GHRW July/August Newsletter

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Our July meeting is in the afternoon atCrescent Creek Park in Gig Harbor. Proceeds

from the auction go to help our candidates!

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P I C N I C & P I E A U C T I O N

Picnic, combined with a Pie Auction, is the orderof the day on the 18th of

July from 1pm to 5pm. Ourregular monthly meeting will becombined with this family eventat Crescent Creek Park.

The regular “meeting” part willbe set aside, so that we can takeadvantage of our wonderful“guest speakers”.

Rather than just one “guestspeaker,” we will have several of our local candidates, who will beinformally meeting each of you,talking to you, and most

importantly listening to you andto your ideas.

The format is designed to let you come and go as ts in with your schedule. But of course, you can only bid on the pie you want if you’re there when it’sauctioned!

Crescent Creek Park is a wonderful family place. Nearby is a baseball eld, and an area with playground equipment forthe smaller set.

Come on out and have fun!

Sunday, July 18th

This month’s General Meeting willbe a potluck picnic at CrescentCreek Park, 3303 Vernhardson St.,Gig Harbor.

It starts at 1:00 pm and lasts until 5pm .Our Candidates will be there to listen toyou and to talk to you. Pies will be therefor auctioning.

RSVP before July 14 to the GHRW 1stVP, Beckie Krantz, either by email [email protected] , or by phone at253-226-6283 .

August 17th: PrimariesWatch for your ballot in the mail, mark it,and send it in.

August 18thGHRW Monthly Meeting11:30am-1pm at the Inn at Gig Harbor.Guest speaker: Dr. Terry Bouck,Peninsula School DistrictSuperintendent, is our speaker. RSVP before August 16th to the GHRW 1st VP,Beckie Krantz,by email [email protected] or call her at253-226-6283 . Please state whether youare ordering the optional $11.50 buffetlunch or the $2.50 drink only opition.

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The GHRW continues to support soldiersserving in Afghanistan

any thanks to everyone whohas donated to support our

troops! Your gifts really makea diff erence in the lives of our adoptedsoldiers.

As we go through the transition of adopting and re -adopting soldiers whodeploy and re -deploy; we nd thattheir names and locations may change,but the end result is the same: Thatis, to give them a sense of connection

with the Gig Harbor RepublicanWomen.

We now have adopted two femalesoldiers who are deployed to

Afghanistan.

Their names are: Kelsey and Cocoa…

We are sending them specialpackages…

Just last week I received a personalinvitation to participate in the home -coming celebration of one of ouradopted soldiers, it was Brion, whohad been deployed to Afghanistan forover a year.

It was exciting and joyful to see all thehappy faces of friends and family!!

Also there was a great sense of relief that they came home uninjured and in

good spirits, and believe me, that was a

great feeling!

Seeing the home -coming made it evenmore apparent that we must continueto support those who continue to ght this war on terror. ( and to o ff er

support to those who wait for theirreturn )

We can do that by contributing money,time and items for “care” boxes. You may bring donated items to my home or to our monthly meetings. Gifts of cash are used to defray thecost of postage and to purchasenecessary items to ll the “Care” boxes. Please email me if you have any questions: [email protected]

Tineke Geringer GHRW Americanism

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Birthdays for July and August

Nancy Shelton

July...

Marjorie PearsolAugust 26th

On J une 26th, some of us w ent out to a loca l H a bita t f or H uma nit y site. G H RW w a s ther e to show their a p pr

ecia tion a nd pr ov ide lunch f or a ll of the w or ker s. T he house the y a r e buildin g w ill ha v e univ er sa l a ccess into

a nd thr ou g hout the inside.

H a b it a t F o r H um a n it y

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Joe Siegel: ‘Stimulus’ Package has its eff ect onlocal economy

et’s start with a premise :Government can’t create

jobs (other than public-sector sinecures) or prosperitywithout unintended consequences.The president’s stimulus/jobs bill is

based on the premise thatredistributing taxpayers’ dollars will

produce a net gain of employment. For some Gig Harbor residents, thereaction might be: what hath the tooth fairy wrought?

Others cast a skeptical eye on whatin geek parlance is the KeynesianMultiplier. This simply means a belief --formulated by 20th Century economist John Maynard Keynes.

Hence the term multiplier. If true,then unlimited stimulus packages would reap unlimited growth. So,then, why not have the Gig HarborCity Council spend $1 million onanything in general based on thislogic?

Not being a total laissez -fairemarket devotee, I do believe government has a role to play, fromthe Pierce County Council to theU.S. Congress. But how much?

“Libertarian philosophy” says government should provide foronly police, re and defense. ( I would add other things, such asreasonable safety measures,reasonable infrastructure andcontract enforcement ) .

If pressured, I might swallow thisCastor Oil of temporary disbursements from Foggy Bottomand Olympia if it went to theabove; but claiming these fundscreate permanent private -sectorjobs is anecdotal, at best, andhistorically destructive.

Any spending can havequestionable destinations, such asmore than $1 million in partialfunding for the Gig HarborHistorical Museum by the Port of Tacoma, Gig Harbor, state co ff ersand HUD, versus, for example,$577,000 in stimulus funds appliedfor by the Gig Harbor PoliceDepartment to fund new deputies.( My detractors would say museumsproduce net economic benetsthrough increased tourism. That’sdifficult to prove. )

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a museum addict, especially history museums. But that’s my addiction,not necessarily the taxpayers’. I’mperfectly willing to pay out of pocket for things I nd valuable.

The Founding Fathers viewed government’s primary respon -sibility as providing security forlife, liberty and property. Wouldn’t we be better o f with scally responsible, long - term planning instead of falling victim to sub - jective/ haphazard entitlementspending? Additionally, federaldollars that are provided to ourcommunities problematically resultin future unfunded liabilities likeMedicaid. Where will dollars forthese new entitlements come from when this “incentive” river runsdry?

This fairy tale of commandeconomy -created employmentrockets the national debt everhigher and weakens the dollar,raising prices for everyday commodities, which make up a disproportionately large percentageof Gig Harbor’s lower wage earners’income.

This all boils down to thecommonly accepted shibboleththat our philosopher kings in government have the knowledgeand wherewithal to x ouremployment woes based on theirclairvoyance. Keynes once used thephrase “replacing the magneto,”meaning, in his mind, these woescould be repaired as a mechanicxes an engine by replacing a component. Do the demand -sidersin Olympia view themselves asmaster mechanics?

Another example of ill -advisedstimulus dollars landing in ourcommunity is the administration’smortgage -relief plans. A benetfor the harbor? I think not.

Since data shows many bailed -outhomeowners end up defaulting anyway, this “philanthropic” wealthdistribution again has the uninten -ded result of furthering economicdamage to banks and investors whohold the loans, resulting inarticially high interest rates forborrowers who didn’t close on 3percent down mortgages withpayments at half their grossincome.

Incidentally, this mortgage relief plan is guaranteed by government -sponsored enterprises like FannieMae via your wallet. So, reasoning this entitlement benets theharbor, why not use taxpayers’bullion to assist local renters?Whose personal ethics determinethat apartment -dwellers are less worthy than someone who dropstheir house keys in a Gig Harborbank’s door slot at 5:01 p.m.?

Even if I agreed that some in thedomed buildings know how to use

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More From “101 Constitutional Questions To Ask Candidates” from the 5,000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen

or this edition, we willconcentrate on one mainquestion, that is:

How should the powers of government be separated?

First of all the Founders wantedpolitical power separated vertically.

They considered the principal powerbase of society to be the family.

However , there are a few things which a community of families canprovide better than a single family ( police, re, water, utilities, etc. ) .Power to perform these functions istherefore delegated to the community.

Then there are a few thing s which groups of communities can do betterthan the single community. These tasksare assigned to the higher level of thecounty.

There are also a few things that a group of counties can do better than a single county and these are assigned tothe State level.The Founders also

discovered that there were certain matters dealing with foreign a ff airs,problems of war and peace, imports,etc. which need to be handled in behalf of all the states. These responsibilitiesare therefore assigned to the FederalGovernment. It should be noted thatthe Founders’ pyramid of power

provided that the greatest number of responsibilities should rest with thefamily. Only a few responsibilities wereassigned to the levels of governmentabove the family and the Federal Government was to have the leastof all. ( See Federalist Papers, N. 45,Mentor Edition pp. 292 -3.

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Image courtesy of National Archives of the United States

‘Stimulus Package’...Continued from previous pagemy salary to “promote the general welfare,” typical government bureaucratic incompetence and inertia ( caused by

people who can’t be red )

like interminable permitting processes never gets money out the door quickly enough,anyway. Case in point: stimulus dollars planned for early 2009 for a “shovel ready” I - 5 project between Lacey and Tacoma have yet to be spent. Last year, the president told those he views as uneducated Tea Partiers that the stimulus will hold unemployment ( currently almost 10 percent ) below 8 percent. Oh, well. Andthe recession grinds on.

The phrase “promote the general welfare” ( not provide ) in the Constitution’s preamble can be interpreted several ways. One understanding is that laws should provide for everyone’s protection. Another is that our legislatorsshould take money from investors, employers and taxpayers to provide me with a new suit, as the multiplier e ff ect will benet Gig Harbor residents and suit makers.

I’ll go with the former.



President’s Corner, and a Recap of Our June16th Meeting

President's Corner

embers:

GHRW is a very busy organization!

We postponed the May 22Dinner/Fund Raiser. The politicalactivities this time of the year interfered with the event. TheDinner/Fund Raiser will be re -

scheduled in the fall. Watch forthe new date. The GHRW is continuing to work with other Republican groups in Pierce County. We dothis to maximize the e ff ect of ourpolitical eff orts. It is essentialthat we have a ood of Republicans elected to o ffice onNov. 2. We must restore balanceto this government. Our meeting on June 16 was a good example of a successfuljoint eff ort of Republican groups. We scheduled a number of politicalcandidates to speak at our meeting. Walker Allen, the President of theGHRC was at the meeting as wellas a number of his o fficers. Our keynote speaker was Jan Angel, a member of our StateHouse of Representatives. She gave an up-date on the recentlegislative session. One of themost alarming facts she discussed was the passing of "Ghost Bills"done by the Democrat dominatedlegislature. A "Ghost Bill" is one which is passed in name only. There is little discussion becausethe legislators do not know thedetails of the bill as it has not been written yet. It is passed by titleonly, then the words are put to thebill by some committee later.

They can put anything into it thatthey want since it has already "Passed". This is transparentdemocracy? On June 19, GHRW andGHRC held a joint Forum forcandidates for Pierce County Council seat #7. The meeting wasa breakfast meeting held atCottesmore. The room was full of interested citizens. Theattendees said that it was a very informative meeting and suggestedthat we need to have more of suchmeetings. On July 18 we will have ourannual Picnic/Pie Auction. This isa successful and enjoyable annualfunction. All Republicancandidates are invited to join us atthis event. August 18, Dr. Bouck willbe the guest speaker at ourmeeting. Dr. Bouck is currently the Superintendent of the

Peninsula School district.Diana Landahl, President

The GHRW General June 16meeting was a great success .

Jan Angel did a fabulous andinformative Legislative update.

She talked about the budget:total revenue is 29.2B and Totalspending 30.5 B which puts theWashington state in debt of ( 1.3B ) . To raise revenue to pay for thespending the majority ( Democrats ) passed a $ 749 Million tax -increasepackage. The SB 6143 The big Tax Package -- A temporary surcharge on service businessessuch as attorneys and real estate

agents. Consumers will pay taxeson tobacco, bottled water, candy, gum and mass -produced beer. SB6846 a new taxes for emergency services, it is a tax on 911emergency communicationsservices, per phone line, wirelessline and VOIP line. Hans' BondHB 2561 a referendum to sell $505million in bonds above and beyondthe state debt limit to nanceconstruction projects. Rep. HansDunshee calls EHB 2561 a "jobsbill" it should be called "spend now and pay later" . To pay for this billit wants to make permanent tax onbottled water. Other billsmentioned were SB6726 andHB1329-expanding the reach of public employee unions; SB6214 --restricting the GrowthManagement Hearing Boards;HB1653-Clarifying shoreline and growth Management acts. She talked about "Ghost Bills"

which are "title only" bills

whichlegislators go to various committeesto discuss and vote on whether toallow the bill to move ahead without holding a hearings on a billbefore the bill is actually written. Then the impossibly short notice when Committee Chairs changeagendas on a whim leaving citizens with little notice to make their voice heard. And nally theEmergency Clause abuse. The

"Emergency Clause" was meant forreal emergencies -- volcanoes,earthquakes, and the like. Yet thisMajority legislature passed 24 billscontaining Emergency Clauses,repeal of Initiative 960. Last yearthere were 66 "Emergency Billsbecame law.

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“ I b e l i e v e t h a t s m a l l business will create the jobsn e c e s s a r y t o p u t t h eeconomy back on track.”

Doug RichardsCandidate

26th District,Position 2

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