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Rep. Mitch Fargen, D-Flandreau calls Pat Powers a "conservative" and attacks Jason Gant

The Mitchell Daily Republic reports on the Democrats using Pat Powers to attack Jason Gant:

When South Dakota’s new secretary of state hired a Republican blogger and wrote letters of thanks to lawmakers who helped get bills passed, he crossed a line into partisanship, the South Dakota Democratic Party believes.

“Gant first politicized the office when he hired a prominent conservative blogger as his director of operations,” said Rep. Mitch Fargen, D-Flandreau, in a Democratic Party press release. “By praising a state senator who presumably is running for reelection, Gant put into further question his ability to keep politics out of South Dakota’s voting process.”

Secretary of State Jason Gant won’t talk about the blogger, Dakota War College founder Pat Powers, saying he can’t publicly discuss any of his employees.

“Personnel is always a touchy issue to be talking about. I’m not going to speak specifically about individuals,” Gant said. “As a whole, everyone I’ve hired had tremendous strengths.”

Powers, who authored one of the state’s most popular and robust blogs for much of the past decade, also declined to respond to the Democrats’ criticism.

Sad that the Democrats blame conservatives for the actions of members of the GOP establishment. Pat Powers' ideaology is very much closer to the Democrat's BIg Education agenda than to any kind of conservative concept of a limited government. Too bad Powers' good friend Denise Ross, who wrote the report, did not mention that Powers denied erasing his web site because he was offered a job in the GOP establishment.

Senator Johnson joins in the establishment of the New World Order in Howard, South Dakota

From the Mitchell Daily Republic:

Residents of Howard not only witnessed a 15-year dream come true Thursday, they also learned of a few new surprises for the Maroney Rural Learning Center.

Thursday marked the grand opening of the Maroney Commons, which is a $6.5 million facility including a hotel, restaurant and conference rooms where training will be conducted on the subject of rural revitalization. The organization’s administrative offices are across the street in another recently constructed building.

So exactly what is this "rural revitalization":

The world-wide goals of sustainable growth, jobs, poverty reduction and equitable development cannot be achieved unless directly tackled at the rural level. Rural areas hold considerable potential for high return activities and productive livelihoods. However they are often held back by scant investment and decent work deficits, particularly, high under- and unemployment among youth and women, widespread child labour, informality and poor working conditions, limited social and labour law coverage, and weak organization among employers and workers.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), environmental concerns, and the food security and economic crises now provide an additional sense of urgency to explicitly target rural revitalization, and to muster the needed political and economic will and resources.

The ILO can make important contributions to rural development by supporting governments, employers and workers promote productive employment and decent work. It can draw on a vast array of rural-relevant approaches and tools in core technical areas, long-time experience, and a network of external partnerships.

The ILO is "Internatiaonal Labour Organization" and is a special agency of the United Nations. In an earlier post I noted Obama's "White House Rural Council". SO it should not be a suprise to find Senator Tim Johnson in Howard:

Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., attended the event and said the results of the town’s hard work should serve as a model for other rural communities. The RLC came to life partially due to stimulus funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

“For those who say the stimulus hasn’t worked, I tell them they need to pay a visit to Howard, South Dakota, and see the Rural Learning Center,” Johnson said to applause.

So we have the debt ceiling crisis partlu caused by the funding of a United Nations sustainability agenda to bring the New World Order to rural South Dakota.

Rick Perry tied to Agenda 21

This will explain Rick Perry's Bilderbergers mindset:

Rick Perry may be good at invoking states rights and property rights, while disavowing ‘foreign creditors,’ but his actions as Texas’ longest serving governor tell a different story. Public private partnerships (or P3s) are part and parcel of the United Nations’ Agenda 21. Two of the purposes of Agenda 21 are to abolish private property and restrict mobility and P3s act as the vehicle to do it. Perry made P3s a centerpiece of his transportation policy since he stepped in as governor.

It started with the Trans Texas Corridor, known at the federal level as high priority corridors, corridors of the future, or the NAFTA superhighways. Just in Texas, it was to be a 4,000 mile multi-modal network of toll roads, rail lines, power transmission lines, pipelines, telecommunications lines and more. It was going to be financed, operated, and controlled by a foreign company granted massive swaths of land 1,200 feet (4 football fields) wide taken forcibly through eminent domain.

Called the biggest land grab in Texas history, it was going to gobble up 580,000 acres of private Texas land (the first corridor alone was to displace 1 million Texans) and hand it over to well-connected global players using P3s, who would gain exclusive rights to determine the route and what hotels, restaurants, and gas stations were along the corridor in a government-sanctioned monopoly for a half century. It was the worst case of eminent domain for private gain ever conceived.

Property rights shredded
The Trans Texas Corridor, and P3s in general, represent an imminent threat to private property rights. While lawmakers repealed the Trans Texas Corridor from state statute only months ago due to the public backlash, the re-named corridor (‘Innovative Connectivity Plan’) and its threat to property rights lives on through P3s. Two such projects underway by a Spanish developer, Cintra, will charge Texans 75 cents per mile in tolls (nearly $13 a day while Perry claims he hasn’t raised taxes or indebted Texans to foreign creditors) to access lanes on two public interstates -- I-635 and I-820. A third project being developed by the same company for two segments on SH 130 is, perhaps, the only leg of the Trans Texas Corridor TTC-35 project that will ever be built.

While Perry distracted Texans and tea partiers with ‘emergency’ resolutions on state sovereignty during the 82nd legislature, P3s spread from transportation projects to virtually every other type of public infrastructure in a bill, SB 1048, passed by the Texas legislature which he signed into law June 17. Now all public infrastructure, including public buildings, schools, nursing homes, ports, mass transit, etc. can be auctioned-off to private interests in long-term sweetheart deals with taxpayer subsidies and profit guarantees using P3s.

P3s give a private corporation the power to tax the public, whether through charging tolls or other so-called ‘user fees,’ to access their own public infrastructure, and, perhaps more insidious,  allowing well-connected private entities to profit from concessions on land taken through eminent domain.

Obama pushes New World Order into rural America

Henry Lamb has the latest move by an American political ledaer to put the Unitee Nations in control of this country:

Al Gore was beside himself when the Senate failed to ratify the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1994. Gore had spent the first two years of his vice presidency developing what he called his "Ecosystem Management Policy." This new policy was nothing more than preparing the agencies of government to implement the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity and Agenda 21. These three policy documents were adopted in Rio de Janeiro at the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development.

Agenda 21 was the only document that was not an international treaty. It was, instead, a non-binding "soft-law" document that was designed to avoid the necessity of congressional debate or Senate ratification. Bill Clinton issued an executive order to create the President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) especially to implement Agenda 21 administratively – without oversight or interference from Congress. The agencies of government have done a masterful job of infecting almost all urban communities with some form of government control under the guise of "Sustainable Development," which is the objective of Agenda 21.

Now, the Obama regime intends to impose the same kind of control over rural America through his White House Rural Council, also created by executive order.

The rather bland 18-page Convention on Biological Diversity came with an 1,140-page instruction book called the Global Biodiversity Assessment. Page 993 of this instruction book says that the Convention's plan for protecting biodiversity is "…central to the Wildlands Project recently proposed in the United States." Page 15 of the Wildlands Project says:

"... at least half of the land area of the 48 conterminous states should be encompassed in core reserves and inner corridor zones ... assuming that most of the other 50 percent is managed intelligently as buffer zone."

Since the President's Council on Sustainable Development was created, agencies of the federal government and complicit environmental organizations have been working overtime to get people out of rural areas and into "stack-'n'-pack" high-rise so-called "sustainable" communities. Under the guise of "preserving open space," unelected bureaucrats ignore the property rights of the people who own the open space and write regulations that sometimes require as much as 40 acres to build a single home. Quite often, development of any sort is absolutely prohibited. These regulations are typically delivered to a community through a comprehensive land-use plan.

In more rural areas, especially in the farming and ranching parts of the country, these measures have not been as successful as the government wants. That's why a new extension of the PCSD is needed. This time, however, they are calling it the White House Rural Council.

A Warning To Conservatives About Rick Perry's Record

By Steve Baldwin:

1) Gov. Perry supported the construction of infrastructure for the North American Union.

2) Gov. Perry favors trading with communist China and allowing Chinese front companies to set up shop in Texas.

3)Gov. Perry did not become a Republican until 1989 and served as Texas chairman of Al Gore's presidential campaign in 1988.

4) Gov. Perry is weak on immigration issues.

5) Perry joined the Bilderbergs.

6) Under Gov. Perry, spending and debt skyrocketed.

7) Gov. Perry undermined parental rights by requiring all sixth-grade girls to receive a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease without parental consent.

8) Gov. Perry vetoed an eminent-domain bill that would have helped protect property rights for Texas landowners.

9) Gov. Perry signed a hate-crimes bill.

10) Rick Perry endorsed Rudy Giuliani for president in 2008. Giuliani is liberal on a host of issues, from "gay rights" to gun control and amnesty for illegal aliens.

Stace Nelson standing up to the SDGOP RINO Establishment

Today the Mitchell Daily Republic reports that Stace Nelson wants the people to know how their representatives vote in Pierre:

The South Dakota Legislature has spent 85 years recording its legislators’ voting records. A freshman representative is now working to make sure the public has better online access to every vote cast.

Rep. Stace Nelson, R-Fulton, became concerned with voting records after a smokeout vote was not published on the status page for House Bill 1198, which pertained to businesses employing illegal immigrants. A smokeout is designed to advance a failed or stalled bill out of the committees and onto the full Senate or House floor.

“The voters have a right to know how I voted on one of their biggest concerns,” Nelson said.

Currently, the legislative website, http://legis.state.sd.us, has a page for each piece of legislation. Final committee and House or Senate votes are displayed on that page, as are votes on amendments. But the pages do not list every single procedural vote related to the legislation, and there is no way to view an individual legislator’s entire voting record without looking up every single piece of legislation.

Nelson wants all votes to be posted. He also envisions a link to comprehensive voting records on each legislator’s profile. The link would state how the legislator voted on each bill, the bill number, title and a link to the online status page of the bill.

“I would also like to see a comprehensive voting record spreadsheet of the full House and full Senate so that voters can see directly how their elected officials voted on every issue,” he said.

This, too, would include the bill number, name and a link to the status page.

After the final vote on the HB 1198 smokeout was not posted on the bill status page, Nelson contacted Jim Fry at the Legislative Research Council, who had the votes posted. But, shortly after, the votes “mysteriously disappeared,” Nelson said.

“The story behind this is the intentional hiding of controversial votes of representatives during several smokeouts that were first omitted from the state website, placed on there after I complained, then unceremoniously taken down later to again hide the votes from the public eye,” Nelson wrote in an e-mail to The Daily Republic.

Fry said he had the smokeout vote placed on the bill status page before he knew the LRC had a policy against placing procedural votes there.

“I did it on the fly and put one vote up,” he said. “Then I learned a policy had been set before that votes that didn’t change the status of the bill shouldn’t be posted, so we didn’t do that anymore. It was an error. Nobody wanted to hide anything.”

Nelson wants to see votes on every aspect of every issue placed on the site, which would allow the public to see how and where a bill or resolution died, and how legislators voted. The only vote currently recorded on the website for HB 1198 is the State Affairs Committee’s vote to defer the bill to the 41st day of the legislative session, which is “a polite way of tabling the bill,” Nelson said.

“Several weeks later I found out that the online bill status was changed to erroneously reflect that the last action to the bill was the committee recommendation to deferral to the 41st day, and all information of the results of the major action to the bill by the full House on Feb. 16 was removed,” Nelson wrote in an e-mail to The Daily Republic.

Nelson said the actual final disposition of HB 1198, which is not shown on the bill’s status page, was a House roll call vote not to smoke it out of committee. The page only shows the committee vote to defer it to the 41st legislative day.

Fry said all votes are posted in the House and Senate journals, which is where the smokeout vote is posted.

“There are no votes that are hidden, they’re just in different places,” Fry said.

He cited again that the decision to place votes that only apply to the final outcome of the bill was made before he became the LRC director. He added that all votes recorded on either floor will always be recorded in the House and Senate floor and committee journals, which are available online but must be scrolled through manually to find any specific information.

“Clearly, when you have the full House voting on the life or death of this bill, that’s a big action on the bill and the people have a right to know,” Nelson said.

The SDGOP Establishment is not happy with Nelson:

Fellow legislator Rep. Charles Turbiville, R-Deadwood, views Nelson’s efforts to enhance the website as a waste of time and resources.

Turbiville is chairman of the Legislature’s Executive Board, which is responsible for the activities of the Legislature in the offseason. He said final votes are the only ones that count, and other votes — such as smokeouts — don’t need to be easily accessible on the website.

“The problem is, he’s not following proper procedure,” Turbiville said. “Being a former military individual, I’m surprised he’s not following the chain of command.”

Turbiville said every other legislator who wants to change the legislative process goes through the Legislative Procedure Committee, which Nelson never approached and to which Turbiville referred Nelson several times, Turbiville said.

Turbiville said he sees no point in Nelson’s attempts to improve the legislative website. He said links on each legislator’s profile to the bills and resolutions they vote on “will not move people faster through the website.”

“The website, as it currently exists, does everything that we want it to,” he said. “The website allows an individual to pull up any bill and determine where it is in the process, and it also indicates how each individual votes.”

Nelson argues the legislative website confuses constituents and does not provide legislators’ votes on every issue. However, Turbiville said the site provides all final votes on all bills and resolutions.

“This year there were 105 legislators with 575 bills and resolutions,” Turbiville said. “Citing the way they voted on each one, that is a huge undertaking.”

Nelson recently received an estimate of 44 man hours and $2,200 from the Legislative Research Council to revise the website per his wishes. The e-mail, from LRC Director Jim Fry, stated the work could be done internally or by a Bureau of Information Technology programmer.

Nelson said he had a hard time getting research for his proposal to enhance the website. So, when he was invited to present his idea to the Legislative Procedures Committee, he did not have the proper information he needed.

“I asked the LRC for information and Turbiville said not to provide it,” Nelson said. “If they don’t give me the material to present, I can’t present.”

In the meantime, he’s gathering support from fellow legislators “the old-fashioned way.” He plans to bring the idea to the Legislature when it begins the 2012 session in January.

There goes Stace's chances to move up in the SDGOP hierarchy.

The President turns 50

An excerpt from an email I received from the First Lady:

Steve --

Every day, I see Barack make choices he knows will affect every American family. That's no small task for anyone -- and more proof that he's earning every last one of those gray hairs.

This has been a busy week in Washington, but today happens to be Barack's 50th birthday. I'm writing to you because this year, the girls and I would like to do something a little different.

I'm asking friends and supporters of this campaign to wish him a happy birthday by signing his card, and sharing why you're on this journey with us.

Your names and notes will become part of a book that tells the story of this campaign -- who's building it, why we're in this thing, and what he means to us. We'll deliver a copy to Barack and send one to our campaign offices across the country.

Like a father going into his three-year old's room, breaking open her piggy bank

A couple of excerpts from a Jerry Newcombe column:

Terence P. Jeffrey of cnsnews.com points out that the increase of the debt-ceiling limit is the largest in the history of the republic---by a margin of half a trillion dollars.

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To me, runaway government spending, in general, is like a father going into his three-year old's room, breaking open her piggy bank, stealing all the money, and leaving a note. Not an IOU. But a UO-me.

The debt ceiling has now exceeded the $14 trillion dollar limit to just over $16 trillion. Rounding off the numbers, assuming there are 300 million Americans, that means each of us---man, woman, child, newborn baby---owes $46,000 now. Soon we will each owe $53,000.

Thune joins in continuing the Establishment's debt funding to the rich

The debt-ceiling issue has shed a lot of light on the Establishment's lies. Not only did Representative Kristi Noem vote in favor of increasing the federal debt, Senator John Thune did as well. The Mitchell Daily Republic has the report:

All three members of South Dakota’s congressional delegation voted in favor of the debt ceiling deal reached this week.

Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., voted for the Budget Control Act of 2011 on Tuesday.

Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., voted for it Monday night. President Obama signed it into law Tuesday afternoon. All three South Dakota officials issued statements supporting the agreement, while still bemoaning its weaknesses. Johnson referred to it as a “messy and crazy process.”

“I support the bipartisan debt ceiling compromise for one reason — the alternative is pain and chaos,” he said in a press release. “This compromise keeps the full faith and credit of the United States intact, which is vital.

“The good news is that benefits for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are off the table now. I would have preferred that Big Oil and millionaires and billionaires contribute to reducing the country’s debt, but it was clear that congressional Republicans would not agree to that. I want the joint committee that will look for additional savings to look for responsible ways to raise revenue, too.”

As I noted before, the threat issued by holding our seniors hostage shows that the Social Security Trust Fund is a lie. It is a lie that most of the Democrats believe. The truth is that Social Security is how the middle class are taxed to fund the big government that the wealthy control as they control both political parties in America. So when Johnson said "bipartisan" compromise, the Establishment's agenda of both parties was implemented.

Now for Thune's rhetoric:

Thune said his party deserved credit for changing the nation’s course on spending.

“This deal is far from perfect, but it is important to look at how Republicans have changed the direction of Washington,” he said in a press release.

“This year began with President Obama presenting a budget that increased spending by 55 percent, increased taxes by $1.6 trillion, and doubled the debt to the staggering sum of $26 trillion in just 10 years.

“With the deck stacked that heavily against Republicans, we were able to negotiate a deal that is a good first step in the opposite direction President Obama and congressional Democrats wanted to take this country.”

As I will prove later, 88% of the Senate Democrats voted for this, so to say the bill moved in the opposite direction of the Democrats is flat wrong. The first step in the opposite direction is to not increase debt. Then we can talk about going in the opposite direction and start reducing the debt. Before the first step can be taken, the Federal Reserve needs to be eliminated. That is how the rich control the money, and thereby control the two parties, and thereby control the government.

And now for Noem's rhetoric:

Noem said the positions she took while campaigning for the state’s sole House seat were proven correct by the compromise bill.

“From the time when I took office in January I have consistently said that in order for me to support any plan to raise the debt ceiling, Congress would have to make real spending cuts of the same magnitude, fundamentally alter the way Washington spends our hardearned dollars and hold the line against any tax increases,” she said in a press release.

“This bill isn’t the one I would have drafted, but it meets these objectives. Republicans only control onehalf of one-third of our government, but due in large part to the newly elected freshmen class, we have fundamentally changed the course of our fiscal debate. If the freshmen weren’t here, we would be debating tax hikes and a second so-called ‘stimulus.’ Instead, we’re making historic cuts, real reforms and avoiding default.”

Sad that Noem believed the "default" lie. There was plenty of revenue still coming in to service the debt. The default lie was used to create a fake crisis. The media then repeated it until most Americans believe in increased debt.

Both Noem and Thune are playing politics and not leading with the truth. Both sided with the Democratic Establishment as proved by this:

The debt deal passed the Senate 74–26, with 45 Democrats, including Johnson, voting yes and six voting no.

On the GOP side, 28 voted yes, including Thune, and 19 voted no.

Two independents split their votes.

It passed the House 269-161, with 174 Republicans, including Noem, and 95 Democrats voting yes. Sixty-six Republicans and 95 Democrats opposed it.

The Senate vote, with 88% Democratic vote, clearly shows that Thune and Noem did not lead on behave of the limited government conservatives. They stood with the GOP Establishment and the growth of the federal government continues uninterrupted. The corruption also continues as America is lied to. 

Noem approves higher debt

The House passed the $2 trillion debt for cromny capitalism bill that was offically named "To make a technical amendment to the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002" (S 365). Representative Kristi Noem sided with the Establishment and voted Aye. As I noted yesterday, this will provide the rich with an additional $2 trillion and pretty mucyh keep Obama in the White House through 2016. That put her at odds with Michele Bachmann, who was one of the 161 members to vote no:

"The 'deal' ... spends too much and doesn't cut enough," Bachmann said in a statement released Sunday after President Barack Obama announced the agreement with congressional leaders.

UPDATE: THis is what Noem said on September 7, 2010:

As an experienced rancher, farmer, and small business owner I have spent many nights working on the books to make sure our operation didn't spend more than it took in.  As a state legislator I've done the same thing since our state constitution in South Dakota requires it, not to mention because it is the right thing to do.  Yet somehow our federal government has operated for far too long under a different set of rules.  Today, the Democrats in Congress are doing nothing to stop the reckless spending that is deepening the fiscal hole we find ourselves in. 
 
The National debt estimate for the end of 2010 -- two years into Obama's term - is $13.8 trillion.
 
That's a 38% increase in two years.

The nonstop spending and resulting debt have a profound affect our economic future. However, most of today's politicians will not talk about the magnitude of the problem.  We have to summon the courage and discipline to change directions. America must promote private sector productivity and limitations of government spending.

Government spending and borrowing crowds out the money needed for a thriving private sector economy.  As I make my way around South Dakota and speak with small businesses, many entrepreneurs speak of the difficulty to obtain capital to expand or start a new business.