to stop the practice of ‘spend and borrow’
that has been commonplace for so long in Washington.
Lie.
Showing posts with label Richard Burr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Burr. Show all posts
Monday, August 1, 2011
Please call for North Carolina Senator Richard Burr to resign
"...This common-sense, but long overdue, action was absolutely vital
to stop the practice of ‘spend and borrow’
that has been commonplace for so long in Washington.
to stop the practice of ‘spend and borrow’
that has been commonplace for so long in Washington.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Congressional Cowardice: If Howard Coble, Kay Hagan or Richard Burr vote for this crap, they should resign.
"The framework would raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling through 2012,
cut spending by about $1 trillion
and call for enactment of a law shaving another $1.5 trillion from long-term debt by 2021
-- or institute punishing reductions across all government areas,
including Medicare and defense programs...
...a bipartisan congressional super- committee
would be charged with proposing deficit savings of $1.5 trillion
over a decade by late November...
...spending reductions wouldn’t be triggered until after fiscal 2012...
...Republicans dropped their insistence on withholding some of the borrowing authority
until future spending cuts had been made...
...If Standard & Poor’s “sticks to what it said,
it will downgrade” the U.S. debt following the deal...
...The agreement “does nothing to restore household and corporate confidence,
so unemployment will be higher than it would have been otherwise,”
...“Growth will be lower than it would be otherwise.
And inequality will be worse than it would be otherwise.”
Bloomberg
cut spending by about $1 trillion
and call for enactment of a law shaving another $1.5 trillion from long-term debt by 2021
-- or institute punishing reductions across all government areas,
including Medicare and defense programs...
...a bipartisan congressional super- committee
would be charged with proposing deficit savings of $1.5 trillion
over a decade by late November...
...spending reductions wouldn’t be triggered until after fiscal 2012...
...Republicans dropped their insistence on withholding some of the borrowing authority
until future spending cuts had been made...
...If Standard & Poor’s “sticks to what it said,
it will downgrade” the U.S. debt following the deal...
...The agreement “does nothing to restore household and corporate confidence,
so unemployment will be higher than it would have been otherwise,”
...“Growth will be lower than it would be otherwise.
And inequality will be worse than it would be otherwise.”
Bloomberg
Thursday, March 31, 2011
North Carolina Senator Richard Burr Is In Top 10 for PAC Recipients Who Knew?
The Center for Responsive Politics has a top 10 for the House and Senate candidates CLICKHERE
Our own North Carolina Senator Richard Burr has made the list of top 10 recipients of Political Action Committee money otherwise known as PAC money . Here is the break down of the top 10 Senators.
Lincoln, Blanche (D)*
(Arkansas Senate) $4,368,642
Reid, Harry (D)*
(Nevada Senate) $3,513,434
Blunt, Roy (R)
(Missouri Senate) $3,252,143
Portman, Rob (R)
(Ohio Senate) $2,957,653
Schumer, Charles E (D)*
(New York Senate) $2,905,309
Burr, Richard (R)*
(North Carolina Senate) $2,721,777
Grassley, Chuck (R)*
(Iowa Senate) $2,598,405
Gillibrand, Kirsten (D)*
(New York Senate) $2,393,652
Kirk, Mark (R)
(Illinois Senate) $2,364,142
Murray, Patty (D)*
(Washington Senate) $2,360,201
All figures are for all candidates in the 2010 election and are based on FEC reports filed through March 31, 2011.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Greensboro N.C. Will Waste $78,000 of Taxpayers Money for a Federal Lobbyist if Approved Tuesday
"38. Resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP to represent the City of Greensboro priorities to Federal elected officials and agencies. (Council District: all) (roll call vote) (Attachment #38 to Councilmembers) COPY OF THE PROPOSAL ON FILE IN THE CITY CLERK’S OFFICE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW."
As you can see from the above agenda item for consideration at next Tuesday's Greensboro N.C. City Council meeting for March 1, 2011, they want to hire Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP CLICKHERE as their lead lobbyist on the federal level with the proposed cost for service is $78,000 a year. The Greensboro Partnership has agreed to pay 25% ($19,500) of this cost . But let's take a closer look at who might pay the total cost because in the Rhino Times this week there is a article titled "Even President finds Partnership Confusing" CLICKHERE . In the article John Hammer wrote this,
Now we have another item to add to this money laundering game the City of Greensboro wants to play with the Greensboro Partnership at the expense of the Greensboro Taxpayers who are getting hosed in this situation. It is so amazing to see the City of Greensboro wants to think about cutting a job or even a service to the citizens at the same time hire a lobbyist on the federal level when in reality we have capable leaders in Washington D.C. working in our behalf and on top of it we have a sitting Senator in the name of Kay Hagan who resides in Greensboro and we also have the other senator of this state who resides right next door in Richard Burr from Winston Salem. We can also add on the House side in Rep. Howard Coble who also resides in Greensboro as well.
Taxpayers money going after Taxpayers money the City of Greensboro will get the Citizens Against Government Waste Porker of the Month Award if they approve this contract on Tuesday March 1, 2011. If you would like to say to the Greensboro City Council that this is a total waste of taxpayers money and to say NO on item #38 CLICKHERE
Agenda item for March 1, 2011 for City of Greensboro
38. Resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP to represent the City of Greensboro priorities to Federal elected officials and agencies. (Council District: all) (roll call vote) (Attachment #38 to Councilmembers) COPY OF THE PROPOSAL ON FILE IN THE CITY CLERK’S OFFICE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW.
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As you can see from the above agenda item for consideration at next Tuesday's Greensboro N.C. City Council meeting for March 1, 2011, they want to hire Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP CLICKHERE as their lead lobbyist on the federal level with the proposed cost for service is $78,000 a year. The Greensboro Partnership has agreed to pay 25% ($19,500) of this cost . But let's take a closer look at who might pay the total cost because in the Rhino Times this week there is a article titled "Even President finds Partnership Confusing" CLICKHERE . In the article John Hammer wrote this,
The Greensboro City Council uses the Greensboro Partnership to launder money, according to what the council was told at its work session on Tuesday, Feb. 22.
The council allocates $200,000 to the Partnership to be used by the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance (GEDA), but of that money $25,000 goes to Downtown Greensboro Inc. (DGI) and $30,000 goes to the Piedmont Triad Film Commission.
Dan Lynch, president of the GEDA, told the council Tuesday that the money was simply a pass-through. He said they were told to write a check for $25,000 to DGI and $30,000 to the film commission and he did, but he did not know why.
Now we have another item to add to this money laundering game the City of Greensboro wants to play with the Greensboro Partnership at the expense of the Greensboro Taxpayers who are getting hosed in this situation. It is so amazing to see the City of Greensboro wants to think about cutting a job or even a service to the citizens at the same time hire a lobbyist on the federal level when in reality we have capable leaders in Washington D.C. working in our behalf and on top of it we have a sitting Senator in the name of Kay Hagan who resides in Greensboro and we also have the other senator of this state who resides right next door in Richard Burr from Winston Salem. We can also add on the House side in Rep. Howard Coble who also resides in Greensboro as well.
Taxpayers money going after Taxpayers money the City of Greensboro will get the Citizens Against Government Waste Porker of the Month Award if they approve this contract on Tuesday March 1, 2011. If you would like to say to the Greensboro City Council that this is a total waste of taxpayers money and to say NO on item #38 CLICKHERE
Should Government agencies be allowed to hire lobbyist? CLICKHERE
also here are some links to other posts in regards to this hiring of a federal lobbyist by the City of Greensboro.
December 17, 2010 Update: City of Greensboro Dumps State Lobbyist But Now Wants To Hire Federal Lobbyist: Government Waste At It's Best CLICKHERE
July 3, 2010 State and Local Governments Aggressively Lobby the Federal Government in Hopes of Federal Aid Opensecrets Blog CLICKHERE
June 2, 2010 Greensboro's Mayor Pro Tem Nancy Vaughan Eliminating the City's Paid State Lobbyist from the Budget Video Embedded CLICKHERE
We will see what happens on tuesday but as the mayor Pro tem with a link above said on video that we have capable representatives already elected by us working for us with our taxpayers monies . We don't need to waste anymore money to hire a federal lobbyist but if it gets approved then hopefully in future we will see candidates realize government waste and vote no for items like this.You can also remember this item because it could be a good campaign issue for people who are wanting to get in office in future to say this is the type of wastefull spending that doesn't need to happen.
Agenda item for March 1, 2011 for City of Greensboro
38. Resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP to represent the City of Greensboro priorities to Federal elected officials and agencies. (Council District: all) (roll call vote) (Attachment #38 to Councilmembers) COPY OF THE PROPOSAL ON FILE IN THE CITY CLERK’S OFFICE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Kay Hagan and Greensboro News & Record's Editorial Board
"North Carolina’s Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan was one of only 19 who voted against a measure that extends tax cuts for all Americans...
Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina supported it, despite the huge objection cited by Hagan: “This bill would add $858 billion to the national debt without offering a long-term solution.”
Burr took a different view: “The tax bill was more about economic policy than it was about fiscal policy,” he said Wednesday. Extending current tax rates “was vital from the standpoint of tax predictability.”
It’s predictable now that those tax rates, even for the wealthy, won’t bump up when this extension runs out in two years.
...Hagan, who said she couldn’t stomach further tax breaks for millionaires, allowed that she supported extending tax cuts for the middle class. But, added up, the total cost was unacceptable, she said Tuesday.
She also noted the recent report issued by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson’s deficit-reduction commission. It’s time for Congress to stop making “empty promises” about deficit reduction. “We can’t put this burden on our children,” Hagan said.
She’s right.
Congress can always find reasons to justify deficit spending — if it ignores serious warnings.
Credit agency Moody’s, for example, said that “unless Congress gets its act together, it could see a once unthinkable downgrade of the U.S. credit rating on its watch, which could balloon U.S. borrowing costs and make our financing position much more costly,” Fortune reported Tuesday.
“We can’t keep borrowing from the Chinese,” Hagan said.
Obama and most members of Congress apparently wanted a deal at any price, and that’s what they got.
But, added to the debt already run up over the years, it may be more than the country and future taxpayers can afford. Washington has got to start putting its finances in order.
Hagan’s record isn’t impeccable — she’s requested hundreds of earmarks for North Carolina projects in the 2011 budget, the Civitas Institute reports — but she’s taking a stand now.
Unless more senators do the same, the country’s bills will bury it."
Greensboro News & Record's Editorial Board
Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina supported it, despite the huge objection cited by Hagan: “This bill would add $858 billion to the national debt without offering a long-term solution.”
"Senate Tax-Cut Plan Would Add $857 Billion to U.S. Debt,"
or will the Tax Deal really cost at least $1,472.92 trillion?
$857 Billion @ 4% x 30 years = $1,472.92 trillion
$857 Billion @ 5% x 40 years = $1,983.56 trillion
$857 Billion @ 6% x 50 years = $2,706.77 trillion
$857 Billion @ 7% x 75 years = $4,523.35 trillion
or will the Tax Deal really cost at least $1,472.92 trillion?
$857 Billion @ 4% x 30 years = $1,472.92 trillion
$857 Billion @ 5% x 40 years = $1,983.56 trillion
$857 Billion @ 6% x 50 years = $2,706.77 trillion
$857 Billion @ 7% x 75 years = $4,523.35 trillion
Burr took a different view: “The tax bill was more about economic policy than it was about fiscal policy,” he said Wednesday. Extending current tax rates “was vital from the standpoint of tax predictability.”
It’s predictable now that those tax rates, even for the wealthy, won’t bump up when this extension runs out in two years.
...Hagan, who said she couldn’t stomach further tax breaks for millionaires, allowed that she supported extending tax cuts for the middle class. But, added up, the total cost was unacceptable, she said Tuesday.
She also noted the recent report issued by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson’s deficit-reduction commission. It’s time for Congress to stop making “empty promises” about deficit reduction. “We can’t put this burden on our children,” Hagan said.
She’s right.
Congress can always find reasons to justify deficit spending — if it ignores serious warnings.
Credit agency Moody’s, for example, said that “unless Congress gets its act together, it could see a once unthinkable downgrade of the U.S. credit rating on its watch, which could balloon U.S. borrowing costs and make our financing position much more costly,” Fortune reported Tuesday.
“We can’t keep borrowing from the Chinese,” Hagan said.
Obama and most members of Congress apparently wanted a deal at any price, and that’s what they got.
But, added to the debt already run up over the years, it may be more than the country and future taxpayers can afford. Washington has got to start putting its finances in order.
Hagan’s record isn’t impeccable — she’s requested hundreds of earmarks for North Carolina projects in the 2011 budget, the Civitas Institute reports — but she’s taking a stand now.
Unless more senators do the same, the country’s bills will bury it."
Greensboro News & Record's Editorial Board
If some lose their whole fortunes,
they will drag many more down with them.
…the whole system of credit and finance…here at Rome
…is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province.
If those revenues are destroyed,
our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.
…The national budget must be balanced.
The public debt must be reduced.
The arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled.
Payments to foreign governments must be reduced
if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt.
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Constitutionalist
they will drag many more down with them.
…the whole system of credit and finance…here at Rome
…is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province.
If those revenues are destroyed,
our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.
…The national budget must be balanced.
The public debt must be reduced.
The arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled.
Payments to foreign governments must be reduced
if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt.
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Constitutionalist
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