By Larry Reams
It has been universally agreed that an outside military force can't defeat the US. We're the only nation still considered to be a superpower. So, if you want to destroy us, you must do it from within; slowly chip away at our various institutions until they are meaningless and can no longer contribute to our claim of superpower, or world's largest economy, or greatest nation ever devised by mankind, "shining city on a hill," a Constitutional Republic, etc. etc.
The leftist progressive movement, formerly also known as Marxists, communists, socialists, liberals and perhaps a few more "ists" and "isms," have been working at it for close to 100 years. They have destroyed, or severely weakened most of our traditional institutions--our Constitution and Founding Documents, education, traditional media, unions, government (particularly federal), the family unit, marriage, the free enterprise system, corporations, the churches, and, rewritten history so current and future generations won't know the truth. Recently they've turned their attention to our Armed Forces.
Poll after poll shows our military to be THE most respected institution in the country. Well, not for long. With the promotion of "political generals" instead of war hawks, the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," Chaplains who can't pray in Jesus Name, rules of engagement that give the enemy an advantage over us, national leadership that hasn't spend one day in the service yet purport to know how to "lead," a fear of exposing those who show signs of being terrorists yet giving prison sentences to those who kill the enemy in self defense, putting females in combat roles, dictating promotions by minority status instead of the merit system, an inability to clearly define the mission then suffering from "mission creep," reducing the defense budget so as to increase some social welfare program; and on and on it goes. Our national leadership is even reluctant to use the words "terrorist" or "war." Political correctness has run amuck. It won't be long until we'll be compared to the French Army in capability and will to win. All because the Leftists hate all things military and our elected officials haven't the balls to do the right thing to defend the nation--a Constitutional obligation.
Marx and Engles, Cloward and Piven, Saul Alinsky, Richard Trumka and Andy Stern, Code Pink and MoveOn.org now carry more sway that Washington, Madison, Adams, Franklin and Jefferson et. al, or Jesus. This has all the signs of not turning out well. Be sure to call me when the Second Civil War starts. I don't want to miss doing my part.
Read Daniel Greenfield's article. It's alarming.
Larry Reams
Veteran
Houston, TX
Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Business Insider: Former SEIU Official Reveals Secret Plan To Destroy JP Morgan & Crash The Stock Market
Business Insider:
To watch the video click here or view below:
A former official of one of the country’s most-powerful unions, SEIU, is detailing a secret plan to “destabilize” the country.
Specifically, the plan seeks to destroy JP Morgan, nuke the stock market, and weaken Wall Street’s grip on power, thus creating the conditions necessary for a redistribution of wealth and a change in government.
The former SEIU official, Stephen Lerner, spoke in a closed session at a Pace University forum last weekend.
The Blaze procured what appears to be a tape of Lerner’s remarks, many of which many Americans will no doubt sympathize with. Still, the “destabilization” plan is startling in its specificity.
Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals, therefore–the redistribution of wealth and the return of “$17 trillion” stolen from the middle class by Wall Street–is to “destabilize the country.”Read the rest of the Business Insider analysis here.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Cost of Being Taxed
By Cheryl E. Johnson, Galveston County Tax Assessor and Collector/Taxpayer Advocate
The Tax Office currently contracts with all cities, most school districts, both junior college districts and a handful of special purpose districts providing assessment and collection services at a cost of $0.32 per parcel ($1.01/parcel for out of county properties)—less than the cost of a stamp.
This year, we collected nearly $352M at a cost to our collection partners of $164,000…not a bad return on investment. How can we do this for so little money? We have no choice. The law allows county tax offices to charge only the “incremental additional cost” which equates to a line of ink and a handful of additional personnel and their infrastructure needs.
While cost is often a driving force behind the decision to contract for tax assessment and collection services, convenience—for both the local government and taxpayers is significant. GCTO’s 24/7 online account information and multiple office locations provide customers various options of conducting business. Whether one less check to write or one less errand to run, centralized tax collections save taxpayers time and governments money, translating to savings for everyone.
Governments in the collecting their own taxes are listed below as are the GCTO expected cost (excluding one-time conversion fees). As local governments begin the tedious process of developing and adopting budgets, the cost to collect their own taxes should be studied. With the cuts coming down the Austin pipeline, the relatively flat real estate market and on-going financial trends, consolidation of tax collections is an easy and cost effective way of saving money.
Cost by GCTO Jurisdiction
$64,677 Clear Creek ISD*
$3,743 Friendswood ISD
$5,648 Santa Fe ISD
$4,272 Texas City ISD
$3,858 GC Consol. Drainage District
$220 Bay Colony West MUD
$158 Flamingo Isles MUD
$525 GC MUD # 2
$660 GC MUD # 3
$750 GC MUD # 6
$303 GC MUD # 13
$393 GC MUD # 14
$459 GC MUD # 15
$178 GC MUD # 29
$107 GC MUD #30
$84 GC MUD # 31
$64 GC MUD # 32
$337 GC MUD # 39
$268 GC MUD # 43
$92 GC MUD # 44
$83 GC MUD #45
$170 GC MUD #46
$2 GC MUD #51
$74 GC MUD #52
$3 GC MUD #57
$3 GC MUD #59
$9 GC MUD #66
$95 GC MUD #68
$7 GC Management District #1
$263 South Shore Harbour MUD # 2
$526 South Shore Harbour MUD # 6
$436 South Shore Harbour MUD # 7
$106 West Ranch Management District
$746 WCID # 8
$988 WCID # 12
* Includes 52,901 parcels out-of-county at a cost of @ $1.01/parcel
The Tax Office currently contracts with all cities, most school districts, both junior college districts and a handful of special purpose districts providing assessment and collection services at a cost of $0.32 per parcel ($1.01/parcel for out of county properties)—less than the cost of a stamp.
This year, we collected nearly $352M at a cost to our collection partners of $164,000…not a bad return on investment. How can we do this for so little money? We have no choice. The law allows county tax offices to charge only the “incremental additional cost” which equates to a line of ink and a handful of additional personnel and their infrastructure needs.
While cost is often a driving force behind the decision to contract for tax assessment and collection services, convenience—for both the local government and taxpayers is significant. GCTO’s 24/7 online account information and multiple office locations provide customers various options of conducting business. Whether one less check to write or one less errand to run, centralized tax collections save taxpayers time and governments money, translating to savings for everyone.
Governments in the collecting their own taxes are listed below as are the GCTO expected cost (excluding one-time conversion fees). As local governments begin the tedious process of developing and adopting budgets, the cost to collect their own taxes should be studied. With the cuts coming down the Austin pipeline, the relatively flat real estate market and on-going financial trends, consolidation of tax collections is an easy and cost effective way of saving money.
Cost by GCTO Jurisdiction
$64,677 Clear Creek ISD*
$3,743 Friendswood ISD
$5,648 Santa Fe ISD
$4,272 Texas City ISD
$3,858 GC Consol. Drainage District
$220 Bay Colony West MUD
$158 Flamingo Isles MUD
$525 GC MUD # 2
$660 GC MUD # 3
$750 GC MUD # 6
$303 GC MUD # 13
$393 GC MUD # 14
$459 GC MUD # 15
$178 GC MUD # 29
$107 GC MUD #30
$84 GC MUD # 31
$64 GC MUD # 32
$337 GC MUD # 39
$268 GC MUD # 43
$92 GC MUD # 44
$83 GC MUD #45
$170 GC MUD #46
$2 GC MUD #51
$74 GC MUD #52
$3 GC MUD #57
$3 GC MUD #59
$9 GC MUD #66
$95 GC MUD #68
$7 GC Management District #1
$263 South Shore Harbour MUD # 2
$526 South Shore Harbour MUD # 6
$436 South Shore Harbour MUD # 7
$106 West Ranch Management District
$746 WCID # 8
$988 WCID # 12
* Includes 52,901 parcels out-of-county at a cost of @ $1.01/parcel
Friday, March 11, 2011
Citizen Advisory Committee Issues Reality Check for House Appropriations Chair Pitts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 9, 2011
Contact: JoAnn Fleming, TPCAC member, Tyler area (903.894.7204)
House Appropriations Chair Jim Pitts just doesn't get it. While he dismisses Governor Perry's call for spending cuts instead of a raid on the Rainy Day Fund, Chairman Pitts insists he'll push for a committee vote soon on a bill to spend $4.3 billion of the People's Savings Account instead. In some news reports, Pitts has likened the state's budget situation to a family facing the loss of its home due to a sudden drop in household income. Pitts concludes that the family has two options - either tell the bank to take the house or take money out of the family's savings account. It is also reported that Pitts believes anyone who doesn't see it his way needs a "reality check." Such an outrageous statement deserves a reality check from citizens who see the matter quite differently.
"The loss of state revenue was not sudden, nor was it a surprise. Chairman Pitts knows better," says Tea Party Advisory Committee member Sharon Hall (San Antonio). "The legislature has known the economy was slowing since 2008. They could have taken more aggressive cost-containment measures in the 81st legislative session, but did not. Now we expect them to cut - not take the easy way out."
Tony Corsaut, TP Advisory Committee member from Wichita Falls, agrees. "When families and businesses see a reduction of income or revenue coming, they prepare. They look at all expenses and cut out wants to get down to needs. The state has a way to go to get down to basic needs. After all, we still have an arts and film commission. The legislature is still underwriting a Formula 1 race track for some $25 million, and there's been no move to furlough non-essential state employees to save money. Why should government be exempt from the cuts families and businesses have had to make and are still making?"
Between fiscal years 1990 and 2010, All Funds appropriations for Texas state government increased from $23.3 billion to $92.7 billion, a growth of nearly 300 percent. By contrast, the rate of population growth plus inflation increased only 115.5 percent over the same period. (Source: Legislative Budget Board, Texas Public Policy Foundation) This clearly demonstrates that state government has grown to unsustainable levels. The Tea Party Advisory Committee insists it is time for state leaders to do the hard work required to get spending under control and balance the state budget without raising taxes, instituting new taxes, putting the state further into debt, or raiding the Rainy Day Fund.
In an effort to give Committee Chairman Pitts and his colleagues in the State Legislature a helping hand, the Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee advances the following "Fourteen Point Plan to Cut Spending to Balance the State Budget" as authored by Tea Party Advisory Committee Member JoAnn Fleming (Tyler area):
Fourteen Point Plan to Cut Spending to Balance the State Budget: Across-the-board cuts do not get to the root of the over-spending, over-regulating problem. Cutting 2.5%, 5% or 10% of a department, agency, or program that is outside basic constitutional authority does not go far enough to solve the spending problem. It is time to get state government spending under control by:
1) focusing on the basic constitutional duties of state government, making those the top budget priorities;
2) employing zero-based budgeting for every agency, department, and program;
3) asserting constitutional and moral duty to first protect and preserve the interests of the citizens and legal residents of Texas by requiring all public service providers to verify and report the citizenship/legal residency of those they serve to the State and to the People of Texas, thereby ensuring appropriate budget allocations can be made for legal Texas residents, versus those from other States (both foreign and domestic);
4) eliminating overlapping, duplicated agencies, departments, and programs (example, the natural resource agencies: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Rail Road Commission, Public Utility Commission, General Land Office, Agriculture Commission, Parks & Wildlife);
5) injecting competition into the delivery of services for improved service quality and lower costs (outsourcing, improved centralized procurement for volume purchasing discounts, and efficient contract management);
6) determining feasibility of purchase deferrals for all unspent appropriations in current budget and for new budget requests for capital assets (vehicles, equipment, technology, new facilities/upgrades/remodels);
7) instituting an immediate hiring freeze and review of all state government positions, all personnel policies, and all benefits; review solvency of benefit funding for state employees; end longevity pay for state employees; increase contribution levels for state employees toward their own pension and insurance benefits;
8) cutting pay for state employees, including statewide officials. Top officials should lead by cutting their pay first. (No public employee should make more than the Governor, including school superintendents.) Care should be taken not to reduce lowest paid state workers to the point of making them eligible for social services, thereby driving up state costs.
9) ending the practice of diverting funds from the originally-intended purpose to other uses (for example, the state motor fuels tax of which 47% is diverted to non-transportation fund use);
10) mandating review of all agencies, departments, and programs to match funding with originally-intended mission and to determine whether or not the agency/department/program is producing measurable results; although this is the purpose of the Sunset Commission, the Sunset Commission needs to be revamped with more private citizen representation on the review board;
11) reviewing state debt for savings through debt consolidation, lower interest rates;
12) suspending funding of parks, bike and walking trails, renovations of historical properties;
13) reviewing and curtailing in many cases state economic incentives and subsidies (our low taxes, limited regulations, right to work laws, and civil justice system provide plenty of incentives for companies to come to Texas, when compared to other states);
14) reasserting State Sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution. Too much state spending is driven by accepting unconstitutional federal funding with strings, regulation, and mandates. All federal funds that come with added strings and regulation should be rejected.
This will not be the state's last difficult budgeting cycle in the near term. According to Texas Public Policy Foundation, "Medicaid costs before ObamaCare will double every 10 years through the next three decades. ObamaCare adds 3.1 million people to Texas' Medicaid rolls by 2014, and Texas will need an additional $10 to $15 billion in the next budget to meet those costs." In addition, rising fuel costs, unrest around the globe, and uncertainty caused by suffocating federal debt and onerous regulations affirm that it is a wholly reasonable and prudent expectation that the 82nd Texas Legislature would exhaust all fiscally-responsible cost-cutting remedies before ever thinking about raiding the People's Rainy Day Fund.
Governor Rick Perry expressed support for citizen involvement in the state budget process: "Ever since they burst onto the national consciousness in April of 2009, the TEA Parties have been waking people up with their fundamentally American message of fiscal discipline and accountability for elected leaders. The Texas TEA Parties have remained in the vanguard of the movement and I'm honored to have their support. You can trust that I'll stand my ground on our core principles and continue our efforts to balance the budget without raising taxes or touching the Rainy Day Fund. Only through continued TEA Party engagement can we hold elected officials' feet to the fire and ensure they deliver on their promises from last November." [Statement provided to Katrina Pierson, TPCAC member, Garland]
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Please forward any questions concerning the Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee to txteapartycaucus@gmail.com
March 9, 2011
Contact: JoAnn Fleming, TPCAC member, Tyler area (903.894.7204)
House Appropriations Chair Jim Pitts just doesn't get it. While he dismisses Governor Perry's call for spending cuts instead of a raid on the Rainy Day Fund, Chairman Pitts insists he'll push for a committee vote soon on a bill to spend $4.3 billion of the People's Savings Account instead. In some news reports, Pitts has likened the state's budget situation to a family facing the loss of its home due to a sudden drop in household income. Pitts concludes that the family has two options - either tell the bank to take the house or take money out of the family's savings account. It is also reported that Pitts believes anyone who doesn't see it his way needs a "reality check." Such an outrageous statement deserves a reality check from citizens who see the matter quite differently.
"The loss of state revenue was not sudden, nor was it a surprise. Chairman Pitts knows better," says Tea Party Advisory Committee member Sharon Hall (San Antonio). "The legislature has known the economy was slowing since 2008. They could have taken more aggressive cost-containment measures in the 81st legislative session, but did not. Now we expect them to cut - not take the easy way out."
Tony Corsaut, TP Advisory Committee member from Wichita Falls, agrees. "When families and businesses see a reduction of income or revenue coming, they prepare. They look at all expenses and cut out wants to get down to needs. The state has a way to go to get down to basic needs. After all, we still have an arts and film commission. The legislature is still underwriting a Formula 1 race track for some $25 million, and there's been no move to furlough non-essential state employees to save money. Why should government be exempt from the cuts families and businesses have had to make and are still making?"
Between fiscal years 1990 and 2010, All Funds appropriations for Texas state government increased from $23.3 billion to $92.7 billion, a growth of nearly 300 percent. By contrast, the rate of population growth plus inflation increased only 115.5 percent over the same period. (Source: Legislative Budget Board, Texas Public Policy Foundation) This clearly demonstrates that state government has grown to unsustainable levels. The Tea Party Advisory Committee insists it is time for state leaders to do the hard work required to get spending under control and balance the state budget without raising taxes, instituting new taxes, putting the state further into debt, or raiding the Rainy Day Fund.
In an effort to give Committee Chairman Pitts and his colleagues in the State Legislature a helping hand, the Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee advances the following "Fourteen Point Plan to Cut Spending to Balance the State Budget" as authored by Tea Party Advisory Committee Member JoAnn Fleming (Tyler area):
Fourteen Point Plan to Cut Spending to Balance the State Budget: Across-the-board cuts do not get to the root of the over-spending, over-regulating problem. Cutting 2.5%, 5% or 10% of a department, agency, or program that is outside basic constitutional authority does not go far enough to solve the spending problem. It is time to get state government spending under control by:
1) focusing on the basic constitutional duties of state government, making those the top budget priorities;
2) employing zero-based budgeting for every agency, department, and program;
3) asserting constitutional and moral duty to first protect and preserve the interests of the citizens and legal residents of Texas by requiring all public service providers to verify and report the citizenship/legal residency of those they serve to the State and to the People of Texas, thereby ensuring appropriate budget allocations can be made for legal Texas residents, versus those from other States (both foreign and domestic);
4) eliminating overlapping, duplicated agencies, departments, and programs (example, the natural resource agencies: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Rail Road Commission, Public Utility Commission, General Land Office, Agriculture Commission, Parks & Wildlife);
5) injecting competition into the delivery of services for improved service quality and lower costs (outsourcing, improved centralized procurement for volume purchasing discounts, and efficient contract management);
6) determining feasibility of purchase deferrals for all unspent appropriations in current budget and for new budget requests for capital assets (vehicles, equipment, technology, new facilities/upgrades/remodels);
7) instituting an immediate hiring freeze and review of all state government positions, all personnel policies, and all benefits; review solvency of benefit funding for state employees; end longevity pay for state employees; increase contribution levels for state employees toward their own pension and insurance benefits;
8) cutting pay for state employees, including statewide officials. Top officials should lead by cutting their pay first. (No public employee should make more than the Governor, including school superintendents.) Care should be taken not to reduce lowest paid state workers to the point of making them eligible for social services, thereby driving up state costs.
9) ending the practice of diverting funds from the originally-intended purpose to other uses (for example, the state motor fuels tax of which 47% is diverted to non-transportation fund use);
10) mandating review of all agencies, departments, and programs to match funding with originally-intended mission and to determine whether or not the agency/department/program is producing measurable results; although this is the purpose of the Sunset Commission, the Sunset Commission needs to be revamped with more private citizen representation on the review board;
11) reviewing state debt for savings through debt consolidation, lower interest rates;
12) suspending funding of parks, bike and walking trails, renovations of historical properties;
13) reviewing and curtailing in many cases state economic incentives and subsidies (our low taxes, limited regulations, right to work laws, and civil justice system provide plenty of incentives for companies to come to Texas, when compared to other states);
14) reasserting State Sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the US Constitution. Too much state spending is driven by accepting unconstitutional federal funding with strings, regulation, and mandates. All federal funds that come with added strings and regulation should be rejected.
This will not be the state's last difficult budgeting cycle in the near term. According to Texas Public Policy Foundation, "Medicaid costs before ObamaCare will double every 10 years through the next three decades. ObamaCare adds 3.1 million people to Texas' Medicaid rolls by 2014, and Texas will need an additional $10 to $15 billion in the next budget to meet those costs." In addition, rising fuel costs, unrest around the globe, and uncertainty caused by suffocating federal debt and onerous regulations affirm that it is a wholly reasonable and prudent expectation that the 82nd Texas Legislature would exhaust all fiscally-responsible cost-cutting remedies before ever thinking about raiding the People's Rainy Day Fund.
Governor Rick Perry expressed support for citizen involvement in the state budget process: "Ever since they burst onto the national consciousness in April of 2009, the TEA Parties have been waking people up with their fundamentally American message of fiscal discipline and accountability for elected leaders. The Texas TEA Parties have remained in the vanguard of the movement and I'm honored to have their support. You can trust that I'll stand my ground on our core principles and continue our efforts to balance the budget without raising taxes or touching the Rainy Day Fund. Only through continued TEA Party engagement can we hold elected officials' feet to the fire and ensure they deliver on their promises from last November." [Statement provided to Katrina Pierson, TPCAC member, Garland]
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Please forward any questions concerning the Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee to txteapartycaucus@gmail.com
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Sullivan's Words of Wisdom
At last night's meeting, Michael Sullivan (of Empower Texans) offered sage counsel on the most effective way to have your voice heard by your State legislator. What is there there to be vocal about? Do you want the full list, or just the top ten? Let's start with using Texas' nearly $9 billion dollar Rainy Day fund to cover the budget shortfall. This is particularly daunting to our schools as they are a huge chunk of our overall budget. The premise seems to be that we must either spend RD$$ on our schools or we will see drastic cuts in the classroom. Legislators need to know that we are not convinced. A study from Texans Conservative Coalition Research Institute shows there are just as many non-teachers on the payroll as are there are teachers. Why not not spend our Rainy Day fund, not cut teachers, and jettison unnecessary, redundant administrators (most of whom make far more than teachers). Eliminate archaic departments and superfluous spending. Do those things first. Why won't that work? It seems we are being given a false choice. Now, what to do about it:
Per Mr. Sullivan, the most effective thing you can do (short of storming Austin) is to write letters to your legislators. The easiest way to do that is with the Empower Texans free letter template and delivery service. Yes, you read that right. They will hand carry your letter to the office of your legislator. You can't beat that for service. The next best alternative is to send an email. And, last but not least, put in a phone call to register your remarks.
If we all interact with our legislator on a weekly basis, our sacrifice of 10 minutes will have an undeniable, inescapable impact on Texas government. So, write, email, or call...but commit to doing something.
Per Mr. Sullivan, the most effective thing you can do (short of storming Austin) is to write letters to your legislators. The easiest way to do that is with the Empower Texans free letter template and delivery service. Yes, you read that right. They will hand carry your letter to the office of your legislator. You can't beat that for service. The next best alternative is to send an email. And, last but not least, put in a phone call to register your remarks.
If we all interact with our legislator on a weekly basis, our sacrifice of 10 minutes will have an undeniable, inescapable impact on Texas government. So, write, email, or call...but commit to doing something.
Guest Blog: By Patrick Waits
The Tea Party Groups made the difference in the 2010 mid-term elections. Conservative Representatives are now the majority party in the House of Representatives which means we have the people power to affect elections.
The Liberals are counting on the Tea Party Members to lose interest/passion for the future on our country. That is something we just cannot do!
All Patriots will be needed for the Presidential Elections in 2012. Please get involved and attend these town hall meeting as a show of support and commitment to stopping the Socialist movement and (Taking Our Country Back)!
Remember, If it is to be, it's up to ME!
Patrick H. Waits
IN GOD WE TRUST
The Liberals are counting on the Tea Party Members to lose interest/passion for the future on our country. That is something we just cannot do!
All Patriots will be needed for the Presidential Elections in 2012. Please get involved and attend these town hall meeting as a show of support and commitment to stopping the Socialist movement and (Taking Our Country Back)!
Remember, If it is to be, it's up to ME!
Patrick H. Waits
IN GOD WE TRUST
Rally In Opposition To Progressives' "Day Of Outrage"
CALLING ALL PATRIOTS!
Progressive Forces are Assembling in Houston for "Texans Day of Outrage" March 15th @ 4:30pm, at City Hall in Houston, TX.
We will rally in opposition. Their anti-American rhetoric cannot go unanswered. Bring your signs, cameras, flags, love of country, and every fellow patriot you know. We will meet at the Northwest corner of Smith and Walker at 3:00PM on Tuesday, March 15th. Park downtown wherever you can. For more information, please contact info@kingstreetpatriots.org
This flyer is posted online by SEIU, Latin American Organization for Immigrant Rights, Progressive Workers Organizing Committee, Marxist Reading Group, International Socialist Organization, Mexicanos en Accion, and the Houston Democrat Party.
Onward -
King Street Patriots.
Progressive Forces are Assembling in Houston for "Texans Day of Outrage" March 15th @ 4:30pm, at City Hall in Houston, TX.
We will rally in opposition. Their anti-American rhetoric cannot go unanswered. Bring your signs, cameras, flags, love of country, and every fellow patriot you know. We will meet at the Northwest corner of Smith and Walker at 3:00PM on Tuesday, March 15th. Park downtown wherever you can. For more information, please contact info@kingstreetpatriots.org
This flyer is posted online by SEIU, Latin American Organization for Immigrant Rights, Progressive Workers Organizing Committee, Marxist Reading Group, International Socialist Organization, Mexicanos en Accion, and the Houston Democrat Party.
Onward -
King Street Patriots.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Michelle Bachmann - Shocked and Appalled to find Obamacare bill appropriates $105 billion towards its funding
The first step in repealing ObamaCare is to make sure not one cent goes to fund it. We must act now to ensure that the $105 billion to fund Obamacare secretly passed by the Democrats never makes it into Barack Obama's hands.
Dear Fellow Conservative,
This week, my colleagues and I were shocked and appalled to find a provision in the Obamacare bill which appropriates $105 billion towards its funding- a complete and fraudulent circumvention of the legislative process.
In the bill, instead of following the rules and letting the next Congress go through the appropriations process, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats appropriated $105 billion dollars in funding for Obamacare without holding a single hearing, or even allowing Members of Congress a chance to read the bill. I guess this is what Nancy Pelosi meant when she said "we have to pass the bill, so you can find out what is in it." Even Democrats in Congress were surprised to hear this shocking news.
Without further action, the bill will be funded, and our efforts will have failed.
I've drafted a petition, and recorded a special video message, to ensure that ObamaCare is defunded. I urge you to immediately take a minute to sign this petition and watch the video by following this link. We must immediately send a message to every Member of Congress that even a single dollar more of federal spending is unacceptable until Obamacare is defunded.
On Tuesday, I will meet with Members of Congress to discuss immediate plans to rescind this existing funding, and return Obamacare's fate to the hands of the people, who overwhelming rejected it in November's elections. At Tuesday's meeting, I will challenge Members of Congress to stand against the undemocratic actions of the Reid-Pelosi-Obama apparatus, and vote against any additional government spending until Obamacare is completely defunded.
I need to know you are 100 percent behind my efforts to expose the back-room dealings and secretive tactics Pelosi and Obama have tried to use. I need to know you want Obamacare defunded once and for all. Follow this link right away to sign the petition to defund Obamacare!
In November, the American people clearly and emphatically cast their ballots against Obamacare and the big-government agenda advanced by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. We must stand our ground to defund Obamacare, and we must move quickly to make sure that no taxpayer money is spent on our watch. By signing my petition, you will tell Congress where you stand: against the undemocratic and secretive actions of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, and for our shared Constitutional conservative values.
Please take action before it is too late!
Finally, I ask that you share this petition on Facebook, and forward this email to your friends and family to spread the word. It is our charge to stop this unconstitutional government take-over of our lives!
Sincerely,
Michele Bachmann
P.S. As a constitutional conservative, I am motivated now more than ever to repeal Obamacare and the first step towards this goal is making sure that it doesn't receive a dime of your tax dollars. Although House Republicans voted overwhelmingly last month to defund the Obamacare law, our vote does not apply to the billions already secretly and fraudulently appropriated by the old Democratic Congress. I need your immediate help to send a message to every Member of Congress. We must immediately defund Obamacare! Please follow this link to sign this petition and pass this email along to your friends and family to spread the word. Thank you!
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