Dear Friends, Novel Catholic Central High will hold a Candidate Forum TODAY, Monday, October 18th at 3:30pm. All local candidates for office are invited, and several of the Republican County Commission candidates have confirmed they will attend. The event is moderated by WNEM TV5's Katie O'Meara and will include a 3 minute statement by each attending candidate, along with an audience question and answer session. This is a great way to find out more about the candidates! The school is located at 2555 Wieneke Rd, just north of Weiss St. in Saginaw Township. And don't forget to come down to the Fix Michigan Center at 3071 Bay Rd. between 9:00am and 9:00pm daily, to help out with phone calls, sign distribution, and literature preparation. We need all the help we can get to make this work! |
Another Useful Voter Guide
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 Review Magazine, available free at locations all around Saginaw, has been conducting candidate forums in their last several editions. These can be found online by clicking the link above. To date, they've covered the judical races, the State Representative race between Ken Horn & Vince Mosca, and the State Senate race between Roger Kahn and Debasish Mridha. They also expect to cover the races between Sarge Harvey and Stacy Erwin Oakes, Dale Kildee and John Kupicek, and a piece on Saginaw County's budgetary woes, talking with the County Commissioner candidates. Greg Schmid has also written an article there about the pros and cons of convening a Constitutional Convention in Michigan. This issue is Proposal 1 on the November ballot, so you may want to check out his article if you haven't given the issue much thought yet. |
Rick Snyder Has The Experience Needed For Michigan's Economic Growth
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The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) was once a tool that supported a business-friendly climate and assisted entrepreneurs. Under Rick Snyder's leadership, the MEDC was once a successful economic development program that leveraged a business-friendly climate, a strong pool of talent, and the state's many assets to accelerate the growth of a diverse business base. It can be again under Rick's leadership.
Instead, the MEDC has been mismanaged by the current administration. After Rick Snyder was appointed by Governor Engler to be the first chair of the MEDC, Michigan was ranked No. 1 in the nation for five years for new business expansions by Site Selection Magazine. Now the magazine reports Michigan has dropped to the bottom in business-friendly rankings and is just ahead of Mississippi for new business expansions. Lansing's career politicians have wasted tax dollars on expensive ad campaigns and false incentives while promising job creation - without fixing Michigan's tax and regulatory system.
Recent problems with the MEDC and it's companion agency, the Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA), not performing due diligence and giving grants to convicted embezzlers and unreputable businesses such as the Hangar42 film studio, RASCO, and perhaps even Global Watt right here in Saginaw, highlight the poor management practiced by the current administration.
We have a chance to change this and rebuild Michigan with a vote for Rick Snyder in November.
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US Government Shutdown Coming?
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 What might it take to get this country back on track after a Republican win in Congress? One
prominent Republican congressman has raised the specter of a government shutdown if the GOP wins control of the House. Representative Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia recently urged a crowd to stand with House Republicans when they go toe-to-toe with President Barack Obama. You can read more at The Politico.
Westmoreland said that if his caucus takes control of the House, they aim to pass spending bills that Obama is likely to veto. He predicted Republicans would not be able to override these vetoes, creating a standoff that could cause Congress to grind to a halt. "If the government shuts down, we want you with us," he said. The congressman recalled a similar shutdown that took place in 1995, when Newt Gingrich was serving as House speaker. A future standstill could temporarily close national parks or delay payments from the government, Westmoreland speculated. "We have put Band-Aids on some things that need to be cleaned out," he said. "That is going to take some pain. There's going to have to be some pain for us to do some things that we've got to do to right the ship."
Another course the Republicans might take is to simply not fund various initiatives that have already been passed. Congress, and the House of Representatives specifically, controls all spending. If they do not fund something, no spending can happen. So other than a full shutdown, they could just not pass funding for certain items. Imagine the new healthcare laws being implemented with no funds! The Democrats threatened this for the Iraq war but could never unite behind the idea. The Republicans will need to unite and we will need to support them.
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How Federal Debt Is Driving Us to Socialism
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For anyone who may be unsure of what's at stake in this election, here's a reminder from a country that has seen it all before: Great Britain. Daniel Hannan, a British member of the European Parliament, has a warning for America, reported by Robert Romano at GetLiberty.org. Hannan warns, "I've been 11 years in the European Parliament, so I've seen it firsthand the kind of model towards which your current administration is taking you: European health care, European day care, European social security, European welfare, European unemployment, and believe me, you're not going to like it."
He continues, "The bits of Europe that are most obviously failing - the welfare system, the high spending - are the bits that you're copying." And he's right, just look around us atObamaCare,"stimulus" spending, state bailouts, government owners hip of businesses, the centralization of the financial sector into a "to big to fail" system, crippling future entitlement obligations and h igh unemployment.
Mr. Hannan's recent book, The New Road To Serfdom: A Letter of Warning To America, inspired by F.A. Hayek's classic, The Road To Serfdom, diagnoses the basic problem facing Western civilization: "We are deeply indebted. We have both been pursuing the option of trying to inflate away our debt. And that matters more than almost anything else." The nation's $13.4 trillion debt, coupled with efforts to print more money to pay it off, threatens to bury the future prosperity of all Americans. The annual sale of treasuries represents a tremendous misallocation of resources away from other productive sectors of the economy. Instead of investing in new businesses and creating jobs, over $1 trillion is being put into government debt every year. A recent study by Carmen M. Reinhart of the University of Maryland and Kenneth S. Rogoff of Harvard found that the "median growth rates for countries with public debt over 90 percent of GDP are roughly one percent lower than otherwise; average (mean) growth rates are several percent lower." We have just reached that 90 percent threshold of debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The total debt for Fiscal Year 2010 will reach $13.6 trillion, or 93.1 percent of Gross Domestic Product and it's projected the U.S. national debt will reach 100 percent of the GDP by 2012! And to make things worse, according to the Congressional Budget Office, interest owed on the debt will rise from $244 billion in 2011 to $755 billion in 2018! As you may have discovered in your own home budget, if you're spending too much on interest you can never pay down the principal owed.  A look at the chart above, from Babylon Today, shows that our interest on the debt has skyrocketed, even with interest rates coming down to near zero! One implication of the massive debt and interest payments is that they could guarantee we cannot fund truly productive activities that produce the jobs, goods, and services of the standards of freedom and living we are used to. We could become stuck in Socialism because we will no longer have the means to get out of it.
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The Republican mission seeks to maintain a strong defense, encourage individual achievement and liberty through the free enterprise system, and strengthen families. If you would like to help us move the area and the country towards these goals, please consider donating to the Saginaw County Republican Committee. Every donation, no matter how large or small, will help ensure that we can find and elect people to work for those goals. You can do so by mail to PO BOX 6653, Saginaw, MI 48608 or on the web at www.saginawcountygop.com.
Sincerely,
Tim Kelly, Chair, Saginaw County Republican Party
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