy, general election strategy, and beats the drum for Obama’s impeachment and removal from Office:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hvqsqiTMBDjiderB_K9nsqyqtJ2JMBdB8nxJLV0cHas/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
1-9-12 EDITION: GA LEGISLATURE NOW IN SESSION, 2012 IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD (though we were given 2 dates and it didn’t end and Obama thinks he is the Mahdi, when he’s not), SANTORUM REALLY WON IOWA, RON PAUL FOLLOWERS ARE CONVINCED IF YOU DON’T VOTE FOR HIM ARMAGEDDON WILL OCCUR: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ee5L1BmOUSTWz0z4kM_1gAkmTnha47_DvhQvVWrDwus/edit?hl=en_US
1-11-12 SPECIAL EDITION: NEW HAMPSHIRE UNDERSCORES THE NEED FOR JOBS: HUNTSMAN WHO SKIPPED IOWA, COMES IN THIRD, WITH PERRY PULLING A HUNTSMAN... THE RACE, UNLIKE DECIDED BY THE MEDIA IN 2008 AND STILL FACES SCRUTINY BY THE COURTS, NOW MOVES TO THE COVETED SOUTH CAROLINA CONSERVATIVE BATTLEGROUND....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GeNjFHQJcRiWCjRBgX3Z0nBiscn017oJSxy47ledvRM/edit?hl=en_US
1-19-12 SPECIAL EDITION: VINDICATION: SANTORUM DECLARED WINNER BY 34 VOTES OVER ROMNEY, ROMNEY LOSES FALSE FRONTRUNNER STATUS BY MEDIA SHARK POLITICS WHO THREATEN RICK PERRY TO LEAVE THE RACE OVER UNSURENESS OVER THEIR INVESTMENTS, AND VICTOR HILL GETS WHAT HE DESERVES... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eq70wKJjAzMyeFUETqWT7wpr_8C66rJKV0dMN-dslJE/edit?hl=en_US
1-16-12 SOUTH CAROLINA SPECIAL EDITION: SOUTH CAROLINA TO WINNOW THE CHAFF OF THE FIELD: CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM FOR THE NOMINEES TO MAKE A PRODUCTIVE AND GREAT CONTEST OF NOMINATION OR A SOUTH CAROLINA STINKER?? SO MANY VIEWED THE PRIMARY PRIMER, IT IS NOW TIME TO REFLECT ON SOME SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS OF THE NOMINATION RACE... WHO WE DO NOT ENDORSE AND WHY: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LdcSFJ1YckFRP0ycj_ciwn0yJC5oJHGDNTXoTvnQHgw/edit?hl=en_US
1-29-12 SPECIAL EDITION: OBAMA’S FAILURE TO APPEAR IN GA COURT 1-26-12 EARNS HIM THE TITLE OF “OBAMA THE COWARD”, GOP CORRUPTION SO DISCONCERTING AS TO PUT OBAMA-ROMNEY-NEWT ALL HOLDING HANDS UNDER THE BAIN UMBRELLA, HELD UP BY ERICK ERICKSON, AND THE 700 CLUB (no, I don’t mean Pat Robertson) the 700 like Romney, who have evaded paying taxes, of the 535 Congress members (tax evading/insider trading), and 165 rich putzes who haven’t paid their taxes, causing us to borrow and creating the deficit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FoSYHTVdM8tMwE-qMB6MPSMtZvkxvWpo9mMyA9vTERw/edit?hl=en_US
2-1-12 SPECIAL EDITION: CHANGE FOR THE WORSE AND DESPAIR IS OBAMA’S STRATEGY TO HANG ON UNTIL HE’S EVICTED AND FORCED TO LEAVE IN TOTAL SHAME, ROMNEY’S STRATEGY ABSENTEE BALLOTS, NEWT IS LACKLUSTER/HAS NO STRATEGY, RON PAUL’S STRATEGY IS DELEGATES, AND RICK SANTORUM QUADRUPLES HIS FUNDRAISING AFTER IOWA PRIMARY WIN GAINING GROUND FOR THE PATH FORWARD TO NOMINATION... WHY WE CALL IT RED FEBRUARY (CBO DEFICIT REPORTS AND WHEN GOP TAKES BACK OVER IN INFLUENCE AND POWER) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TP0TLlyjes0zS1JZiRR4vh0GothNnmfGZiVU_rFoIQg/edit?hl=en_US
2-2-12 EXTRA SPECIAL EDITION: VICTOR HILL’S TIES TO THE ZETAS’ CARTEL(S) EXPOSED; HOLDER ASKED TO RESIGN BEFORE BEING CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION AND CONTEMPT, AND OBAMA’S PRESIDENCY OFFICIALLY IMPLODES ON GROUND HOG DAY, A MONTH AND A DAY AFTER HIS IMPEACHMENT AND EVICTION DATE SET FOR 3/1/12, SUBSEQUENT TO THE ORDER OF IMPEACHMENT 1/1/12...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14XfN1F8l6eSe4yE_QQdBCF1kzaLTDOApNMyofQvivNk/edit?hl=en_US
2-8-12 THE RICK SANTORUM EDITION: RICK SANTORUM GETS HIS POLITICAL SUPERBOWL... THIS HEADLINE WRITTEN BY CONSERVATIVE VOTERS IN AMERICA: IN RESPONSE TO BAIN-GOP CORRUPTION WITH OBAMA-NEWT-ROMNEY IN A 3-RING CIRCUS, GETTING THEIR $ FROM THE SAME TROUGH MAKES CONSERVATIVES RECOIL AND STRIKE VICTORY FOR SANTORUM....
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IyPCmLZliNMZk8kXk42nWZlZbQ50Ea545qqCUdAjv8s/edit?pli=1&hl=en_US
2-22-2012 SPECIAL LENT EDITION: SOUTH ATL TEA PARTY SNIPPET, HOW BAIN IS THE BANE OF ALL SMALL BUSINESSES, LOCAL STUFF AND MORE ON COMMUNITY CONCERNS RELATED TO POLICY AND INTERPRETATION
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nD0Bv9MAPhrL6AZonqMqp5kDRZ8DqZCWTuRd7CJuUsI/edit
3-1-2012 GA PRE-PRIMARY EDITION: OBAMA NO LONGER RECOGNIZED AS PRESIDENT OR LEGALLY OCCUPYING THE OFFICE AS HIS 60-DAY NOTICE TO VACATE EXPIRED AFTER IMPEACHMENT ORDER 1/1/2012 ON 3/1/12, ROMNEY’S MICHIGAN DRAW WITH RICK SANTORUM REVEALS SERIOUS ISSUES OF CORRUPTION WITH BAIN, UNETHICAL LOBBYING, AND VOTE BRIBERY, AS BAIN BOYCOTT SPREADS, ELECTION 2012 AT FEVER PITCH, AND PART 1 BOOK REVIEWS FROM NOMINEES, WHAT’S WORTH READING AND WHAT’S NOT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XKRDfkzfsUYwbSahZMeH7fwBrQCcJSeAduScEQDqLZE/edit?pli=1
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3-9-2012 “FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY” EDITION: WITH OBAMA’S FORMAL IMPEACHMENT HEARING FAST APPROACHING AFTER HOLDER’S, IS IT ANY WONDER THE HOUSE WILL GET TO IT BEFORE THE ELECTION? RECORDS WERE PURPOSEFULLY HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC RECORD IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, TO COVER UP THAT OBAMA WAS INDEED BORN IN KENYA AND HIS MOTHER FLEW BACK AFTERWARDS! WHY ROMNEY MAKING A LOT OF MONEY DOESN’T MEAN HE KNOWS EVERYTHING OR EVEN HOW TO BE PRESIDENT, WHY RICK SANTORUM IS THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB IN THE NOMINATION RACE, AND WHY NEWT’S $2.50 GAS IS A CAMPAIGN GIMMICK, ALSO WHY RON PAUL’S “END THE FED” THEORY IS NOT A SOLUTION OR VIABLE POLICY FOR PRESIDENCY:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fbvej2TbPq6r2UB14_arKhPheV0z_SwFRt-AeS9xkZM/edit?pli=1
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3-16-2012 “FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY”, PART 2 EDITION: MANAGING THE BUDGET, CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM, AND INFLATION ARE WHY CONSERVATIVE VOTERS COALESCE AROUND SANTORUM, AS OBAMA PROPOSES MORE ECONOMIC ENSLAVEMENT THROUGH INFLATION, AS HIS IMPEACHMENT BILL IS ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE: EXPLORING OUR ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS, CAMPAIGN DONORS, AND OUR DEFICIT....
WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON HERE?! GINGRICH DONOR TIED TO CHINESE ORGANIZED CRIME - NASTY NEWT !! AFGHANISTAN, SYRIA, AND WHAT’S UP WITH THAT... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kkfiJNEQkvybb6RmAQe70Q6sWhS4Asm9Z-LLBkw3Vmk/edit
3-21-2012 “FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY” PART 3 EDITION: DRUM ROLL PLEASE... HAWAII OFFICIAL SWEARS UNDER OATH WHAT WE KNEW TO BE TRUE ALL ALONG - OBAMA HAS NO HAWAII BIRTH CERTIFICATE, WHICH IS WHY HIS MOTHER'S FLIGHT RECORDS WERE REMOVED FROM PUBLIC RECORD AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, RON PAUL, NEWT, AND ROMNEY ARE UNDER SUSPICION OF FRAUD, VERY MUCH LIKE OBAMA’S, AND MAY BE DISQUALIFIED AT THE CONVENTION, AND FORGING AHEAD... REP. PAUL RYAN’S MEDICARE AND BUDGET PLAN COME UP FOR HOUSE SOLUTIONS TO END THE INFLATION OF THE OBAMA DEFICIT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KorzlzEk0UDF31l4HDwf0jH217ov3oLwgruAxmQNYzA/edit?pli=1
3-29-2012 “FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY” PART 4 EDITION: THE PRIMARY IS A SOAPBOX FOR ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS AND DIFFERING STRATEGIES WITH AMERICA AIRING CONCERNS THAT OBAMA IS THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT TO OFFICE AND AN IMPEDIMENT TO OUR FUTURE, SUPREME COURT ARGUMENTS HAVE MADE CLEAR THE NEED FOR PROPOSED REPEAL SO PEOPLE HAVE THEIR HEALTH-IN ORDER TO WORK AND BE PRODUCTIVE IN SOCIETY, AS REPEAL IS PROPOSING APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNINSURED WITHOUT PENALIZATION OR DEPRIVING PEOPLE FREEDOM, BUT “NO AMERICAN LEFT ALONE”: HOW GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESS ARE EXPLOITING THE USE OF MONEY AND PERCEIVED RACIAL DIFFERENCES TO UNDERMINE THE UNITY AND PURPOSE OF OUR NATION -- DON’T BE DECEIVED, BE INFORMED!! THIS EDITION DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ANDREW WORDES...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RYR2zTmMsYjLqjAwBFE4_1OkZm8qnztDU9EvQyFS9pw/edit?pli=1
4-3-2012 THE REPUBLICAN REVENGE: THE GOP HAS CRAFTED A FLAWED PRIMARY WITH ROMNEY AT CENTER THAT LOOKS VERY MUCH LIKE OBAMA’S 2008 CAMPAIGN, THE BAIN BOYCOTT CONTINUES TO DRAIN OBAMA, ROMNEY, AND NEWT OF ‘CASH FOR NEGATIVE ADS’ AND STRAINS THEIR STOCK PORTFOLIOS AND INVESTMENTS, AS OBAMA CAMPAIGN CONTINUES WHEEL OF FRAUD: A WEEK OF BAD PRESS, AND ANAAN SETS SYRIAN DEADLINE FOR PEACE AT 4-10-12: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Le9af9ff6LyTVd3zQJGssXjdlUVEzhdd9mcd6j0TBto/edit
4-6-2012 GOOD FRIDAY EDITION: WELL WHAT’S SO GOOD ABOUT IT?? A LOT... EASTER EGGS, CANDY, FELLOWSHIP, AND HOPE... AND I MEAN REAL HOPE !! HOPE THAT IS ETERNAL, NOT “HOPE” USED MERELY AS A CAMPAIGN SLOGAN... IMPEACHMENT IS ON THE TABLE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W621iTOAFmIjk3YT6ABZIVIJKJZ7LxxhJ4Zs28cAFh4/edit
4-11-2012 FYI EDITION: SECURING OUR FUTURE - AFTER CONFRONTING OBAMA, A SURPRISE SUNDAY AGREEMENT SIGNED ON EASTER CRYSTALLIZES AFGHANISTAN POLICY AND UNEXPECTED PARTNERSHIP, SYRIAN PEACE AGREEMENT IMPLODES, AL QAEDA IN YEMEN, FRANCE PENSIVE ON RADICALIZATION FROM IMPRISONING TOULOUSE SHOOTER WHO TARGETED JEWS, 2ND NAVY SHIP IN HORMUZ, AND SAUDI ARABIA DELIVERS JUSTICE TO 50 AL QAEDA MEMBERS THAT ATTACKED THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND EMBASSIES... AND RICK SANTORUM SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN FOR FAMILY REASONS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gn1E5U8YQkAUMWg8JX4Xe-v5xpmx09E0SNJ2gomZXsk/edit
4-15-2012 ANNUAL TEA PARTY EDITION: DID YOU PAY YOUR TAXES?? I DID... WHAT LITTLE I MAKE!! FOLKS, THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF IDEAS THROWN AROUND ABOUT TAXATION: FLAT TAX, FAIR TAX, TAX GIMMICKS LIKE 9-9-9, BUT WHEN GOVERNMENT IS MISAPPROPRIATING FUNDS AND LOCAL POLLSTERS RIG PRIMARIES OR DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT YOU FROM VOTING, WHO NEEDS DEAD PEOPLE?? WE HAVE GOT TO DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT, INSTEAD OF IT BEING THE CONSTANT BATTLE OF THE GOP BEING THE LESS STUPID, VS. DEMOCRATS THE MOST STUPID... https://docs.google.com/document/d/19_uIj5Fp7zz_kM_cyIxZJG3DbQ1I36H_YsOZuOXYD7Y/edit
4-20-12 FULL IMPEACHMENT EDITION: HOW MANY SCANDALS DOES IT TAKE BEFORE OBAMA IS FULLY IMPEACHED AND PREVENTED FROM EVER HOLDING OFFICE AGAIN, SO THAT HE IS HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE?? #LobbyGate #VoterGate #Certifigate #RenumerationGate #GibbsGate #ClimateGate #FastAndFuriousGunGate #GaddafiGate #KoranGate #HookerGate #AssadGate https://docs.google.com/document/d/17i1UZnb6MOelC_8RRlwQzguskSIdy-DYuvOXgd3aN4M/edit?pli=1
CORRUPTION CAUSES BLEEDING OF TAX DOLLARS, ACCOUNTABILITY 4-28-12 ISSUE: HOUSE ISSUES 48PG. CITATION AGAINST ERIC HOLDER, FOR BEING IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS, SUMMARIZING OUTCOME OF FAST AND FURIOUS HEARINGS TO PRESS TOWARD FULL IMPEACHMENT OF OBAMA, BUDGET PARTICULARS HEAT UP OVER SAVING MEDICARE AND NOT USING IT AS A SLUSH FUND BUT ADDRESSING STUDENT LOAN POLICY, AS OBAMA THREATENS TO VETO EVERYTHING THE HOUSE DOES, THOUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER POWER HAS BEEN ARRESTED: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x3bpLxnDaw6Es0Y0N7CxleDW6ZKK-9_dbXctU2eG8BE/edit
SUMMER REVIVAL PREPARATION EDITION 5-13-2012 DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF DOROTHY LINDSEY AND EVERY MOTHER: CHRONIC JOBLESSNESS, CONGRESS TOO AFRAID TO GET REAL FOR FEAR OF DISPOSSESSING THE POLITICALLY CORRECT OR IN KEEPING THE STATUS QUO, GAY MARRIAGE BEING A CAMPAIGN SLOGAN TO MANIPULATE GAY VOTERS ON IDEOLOGY, AND HOW ALL OF THIS IS AFFECTING OUR COMMUNITIES HERE IN GA.... LET US HONOR OUR MOTHERS AND THEIR WISDOM WITH WHAT THEY TAUGHT US, IN FERVENT PRAYER AND BEING COMMITTED TO ACT ON BEHALF ON THE GOOD OF OTHERS: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V2aTtZE4tNvFmWHhwfWckYwoSDhXmyUYU2X8SftIczk/edit
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HOUSE PASSES FIRST PRIORITY OF CONSTITUTIONAL BUDGETING TO FUND DEFENSE, JUST BEFORE SATURDAY ARMED FORCES DAY, OBAMA IGNORES JOB CREATION OTHER THAN TO LIE ABOUT IT ON THE WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE AND TO STOKE VOTER EMOTION RATHER THAN PRODUCE RESULTS, HOUSE PUTS ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE REGARDING CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AND ERIC HOLDER...
PLUS, THE DOG ATE MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13DaEJ9Ip1VLURM8zqI4jYaCPnTLK6whcsbQgETqnBI8/edit
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND 5-25-2012 EDITION: TEA PARTY UNVEILS JOB CREATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION STRATEGY, AS IT SLATES REDUCING FEDERAL WORKFORCE 1/5, BY REPEAL AND INJUNCTION TO HIRE WITHOUT OBAMACARE, THE TEA PARTY JOINS ROMNEY ON A 30 STATES IN 30 WEEKS STRATEGY...
GEORGIA REVISITS PENNY SALES TAX T-SPLOST INITIATIVES, AND THE TEA PARTY DISCUSSES FEDERAL BUDGET PROCESSES, TWO CRUCIAL DATES SEPTEMBER 30TH--FACING 5TH GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN AS WE TRANSITION OFF OF CONTINUING RESOLUTION BUDGETING, AND DECEMBER 31ST--BEWARE OF TAX INCREASES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fqvJV2AWN1gRDYcs3GXFQv2ID2xXsH6-n1cooUVlY10/edit
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