Members of the Westerly Tea Party look over the crowd on the mall at the Restoring Honor Rally 8/28/2010.
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Rhode Islanders gather on the steps of the RI State House to Rally For States’ Rights. Does your Rep. or candidate support The 10th Amendment ? TODAY! Friday, August 27
TEA PARTY RADIO on WBLQWith Special Guest host Steve Wright from the Rhode Island Voter Coalition Broadcasting live from historic downtown Westerly, RI **Listen from your computer Fridays 10 am to 11am** CALL IN: 401-322-9091 more about Tea Party Radio Van Helsing The Washington Times gives three more reasons to believe that the Cloward-Piven strategy of ushering in communism by deliberately collapsing the economy under the burden of public spending is alive and well:
That is to say, if we could get the government monkey off our backs, our standard of living would be close to three times as high. It gets worse… The article continues at Moonbattery.com by Phil Gingerella Democrats in this state and for that matter nationally know as much about creating private-sector jobs as Pamela Anderson knows about nuclear physics. Nothing! It’s time to call Democrats what they are – The Great Jobs Killers. Massive spending and tax hikes, rewarding big government and big unions, while punishing taxpayers and business owner have killed jobs, have killed motivation to create new jobs, have killed the motivation to invest in new businesses, or expand old ones. With all this killing, Democrats should be given the top spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. The people in RI who actually take risks with their own money to create small businesses and jobs and pay most of the taxes should be protected by Endangered Species Act. The Democrats have pursued a policy of high business taxes, income taxes, payroll taxes, capital gains taxes, unemployment taxes and workers compensation taxes. Add the taxes to the excessive business fees in this state and it makes RI the worst place in the nation to operate a business. Unless dramatic changes are made, there will be no major increase in new jobs for many years to come if ever. Democrats have turned RI into a wasteland of economic ruin and depression that looks much like the landscape of Mel Gibson’s first movie “Mad Max.” The trillion-dollar corporate handouts (neatly named “stimulus”) may have kept big business in the money for the past 18 months, and artificially propped up the stock market, but small business, the life blood of the middle class in RI, is the real canary in the coal mine. The canary is gasping for breath at the bottom of the cage. In order to create jobs, businesses must make a profit and when they aren’t making a profit they cut jobs. High taxes impact the ability of business to operate, making it less likely they will hire new people or keep the people they have. Democrats don’t understand that simple fact. If the GA was really concerned about our economic well being, they would realizes that nobody ever got a job from a poor person and just as importantly, businesses won’t locate to or stay in an over taxed state. Putting it in its simplest terms, would you start or keep operating a business in a state where you had to pay $1000 in taxes or $50 in taxes. Democrats believe that businesses will choose to pay $1000 in taxes instead of $50. Small business-owners in general aren’t creating one job in RI. Not one. They are shedding jobs. They are learning to do more with fewer employees. Democrats have a problem. Democrats are one-trick pony — raise taxes and that always has the exact opposite desired effect. Raising taxes never create jobs, unless it’s a government job! And the RI General Assembly just passed their latest jobs killing bill – the Deep Water wind mill farm project. That project will raise electricity costs over time by about 3.5 times the current rate. Knowing that, what business would locate to RI? Knowing that, what business would not at least explore moving out of the state? And what about the impact to the citizens of RI, especially seniors on fixed incomes? Do the Democrats care? Obviously not! They overrode the PUC recommendation and passed the job killer bill. Apparently the RI General Assembly thinks they way to attract new jobs to our state and keep the ones we have is to have the highest taxes, fees and energy cost in the nation. Brilliant! So what are the Democrats in RI going to do about jobs? Maybe they can get Pamela Anderson on the line. I bet she knows as much about it than they do. Nothing!
The filing followed a similar action taken Friday by the Conservation Law Foundation, a New England environmental group that objects to legislation underpinning the agreement, as well as a joint petition lodged earlier Monday by Toray Plastics America and Polytop Corp., both heavy users of electricity that are concerned about the high cost of offshore wind power. Read the entire article at the Projo by Justin Katz In a recent article, John Kostrzewa describes a study (partially funded by RI’s Poverty Institute) by Jeffrey Thompson, Assistant Research Professor at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. As it happens, circumstances lately have put me in a position to agree with some of the professor’s conclusions, particularly those decrying one-company-narrow special deals described as “economic development.” But this part is some of the same-old-same-old: Read the rest on Anchor Rising With the national media gathered on Martha’s Vineyard this week for President Barack Obama’s vacation, fishermen are seizing the opportunity to organize a floating protest at Vineyard Haven on Thursday. A flotilla of commercial boats will rendezvous at the harbor entrance at noon to demonstrate that fishermen are less than happy with the Obama administration’s oversight of their industry. Flawed fisheries science, an oppressive law enforcement policy and unnaturally low catch limits are at the heart of the protest, organizers said. “We don’t know the count yet but it will be at least 25 and maybe as much as a hundred boats,” said Richie Canastra of the New Bedford Seafood Display Auction. A new fishery management plan, known as sectors, introduced on May 1, has left the majority of the groundfish fleet in New Bedford and other New England ports tied to the dock.
“MR. PRESIDENT, WE NEED YOUR HELP” Dear President Obama, My name is Russell Sherman, and I am a life-long fisherman. Like New England fisherman before me have done for 387 years, I take my vessel, the 72-foot F/V Lady Jane from the port of Gloucester, Massachusetts, into North Atlantic waters to bring back cod, haddock, flounder, and other groundfish for America’s table. I hope that while you’re in New England, you and your family are enjoying a few meals of our fresh catch – there’s none better tasting or healthier in the world. Mr. President, my fellow fishermen and I need your leadership. We are small businessmen and women who want to continue the profession we love. We have worked hard over the past 16 years to rebuild groundfish stocks. Today, some stocks are fully rebuilt, and most others are expected to rebuild in three years, by 2014. According to federal forecasts, a fully rebuilt fishery will yield a sustainable catch nearly five times current landings. At a time when we should be hopeful about the future of our businesses, we are desperate instead. We are being driven from our work and the fishery we have helped to rebuild. Ironically, what’s putting us out of work are the rules to rebuild the fishery. The most recent version of these rules – effective on May 1, 2010 – impose very low annual catch limits on stocks for the next three years, and at the same time institute a Take my case. Under the 2010 rules, my permit allows an annual catch of only 60,000 lbs of groundfish. At an average price of $1.50 a pound, that’s an annual gross of $90,000, or about one-quarter of my business’ gross income last year. I simply cannot run my business and support my crew of four – each with a family – on only $90,000 a year. My business is only one of hundreds facing extinction. While there will be a small handful of “winners” under these new rules, the vast majority of us will be losers. And when we “losers” are forced out, jobs will be lost, coastal communities gutted, and crucial commercial fishing infrastructure gone forever. Is this the way to rebuild our storied, centuries-old groundfish fishery? I belong to an organization called the Northeast Seafood Coalition, a New England-wide organization of 255 small, entrepreneurial fishing businesses and allied support businesses that participates in the public process. The Coalition has tried to bring this matter to the attention of your Department of Commerce. We have tried to offer constructive solutions to the challenge of rebuilding fisheries without at the same time destroying them. But our efforts have fallen on deaf ears. Mr. President, we desperately need your leadership. We ask that you please direct your Department of Commerce to listen to us and work with us. We know that we can meet this challenge by working together. Sincerely yours, See the ad in the Vineyard Gazette here. “…I am one scientist and there are many that simply think that (man-made global warming) is not true…” |
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PROVIDENCE — Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch filed a petition with the Rhode Island Supreme Court on Monday seeking to reverse the recent approval by state regulators of a power-purchase agreement that would pave the way for an offshore wind farm near Block Island.