How Missouri Republican Caucuses will work

With Missouri Republicans returning to the caucus system, there are a lot of questions about how they will work. STLToday has published a FAQ provided my the Missouri GOP:
Q: Who can go to a caucus?
A: Any registered voter in a county who says he or she is a Republican.
Q: Where are caucuses held?
A: One caucus will be held in each of Missouri’s 114 counties and the city of St. Louis at 10 a.m. on March 17.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ae22d26a-7a4d-58c1-86b4-5b2eb4a1fde4.html#ixzz1b40imVlb
Here is more information:

• The County Caucuses will take place on March 17, 2012. At these caucuses, which are open to any Republican who is registered to vote in that county, attendees will select delegates and alternates to the Congressional District conventions and State Convention. No delegates to the national convention are selected at this time. The number of delegates and alternates per county is determined by the Missouri Republican Party.
• The Congressional District Conventions will take place on April 21, 2012. At each of these 8 conventions, delegates chosen at the county level will select 3 delegates and alternates to the National Convention and 1 presidential elector. The delegates and alternates will be required to declare allegiance to a candidate prior to the voting, and they will be bound to that candidate on the first ballot—unless they are released prior to the convention.
• The State Convention will take place on June 2, 2012. At the convention, delegates chosen at the county level will vote on 25 at-large delegates and alternates to the National Convention and 2 at-large presidential electors. The delegates and alternates will be required to declare allegiance to a candidate prior to the voting, and they will be bound to that candidate on the first ballot—unless they are released prior to the convention.
• In total, Missouri will have 52 delegates and 49 alternates to the Republican National Convention—24 selected at the congressional district caucuses, 25 selected at the state convention, and 1 each for the state Party chairman, national committeeman and national committeewoman. (The final 3 have no alternates.)

Does This Explain the Downgrade?

By Lee A. PresserPosted on August 8, 2011 at 1:21pm

Did last week’s Congressional debt deal, signed into law on Tuesday, Aug. 2, by President Obama, cause the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's to downgrade America’s AAA rating?
The new law requires a reduction of $1 Trillion in discretionary spending over 10 years and requires the creation of a committee to propose another $1.8 Trillion in spending cuts during that same ten years ($1 Trillion = $1000 Billion).
$1 Trillion divided into 10 years is $100 Billion/year.
$1.8 Trillion divided into 10 years is $180 Billion/year.
Therefore, the deal requires a $280 Billion per year reduction in spending.
Sounds like a lot of money until we look at the following.
This month, the United States government will spend $100 to $150 Billion more than its income. The same thing happened the month before and the month before that and the month before that. Next month, the United States government will spend $100 to $150 Billion more than its income. The same thing will happen the month after that and the month after that and the month after that.
This has been happening every month for quite some time and will continue to happen with no end in sight.
The shortage is 1,200 to 1,800 Billion dollars every year ($1.2 to $1.8 Trillion). (That is what is referred to as the deficit.) Subtract the $280 Billion per year Congress has decided not to spend and we discover our government will still be overspending its income by 920 to 1,520 Billion dollars each year for the next ten years.
Those who think America can tax its way out of this problem should be asked, "Where in the private sector do they expect to find $77 to $127 Billion PER MONTH in additional taxes? (Bill Gates owns a total of $56 Billion and Warren Buffet owns $50 Billion. After taking all of it away from them, where does the Treasury get the money for the next month’s deficit?)
Now you begin to understand why the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's is having trouble recommending American bonds as an exceptionally good loan risk. Exceptionally good loan risk is the meaning of the AAA rating.
To cover the $1200 to $1800 Billion per year shortage ($1.2 to $1.8 Trillion), Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, regularly issues bonds with you, me, and every other American as a co-signer on the note. To be fair, it should be stated that Secretary Geithner is just another in a long, long line of Treasury Secretaries to be part of that process.
Those of you who have taken a loan for a mortgage, a car, or used your credit card know that loan companies require you to pay interest on the outstanding balance. Interest gets paid first and then if there is any money left it is applied to the principal. The United States government is no exception.
U.S. Treasury debt now exceeds $14,300 Billion ($14.3 trillion). (That is what is referred to as the debt.) Since Oct. 1, 2010, the beginning of Fiscal Year 2011, the U.S. Treasury has paid its creditors $412.5 Billion in interest on that $14.3 Trillion debt. At that rate, by September 30, 2011 (the end of FY 2011) the U.S. Treasury may have paid out $495 Billion of your money in interest to its creditors.
Since Fiscal Year 1988, through the end of July 2011, our government has paid to its creditors $8,179,178,425,358.39 ($8.179 Trillion) in interest.
The larger the debt, the larger the interest cost, the less money we have left to spend on other things.
Before the recent debt law, it was expected that U.S. Treasury debt was going to increase by $10 Trillion over the next ten years to $24.3 Trillion. The new law reduces that increase to $7.2 Trillion over ten years to a total of $21.5 Trillion ($21,500 Billion).
If interest rates remain the same (which is unlikely) annual interest costs on the new total debt will be $744 Billion per year. That is money paid to creditors before the first soldier is paid, before the first bureaucrat is paid, before anything is paid from the tax money you paid IRS.
Does this explain the thought process behind Standard & Poor's decision regarding the AA+ rating on U.S. Bonds?
There is an election next year. America’s future is in your hands.

Lee A. Presser
636-288-3323
leepresser@charter.net

Wind Turbine Explodes

Feds Continue to Abuse Health Care System, Bring Back Social Experimentation of the 30's

The purpose of insurance is to indemnify the insured (you) against an unexpected loss. You cannot set your home or business on fire in an effort to collect the cash. You cannot run your car into a quarry so the insurance will buy you a new one. You have to be dead before your family can collect life insurance. However, health insurance, rather than paying for unexpected loss, is a Christmas Tree of goodies that pays off on a regular basis.

Go to the doctors office for a checkup, insurance pays; have a drug addiction, insurance pays; planning a family and have a child, insurance pays! No unexpected loss necessary. Politicians found that they can buy votes by providing insurance payments to special constituents. In some cases you do not even need insurance. Show up at an emergency room without insurance, hospital pays.

What people do not realize is that this is what drives insurance costs through the roof. If people complain, politicians point a finger at "greedy" insurance companies. Then as reward for their abuse towards insurance companies, politicians take control of the whole industry and pile on further regulations. Now the insurance companies will be required to pay for contraceptives for women (what, not men?). Everyone's insurance premiums will climb again. Now, rather than going to the corner drugstore to buy what you need, you send your money to an insurance or government bureaucracy, they take what they need and then overpay for products they think are best for you.

More worrying than the abuse of our insurance system for liberal's personal gain (vote buying at the expense of the middle and upper class), is the reemergence of eugenics by the progressives. By reducing the chance of pregnancy by the lower class, the fewer lower class people there will be. Progressives tried this in the 30's and are now trying it again.

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.