Quote of the day:
“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
- Ronald Reagan

February 2009

• Feb 28, 2009 - Tea Party sign of the day: Shovel Ready
• Feb 28, 2009 - Spending your tax rebate: The reduction in payroll withholding : 2009 will be $500 : $12.50 X 40 weeks (Apr-Dec) = $500, in 2010 will be $400 : $7.69 X 52 = $400. Man! The economy will be booming after this.
• Feb 27, 2009 - So many spending bills approved and proposed we need a scorecard. Obama will drive the Federal Debt from $10.025 trillion to over $16.20 trillion in only four years. A bigger increase than from George Bush's 8 years.
• Feb 26, 2009 - "A History of Home Values" a chart from the NY Times. My interpretation of this is the unnatural rise in home prices this last decade fueled by easy money, and bad regulation must be allowed to correct without government intervention.
• Feb 25, 2009 - Gregg Cavanagh (commentary in Star Tribune) writes "How to make state budget easy to balance" - The state is again seeking to eliminate a structural deficit through accounting shifts and other sleights of hand. (Our state's accountants must be incredibly clever. We've been balancing budgets with accounting shifts for years, and they never seem to run out of new ones.) The dirty little secret is that balancing the state budget would be easy -- if our leaders were willing to kill a few sacred cows. Here are a few that should be sent to the slaughterhouse: Read more
• Feb 25, 2009 - Bailout Humor - The Bailout Prize Patrol
• Feb 23, 2009 - A report on Breakfast with Legislators (2/22/09) - here
• Feb 23, 2009 - A twelve year old delivers a clear pro-life message : Video (Over 353,000 views on YouTube to date.)
• Feb 22, 2009 - The Woodbury-Cottage Grove League of Women Voters will be hosting a panel dicussion March 2nd. This may be of interest to your members and we hope will at least give them some basics and peak their interest. If you share our interest would you please pass this message onto your members. -- Contact Kathy Klein at 651-264-9291 for more information.
• Feb 21, 2009 - The "Nationwide" Chicago Tea Party grows - See here and here and here and facebook.
• Feb 20, 2009 - MN House introduces Minnesota Sovereignty bill HF977 more here
• Feb 19, 2009 - Santelli's Chicago Tea Party?
• Feb 19, 2009 added a description of the BPOU organization, draft version. See BPOU ?
• Feb 16, 2009 - Kelly Parker's Townhall Meeting...
• Feb 15, 2009 - You might find the MN Budget Solutions web site interesting. It has a on line budget calculator. You can devise your own solution for the budget.
• Feb 15, 2009 - Note: The "Gallery" feature works best with either Firefox or Safari browsers at this time. It may not work with IE7 or Opera.
• Feb 14, 2009 - Budget Solutions Town Hall Meetings have been scheduled across the state. For more information and locations please click through.
• Feb 13, 2009 - New look to the web site. Reduced clutter. Improved?
• Feb 12, 2009 - Monthly Meeting
  • Minutes from January approved, treasures report approved.
  • Planning for Mar 7 convention.
  • Speakers - Jeff Davis: Minnesota Majority, and Tim Gould: CD6/CD7 State Party Representative.
  • Visit MN Budget Solutions
• Feb 9, 2009 - U.S. Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailouts as Senate Votes - MORE...