Now we will have the honor of being required to charge a minimum amount (determined by the store/merchant) of at least $10 before being allowed to use your credit card to purchase anything.
Who to thank for this? Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL).
Know what this means, don’t you? The government, in all its glorified stupidity, is now passing on to us the ability to spend more than we intend.
So much for watching out for the people, eh, Democrats?
Remember November, folks. It’s time to make History.
Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Taxes, Theft
Tagged Control, controversy, Fraud, Incompetence, Marxism, Spending, Unconstitutional, Unemployment
As delivered by the First Lady.
Prescriptions for Fat kids? Won’t be Xenical, will it? Get ready for lots of loads of wash to do.
Where’s the “do no harm” in this one?
Of all the @&$^##&R$ and @)$UY#*R.
Argh!
Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Ethics
Tagged Control, Healthcare, Incompetence, Marxism, Spending, Unconstitutional
According to Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek, we have indeed.
After reading his article, I would have to say that I agree. Read it, a lot of good information there that we never got from anywhere else.
UPDATE: Apparently, Ted Koppel doesn’t get it. Being American, that is.
First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief
Personal income tax rates will rise.
Higher taxes on marriage and family.
The return of the Death Tax.
Higher tax rates on savers and investors.
Second Wave: Obamacare
The Tanning Tax.
The “Medicine Cabinet Tax”
The HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike.
Brand Name Drug Tax.
Economic Substance Doctrine.
Employer Reporting of Health Insurance Costs on a W-2.
Third Wave: The Alternative Minimum Tax and Employer Tax Hikes
The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year.
Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear
Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses
Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced
Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed
We better Hope we have some Change left.
Somehow, I expect we will not.
Repeat after me: I will not vote for an incumbent.
Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Taxes, Theft
Tagged anti-business, Healthcare, Spending, Unconstitutional, Unemployment
Don’t know how anyone may consider this, but I wanted to share this short email exchange between a constituent and myself.
I decided to redact the person’s name and email address to protect her from any unwanted contact as a result of this. Hope she doesn’t mind. And since my treasurer’s name is on record, I hope he doesn’t mind that I include his comment as well.
(Read from the bottom up.)
To ‘Daniel McAndrew’
From: Jim Sollers (REDACTED@verizon.net)
Sent: Thu 8/26/10 7:22 AM
To: ‘Daniel McAndrew’ (dwmca@live.com)
You know actually that is a good point to make.
You live your principals, no debt on your campaign.
You live within your means.
Very good
From: Daniel McAndrew (dwmca@live.com)
Sent: Wed 8/25/10 10:32 PM
To: REDACTED@REDACTED.com
You are very kind, Lynn.
Don’t worry about the donation bit, it’s way too close to the Primary at this point anyway.
Yes, I’m not rich. My day job starts when I get up at 5:30 or 6am then home by 6pm.
That is, until I started this business of running for office.
Yes, I do know the value of a dollar and how not to over-reach.
Which is why I have stopped spending from my campaign account for the moment.
I may do a little more as my treasurer and I were discussing things at lunch today.
We shall see how the numbers look come the evening (or next day) of the primary.
Night.
Daniel
P.S. I’m of Irish ancestry, actually. If that matters. Personally, I figure I am an American first. Republican last. Conservative second.
From: REDACTED@REDACTED.com
Sent: Wed 8/25/10 10:14 PM
To: dwmca@live.com
Dear Mr. McAndrew,
Today, I received the ballot for the Maryland Primary, and was researching U.S. Senate candidates.
Upon perusing a Wiki article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Maryland,_2010 I noticed that you and Barbara Mikluski (sic) have something in common in regard to your campaign, ZERO DEBT. One major difference is that she has about $3Million and you have hardly anything to work with. It is amazing. This fact intrigued me to go to your web site, and see what your stance is on various issues we are facing today, as a country. I like what I see.
Unfortunately, I have no money to donate towards your campaign, but wanted to know that we need more people like you in politics.
McAndrew is a good Scottish name!
Best wishes for a successful run.
Regards,
Lynn REDACTED
This is not only nonsense, but a complete waste of time, effort and (wait for it) our money.
Funding a pro-Palestinian ad campaign on billboards in Israel.
UPDATE: As I said. A complete waste of time. And effort.
Because of Secretary Duncan’s Race to Waste Your Education Dollars.
The “money” line: “But grant applications are what RttT is all about, and they have made RttT the biggest waste of your education dollars ever.”
Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Education, Ethics
Tagged Control, Incompetence, Spending
The ease with which your credit card info (what about Real-ID?) can be stolen is upsetting.
According to the CBO, when comparing the Iraq War costs against our deficit – it wasn’t much.
But don’t take my word for it. Read it and scroll down to almost halfway.
It isn’t that I am justifying the Iraq war. I’m not.
However, what really stands out is the DEFICIT !!
Since I understand math, if we keep the amount of the Iraq war cost the same and shrink the deficits of 2009 and 2010 to equal that of 2008 – then those little blue boxes will be far more significant that this picture seems to give you now.
So, the lesson here is that $709 billion is not an insignificant amount of money.
But it looks that way considering how much the current administration has been (over)spending.
Who knew Tim Kaine could be so funny?
Not.
Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics
Tagged Fraud, Incompetence, Spending, Unemployment
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