Vote Republican
Recent political advertisements show pictures of several DFL endorsed candidates. These people are running for state senate and house positions. It is important to remember that even though they are running at the state level, they support the radical ideology of Obama and his administration. Their party believes in denigrating and penalizing success through class warfare and high taxes, expanding government regulation, closing down our mines and oil fields, diminishing our national defense; an ever-expanding welfare state.
Regardless of what they may say, anyone running on a DFL ticket is ultimately going to knuckle under to the radical views of Obama, Dayton, and the controlling far-left wing of the Democrat Party.
Continuing to support such miserable failure is not only economic suicide, but will result in much greater loss of personal freedom.
Vote Republican.
Tom Lund
Longville
Comments (19)
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Class warfare started in the 1980s and, as Warren Buffet has said, "my side is winning." Taxes on the rich are the lowest they've been since the run-up to the Great Depression and the richest 1 percent control a greater share of the wealth than they have since the days of J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie.
It wasn't government regulations that caused the last recession, it was lack of regulations that allowed financial institutions to take unreasonable risks through derivatives and excessive leverage.
But the economy is bouncing back from the recession, which, for the record, started during the Bush administration. Today, corporations are sitting on $1.7 trillion in cash, corporate earnings as a percentage of GDP are the highest they've ever been, U.S. oil production is at record levels, housing is recovering and, despite a global slowdown, our economy is expected to grow at an annualized rate of 3 percent over the next four years.
There's a mountain of evidence to show that the Obama stimulus package and the action of Ben Bernanke and the federal reserve are responsible for digging our economy out of the hole it found itself in back in 2007 to 2009.
And all this whining about the loss of personal freedom is an insult to the integrity of this great nation and the millions of people who sacrificed to establish and defend those freedoms the last 235 years. We have more freedom than any other nation on earth.
A word to the wise: Just because someone tells you want you want to hear doesn't mean they're telling the truth.
Tom Lunds Radical Ideology is a tad over the top......
Lets hope for Toms sake , in his own words ? "Economic Suicide " is not the path he takes. Or..
Hard to imagine individuals actually think something like Toms ramblings indicate.
There is one born every minute.
Or maybe he was Tigers fan ?
Hmm cap
Over the top??? Really? Maybe you should bring up all of ward's family writing letter's in ehh??
How many fake letters has
the DFL written that Denton and Mike didn't investigate?
Well said, Tom.
In the words of our favorite congressman, you know when you're near the target because that's when the flak get's heavy.
Buried for 4 years
"There's a mountain of evidence to show that the Obama stimulus package and the action of Ben Bernanke and the federal reserve are responsible for digging ..."
Where might one find this mountain? I can't see it because, as Joe says. We've "been buried for the past 4 yrs."Ashes to ashes and so on.
Purposed, I thought the light was the remaining embers...
...of a once great country, soon to be extinguished...
Otter, you may think class warfare started in the 1980's but I'm pretty sure I can trace it back to the 1800's with Karl Marx and all.
Also, you're understanding of the causes of our recent financial calamities is incomplete. Are you unaware of the CRA and Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's roles in destroying our economy? Without the super abundance of bad loans written and coerced by CRA and ACORN thuggery and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac making sure the taxpayers were on the hook for those loans we would not have suffered nearly the knock out punch to our economy. I say this with all kindness--you need to dig DEEPER to get to the full truth.
"--you need to dig DEEPER to get to the full truth."
You ought to try following your own advice once in awhile, muehlbau.
"Perhaps the most critical finding of the House commission, however, was that Greenspan and his fellow panelists Chris Cox (SEC Chairman), and former Treasury Secretary Jonathan Snow all agreed that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not the root cause of the financial crisis, but only a factor in how events played out. Furthermore, facts weighed heavily against republican-spread misinformation claiming Fannie and Freddie caused the meltdown. Included among these facts are that the majority of sub-prime loans were originated by institutions other than Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that by the time the crisis was realized only 13 percent of all sub-prime loans were owned by Fannie and Freddie."
http://voices.yahoo.com/greenspan-flawed-ideology-deregulation-cause-col...
And while we're at it,
From an honest-to-god REAL economic study "Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box", the economy historically performs much better under Democratic administrations than under Republican ones. Gee, I can hardly wait for a Romney administration to continue the destruction that Bush Jr started.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2012/10/10/want-a-better-economy...
Factual evidence, of course, means little to the zealots of the right. I've often wondered what the connection is between the 'fundamentalist' mind-set and the penchant for believing in fairy tales.
I know all about the role played by Democratic enterprises
...like countrywide and bond raters, and bundlers, etc., Chey. But it was icing on the rotten cake, not the initial cause of our financial problems. No bad loans, no bad derivatives, it's that simple.
Greenspan -- Flawed Ideology, Deregulation Cause of Collapse,
Greenspan -- Flawed Ideology, Deregulation Cause of Collapse, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Only a Factor
You're right, it's very simple.
Not just Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
...the flawed ideology that you should coerce banks to give loans to people who can't afford them. That's the root cause. If you don't write bad loans, you don't have defaults. You're right, it's simple.
Vote Republican, Yes and No
I agree with Mr. Lund 99%. He should have said "Vote Conservative", not vote republican. There is a difference. However the ballot lists conservatives as republicans so I guess I agree with Tom 100%. Good letter Tom.
No matter where....
No matter where you stand is on any issue, willard has you covered!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQwrB1vu74c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyp2QIGejq4&playnext=1&list=PLFE12464D8A4...
To the zealots on the left,
To the zealots on the left, factual evidence means nothing.
Frannie, Freddie, Barney Frank = a financial mess,
But now, it is what it is which is that we have the huge debt
that future generations will have to pay.
We have an economic system on life support.
We have only 63% of eligible workers in the work force paying into the treasury trough.
We have millions on unemployment, millions who have quit
looking for work.
We have the financial cliff coming up ...
Taxes are going up Jan. 1
Where is a leader?
Yeah, let's finish the economic destruction begun by Bush Jr
by electing Rmoney. No taxes for corporations or the already obscenely rich. Of course, to make up for all the lost revenue, we'll have to eliminate safety net programs like social security, medicare, medicaid (which actually help keep the economy going and people out of total destitution). That's been the Republican plan all along. That's why Republicans have stonewalled Obama on everything that might make the economy better... jobs bills, closing incentives for corps to shift production overseas, even expanding veterans benefits. But hey, there's money to be made for their big money sponsors.
Did you bother to read the article/study I posted from Forbes, Sad Lady? I didn't think so. "Factual evidence, of course, means little to the zealots of the right."
I rest my case.
Btw muehlbau,
the flawed ideology Greenspan was talking about was that markets are self-regulating, that financial institutions and individuals would look out for the interests of their clients because it was in their own self-interest to do so. Bwahahahahaha! He admits he didn't forsee the power of greed in his 'model'.
Blame Game
If some of you would stop trying to blame the "liberals" for everything and look for the truth, you might discover that the two events most responsible for bringing our economy to the brink of a depression actually occurred during the Clinton administration. And, no, I'm not talking about the Community Reinvestment Act or Fannie and Freddie. They were bit players. Turn off the TV, engage your curiosity and and see if you can figure out what they were. I'll give you a hint: Alan Greenspan was involved.