Obama to visit St. Louis on Wednesday

To mark his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama will be holding a townhall forum in Arnold. The event is open to the public but you will need tickets.

Bill Hennessey and his Tea Party group a planning a warm welcome. To join him, go to his St. Louis Tea Party web site. For more details go to Gateway Pundit.

Voters overwhelmingly approve historic tax decrease

A real-life taxpayer revolution took place on April 7 in South St. Louis County. Voters in the Mehlville Fire Protection District went to the polls and overwhelmingly approved a tax decrease—likely the first of its kind in Missouri history.

The effort began three years ago, when the board attempted to place a tax decrease proposal on the ballot; however, a judge ruled that voters did not have the legal authority to lower taxes. So the Missouri General Assembly responded, passing a law ensuring that voters had the option to reduce their taxes. The fire district acted again, and when the votes were counted, the tax decrease passed with nearly 80% of the vote.

The Missouri Republican Party commends the Mehlville Fire Protection District’s Board of Directors for their responsible use of taxpayer money and for their resolve in fighting the groups that sought to prevent the vote from ever occurring.

Read more in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

University City School District Election Results

Complete Election results for School District of University City. Includes Director and Proposition U.

GO! St. Louis marathoners pass through University City

Thousands of GO! St. Louis marathoners pass through University City on Sunday morning. The marathon is part of GO! St. Louis Marathon & Family Fitness Weekend. The 26.2 mile course passed through the Arch Grounds, Forest Park, Washington University City Campus, Anheuser Busch Brewery, Downtown Clayton and the University City Loop.

A group of enthusiastic spectators cheer-on and assist runners:



For larger marathon pictures go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/edwardengler/GOStLouisMarathon#

St. Louis County Property Tax Assessments Available On-line

For those that are not aware of it, St. Louis County property appraisals have been done and are available on-line. You can find your assessment at: http://revenue.stlouisco.com/ias/. It includes appraised and assessed value with comparison to last year. This way you can see if your valuation is going up or down and by how much. Also there are links to Comparable Sales and other sales in the area. You should look carefully at this data.

There are two components to your property tax. One is the assessed value of your home and the other is the tax rate per $100 valuation of your home. Last year the tax rate was $6.9808 per $100 valuation of your property. To calculate your tax, take your assessed value, divide by 100 and multiply by the tax rate. If your assessed value was $45,370, you would calculate $45,370/100= 453.7 X 6.9809 = $3,167.20 tax. Unfortunately, the county has not calculated the tax rate yet and while you do not have a lot of control over the tax rate, there are ways for you to control your assessed value.

St. Louis holds Tea Party

Tax protesters host "Tea Party" in Kiener Plaza in St. Louis, MO. Over 6000 people show up to express their point of view. Here are some pictures from the St. Louis Tea Party:



See larger version of pictures

Homeland Security issues warning on Right Wing Terrorists (Conservatives)

Homeland Security issues warning about conservatives going to Tea Parties.

While everyday Americans worry about the radical change in their country, the administration attempts to intimidate: http://wnd.com/images/dhs-rightwing-extremism.pdf

Missouri Republican Party requests information shared between Carnahan and ACORN

Missouri Republican Party submitted an Open Records Request seeking documents pertaining to ACORN or its affiliated organizations and all contacts between Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s office and members of ACORN.

“Our request will shed light on why ACORN’s ongoing and well-documented voter registration fraud merited no response in her 205 page analysis of the 2008 elections,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party. “We believe it is important to determine if Secretary of State Carnahan’s cozy relationship with ACORN has clouded her judgment.”

See MRP article

Young adults split on capitalism vs socialism according to Rasmussen poll

Recent polling done by Rasmussen Reports found the adults under 30 favored capitalism over socialism 37% to 33%. Adults favored capitalism (53%) over socialism (20%). 27% were not sure.

Free trade and freedom of association (capitalism) built this country and gave us the standard of living we enjoy today. This lack of understanding of how freedom works reflects a complete failure of our education system.

Tea Party Update

The Tea Party People are still on schedule for April 15th in Kiener Plaza. If you are concerned about the excessive spending I strongly urge that you go to this event a be part of the movement. This is what the liberals do to get attention, now it our turn.

Also, St. Louis seems to be Ground Zero for national coverage so we need to make a good impression. There is a lot of information on the Tea Party website, so I suggest you go there.

See Tea Party organizer, Bill Hennessy on Glenn beck's show:

St. Louis County Election Results

Election results for University City School District:

DIRECTOR UNIVERSITY CITY SCHOOL
Vote for 2
(WITH 21 OF 21 COUNTED)
LINDA R. PEOPLES . . . . . . . . 1,918 23.38%
MEG McCLELLAND. . . . . . . . . 1,458 17.78%
ELLEN BERN . . . . . . . . . . 1,768 21.56%
SHLOMO SOROKA . . . . . . . . . 1,344 16.39%
MARK R. BARNES. . . . . . . . . 1,317 16.06%
JACKIE SCOTT . . . . . . . . . 357 4.35%
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 40 .49%

UNIVERSITY CITY SCHOOL - PROPOSITION U
**BONDS-CAPITAL IMPROV (57.15% NEEDED)**
Vote for 1
(WITH 21 OF 21 COUNTED)
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,177 64.27
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,766 35.73

For more election results go to St. Louis County Election Results.

University City voters asked to spend more money on schools

From Fox 2 News

Claire McCaskill and Robin Carnahan over their heads in ACORNs

From the Missouri Republican Party:

Jefferson City - This morning, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan released an analysis of the 2008 elections that ignores the threat posed by voter registration fraud in Missouri. This comes despite an organized effort by groups such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to submit thousands of fraudulent voter registrations to county election boards across this state. Carnahan’s report, which does not mention ACORN, also comes a week after a former organizer for ACORN pleaded guilty to federal charges for submitting fraudulent voter registrations in the St. Louis area—the latest in a long line of serious voter fraud allegations for the left-wing group

For more information see MRP article

FACT SHEET: Robin Carnahan turns blind eye to ACORN voter registration fraud

2006

• St Louis City election officials discover almost 1,500 fraudulent voter registration cards turned in by ACORN workers (AP, October 11, 2006)
• St Louis County election officials find hundreds of fraudulent address changes, most of which were submitted by ACORN (Post-Dispatch, October 25, 2006)
• Secretary of State Robin Carnahan orders St. Louis Elections Board to approve more than 5,000 of fraudulent voter registration cards submitted by ACORN. (http://www.mogop.org/media/sos-stlletter.pdf)
• FBI launches investigation into ACORN voter registration fraud (KC Star, October 24, 2006)
• ACORN workers caught on tape admitting they were urged to solicit votes for Claire McCaskill’s campaign for U.S. Senate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ6SrZODbHg)
• Four ACORN workers indicted for submitting as many as 1,000 fraudulent voter registration cards in the Kansas City area Each later pleads guilty (KC Star, November 2, 2006)

2007

• Kansas City ACORN worker indicted for election fraud and identity theft (AP, January 6, 2007)

2008

• Eight employees of ACORN plead guilty to election fraud in federal court. Their activities included submitting registration cards with forged signatures and false names. (Post-Dispatch, April, 2, 2008)
• Jackson County reports 100s of fraudulent registrations from ACORN (AP, October 9, 2008)
• FBI launches national investigation into ACORN voter registration fraud, seeks evidence from Kansas City elections board (KC Star, October 17, 2008)

2009

• ACORN worker pleads guilty to federal charges for submitting fraudulent voter registrations. (AP, March 24, 2009)

Are we in crisis?

The chart above shows the stock market (S&P 500) from about 1945 to today. Note that it is mostly flat until 1983. This is about the time Regan drastically reduced taxes. Then it steadily increases until 1995. At that time it takes an unusual upward spike until the last year of the Clinton administration. At that time it takes an unusually fast drop (helped along by 9-11). Then another spike and another even faster drop. The time of erratic peaks and valleys is a time of excessive growth of the money supply and external pressures on the market.

All being said, is additional market manipulation by the Fed and the government even necessary. It does not look like that is the case.




Money supply from the Fed (hot off the presses).