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OVERWHELMINGLY — Indiana’s voters willing to risk government shutdown to derail ‘Obamacare’

21 Saturday Sep 2013

Posted by HattieBelle in 2013, 2014, Dan Coats, Democrat, District 2, Health, Health Care, Indiana, Indiana Constituents, Jackie Walorski, Joe Donnelly, Marlin Stutzman, Mitch Daniels, Obamacare, Senate, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, U.S. House, U.S. Senate

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To understand why so many conservatives in Congress are willing to risk a government shutdown in their quest to cut spending and derail “Obamacare,” take a look at Indiana and the state’s crop of young Republicans in the U.S. House Representatives.

The voters in their home districts gave them a simple message at town hall meetings in August:“Stand up to President Barack Obama and block his health insurance reforms.”

Indiana constituents don’t support the health care law and are insisting their elected officials vote to defund it.

The efforts of Indiana’s House Republicans are certain to be rejected by Democrats. Obama has already issued a veto threat. So the ensuing fight will heighten the risk of a government shutdown or debt default which will unnerve financial markets.

That is a risk that many conservatives see as essential, with key parts of the law due to take effect in October.

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“The American people want this law stopped one way or another,” Representative Marlin Stutzman of northeast Indiana told Reuters. “We are willing to hold out on this one.”  _______________________________________________________________

Republicans argue that the Affordable Care Act will cost jobs, reduce employee working hours and increase health premiums and are focused on the projected spending increase which would nudge the sprawling U.S. healthcare system to over $3 trillion in total spending for 2014, representing a cost of $9,697 for every man, woman and child, or 18.3 percent of the U.S. economy! (Source of information is Reuters. Click HERE to reference.)

Over the longer term, healthcare spending growth would accelerate to 6.5 percent by 2022, when the industry would hit the $5 trillion mark and represent 19.9 percent of gross domestic product.

Indiana’s Republicans are willing to make tough choices and to accept the accompanying risks.

These Republicans do not fit the Democratic caricature of conservative Tea Party novices who are holding the House hostage. Several have experience in Indiana state government, making tough budget choices under former Republican Governor Mitch Daniels.

Daniel’s success in turning around the state’s finances prompted speculation that Daniels might make a presidential bid in 2012, but he opted against running.

Under Mitch Daniels’ leadership, Indiana cut taxes and built up a surplus. Now it consistently ranks highest in the Midwest in business climate surveys, while neighbors Illinois and Michigan struggle financially. But Indiana’s unemployment rate, at 8.3 percent, is a full percentage point above the national average as its manufacturing base struggles to recover from the recession.

The experience at the state level has driven the Indiana Republicans in Congress to try to replicate the same formula in Washington.

Three members – Todd Rokita, Messer and Jackie Walorski – now serve on the House Budget Committee, a big presence for a state with only 6.5 million residents. Todd Young switched from that panel to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. And Stutzman, another Budget Committee alumnus, saw his standing in the caucus rise after the House passed his plan to separate the $74 billion food stamp program from a long-stalled farm bill, a move aimed at shrinking the nutrition subsidies.

“I think we’ve been able to prove in this state, statistically, that balanced budgets create stable economies, create jobs, and there is a way out of the mess we’re in at the federal level,” said Walorski, who once described herself as a “pit bull” in the state capitol.

Freshman Representative Susan Brooks, a former U.S. attorney in Indiana, has local, state and federal government experience, most recently as general counsel for the state’s network of community colleges.

The group often repeats a Daniels mantra: “You’d be amazed at how much government you won’t miss.”

Three years after President Obama signed his signature health care overhaul, Americans are MORE negative toward it as they have ever been. Disapproval of the president on the issue has reached a new high. Here are findings from a USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll.

Three years after President Obama signed his signature health care overhaul, Americans are MORE negative toward it than they have ever been. Disapproval of the president on the issue has reached a new high. Here are findings from a USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll.

INDIANA VOTERS ARE WATCHING

The seven Indiana Republicans face little threat of losing their seats to Democrats in 2014 if they dig in on the budget and Obamacare. The congressional boundaries some of them helped redraw in 2011 concentrated the state’s two Democrats into central Indianapolis and the industrial northwest corner. The Republican districts are now largely carpeted in corn and soybeans, giving them a naturally conservative rural base.

“Indiana is an agrarian state. A bumper crop one year could be met with drought the next, so you better focus on long-term goals,” said Wendy Dant Chesser, president of One Southern Indiana, the Chamber of Commerce in New Albany, Indiana.

Instead, any threat is more likely to come from the right if they are too soft on spending. The influential conservative group Club for Growth, headed by former Indiana Republican congressman Chris Chocola, is watching their every vote.

Similar sentiments expressed in conservative Republican districts across the country have put members in no mood to compromise on the fiscal deadlines.

Rokita, a second-term congressman who boasts that his 2010 budget as Indiana secretary of state was at 1987 levels, said the Obamacare defunding vote was “a reasonable reflection of what my constituents wanted of me. I think we’re best when we’re bold,” he said. “I keep trying to preach that to our leadership.”

Opposition to ObamaCare — already wildly unpopular when it was passed — is becoming increasingly strong and widespread. In my opinion, it’s about time MORE politicians follow Indiana’s elected representative’s example and deeply consider WHO they SHOULD BE fighting for. (HINT TO LAWMAKERS: The WHO should NOT be your pharmaceutical and insurance political donors.)

Sources:
Red State
The Indiana Gazette
Rasmussen Reports
Reuters
Political Outcast

Important Upcoming Meetings…

12 Monday Aug 2013

Posted by HattieBelle in 2013, Activism, Civic Engagement, Elkhart County, Elkhart County GOP Party, GOP, Indiana, Politics, Tea Party

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Elkhart Tea Party LogoNo meeting this week or next week week – Watch for 8/26 possibility
115 East Lincoln Ave, Goshen, IN
www.ECPatriots.org

logo 2nd amendment2nd Amendment Patriots North: last Tuesday of the month.
Doing a build your AR-15 project.  Feinstein freaks out.

Kosciusko Silent No MoreKosciusko Silent No More: meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month, and is well-attended – Seeking the 3-cornered stool balance.St. Joseph County Tea Party St Joseph Tea Party: meets 2nd and 4th Thursday at SB GOP Headquarters and is well attended (26)

tea macTea-MAC: meets at Beulah Missionary Church on old CR17 and Hively, the 3rd Tuesday of the month.

13_bencarson(1)Dr. Ben Carson will be at  at the Honeywell Center in Wabash, IN on October 20, 2013. Tickets at HONEYWELL CENTER or by calling 260-563-1102

Tea Party Express: Winning for America National Bus Tour in Elkhart Tomorrow

21 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 2012 Election, GOP, Tea Party

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Elkhart, IN
Date/Time:
Friday, September 21st
11:30 – 1:00 PM
Rally Location:
Kardzhali Park (Next to NIBCO Water & Ice Park)
301 Nibco Pkwy
Elkhart, IN 46516

RSVP HERE.

Elkhart GOP Victory Center could be 1st in the nation this Saturday!

07 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 2012 Election, Congress, Conservative, Elkhart County, Indiana, Jackie Walorski, Mike Pence, Richard Mourdock, Tea Party, TEA-MAC

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Last Saturday we made 10,000 calls from Elkhart‘s Republican Victory Center, which was the 3rd most calls of ANY GOP Victory Center in the nation. We can beat that! Let’s be in 1st place this Saturday!

On the last Super Saturday our Republican Victory Center made the 3rd most calls in the nation. But we don’t have to stop there. THIS SUPER SATURDAY–LET’S PUT ELKHART COUNTY IN THE FIRST PLACE!

If you can sign up for a shift on the phones contact Ben Parsons at (574) 612-8735 or bparson@indgop.org.

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
 
 SHIFTS:

9 AM to 12 PM
12 PM to 3 PM
3 PM to 6 PM
6 PM to 9 PM

I’ve made calls from the center and am planning on being there most of Saturday night. I promise the time goes fast, the phones are easy to use, the people you will meet at the Victory Center are all friendly and helpful. The Tea-Mac party and the KSNM (Kosciusko Silent No More) will be there. We are not only going to set new records, we’ll have a great time too. See you Saturday night!

Help Jackie Walorski, Mike Pence and Richard Murdock this Saturday at the Republican Elkhart County Victory Center, 1620 South Nappanee, Elkhart, Indiana.

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REMINDER: Walk for Richard Mourdock in Labor Day Parades!!!

03 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 2012 Election, American, Civic Engagement, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Elkhart Indiana, Indiana, Labor Day, Labor Day Weekend, Parade, Senate, Senator, Tea Party, Volunteer

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Join us on Labor Day to walk with Richard!

It is ALMOST the end of the parade season…JUST TWO MORE PARADES!!!

1) The BIG Blueberry Parade in Plymouth for Richard – 1 hour from
Goshen. LEAVING my house (BOB MOORE’S) at 7:45.

Step out is 9:30, but be there very early, say 8:30 and
park at Martins Supermarket, 868 E Jefferson St.

There is usually a lot of confusion getting to the parade
floats… Ours (Mourdock) is #39. We will have a float
and shirts available. Looks like no rain…

2) Very short (1 mile) parade in Elkhart, starting at the Train
Depot. (20 mins from central Goshen).

Line up at 3PM, step out at 4 PM.

SEE YOU TOMORROW…

The parade lines up on Columbus and Baker…

Richard with his supporters from the Noblesville Parade. Today will be YOUR LAST CHANCE to walk with Richard Mourdock in a parade.

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Help Labor of Love fill Elkhart County’s food pantries

30 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Activism, Caring, Civic Benefit, Civic Engagement, Civic Service, Community, Community Service Event, Community Services, Compassion, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Emergency Measures, Event, Faith-base, Food, Food Aid, Food Pantries, Fundraisers, Goshen, Indiana, Labor Day, Labor Day Weekend, Labor of Love Plans, Neighbors, Tea Party, Victory Center

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Your food donations are needed.

For 44 years, Elkhart Church Community Services Church Community Services, a faith-based not-for-profit agency has helped people in Elkhart County, Indiana, weather life’s storms and build more secure futures. They do do this through emergency assistance and intensive job and life skills training.

So far, in 2012 Church Community Services has assisted over 16,000 families.

Leave your non-perishable food items at businesses in boxes displaying this sign.

Food drop-off locations

Elkhart: Hart City Resale Store, Martin’s Grocery, Starbucks (U.S. 33), GOP Elkhart Victory Center, Miles Lab Restaurant, Sport’s Time Family Pub, McDowell Plating Co., Dibley Chiropractic Center & Family Video Stores

Goshen: Family Chiropractic Clinic

Wakarusa: Larimer Furniture Store, The Dime Store, The Dollar General Store (on Hwy. 19), Forest River Corp.

Mishawaka: Futon Factory, All Famiy Video Stores, B & B Molding and the Mishawaka GOP Victory Center

Kids waiting in the pantry while their parents shop.

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Tea Party, NRA Throw 5 RINOS Out Of Tennessee Legislature

16 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 2012 Election, 2nd Amendment, Activism, Agenda 21, Audit the Fed, Bailouts, Constitution, Faith-base, Federal Reserve Transparency Act, Gun Control, Gun Ownership, Lieberman-Collins Cyber Security Act, McCain Cybersecurity Act, Nullify Obamacare, Obama, Obamacare, Tea Party, Vote

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On August 2, 5 GOP candidates seeking re-election to the Tennessee State legislature discovered just how dangerous it can be to disdain the wishes of those conservatives who helped put them in office. More…

Richard Mourdock launches Senate campaign with a ‘Kickoff Picnic’

10 Friday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 2012 Election, Campaign, Community, Events, Food, GOP, Hoosier, Indiana, Picnic, Republican, Richard Mourdock, Senate, Senator, Tea Party, Volunteer

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Why you should bank with a local bank or credit union and NOT the TBTF

03 Friday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in Audit the Fed, Bailouts, Banking, Barklays, Crime, Criminal Investigation, Cronyism, Debt, Derivatives, economy, Euro, Fiscal Cliff, Leveraging, Profits, Repeal of Glass Steagall, Tea Party

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So you think the big banks do good things for society, like loan money to Main Street, right?

Ha!

Actually…big banks no longer do very much traditional banking. Most of their business is from financial speculation. For example, less than 10% of Bank of America’s assets come from traditional banking deposits. Instead, they are mainly engaged in financial speculation and derivatives. (and see this)

Since they were bailed out by taxpayers, the big banks have slashed lending … while smaller banks have increased lending. See this, this and this.

According to Thomas Jefferson, “Banking Institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies”

To prove Jefferson’s point that there is NOTHING you can trust about big banking, the “Too Big To Fail” gang is guilty of:

  • Funding the Nazis
  • Laundering money for terrorists
  • Financing illegal arms deals, and are funding the manufacture of cluster bombs (and see this and this)  and other arms which are banned in most of the world
  • They launched a coup against the President of the United States
  • Handled money for rogue military operations
  • Laundered money for drug cartels. See this, this, this and this (indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis)
  • Engaged in mafia-style big-rigging fraud against local governments. See this, this and this
  • Shaved money off of virtually every pension transaction they handled over the course of decades, stealing collectively billions of dollars from pensions worldwide. Details here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here
  • Artificially suppressed gold prices
  • Charged “storage fees” to store gold bullion … without even buying or storing any gold . And raided allocated gold accounts
  • Committed massive and pervasive fraud both when they initiated mortgage loans and when they foreclosed on them (and see this)
  • They pledged the same mortgage multiple times to different buyers. See this, this, this, this and this. This would be like selling your car, and collecting money from 10 different buyers for the same car
  • Cheated homeowners by gaming laws meant to protect people from unfair foreclosure
  • Committed massive fraud in an $800 trillion dollar market which effects everything from mortgages, student loans, small business loans and city financing
  • Manipulated the hundred trillion dollar derivatives market
  • Engaged in insider trading of the most important financial information
  • Pushed investments which they knew were terrible, and then betting against the same investments to make money for themselves. See this, this, this, this and this
  • Engaging in unlawful “frontrunning” to manipulate markets. See this, this, this, this, this and this
  • Engaging in unlawful “Wash Trades” to manipulate asset prices. See this, this and this
  • Otherwise manipulated markets. And see this
  • Participating in various Ponzi schemes. See this, this and this
  • Charged veterans unlawful mortgage fees
  • Helped the richest to illegally hide assets
  • Cooked their books (and see this)
  • Bribed and bullied ratings agencies to inflate ratings on their risky investments

The executives of the big banks invariably pretend that the hanky-panky was only committed by a couple of low-level rogue employees. But studies show that most of the fraud is committed by management.

Indeed, one of the world’s top fraud experts – professor of law and economics, and former senior S&L regulator Bill Black – says that most financial fraud is “control fraud”, where the people who own the banks are the ones who implement systemic fraud. See this, this and this.

  • A huge portion of the banks’ profits comes from taxpayer bailouts. For example, 77% of JP Morgan’s net income comes from taxpayer subsidies
  • The big banks are literally killing the economy … and waging war on the people of the world
  • And our democracy and republican form of government as well
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‘Tea Party’ Owns 2012 Elections

01 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by HattieBelle in 2012 Election, Activism, American, Campaign, Community, Congress, Conservative, GOP, Indiana, Richard Mourdock, Senate, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, Vote

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English: Ted Cruz at the Republican Leadership...

English: Ted Cruz at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Last night, the Texas GOP chose Tea Party-Backed Ted Cruz over David Dewhurst for Senate.  Cruz scored a stunning upset over a longtime Texas state officeholder in a Republican U.S. Senate primary runoff on Tuesday, transforming Cruz into a national conservative star and marking a resurgence of the movement to shrink the size of U.S. government.

Cruz, 41, a former state solicitor general who has never held elected office, became the third insurgent Republican this year to defeat an establishment Republican in a U.S. Senate primary.

He scored a surprisingly comfortable victory with about 56 percent of the vote to about 44 percent for Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who a year ago was considered the front-runner.

Cruz’s primary victory follows that of Richard Mourdock, the tea party movement-backed candidate who defeated longtime U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in the Republican primary in Indiana.

Since Mourdock’s primary win, another Republican primary upset victory occured in Nebraska with rancher Deb Fischer, who beat veteran attorney general Jon Bruning in a U.S. Senate primary.

Many have been saying that the ‘tea party’ movement is dead, but the win by Cruz sends a signal to “moderate Republicans” nationwide, according to Ross Baker, an expert on American politics at Rutgers Universityin New Brunswick, New Jersey.

“Make sure your voting record passes muster with the Tea Party, or you’re in big trouble,” said Baker.

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