Economists say the Stimulus Didn’t Help! #tcot #oktcot #teaparty #fb

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The recovery is picking up steam as employers boost payrolls, but economists think the government’s stimulus package and jobs bill had little to do with the rebound, according to a survey released Monday.

the latest quarterly survey by the National Association for Business Economics, the index that measures employment, showed job growth for the first time in two years — but a majority of respondents felt the fiscal stimulus had no impact.

NABE conducted the study by polling 68 of its members who work in economic roles at private-sector firms. About 73% of those surveyed said employment at their company is neither higher nor lower as a result of the $787 billion Recovery Act. That sentiment is shared for the recently passed $17.7 billion jobs bill that calls for tax breaks for businesses that hire, and additional infrastructure spending. More than two-thirds of those polled believe the measure won’t affect payrolls, while 30% expect it to boost hiring “moderately.”

As usual, the free market, is taking care of itself, and correcting, despite Government interference! This debate, is really about Keynesian Economics, which is the theory that the economy can be boosted if the government borrows money and then gives it to people so they will spend it. This supposedly “primes the pump” as the money circulates through the economy. Keynesian theory sounds good, and it would be nice if it made sense, but it has a rather glaring logical fallacy. It overlooks the fact that, in the real world, government can’t inject money into the economy without first taking money out of the economy. More specifically, the theory only looks at one-half of the equation — the part where government puts money in the economy’s right pocket. But where does the government get that money? It borrows it, which means it comes out of the economy’s left pocket. There is no increase in what Keynesians refer to as aggregate demand. Keynesianism doesn’t boost national income, it merely redistributes it. The pie is sliced differently, but it’s not any bigger.

The real world evidence also shows that Keynesianism does not work. Both Hoover and Roosevelt dramatically increased spending, and neither showed any aversion to running up big deficits, yet the economy was terrible all through the 1930s. Keynesian stimulus schemes also were tried by Gerald Ford and George W. Bush and had no impact on the economy. Keynesianism also failed in Japan during the 1990s.

For some reason, though, the Federal Government keeps trying it, and it just keeps on failing. The only REAL stimulus, is to allow more money to stay in the PRIVATE Sector, so that it can be spent, rather than first taking it, and filtering it through the inefficiencies of Government bureaucracies first!

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Mexican Hypocrisy Over Arizona’s illegal Immigration Enforcement Law #tcot #oktcot #fb

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Mexicans in Arizona should carry documentation and “act carefully” after the state passed a law requiring local police to determine the immigration status of anyone suspected of being in the country illegally, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said.

The ministry said the warning is directed toward Mexicans living, studying or planning to travel to the southwestern U.S. state, which shares a border with northern Mexico.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has accused Arizona of opening the door “to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement.”

But Arizona has nothing on Mexico when it comes to cracking down on illegal aliens. While open-borders activists decry new enforcement measures signed into law in Arizone, last week, they continue to turn a blind eye to the policies of our neighbors to the south.

The Arizona law bans sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, stiffens penalties against illegal alien day laborers and their employers, makes it a misdemeanor for immigrants to fail to complete and carry an alien registration document, and allows the police to arrest immigrants unable to show documents proving they are in the U.S. legally. Basically, it calls for the enforcement of the Immigration laws, that are already in place! What a novel idea, enforce the Rule of Law! However, many are calling this law racist, fascist, and  xenophobic, and calling Arizona, “Nazi-zona!”
Compare this to the immigration laws of Mexico:

The Mexican government will bar foreigners if they upset “the equilibrium of the national demographics.” How’s that for racial and ethnic profiling?

If outsiders do not enhance the country’s “economic or national interests” or are “not found to be physically or mentally healthy,” they are not welcome. Neither are those who show “contempt against national sovereignty or security.” They must not be economic burdens on society and must have clean criminal histories. Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care. That’s what it takes to become a LEGAL immigrant!

Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years’ imprisonment. Document fraud is subject to fine and imprisonment; so is alien marriage fraud. Evading deportation is a serious crime; illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by ten years’ imprisonment. Foreigners may be kicked out of the country without due process and the endless litigation that illegal aliens are afforded in our country

Law enforcement officials at all levels — by national mandate — must cooperate to enforce immigration laws, including illegal alien arrests and deportations. Really, they are required to enforce the law! What a  novel idea!

The Mexican military is also required to assist in immigration enforcement operations.

Even  Native-born Mexicans are empowered to make citizens’ arrests of illegal aliens and turn them in to authorities. Citizen arrests? In the US, people who try to defend their own property, are charged with hate crimes, for chasing illegal immigrants off of their land!

Achtung! Schnell! – Ready to show your papers? Mexico’s National Catalog of Foreigners tracks all outside tourists and foreign nationals. A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens’ identity card. Visitors who do not possess proper documents and identification are subject to arrest as illegal aliens.

All of these provisions are enshrined in Mexico’s Ley General de Población (General Law of the Population) However, There has been no public clamor for “comprehensive immigration reform” in Mexico, because pro-illegal alien speech by outsiders is prohibited.

Here in the US, Open Borders protesters marched freely on the State Capitol in Arizona, carrying signs comparing Governor Jan Brewer to Hitler, and with slogans like “Smash the State”.

But under the Mexican constitution, such political speech by foreigners is banned.

Noncitizens cannot “in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.” In fact, numerous  Mexican statutes enacted by its congress limit the participation of  foreign nationals and companies in everything from investment, education, mining and civil aviation to electric energy and firearms.

Foreigners have severely limited private property and employment rights, if they even have any!

In fact, Mexico’s anti-illegal immigration policies are MORE restrictive, than those passed in Arizona. The Mexican government is notorious for its abuse of Central American illegal aliens who attempt to violate Mexico’s southern border. The Red Cross has protested rampant Mexican police corruption, intimidation and bribery schemes targeting illegal aliens there for years.  However, Mexico didn’t respond by granting mass amnesty to illegal aliens, as it is demanding that we do. It clamped down on its borders even further. In late 2008, the Mexican government launched an aggressive deportation plan to stop illegal Cuban immigration and human trafficking through Cancun.

I say all of this, not to condemn Mexico’s anti-illegal immigration policies, but rather to condemn the hypocrisy of their cries of foul against Arizona for trying to do exactly what Mexico does: PUT IT’S OWN CITIZENS FIRST!

And, before anyone says, well “That’s Just Mexico. Other countries aren’t trying to close up their borders, consider this:

IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET:

• A JOB,
• A DRIVERS LICENSE,
• SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
• WELFARE,
• FOOD STAMPS,
• CREDIT CARDS,
• SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
• FREE EDUCATION,
• FREE HEALTH CARE,
• A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON
• BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE,
• THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY’S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON’T GET ENOUGH RESPECT
• AND, IN MANY INSTANCES, YOU CAN VOTE!

The law passed in Arizona, this past week, and others like it in states such as Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and even Ohio, is a step in the right direction, but, If America doesn’t stand up for it’s own borders, we may well be the FIRST domino to fall in the eventual One World Government!

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Help Report Tea Party News That The Mainstream Ignores! #teaparty #tcot #oktcot #fb

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Join www.beforeitsnews.com

Before It’s News is a fast growing News Utility and Website. We would like to have extensive coverage of the April 15^th Tea Party gatherings and wantto extend an invitation to each and every Tea Party member or participant to help make News, as well as History by becoming contributors to our site.

Why should citizens do this?

1-It’s Faster-We are a “People Powered” site. Any posting of pictures, video or text is immediately available.

. Your news will be distributed faster than most other media outlets.

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So you will reach not only the large and growing base of users at Before It’s News but have extended

reach into the Internet for a much larger audience.

3-It’s Your Story-All stories are accepted just as received. We never change submitted content so you can tell the news in your own words.

So help us make News while you make History!

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BY GETTING TEA PARTY MEMBERS TO GO TO OUR SITE AND SUBMIT NEWS:

CLICK “JOIN NOW” (ANONYMOUS OR SCREEN NAME IF YOU WISH) SET UP THE PROFILE AND

THEN CLICK “SUBMIT NEWS” AND POST AND UPLOAD WHAT YOU LIKE… (We will not change a thing).

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Last Chance to Vote in the Oklahoma Governor’s Poll! #oktcot #okgov #fb

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All right, the Governor’s poll will be ending this Friday, so if you haven’t voted, please do so soon!!

Currently, Randy Brogdon is carrying 61% of the vote, while Mary Fallin hhas 30%, Jari Askins has 6% and Drew Edmondson has 3%.

These numbers can change dramatically, though, as only 94 votes have been recorded so far!

So, please, vote, and let your voice be heard!

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Tax Day Tea Party Presented by OKforTEA #fb

Downtown Tulsa—Courthouse Plaza 5th & Denver Starts at 6:00 pm

Singer Stacey Finnerty, William Montague of the Black Republican Assoc., FairTax Association , and YOU.

That is right YOU!

No Politicians.

Just you and your voice about how YOU have been Taxed Enough Already!  We will have a stage & open mic that each person can use for 1 minute. What’s your BEEF? If you could speak directly to Washington, D.C. what would you say? Just keep it clean! All Ages Welcome! From the folks who brought you The National Tea Party Express Bus Tour!

Tax Day Tea Party 4-15-10 Flyer

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The First Randy Brogdon for Governor Commercial!

Randy Brogdon For Governor Commercial http://ping.fm/5psyz

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Early Poll Results: Randy Brogdon Has a Significant Lead! #fb

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While it is VERY EARLY, the Oklahoma Governor’s poll shows State Senator Randy Brogdon with a VERY large lead over the other 3 Major Canididates.

Senator Brogdon has received 80% of the vote, to Mary Fallin’s 10%, Jari Askin’s 8%, and Drew Edmondson’s 2%.

One thing is certain, the readers of this blog are overwhelmingly in support of Randy Brogdon for Governor!

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Some Criticize the Tea Party for Allowing Political Candidates to Speak #fb

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Some say that NO CANDIDATE should be allowed to speak at these get togethers no matter who they are or from what party they belong.

I disagree with the NO CANDIDATE, MANDATE.

If the purpose of the Tea party is to effect REAL Change, by peaceful means, then we must publicly invite to speak, and listen to local candidates that meet the criteria, and have proven track records of living by, the Tea party ideals.

It is beyond frustrating, to me, to have people who have not helped, nor volunteered to help, organize these rallies, sit back and complain about how they are done.

The point is to get the message across, and to allow for We the People, to hear from candidates who are striving to make a real difference.

If we don’t, we might as well be “he who beateth the air”, that the Bible speaks about!

Come ON people! It is time to throw off wishful thinking, and GET INVOLVED!! If you are not registered with one of the two major parties, then you are cutting off your own hands! If you don’t vote in the primaries, then SHUT UP about the choices we have in the General Election!

Now, if that pisses you off, so be it! You still need  to do it, or the whole experiment in Freedom and Liberty, that is America, is finished!

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If the OK Governor’s Election were today, who would you vote for?

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Please vote in the new Oklahoma Governor’s race poll!

Rumor: USA Patriots “Tea Party” is AstroTurf! #fb

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I have had dealings with this group in the past, and they have always been a problem. They have steadfastly refused to work with any of the other groups, including the Tulsa Tea Party, Tulsa 912 Project, and OkforTea.

Now, I think I know why. It turns out, that they are an “AstroTurf” group. Rumor has it, that they are wholly funded by KRMG and Bailout voter Congressman John Sullivan. They even had Sullivan speak at their rally last year, after the original Tulsa Tea Party had refused his request, when he refused to publicly apologize for his Bailout vote. They wouldn’t even exist, actually, if it weren’t for KRMG refusing to help the original Tulsa Tea Party, when they were not granted exclusivity. They then turned to this group, and immediately started trying to undermine the original Tulsa Tea party, by promoting their event as THE Tulsa Tea Party.

Even after that, the Tulsa Tea Party, approached them about combining efforts, so that we could all be more effective. Instead, they not only refused that overture, but when some members of their original group, OkforTea,  questioned their motives, they split with them, as well, and formed their own, the USA Patriots. Then, they set about trying to undermine the efforts of the others. Even stooping to the level of putting signs up, the night before,  around the entrances to the 4th of July rally that OkforTea put on at Haikey Creek Park, in Broken Arrow. Their signs said that the event had been moved to their venue. If the organizers from OKforTea had not gone back to the park, people would have seen those signs, and probably not attended ANY Tea Party, because the weather was so bad, they would have just gone home, rather than driving across town, after taking the time to drive to Broken Arrow. These kinds of underhanded tactics, epitomize the way they have dealt with the real Tea Party Movement.

This group has fooled a great number of people, but let me set the record straight, they are not a grassroots movement. They are a “bought and paid for” AstroTurf group, riding the coat tails of the real Tea party Movement, for profit.

Where were they when we were having rallies and symposiums and town halls against the healthcare reform? Where were they, when the cities of Tulsa and Broken Arrow were fighting against HUGE tax and spend bond issues?

I strongly encourage EVERYONE to skip the event that they are hosting at the QT Center on April 15th, and instead, attend the Event being planned, hosted, and attended by OkforTea, the Tulsa 912 Project, and the founder of the original Tulsa Tea Party.

It will, again, be in the mezzanine between the Tulsa County Courthouse, and the Tulsa Library, in downtown Tulsa, which is where last year’s Tax Day Tea Party Rally was held.  The rally will start at 6pm, and more information is on the way.

As soon as the Flyer is ready, I will post it here!

Jai Blevins

Founder of the Original Tulsa Tea Party