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Stop the WISCONSIN Global Warming Bill
February 15th, 2010 | 
Author: While other states are initiating “Freedom to Breathe Acts” to ensure that additional legislation to regulate CO2 does not occur, DOYLE and WISCONSIN are moving full steam ahead. Now is our time to act!
SAVE JOBS!
Stop the Wisconsin Global Warming Bill!
Please Contact Your State Lawmaker Today
Americans for Prosperity CALL TO ACTION
We urge all to help send a message to our legislators to oppose Senate Bill 450 and Assembly Bill 649, which would significantly increase the cost of energy and threaten Wisconsin jobs with unaffordable global warming regulations.
Please take two minutes and CLICK HERE to send a message to your State Representative and State Senator to tell them that this legislation would have a devastating impact on Wisconsin’s economy.
Please take action today as the Legislative Committee will be meeting on Assembly Bill 649 on Monday. Thanks for your help and support.
Mark Block
State Director - Americans for Prosperity WI
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning government to its constitutional limits. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org
Our State Senator Holperin acknowledges Doyle’s budget was filled with tax and fee hikes
“Even the Democrats who voted for the disastrous state budget are complaining about all of the hidden tax and fee increases…”
Palin keynote speaker at National Tea Party Convention
Sarah Palin gave the closing (and keynote) speech at the National Tea Party Convention held in Nashville, TN. When asked about where she saw the Tea Party Movement going, she commented on how she hoped the Republicans would embrace their movement as it is the new way in which politics in America will work. The Convention hosted over 500 attendees from all over the country who gathered to work on how the Tea Party can influence the 2010 and 2012 elections.
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Keven Peterson reflects on “Clean Energy Jobs Act” now before state legislators
Misleading Legislation
It’s no surprise jobs – or the lack of jobs – is the foremost issue on the minds of everyone. In fact, a Pew Research Center public opinion poll showed job creation and the economy are Americans top priorities at 81% and 83%, respectively. Wisconsin alone had approximately 440 people per day become unemployed in 2009.
Instead of introducing an incentive package encouraging employers to locate, hire, and remain in the state, the Wisconsin Democrat leadership and Governor Doyle are proposing Senate Bill 450 and Assembly Bill 649 commonly called “The Clean Energy Jobs Act.”
Posted in Economy & Budget, Environment, Legislators |
Tags: Add new tag, clean energy jobs act, doyle, petersen, wi assembly bill 649, wi senate bill 450 |
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DAN MEYER TO SPEAK TO REPUBLICANS, January 18
DAN MEYER TO SPEAK TO REPUBLICANS
Wisconsin Assemblyman Dan Meyer will be our guest speaker at our January meeting of the Vilas County Republicans. There are many things going on in Madison that we should all be aware of that Dan will update us on. The meeting will be…
Monday, January 18
Meeting will start at 6:30 P.M
Wild Eagle Lodge, Chain O Lakes Road
Eagle River
This is a very important meeting requiring your attendance. We will be making the final plans for our Friday, February 5th Lincoln/Reagan Day Dinner to be held at the Whitetail Inn in St. Germain. Advance tickets are needed, so everyone should be finalizing their ticket sales. Please ask your friends and encourage all to attend this special evening!
We also need 2010 membership lists into the state party, so it is imperative that you pay your 2010 dues ASAP.
For more information please call Jim Knuth at 715-686-7746. Thank you!
Posted in Candidates, Constitution & State Rights, Economy & Budget, Legislators, Local Meetings, News, Republican Party |
Tags: dan meyer, Legislators, membership, WI Assembly |
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White House jobs forum focuses on job creation, by AP
Is this the prescription for job growth that you’d recommend? Please share your ideas for government’s role in job creation in comments below this article.
White House jobs forum focuses on job creation
By The Associated Press (AP) – 1 day ago
Participants in President Barack Obama’s jobs forum Thursday broke into six groups to discuss job creation strategies. Summaries of the discussions in each group.
Creating Jobs by Rebuilding Infrastructure
President Barack Obama told more than 20 labor, industry, and local officials that government faces a dilemma when it tries to use highway, rail, aviation and other infrastructure projects to create jobs.
The “tension,” said Obama, is between projects that can put people to work quickly, which tend to be upkeep and repair work, and the more “visionary” projects that require planning and time to implement but don’t produce jobs as fast.
Obama responded warmly to endorsements from several participants of a national infrastructure bank, a concept he backed on the campaign trail. Such a bank would use public and private capital to fund projects. Obama said the bank would take politics out of the project selection process and “leverage private sector dollars that are right now sitting on the sidelines.”
Gerard Arpey, chairman of American Airlines and AMR Corp., made a pitch for more funding for a new air traffic control system based on GPS technology instead of World War II-era radar technology.
The Federal Aviation Administration anticipates spending $15 billion to $22 billion on the “NextGen” program, which is expected to be completed around 2020. But FAA’s plans also call for airlines to shell out an additional $14 billion to $20 billion to install equipment their planes would need to use the new system. Airlines, many of which are in financial trouble, want the government to pick up the entire tab for a new air traffic control system.
Green Jobs of the Future
Posted in Economy & Budget, News, Obama & Executive Branch |
Tags: Obama Job Forum, white house job forum |
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Cloward/Piven Strategy
An article published back in February 2009 is resurfacing due to its clear and precise explanation of how the Cloward/Piven Strategy of creating and managing crisis is dictating the actions of our federal government. Please read this article carefully, reread, and come to see the motivations behind our government’s actions. Under their plans, the end justifies the means.
The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery
February 07, 2009, American Thinker
By Nancy Coppock
Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation… [Emphasis added.]
Posted in Economy & Budget, Obama & Executive Branch |
Tags: Alinsky, Cloward, obama, Piven, Rules for Radicals |
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Take Action to Defend a Legitimate Fed Audit
Take Action to Defend a Legitimate Audit
On Tuesday, Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Bob Corker (R-TN) introduced “The Federal Reserve Accountability Act,” an attempt to derail HR 1207/S 604 by passing a bill that prevents a full audit and full transparency from America’s secretive central bank.
While language in this bill would permit a limited audit of the Fed’s actions in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and similar high profile bailouts, it would not allow an audit to review the Fed’s inflation of the money supply or its agreements with foreign central banks, among other shortcomings.
Additionally, the names of the institutions who received the funds would not be available until one year after each “emergency” program ended, which is nowhere in sight.
Seventy-five percent of the American people, over two thirds of the House of Representatives, and over a quarter of the Senate support Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed legislation.
With those historic levels of support, there is no excuse for settling for anything less than a full Audit the Fed bill. Anything less is merely an attempt to stop our efforts as we get closer to passage of a real bill.
Let your senators know you expect them to support the American people’s demand for full transparency, not some watered down measure designed to stop a full audit! Click here to take action!
Posted in Economy & Budget, Legislators, News |
Tags: bailouts, fed, fed audit, Federal Reserve Accountability Act, HR1207, S604, TARP |
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“He who writes the rules,” letter to editor of Lakeland Times, by Kerry Thomas
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
To the Editor:
On Sept. 9, while the American media focused their spotlights on the continuing debate over nationalizing America’s health insurance industry, the U.S. Senate quietly and with little notice considered the confirmation of Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein as President Barack Hussein Obama’s Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget.
Sunstein is a former colleague and friend of Barack Hussein Obama from the University of Chicago.
Unlike most of the president’s “advisors” (commonly referred to as czars), Cass Sunstein actually was confirmed by the Senate Sept. 10 by a vote of 57-40 (roll call vote 274). Both of Wisconsin’s Democrat senators voted to confirm Sunstein.
In his capacity as regulatory czar, Sunstein will be responsible for reviewing draft regulations throughout government agencies and overseeing the implementation of government-wide policies, according to the Washington Post.
The Wall Street Journal says the obscure job “wields outsize power. It oversees regulations throughout the government, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.” Sunstein will be instrumental in administration efforts to regulate financial services, control greenhouse gases, and implement universal health care, among other things.
Why should you care? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Constitution & State Rights, Economy & Budget, Gun Control, Legislators, Obama & Executive Branch |
Tags: cass sunstein, czar |
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Sarah Palin’s Thoughts from Hong Kong
Thoughts from Hong Kong (posted by Sarah Palin on Facebook)
September 23, 2009 at 8:31pm
Many have asked to see my remarks as presented in Hong Kong. Here is an excerpt:
So far, I’ve given you the view from Main Street, USA. But now I’d like to share with you how a Common Sense Conservative sees the world at large.
Later this year, we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – an event that changed not just Europe but the entire world. In a matter of months, millions of people in formerly captive nations were freed to pursue their individual and national ambitions.
The competition that defined the post World War II era was suddenly over. What was once called “the free world” had so much to celebrate – the peaceful end to a great power rivalry and the liberation of so many from tyranny’s grip.
Some, you could say, took the celebration too far. Many spoke of a “peace dividend,” of the need to focus on domestic issues and spend less time, attention and money on endeavors overseas. Many saw a peaceful future, where globalization would break down borders and lead to greater global prosperity. Some argued that state sovereignty would fade – like that was a good thing? – that new non-governmental actors and old international institutions would become dominant in the new world order.
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