BRUNCH WITH CONGRESSMAN REHBERG

Sponsored by the Lake County Republican Women’s Club

Saturday, May 9th

Enjoy this social and informational event

with Denny Rehberg at this casual and beautiful lakeshore setting!

10:00 AM Gathering

10:30 AM Brunch & Program

Camp Marshall – Big Arm Area

Hwy 93 North of Polson – Milemarkers 70 - 71

Turn Onto Melita Island Road  - Go ¾ Mile to Camp

Tickets $15.00

Raffle Baskets available

For tickets: Mimi Milheim  849-5944

                              mimiandirv@centurytel.net

                   Susan Brueggeman  883-2395

                              susanbrueggeman@bresnan.net 

The upcoming Flathead Tea Party at Depot Park on 4-4 is an opportunity for the People of the Flathead Valley to express your outrage in a peaceful manner at the out of control spending that is happening right now by our elected officials in Washington DC. During the last 3 weeks I have spoken to many citizens who are really frightened, or worse, at a point of depression and frustration over what they see happening in our country today. Many feel that America, as we know it, will be lost forever.

No one in Washington DC is speaking for us anymore. We, the silent majority, have got to find our voices and send a message to Congress that we are not going to take it anymore!
What most people want is: No more bailouts, No more spending of money we do not have, No more borrowing of money from other countries to pay for the spending and No new taxes.

In Colonial America our forefathers held the Boston Tea Party in revolt of heavy handed taxes levied upon them by England.

Does Congress not remember this history?

Does Congress think that this outrageous spending will not result in tax increases? Does Congress not know that many, many Americans are struggling to make ends meet in this deep recession? Need I remind anyone that the Flathead Valley has an unemployment rate of 12.2%. How can adding the burden of increasing taxes on all Americans benefit America?
How can Congress spend money now that we do not have knowing that it will fall to the next generation of Americans to pay.
Our grandchildren will carry this tax burden long after we are gone. 

Glen Beck is right when he says that we have lost the values and principles that have made our country great.

If you agree with what you have just read, then join us at Depot Park at Noon on 4-4 and stand with others who feel as you do.

Let's send a message to our elected officials by showing, in the sheer number of people who attend this event, that we want a return to fiscal responsibility from our government, that we are tired of the corruption and cronyism displayed by politicians today, that we want to be ruled by the Constitution and all that the Constitution stands for and not by the policies that are coming out of Washington DC today.

Susan Taylor
Bigfork

Laissez-faire is a doctrine that opposes government intervention in all aspects of society in general and the marketplace in particular.  The phrase originated back in 1680 when a French finance minister asked a group of businessmen how their government could best assist the merchants.  Their reply was “Laissez-nous faire” meaning “Leave us be”.  In 1773 Benjamin Franklin co-authored a book that introduced the concept of “laissez-faire” to America.  And on December 16th of that same year, angry American patriots, fed up with their meddling government, sent a bold message by dumping a shipload of heavily taxed tea into the cold waters of Boston harbor.

Today we find ourselves in the same predicament; an inept, self-serving government with no end in sight to oppressive taxation.  It’s time to send another bold message to our cold, indifferent representatives in Washington D.C. that we aren’t going to take it any more!
Respected economists including Milton Friedman have argued that the Great Depression was not a result of laissez-faire capitalism, but of too much government intervention and regulation upon the economy.  It was the only economic downturn in America’s history (up until now) in which the government heavily intervened.  Look what happened!

Be forewarned, the economic power-grab being engineered by the anti-Capitalists Obama and Geithner will ultimately lead to the destruction of America’s economy.  The evidence of this is the unsustainable amounts of money that we are witnessing being recklessly mismanaged in Washington.  The administration is enacting unprecedented government control over businesses in flagrant violation of our Constitution.  When nationalization is complete, liberty and justice will become nothing more than early chapters in our nation’s history books.

After studying the consequences of previous economic policies, I personally support the doctrine of laissez-faire.  I regret that our executive and congressional leaders are taking our republic down the wrong path.

I am proud to be surrounded today by fellow American patriots who see this also and are just as angry as me.  We are demonstrating a will to commit precious hours of our life here on Earth to protect future generations of Americans just as our forefathers did for us several hundred years ago.

God bless you and God bless America.

John Merlette
www.redjohnbooks.com/weblog