Attention Minnesota House District 54B Republicans!
Please join us on February 2, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. for your biennial neighborhood Republican precinct caucus. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All precincts in House District 54B will hold their caucuses at:
Vadnais Heights Elementary
3645 Centerville Road
Vadnais Heights, MN 55127-7122
We will disburse by precinct. Wondering which precinct you live in? Click http://pf.mngop.com to find out! At your precinct caucus you will be able to cast your vote for the Republican Gubernatorial candidate of your choice, discuss issues, resolutions and candidates. We will also be electing precinct officers and delegates to the House District 54B BPOU Convention. If elected as a Precinct Delegate (or Alternate), you will be invited to attend the House District 54B BPOU Convention on March 6, 2010 at 9:00 a.m., to be held at the Roseville Skating Center.
If you should desire a change to the Republican Party of Minnesota 2008 Platform, this is your opportunity to suggest a change. If interested, we ask that you come prepared with your written platform resolution change request. Resolution Report Forms may be downloaded and printed by clicking here.
For more information, please visit our website at www.mngop54b.org. Or contact House District 54B Chair John Kossett at 651-442-9002 or by email at john.kossett@mngop54b.org.
Minnesota House District 54B Republicans need your help to continue our work. Will you consider contributing $100, $50, or $25 to help us help our candidates? Donation checks may be made out to '54B Republicans'. A donation box will be located at the registration table near the main entrance. Thank you so much for your continued support!
The Continental Congress 2009 has now completed the final resolutions called, 'Articles of Freedom' for downloading and the opportunity for those Americans who feel it is time to hold our government accountable, while restoring our Constitutional Republic through peaceful means:
www.givemeliberty.org
www.cc2009.us
The following link is a webinar with Bob Schultz who successfully spearheaded the Continental Congress 2009, giving us his story of his career background which led to his involvement in 'watching' the government.
He verbally documents the legal actions he was involved in over the decades to end corruption and attempting to restore the government to its Constitutional limitations.
Currently, after 14 years of grievances petitioned to the government and each one ignored, it was decided through the efforts of the 'We The People Foundation' that a formal Continental Congress take place to redress our government going back decades. This successfully took place in November, 2009.
Final resolutions called, 'Articles of Freedom' that formally list all egregious violations of the Constitution with 'instructions' to the government and what will occur if these instructions are not honored. The model for this is Mahatma Gandhi's three point criteria that the people must meet in order to reclaim their country.
Formal presentation to all levels of government's elected officials will be made once 15 million Americans sign the pledge.
Bob Schultz explains the concept/idea of how this should restore our republic on this 165 minute webinar.
From The Ghost Breakers. A 1940 classic with Bob Hope.
Lawrence: "You live here?"
Montgomery: "Yes."
Lawrence: "Then maybe you know what a zombie is."
Montgomery: "When a person dies and is buried, its seems there are certain voodoo priests who ... who have the power to bring him back to life."
Carter: "How horrible!"
Montgomery: "It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring."
Lawrence: "You mean like Democrats?"
Part I - Declaration of Independence & Bill of Rights
Part II - The Congress
Part III - The Presidency
Part IV - The Courts
Part V - The States
This Continental Congress 2009 will deliberate for almost 2 weeks to redress the U.S. government for all violations to our Constitution.
The last Continental Congress was 1774 when the colonies redressed the King for abuses which led to the American Revolution and finally our rule of law whereby each of us are 'sovereign' and inalienable Rights are guaranteed protected.
Many of us have come to the conclusion we can no longer put our trust and faith in the current D.C. congress that has for the most part been so compromised by so many private interests that it no longer represents 'We the people'.
The violations to the U.S. Constitution are myriad. The bailouts of wall street, the purchase of 'toxic assets', the trillions of dollars that are not accounted for, the number of foreign banks who received billions, yet the Federal Reserve refuses to tell us 'who' they are and 'how' much did they receive. Due to the Federal Reserve Act, they don't have to tell us a thing. These folks have had discretionary power since 1913 and have legal immunity to any and all policies that are and have been egregiously immoral, unethical and and enormous conflict of interest to say the least.
If the American people have a desire for truth, a dream for a return to the moral Constitutional system based upon the rule of law in all three levels of government, sound money and a true love for the 'moral', perhaps we can get our country back on track in a safe, peaceful manner.
Please visit http://www.cc2009.us today and learn more about this important event.
Fourth Congressional District Republicans Cordially Invites You To Our 29th Annual Anniversary Celebration Dinner and Auction on Friday, November 13, 2009
Gulden’s “61” Restaurant
Hwy 61 Just North of Beam Ave
2999 Hwy 61 N – Maplewood, MN
Phone: (651) 482-0384
Advanced Reservations: $30 per person or $55 per couple
Unreserved: $35 per person – $ 65 per couple - Pay at the door
Event Schedule:
6:00 p.m. Cash Bar
6:00 p.m. Silent Auction
7:00 p.m. Dinner
8:30 p.m. Live Auction
Reservations: Send check to 4th CD by Monday, November 9th Or phone reservation to Kathie Roberts: 202 Myrtle Place – South St Paul, MN 55075, Phone: 612-242-4321
Please start collecting your auction items!
Click for Invite attachment and Speaker Information.
On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change skeptic, gave a presentation at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. In this 4 minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty, scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009. A draft of the petition can be read here: http://www.globalclimatescam.com/documents/un-fccc-copenhagen-2009.pdf
Lord Monckton served as a policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher. He has repeatedly challenged Al Gore to a debate to which Gore has refused. Monckton sued to stop Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" from being shown in British schools due to its inaccuracies. The judge found in-favor of Monckton, ordering 9 serious errors in the film to be corrected. Lord Monckton travels internationally in an attempt to educating the public about the myth of global warming.
Media contacts for letters to editors so people can take their own action: Here is across Minnesota http://capwiz.com/naus/dbq/media/?command=state_search&state=mn
Here is United States Wide http://www.reboottherepublic.com/blog/activism/huge-regional-media-contact-list-for-press-releases-etc/
Originally Printed in the Wall Street Journal
AUGUST 11, 2009, 7:30 P.M. ET
The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare
Eight things we can do to improve health care without adding to the deficit.
By JOHN MACKEY
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money."
—Margaret Thatcher
With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people's money. These deficits are simply not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us.
While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:
• Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). The combination of high-deductible health insurance and HSAs is one solution that could solve many of our health-care problems. For example, Whole Foods Market pays 100% of the premiums for all our team members who work 30 hours or more per week (about 89% of all team members) for our high-deductible health-insurance plan. We also provide up to $1,800 per year in additional health-care dollars through deposits into employees' Personal Wellness Accounts to spend as they choose on their own health and wellness.
Money not spent in one year rolls over to the next and grows over time. Our team members therefore spend their own health-care dollars until the annual deductible is covered (about $2,500) and the insurance plan kicks in. This creates incentives to spend the first $2,500 more carefully. Our plan's costs are much lower than typical health insurance, while providing a very high degree of worker satisfaction.
• Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but individual health insurance is not. This is unfair.
• Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines. We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.
• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.
• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. These costs are passed back to us through much higher prices for health care.
• Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last doctor's visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us?
• Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms that create greater patient empowerment, choice and responsibility.
• Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren't covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter?
Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That's because there isn't any. This "right" has never existed in America
Even in countries like Canada and the U.K., there is no intrinsic right to health care. Rather, citizens in these countries are told by government bureaucrats what health-care treatments they are eligible to receive and when they can receive them. All countries with socialized medicine ration health care by forcing their citizens to wait in lines to receive scarce treatments.
Although Canada has a population smaller than California, 830,000 Canadians are currently waiting to be admitted to a hospital or to get treatment, according to a report last month in Investor's Business Daily. In England, the waiting list is 1.8 million.
At Whole Foods we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund. Our Canadian and British employees express their benefit preferences very clearly—they want supplemental health-care dollars that they can control and spend themselves without permission from their governments. Why would they want such additional health-care benefit dollars if they already have an "intrinsic right to health care"? The answer is clear—no such right truly exists in either Canada or the U.K.—or in any other country.
Rather than increase government spending and control, we need to address the root causes of poor health. This begins with the realization that every American adult is responsible for his or her own health.
Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are self-inflicted: two-thirds of Americans are now overweight and one-third are obese. Most of the diseases that kill us and account for about 70% of all health-care spending—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and obesity—are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not smoking, minimal alcohol consumption and other healthy lifestyle choices.
Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age.
Health-care reform is very important. Whatever reforms are enacted it is essential that they be financially responsible, and that we have the freedom to choose doctors and the health-care services that best suit our own unique set of lifestyle choices. We are all responsible for our own lives and our own health. We should take that responsibility very seriously and use our freedom to make wise lifestyle choices that will protect our health. Doing so will enrich our lives and will help create a vibrant and sustainable American society.
Mr. Mackey is co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc.
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