Spending Reduction Negotiations Between Republicans and Democrats

Can you name which of these two characters is the Republican and which is the Democrat?

Credit Rating services try to insert themselves in budget battle

According to the Los Angeles Times "Moody's and Standard & Poors warned this week that they might soon cut the government's top-rung debt rating because of the political battle over the debt ceiling and spending cuts. " The headline here is not that our credit rating may be cut, everyone is well aware of the issue. The headline is that the credit rating agencies are, through the press, trying insert themselves into the issue. Why?

If we do not increase the debt limit, neither Moody's or Standard and Poors know if we will default on payments. Someone may not get paid or unneeded and redundant agencies may have to shut down. The politicians may even come to some sort of agreement and raise the limit. By inserting themselves, these organizations are trying to increase their power over the government, businesses and individuals.

The economic well being of our country is in the productivity of its workers and businesses. If government tends to the business of business the economy will grow and it will not make any difference what Moody's or S&P have to say. The money will flow in.

Keynes vs. Hayek

The fight of the century.The political debate of today is an old one. It should be a good one but Keynes has been proved wrong repeatedly. It is a shame we continue to have this debate:

Should the debt ceiling be raised?

An interesting poll from the St. Louis Business Journal

GO! St. Louis Marathon

Marathoners run though Clayton & University City.

Hillsdale, MO Police use force to keep L.K. Wood campaign workers out of their town

Volunteers for L.K. "Chip" Wood placed campaign signs outside of the St. Louis County polling place in Hillsdale, MO, the night before the County's election for Assessor. When the workers returned the next day, they found the signs had been removed. The signs were replaced and removed again. When the campaign worker returned a third time, a man in the area said: "you can't put that sign there!" The worker asked why not and the man after some hesitation said "your candidate won't win in this area." Since the incident involved theft of the signs, the Wood's volunteer took a picture of the area including a man who may have taken the signs. Very shortly after this incident, police confronted the campaign worker and demanded he leave the area. One of the officers explained that if the volunteer returned, things would not turn out as well.

Chip Wood on St. Louis County Property Assessment

County officials rig property values

Our irresponsible St. Louis County officials have been inflating the value of our homes. Even when property values finally crashed, county officials kept increasing values in order to fund irresponsible spending. This money has gone to the county, municipalities, school districts, fire districts to fund padded payrolls, excessive pensions and other vote buying schemes. Even as the taxpayers are driven into bankruptcy taxes continue to crank up.

In an effort to stem the tide of easy money to the County, citizens passed a referendum changing the way the property assessor is appointed to office. Instead of being an employee of the county the assessor is now elected by the citizens, taking political pressure off of the Assessors Office.

The County needs an Assessor who can provide citizens with a accurate assessment of their homes. L.K. "Chip" Wood can provide the experience and needed to make this happen. For more information go to: http://www.chipwoodforassessor.com/index1.html


Source for chart data:
The Housing Value source (Average Price per square feet)
TrendVisionTM
Published Feb. 2011
Location : ST LOUIS COUNTY

The Assessed Values source (Assessed Property Values in Billions)
St. Louis County, Missouri
2011 ADOPTED BUDGET
Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2011

The Carnahans get a windfall and we get the bill!

Robin Carnahan and Russ Carnahan help their brother pull in over $100,000,000 of our money!

C. L. Bryant's: Runaway Slave

Fasten your seat belts and watch:

the Ku Klux Klan, Terrorist Wing of the Democratic Party

From the Grand Old Partisan:

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has falsely accused the Tea Party of having ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Speaking at the NAACP convention, she said: "All those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them off to wear Tea Party clothing." Now is the time to speak some Truth to Power.

It would have been far more truthful for the congresswoman to have admitted the fact that all those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them to wear Democratic Party clothing. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan was established by the Democratic Party. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan murdered thousands of Republicans -- African-American and white -- in the years following the Civil War. Yes, the Republican Party and a Republican President, Ulysses Grant, destroyed the KKK with their Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.

How did the Ku Klux Klan re-emerge in the 20th century? For that, the Democratic Party is to blame.

It was a racist Democrat President, Woodrow Wilson, who premiered Birth of a Nation in the White House. That racist movie was based on a racist book written by one of Wilson's racist friends from college. In 1915, the movie spawned the modern-day Klan, with its burning crosses and white sheets.

Inspired by the movie, some Georgia Democrats revived the Klan. Soon, the Ku Klux Klan again became a powerful force within the Democratic Party. The KKK so dominated the 1924 Democratic Convention that Republicans, speaking truth to power, called it the Klanbake. In the 1930s, a Democrat President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, appointed a Klansman, Senator Hugo Black (D-AL), to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the 1950s, the Klansmen against whom the civil rights movement struggled were Democrats. The notorious police commissioner Bull Connor, who attacked African-Americans with dogs and clubs and fire hoses, was both a Klansman and the Democratic Party's National Committeeman for Alabama. Starting in the 1980s, the Democratic Party elevated a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), to third-in-line for the presidency.

Speaking more Truth to Power, the GOP has been a resolute enemy of the Ku Klux Klan, terrorist wing of the Democratic Party.

To quote from Back to Basics for the Republican Party, "The more we Republicans know about the history of our party, the more the Democrats will worry about the future of theirs." See http://www.grandoldpartisan.com/ for more information.

This article is available at the Grand Old Partisan blog. You can help me to help the GOP, by sending this permalink to your contacts nationwide.

The purpose of the book Back to Basics for the Republican Party is to show Republicans how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of the GOP.

From Paulette Carr:


"An uninformed constituency is a politician's best friend"...
Over the last year, we have repeatedly heard that U City residents were not as well informed as they would like to be and wished that they knew about the issues before they voted. They asked if there wasn't someplace to go to get information about local government and institutions. With good information, we were told, they could make good decisions. With that in mind, we have established a new website - http://www.ucitycitizen.org/

We will attempt to provide an ongoing source of information and discussion about the things that affect us in University City, Missouri. Please check out the website and let us know what you think... and feel free to pass along this link.

http://www.ucitycitizen.org/ - the place for information and discussion about the issues that affect us in UCity

Sculpture in Lewis Park, University City

 

St. Louis Tax Day Tea Party 2010

2010 Tax Day St. Louis Tea Party in Clayton, MO. Speaker included Missouri, Lt. Governer, Peter Kinder, Jim Hoft and Dana Loesch.

GO St. Louis Marathon Passes Through University City

University City Proposition P Fails

While Proposition P In University City received more than 50% of the vote, 57% was required. The vote did not reach this. However, as mentioned in debate over this issue, there are other alternatives.

See the Post-Dispatch article on the future of Univesity City.

Politics in University City

Meed Bob Davoli and hear about his run for University City Councilman. Bob will dicuss the politics and the issues.


St. Louis County Library - Mid-County Branch
7821 Maryland Ave
Clayton, MO 63105

7:00 - 8:30pm

For more information go to: http://www.meetup.com/UniversityTownHall/calendar/13098222/

University City Missouri April 2010 Election Results

MAYOR UNIVERSITY CITY
(Vote for ) 1
(WITH 20 OF 20 COUNTED)
SHELLEY WELSCH. . . . . . . . . 3,259 45.16
ROBERT G. (BOB) WAGNER . . . . . . 784 10.86
TERRY CROW . . . . . . . . . . 3,154 43.70
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 20 .28

COUNCIL MEMBER UNIVERSITY CITY WARD 1
(Vote for ) 1
(WITH 8 OF 8 COUNTED)
STEFANY BROT . . . . . . . . . 868 31.35
STEPHEN E. KRAFT . . . . . . . . 1,162 41.96
CINDY THIERRY . . . . . . . . . 731 26.40
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 8 .29

COUNCIL MEMBER UNIVERSITY CITY WARD 2
(Vote for ) 1
(WITH 6 OF 6 COUNTED)
JIM SHEMWELL . . . . . . . . . 657 34.84
L. MICHAEL GLICKERT . . . . . . . 1,217 64.53
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 12 .64

COUNCIL MEMBER UNIVERSITY CITY WARD 3
(Vote for ) 1
(WITH 6 OF 6 COUNTED)
BYRON R. PRICE. . . . . . . . . 1,423 77.21
BOB DAVOLI . . . . . . . . . . 291 15.79
NEVA TAYLOR. . . . . . . . . . 127 6.89
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 2 .11

UNIVERSITY CITY-PROPOSITION P
**BONDS-CAPITAL IMPROV (57.15% NEEDED)**
(Vote for ) 1
(WITH 20 OF 20 COUNTED)
YES . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,935 54.10
NO. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,338 45.90

Vote No on Proposition P in University City, April 6th

The City of University City will have a $3 million bond issue on the April 6 ballot for fire equipment – Proposition P. The bond issue isn’t needed and there are questions if the fire equipment is even needed. Here are the Top 10 Reasons to reject the tax:

1) Proposition P would unnecessarily raise your property taxes. Though it won’t say so on the ballot, Proposition P would raise your property taxes to pay for two new fire pumpers, new furnishing for the new fire station at Westgate and Vernon, and for renovations of the old fire station. There is no need to raise taxes or go millions of dollars into debt for these purposes.

2) There is $350,000 already set aside for a new pumper truck. The City has $350,000 on hand to pay for a new fire pumper, which cost about $550,000. The apparent plan was to buy one pumper now and another at a later date – without any bond issue. But it seems the idea was to put the bond issue on the ballot before the state audit of the City was conducted.

3) There is a dedicated sales tax just for the Fire Department. There is a sales tax collected in U. City that goes just to the fire department. It raises about $550,000 a year. The Fire Dept. is also funded by U. City property taxes, among the highest in St. Louis County.

4) The City has $8.2 million in reserves! The City of University City has $8.2 million in cash reserves at the current time, nearly twice what is considered necessary. This provides more evidence that the bond issue isn’t necessary.

5) The City has $2 million in delinquent trash fees. University City government has allowed over $2 million in unpaid trash fees to accumulate. This would be enough to purchase several fire trucks and a lot more.

6) City officials have not made the case for new fire trucks. At a Town Hall Meeting on January 11, City Manager Julie Feier was asked several questions about the need for two new fire pumpers as both have less than 55,000 miles on them. She was unable to provide answers.

7) The Fire Chief and the Assistant Fire Chief live out of the city. Fire Chief Steve Olshwanger is supposed to live in University City but he lives in St. Peters. Assistant Chief Don Miners lives in Franklin County. Only one fire fighter lives in U City. This is an unacceptable situation and needs to be resolved before the Fire Department receives any additional funding from taxpayers.

8) The Fire Department Dispatching Contract. Though few U. City residents know it, calls to the fire department are now dispatched from North Central County Fire Alarm. This was all done last year with no public input or knowledge. So if anyone calls 911 for a fire emergency, the call is dispatched to the alarm company which then dispatches it back to the U. City Fire Department.

9) City information on finances is questionable. Last year, University City residents were told a sales tax increase was absolutely needed due to a $1 million deficit. In a brochure that violated state campaign laws, citizens were threatened with all kinds of cutbacks if the tax didn’t pass. Voters rejected the tax and then city officials determined there was really a $500,000 surplus.

10) 0
Best to await results of the State Audit. There have been so many unanswered questions about city finances that residents began a successful petition drive for a state audit last year. The audit will begin soon. It might be best to await results of the state audit, and get a clear idea of city finances, before raising property taxes and going millions of dollars in debt.

Fascism in Argentina, is this us?

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