Debra Medina explains her campaign platform and explains the differences between her and the other two GOP candidates. Her campaign highlights include:
1. Reinstate true private property rights by abolishing the property tax
2. Use state nullification tools for Unconstitutional federal law
3. Cut taxes and spending
4. Return to local control on education
5. Stop illegal immigration
6. Return to Free Market Healthcare
The real number of unemployed in the United States is far more than the federal government’s official count and the recovery could be long and tenuous, a Federal Reserve official told the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Area Chamber of Commerce last week in a speech that received some media attention.
“If one considers the people who would like a job but have stopped looking — so-called discouraged workers — and those who are working fewer hours than they want, the unemployment rate would move from the official 9.4 percent to 16 percent,” explained the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Dennis Lockhart.
As reported by the AFP in an article entitled “Real US unemployment rate at 16 pct: Fed official,” Lockhart noted that neither category is considered by the U.S. labor department in its monthly unemployment estimates. He also noted that the number of people working part-time due to the economic situation has increased more in the current crisis than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking the information.
He warned of a long period of high joblessness that could not be “stimulated” away with more government spending and said some of the jobs that were lost may never come back.
At a time when budget woes are causing many cities to sacrifice services and layoff employees, the city of Richardson is being questioned about its car allowance policy that costs taxpayers more than $850,000 a year. In comparison, Arlington spends $120,000 and Dallas $58,000.
Although the City is facing a budget shortfall of approximately $1.8 million, City Manager Bill Kefller is not considering reducing the car allowance perk. Kefller, who gets a special $20,000/year car lease perk that no other city employee receives, also has his whole family insured to drive the city leased car.
A simple solution for people to afford health insurance: Eliminate the CURRENT government mandates in each state. Texas has some of the highest mandates in the country.
Check out the mandates for each state here: Council for Affordable Health Insurance
Thanks to Shelly Roche at ByteStyle.TV for making this point.
by www.digitaljournal.com
There is much debate over Pres. Obama’s birth certificate, Republican dismay over pretty much everything and strife within the Democratic Party regarding health care reform. How about discussion over the U.S. Constitution?
Our liberty, our rights and our freedom is solely based on one document: The United States Constitution. This is the greatest document on the face of the Earth. Most people don’t seem to care about it much anymore especially when comments such as: “it’s an irrelevant document because it was made 300 years ago and doesn’t affect us anymore” are made.
The United States Constitution gave us the guiding principles of the rule of law and common sense. A non-interventionist foreign policy, limited government, sound money and, most importantly, freedom.
When people make comments it flames me because these are the same people who vote for politicians who basically destroy the Constitution. It’s been a very long time since the U.S. has had a leader who has followed the Constitution word for word. We need a leader who understands the tenth amendment or even just following and comprehending article two.
Voters want solutions to the problems by adding more government to solve our problems. However, that is what has gotten us into the troubles we are facing now. The only solution to our problem is to follow the Constitution.
We would have never gone into Iraq if we followed the Constitution and the advice of the founding fathers, “commerce with all, alliance with none.” We would have never been given an income tax if we followed the 16th amendment before 1913. We would have gold and silver legal tender if we followed Jefferson and section 10 clause 5.
The list goes on and on about the problems that could be solved or never even would have occurred if it wasn’t for the lack of obedience to the Constitution.
The people’s apathy is a direct insult to the first three words of the Constitution, “We The People…” These are the most important three words in any document in the history of the world. “We The People” is exactly that. We the people have the power to control our own lives. We the people have a right to our liberty and freedoms. We the people have the right to take down our own government if it becomes gigantic.
During the 20th century indifference of the Constitution grew more and more during each presidency. Whether it was President Woodrow Wilson’s neo-conservative ideology of “democracy for the world” and creation of the Federal Reserve or President Nixon getting rid of Gold and Silver as legal tender or President Clinton involving us in Grenada, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq and defying our founders’ advice of staying out of other nations’ business.
Until we have respect of our Constitution, we will never again escape the oppressive nature of Government and maintain our liberties, which, under the Constitution, is our right. Sure, the Constitution is not perfect but if you want it changed then amend instead of acting like it is not there.
Benjamin Franklin’s words come to mind, “Here’s a Republic…if you can keep it.”
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| RECENT SENATE VOTES |
| Cloture Motion; Nomination of Robert M. Groves, to be Director of the Census – Vote Agreed to (76-15, 9 Not Voting)
The Senate agreed to this procedural vote allowing a vote on the nomination of Robert Groves to be the Director of the Census, who was later confirmed by a voice vote. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison voted Not Voting……send e-mail or see bio Cloture Motion; To provide Federal assistance to States, local jurisdictions, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes – Vote Agreed to (63-28, 9 Not Voting) The Senate agreed to end debate on this amendment to the Military Construction authorization bill that would include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability in the definition of hate crimes. The amendment was later approved by voice vote. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison voted NO……send e-mail or see bio |
| RECENT HOUSE VOTES |
| Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2010 – Vote Passed (219-208, 1 Present, 5 Not Voting)
On Thursday, the House voted on this $24.1 billion bill funding the Treasury Department, the executive branch, the judicial branch, the District of Columbia and independent agencies. Rep. Pete Sessions voted NO……send e-mail or see bio Restore Our American Mustangs Act – Vote Passed (239-185, 9 Not Voting) On Friday, the House passed this bill that intends to improve the management and long-term health of wild free-roaming horses and burros. Rep. Pete Sessions voted NO……send e-mail or see bio Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 – VotePassed (320-97, 16 Not Voting) The House approved this $33.3 billion bill funding the Department of Energy, Army Corps of Engineers and related agencies and programs. |
It’s Not An Option
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Congress: It didn’t take long to run into an “uh-oh” moment when reading the House’s “health care for all Americans” bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee.
It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of “Protecting The Choice To Keep Current Coverage,” the “Limitation On New Enrollment” section of the bill clearly states:
“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.
So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised — with, of course, exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won’t be able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.
From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their private plans and go with Washington’s coverage.
The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more Americans could lose their group coverage at work and end up in such a program. That would leave private carriers with 50 million or fewer customers. This could cause the market to, as Lewin Vice President John Sheils put it, “fizzle out altogether.”
What wasn’t known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after the public option becomes law.
The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts, a goal that Democrats have had for years. They want to crush that alternative because nothing gives individuals more control over their medical care, and the government less, than HSAs.
With HSAs out of the way, a key obstacle to the left’s expansion of the welfare state will be removed.
The public option won’t be an option for many, but rather a mandate for buying government care. A free people should be outraged at this advance of soft tyranny.
Washington does not have the constitutional or moral authority to outlaw private markets in which parties voluntarily participate. It shouldn’t be killing business opportunities, or limiting choices, or legislating major changes in Americans’ lives.
It took just 16 pages of reading to find this naked attempt by the political powers to increase their reach. It’s scary to think how many more breaches of liberty we’ll come across in the final 1,002.
Click here to let legislators know that you oppose this legislation.
Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (H.R. 875) on February 4, 2009. The bill, which currently carries 40 cosponsors, would effectively transfer all state control over food regulation to the Food Safety Administration (FSA), a newly established federal bureaucracy to be created within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). It would contribute to the eventual abandonment of all independent, family farms as well as all organic farming operations due to overbearing federal regulations arbitrarily determined by FSA in favor of corporate factory farms.
H.R. 875 would violate the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by delegating what should be state-level authority to the federal government. The burdensome record keeping that would be required by the FSA would threaten the success of small agricultural businesses and family-owned farms who may not be able to comply with new federal restrictions.
While all Americans should be concerned about yet another power grab at the hands of the federal government, family farm and other small agricultural businesses should be especially cautious of H.R. 875 as it threatens their own businesses and way of living.
Debra Medina for Texas Governor 2010
Debra Medina is a true conservative and has been active in the Republican Party for 17 years. She has been married to her husband Noe for 26 years, and they have homeschooled and raised two children into responsible adults. Currently she is the Wharton County Republican Party Chair and is also the Campaign for Liberty Texas state coordinator. Debra is also the founder and CEO of Prudentia Inc., a medical consulting firm.
I have met Debra and listened to her speak on a couple of occassions and I am very excited to endorse such a pro-liberty candidate for Texas Governor.
Mrs. Medina has been a tireless advocate of private property rights, gun ownership, individual responsibility and adherence to the Constitution. She has actively opposed big government, taxes, bailouts, mandatory vaccinations, the TTC and abortion.
