BY SARAH ROSS
Image via johnkitzhaber.com
PORTLAND- In a move expected by most local political experts, the Service Employee International Union made public their endorsement of former Democratic Governor John Kitzhaber on Thursday.
SEIU represents over 50,000 employees, primarily in state and local government but also in some private sector industries like nursing homes, hospitals, and property services.
According to a press release sent out by the organization, the decision was recommended by the SEIU political action committee and then affirmed by the SEIU Oregon State Council.
“We were impressed by Governor Kitzhaber’s grasp of the issues, sincerity and candor,” stated Barbara Casey in the same press release.
Casey, chair of the SEUI Local 503 political action committee, continued by saying, “more than anything else we believe he shares the values of our members and Oregon’s working families.”
The state council put willing participants through the task of filling out a questionnaire, appearing before members, and spending a day shadowing one member in the work place.
Republican candidate Chris Dudley declined to participate in the process.
If Christ was running against Satan before the end of the world, the SEIU would endorse Satan for his BS promises.
From 1993until I was activated for Iraq in 2003, I ran a small business. It was only a 3 bay auto shop. I designed and built the building from scratch. In addition, we paid off the commercial property as soon as we could.
So, I operated with no lease payments, and avoided adding fixed costs to the operation. I paid cash for everything. We operated with a very low overhead and passed the savings on to the customer.
At the end of every month, I had to write checks to the employee, the state, the parts distributors, the uniform man, this vender, that vender, a new lazer printer, Quick books Pro, a new Dell PC, a specialty tool, a shop keepers policy, utilities, telecommunications, a new tool box, and this and that etc.
I never understood fully that small business is the heart and the soul of our economy. When I worked for Boeing, I was basically on a fixed income, and only bought X amount of items a month. As a small business owner, I became a super consumer, and pumped capital into the economy. No employed person or state worker ever created a job. They never purchased $10,000 a month in services and parts. No government entity ever created capital, it always consumes, consumes, and consumes. The entrepreneur and small business creates the jobs and economies that pump the economic blood through this country. Without small business, our American economy shrivels up and dies. No one has a job, and the government gets no revenue. The entitlement class is on the street.
John Kitzhaber owes his allegiance to the state, and not the small business community. He will institute an Oregon sales tax, and sink Oregon business. No one will come across the river etc.
I am insulted that Kitzhaber suggested a progressive sales tax. If you make more money, you pay more sales tax. Kitzhaber is out of his mind! Its like the “Gringo price” in Tijuana, Mexico.
Does John Kitzhaber really hate small business and the rich that much? The more and more one hears from John Kitzhaber the more one feels he is a Karl Marx style Socialist.
Kitzhaber wants to make Oregon Small business unfriendly!
I think I will give to Chris Dudley’s campaign!
“More than 32 million children rely on federal child nutrition programs,” Wu said. “By reviewing and improving these programs, we help make sure that children get enough healthy food, especially during the current economic downturn.”
I commend David Wu for being one of the original co-sponsors of the Child Nutrition Bill!
Of all of David Wu’s schemes on deficit spending, this is one program that is important.
If we take David Wu’s position on children nutrition in the context of all of his other legislation on deficit spending, we see a very disturbing cycle and massive conflict of interest.
Let me explain:
David Wu voted for the Government takeover of health care which will sanction families who still cannot afford health insurance with a $750 penalty. This would be the equivalent of about 600 cans of vegetables for the balanced diet.
Next David Wu voted for “Cap and Trade” which is a $1760 dollar hidden tax on our seniors. This is the equivalent of an entire winters heating bill, and utilities.
The we must look at the David Wu and Democratic Socialist taxing and spending!
1. 2 % Repeal Bush Tax cut
2. 2% War tax on so-called rich
3. 2% tax on so-called rich
4. 3.8% Medicare Levi on unearned income ( stocks, and rental property)
5. 42% Health care tax on health care plans
6. 5% increase in capital gains from 15% to 20%
7. Scheduled changes in 1040 tax tables of between 3% and 6%
8. 55% “Death tax”
9. Marriage penalty tax
10. Energy programs that burn food stocks and drive up the costs of all dairy products, and vegetables for our children and seniors.
So, David Wu is seeking KUDOS for the “Child Nutrition Act” while all of his other Democratic Socialist agendas seek to massively increase taxation and drive more people into poverty? In other words, lets put a band-aid on the reality that is created by Wu’s World? Lets take away from the family! Lets take away from the so-called rich and small business owners that create jobs. Lets take away the home that has been in the family name for 50 years, and make the children pay 55% on it.
Lets tax and tax and turn 10% unemployment into 20% unemployment. Lets create an economic environment that will drive the DOW to 5000 ,destroy our senior’s 401kS, and make them totally dependent on government. Lets double the national debt from $11 trillion to $20 trillion in one Democratic Socialist administration.
First David Wu voted against war, and then he voted for war. Now he is voting against war. Under just 18 months in office, Obama has increased War spending from $133 billion a year to $233 billion a year, and federal government by 25% a year. With hard federal revenue stagnating at $2.2 trillion , Obama and Wu increased Government from $3.1 trillion under Bush to $3.83 trillion. Now the 2010 federal deficit is on track again to hit between $1.6 trillion and $1.8 trillion. Obama and Wu will stick our children with paying the interest on $20 trillion in debt by the mid part of 2013.
So, the end product of all of David Wu’s propensities and towing the Democratic Socialist agenda is more families out of work, more meaningless government, and more poverty. It is becomes evident that tax and spend Democratic Socialism creates more poverty that it overcomes. Socialist countries traditionally have a 20% unemployment rate. Some areas of East Berlin still have unemployment rates of over 25%. One only has to go to Norway or Sweden to see what Socialism costs. Currently just a lunch in Northern Norway costs close to $40 American dollars. An “All you can eat pizza lunch” in London is $30 bucks.
David Wu stated at a town hall event that we can grow ourselves out of debt???????
In 1982 during the Reagan administration the baby boomer turned 37 with kids, earth shoes, braces, and Levi 501s.
In 1992 during the Clinton ERA, the baby boomer turned 47 with no kids, the information age, a new house, new cars, new computers, dual income, and the “Wealth effect”!
In 2002 during Gerge Bush’s presidency the boomer turned 57, and was recouping from the DOTCOM fiasco, the Bush/Gore dangling chad, 9/11, The Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, $5 dollar a gallon of gas, and the housing bubble which was brought on by low interest rates and the lax policies the Clinton housing agenda.
In 2012 the boomer turns 67, and 5 million boomers every year will be leaving the workforce for full-ride entitlements, and Medicare. I wonder if we should add the 20% Democratic Socialist unemployment figure here????
Sometime in the future, there will be 80 million boomers on a government check. In addition, we will also have to pay for the government industrial complex, the health care industrial complex, the military industrial complex, and the nanny state industrial complex! Just this reality will drive our families to buying less and less quality of food for their children. As a result, our children will be subject to more obesity, which will open the door to all manner of diseases from high blood pressure to diabetes and on and on and on.
If you think about it, all of David Wu’s policies will either drive up costs on food, taxation, products, government, and the national debt!!!! The biggest catch 22 is handing the bill to the children he is seeking to feed with the “Child Nutrition Act”.
It is evident then that David Wu’s policies put our children at more risk then a simple band-aide or KUDO in an election year can fix!