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Meet Up Thursday Oct., 22nd

Meet-up scheduled on Thursday Oct, 22nd 7:00pm at Victory Baptist Church, 510 E. 8th St., Spencer, IA
5 blocks east of Fareway.
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Everyone is welcome to attend

NEWS ALERT Please take the following action!!

This week thousands of people are heading to Washington for the Taxpayers' March On D.C. 9/12.    A clear message is being sent that we are the people and we are fed up with D.C. Politics and blatant disregard of our Constitution! 

While you may be unable to attend the events in D.C., please join with us in

supporting this movement in a “Send a Message to D.C.” campaign.  Over the next couple of days, please call your representatives in Washington, letting them know

that even though you were not able to attend the March, you fully support the

initiative.  Please call: 

President Barack Obama and VP Joe Biden:  (202)456-1111

Senator Chuck Grassley:  (202)224-3744

Senator Tom Harkin:   (202)224-3254    

Representative Steve King:  (202)225-4426   

Suggestions of what to say:  “I wish I could be there, but am unable to.  For every person you see in D.C., know that there are hundreds more of us back home who couldn’t go.  You were elected to represent the people, and the people are speaking.

Listen to them!”                                  -                                           

                         

May God bless those who make this journey and may He bless all of our efforts

in this endeavor to save our country from socialism!   

OATH KEEPERS

ANOTHER COMBAT VET TAKES A POLITICIAN TO TASK FOR VIOLATING THE OATH | September 1st, 2009 “if members of the armed forces take an oath to the Constitution and are then given body armor and sent to battle to fulfill that oath, then our leaders in government should be held true to their oath to to at least the same degree.” Oath Keepers Site

This ain't America anymore!

Protester: “Did you take an oath to follow the Constitution?” Police Officer: “Yes I did” Protester: “This used to be America” Police Officer: “It ain’t no more” The below video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran’s (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Deathcare (Howie Dean was there too) held at South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia, in Fairfax County. Many people were left outside when the school filled to capacity. Fairfax County School Police Officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. did not approve of a protester’s anti-Obamacare poster (shown above) which used one of the “Joker” graphics. Watch the video below and see what happens when Officer Cheeks sees the anti-Obamacare poster.

Good example of content based discrimination. Yes, the public school used for a public town hall may be a limited public forum, under First Amendment case law, and there may be regulation of the general use of signs (maybe) during the event, but any such regulation of how someone expresses their speech must be applied equally to all, and when you target a particular sign for its content, while letting others alone who also have signs, that is discrimination against that speech (the sign) based on its content, rather than simply prohibiting all signs. That is known as “content based discrimination” in legaleese, and it is unconstitutional. It looks pretty obvious that this officer just didn’t like the message of the sign and was targeting the content of this protesters speech. Update: If you would like to file a complaint, go here: He is a security officer employed by the Fairfax County Public Schools. You may go to http://www.fcps.edu to contact the School’s Department of Communication and Community Outreach concerning this matter. They may also be reached by phone at 571-423-1200. The head of the security department at Fairfax County Public Schools is Fred Ellis. His email is fred.ellis@fcps.edu and his phone number is 703-658-3763” Let them know that, contrary to what their officer thinks, this is STILL America, the Constitution has not yet been scrapped, the First Amendment still applies, and their oath requires that they respect the right to free speech of all Americans, even when the officer does not like the speech. The First Amendment does not just protect speech the officer on the scene agrees with, and he is not free to implement his own mini-constitutional suspension zone. Be polite, but firm. Don’t use profanity, but let them know that as an Tea Party Patriot, you don’t appreciate the oath breaker they have on staff. Lonnie

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Grassley takes more questions on health care

By Russ Oechslin
Sioux City Journal correspondent | Posted: Friday, August 28, 2009

SPENCER, Iowa -- More than 200 protesters and inquisitive voters were on hand at the front steps of the Clay County Courthouse Thursday afternoon to listen to and ask U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley questions, mostly dealing with health care issues.

Grassley, a Republican, "answered some questions and evaded some" Dr. Ken Hunziker said afterward. The family practice physician said earlier, "There needs to be some changes. But I think reforming the present system is better than a government plan."

Noting that he read U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's plan that indicated the government's plan would "level the playing field," Hunziker said that wouldn't happen "because the government makes the rules. There'd be two teams. One would make the rules for the game. That's not a level playing field."

Also speaking on the health care bill, Karen Hunziker suggested that "you can't just ram it through. That's crazy. The whole thing's got to go slow. They have to take their time and read every single thing that's written in that (bill)."

When Ken Peterson, of Lake Mills, Iowa, asked Grassley if the health care cost problem might be solved automatically by the private sector if the government did nothing, Grassley disagreed. He said, "I think there is so much connected with Medicare that (it) even drives the private sector." Medicare is 45 cents of every health care dollar, he said.

And, he added, a Dartmouth University study shows that, "if the rest of the country practiced medicine like we did in Iowa, we would save one-third."

Navy veteran Gene Christiansen, of Arnolds Park, Iowa, asked Grassley about promises made to him when he enlisted in 1949. "The benefits have constantly changed," he said. "They made promises and broke 'em. I think what concerns most of us here today is that congressmen are breaking their promises right and left. And they are not speaking the truth."

Grassley told Christiansen, "I'm not going to say that I voted against or would have done everything you wanted me to do, but I did get the National Commanders' Award, from the American Legion, for my support of veterans."

Another questioner, Emmetsburg businessman Michael Flannegan, who carried a sign protesting government bailouts of large business, said Grassley didn't answer his question about being forced to have a government health care plan. "Government isn't working," Flannegan said.

What kind of government are we today?

HedrickDavid's Channe http://www.youtube.com/user/HedrickDavid I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.

Fox news with David William Hedrick

Who's not telling the whole truth? What about healthcare Mr. President?

Obama's Former Doctor Opposes Health Care Plan, Calls for Single-Payer System

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Obama on UPS, FEDEX  and USPS

You think the government can run healthcare LISTEN BELOW They can't even lick stamps correctly.

The Giant is awakened

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Salary and Retirement figures for Congress 

 Found at this website:   http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/congresspay.htm

Senate Leadership
Majority Party Leader - $193,400
Minority Party Leader - $193,400

A cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) increase takes effect annually unless Congress votes to not accept it.

Benefits Paid to Members of Congress

You may have read that Members of Congress do not pay into Social Security. Well, that's a myth.

Prior to 1984, neither Members of Congress nor any other federal civil service employee paid Social Security taxes. Of course, they were also not eligible to receive Social Security benefits. Members of Congress and other federal employees were instead covered by a separate pension plan called the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). The 1983 amendments to the Social Security Act required federal employees first hired after 1983 to participate in Social Security. These amendments also required all Members of Congress to participate in Social Security as of January 1, 1984, regardless of when they first entered Congress. Because the CSRS was not designed to coordinate with Social Security, Congress directed the development of a new retirement plan for federal workers. The result was the Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986.

Members of Congress receive retirement and health benefits under the same plans available to other federal employees. They become vested after five years of full participation.

Members elected since 1984 are covered by the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS). Those elected prior to 1984 were covered by the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). In 1984 all members were given the option of remaining with CSRS or switching to FERS.

As it is for all other federal employees, congressional retirement is funded through taxes and the participants' contributions. Members of Congress under FERS contribute 1.3 percent of their salary into the FERS retirement plan and pay 6.2 percent of their salary in Social Security taxes.

Members of Congress are not eligible for a pension until they reach the age of 50, but only if they've completed 20 years of service. Members are eligible at any age after completing 25 years of service or after they reach the age of 62. Please also note that Members of Congress have to serve at least 5 years to even receive a pension.  

The amount of a congressperson's pension depends on the years of service and the average of the highest 3 years of his or her salary. By law, the starting amount of a Member's retirement annuity may not exceed 80% of his or her final salary.

According to the Congressional Research Service, 413 retired Members of Congress were receiving federal pensions based fully or in part on their congressional service as of Oct. 1, 2006. Of this number, 290 had retired under CSRS and were receiving an average annual pension of $60,972 totaling $17,681,880. A total of 123 Members had retired with service under both CSRS and FERS or with service under FERS only. Their average annual pension was $35,952 in 2006 totaling $4,422,096.

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