House call for Rep. Bart Stupak in Petoskey MI 11-5-09

30 taxpayers made a house call to the Petoskey Michigan office
of Rep. Bart Stupak at noon today. We shared with the Congressman's
staff our disagreement with Bart's support for the Pelosi Healthcare bill.

We don't want government controlled healthcare and we can't afford the
over 1 trillion dollar expense. With government bankrupting Social Security,
Medicare, Medicaid, and the Postal Service, our elected officials have
proven themselves as incompetent, and with "this game" on the
line, we surely have the right to expect touchdowns, not fumbles for our tax dollars.

Additionally, many called Bart out as a smooth doublespeaker and deceiver;
after he was recently caught at a local townhall meeting trying to have it both
ways on health care reform and abortion. This was publicized on heritage.org
and FoxNews here. http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/27149960/political-grapevine-10-29.htm#q=stupak

Michigan State house at work on the budget

THEY CAN'T READ THE BILLS THEY VOTE ON BUT CAN PLAY SOLITAIRE AND CHECK BALL SCORES

Nothing else need to be said. This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms. No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc.

House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)

The guy sitting in the row in front of these two... he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.

These are the folks that can't get the budget out by Oct. 1, Seriously!!! So, we’ve got a 30 day budget extension. Well, guess what, 30 days from now we will be in the same boat. I guess this makes it easy for the news ‘reporters’ as all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago. And these yo-yo’s will still be playing SOLITAIRE!!!

Joe the Plumber returns to Petoskey Sept 6th

A taxpayer rally is happening in Northern Michigan, with "Joe the Plumber"and others.

Labor Day Weekend

Sunday, Sept. 6th- Petoskey Pennsylvania Park Time
Music at 5 p.m., Speakers at 6 p.m.

Committed to appear:

Joe “The Plumber” Werzelbacher

Congressman Pete Hoekstra, Declared candidate for 2010 Governor Race
and endorser of national FairTax

Ken Braun of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy

Past State Rep Fulton Sheen, Headed up the MI FairTax Proposal

Trucker Randy of Traverse City

Greg Marshall, of WMKT the talk station.com 1270am / 92.1 fm

E-Mail for more info : taxandspendmustend@gmail.com

Click here for a interactive map to the event.

Click here for a Petoskey Map, Pennsylvania Park area is marked "H"

Click here for parking areas.

Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher symbolizes the average American worker for all citizens and Tea Party participants who come together to tell Lansing and Washington,
"No!" to higher taxes and "Yes!" to greater government restraint and transparency.

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

Benjamin Franklin

Rep Bart Stupak faces Petoskey Michigan seniors over Obamacare

Reasons Why Government Can't Run Health Care

No. 1: Government Can't Be Trusted With a Credit Card

Government this year is spending $31,000 per household and taking in $17,000 in taxes per household. We are borrowing $13,500 per household this year.

"Are you crazy?, wasting our money, people are hurting, cut your spending".

No. 2: Government Can't Even Give Away Money Effectively.

Look at cash-for-clunkers and how the government wizards who set up cash-for-clunkers budgeted to sell 250,000 cars over 3 months. The program sold that many in 4 days, and air traffic controllers had to be brought in to help with administration.

Politicians' priorities are to give free goodies to their constituents. So as far as they're concerned, cash-for-clunkers has been a resounding success.

Forget the fact that they're spending money they don't have, or that car dealerships are left holding millions of dollars in empty government promises. Politicians are not concerned with the long-term, just the next election. This has worked as well as the 12% of stimulus spent thus far.

No. 3: Government Would Rather Pay Crooks Than Manage Efficiently.

Government is cutting funding to programs that save money, like home health care after hospitalization; yet persists in ignoring fraud of $80 billion to $120 billion each year in the current Medicare and Medicaid programs.

If ever there was a reason not to turn our entire health care system over to government it is this: Government can't run the health care programs it already has. It would rather ration compassionate, effective programs than do the hard work of rooting out and punishing the crooks who are stealing our taxpayer dollars.

"Health Care Plan needs to be done fast"....WHY ???

Senator Arlen Specter makes a gaffe by saying this Health Care Plan needs to be done fast, crowd Explodes

The National Health care Bill..."If it's so good, why doesn't Congress have to be on it?"

Missouri Congressman Russ Carnahan (D) getting heckled during a town hall meeting after saying that the President's health care plan "will create a $6 billion surplus... over ten years."

What you can do right now is support the Fair Tax

Visit the website here : http://www.fairtax.org

What is the FairTax?

The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll based taxes with an integrated approach including:

• A progressive national retail sales tax.
• A prebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes on spending up to the poverty level.
• Dollar-for-dollar federal revenue neutrality.
• Repeal of the 16th Amendment through companion legislation.

Your children and grandchildren are really on the hook

SO WHY ARE WE SEEING TEA PARTIES NOW, rather than back in the Bush Administration? It’s important to note that we did see pushback on spending in the Bush years — e.g., the PorkBusters movement that Trent Lott became “damn tired” of — but this graphic may explain why people are more upset now. In terms of both trend and magnitude, things are really different now.

Familiar tune from Great Britain March 26, 2009

The English are lucky to have this guy...NONE of our politicians in the USA have the common sense, clarity or articulation to promote and sell sensible government to the people.
It was cutting. He was clear. It was biting. He was done. Not with a rant. But a reason.
A reason to abandon big government before it abandons us – it bankrupts us. A speech so clear, so focused, so telling…that there's no telling where this takes the young conservative member of Parliament.
A conservative who holds himself not hostage to party dogma, but critical thought. A conservative who supported Barack Obama on hope. But a conservative who now finds Barack Obama hopeless.

Rick Santelli and the "Rant of the Year" February 19, 2009

Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax and it’s a great big one.

In fact, it is estimated that cap and trade would bring in $646 billion in tax revenue to the federal government. To put that number in perspective it is almost 1.7 times what the Federal Government took in from the corporate income tax in 2007!

Ronald Reagan - Curbing the Size of Government

Taxes vs. Other Household Expenses

Government continues to dominate the American taxpayer’s budget. Americans will still spend more on taxes in 2008 than they will spend on food, clothing and housing combined.

In 2008, Americans will work 74 days to afford their federal taxes and 39 more days to pay state and local taxes. Meanwhile, buying food requires 35 days of work, clothing 13 days, and housing 60 days. Other major categories are health and medical care (50 days), transportation (29 days), and recreation (21 days).

This isn't a conservative or liberal thing

A revolution is brewing as American patriots and free-market advocates unite in protest against out-of-control government spending – with a wildfire movement of more than 170 nationwide tea parties.

'Bailing out' reckless businesses and individuals is neither the burden of responsible, hard-working American taxpayers nor the role of government. The Congressional Budget Office and countless economists say that the recent 'stimulus' packages will likely hinder, not help, our economy. Tax cuts, not tax hikes and handouts, are the quickest, most efficient means of getting our economy back on track.

Legislators must listen to citizens who are tired of irresponsible policies so the nation can recover. It is time politicians heed the will of the American people and the clear signals coming from the financial sector: stop the excessive spending, cut taxes, and get out of the way. Only then will we unleash the resilient, entrepreneurial spirit of Americans that has made our nation great and which will propel us through this rough patch to more prosperous times ahead.

This isn't a conservative or liberal thing. This is about government forking over billions of dollars, our money, to businesses that should have failed. This is about taking money from responsible people and handing it over to CEOs who squandered their own.