The following is a post from a May 18, 2012 Tea Party Patriots e-mail:

Fellow Patriots,

The left is still waging a war in Wisconsin, but the response we have gotten from so many patriots around the country is tremendous!

But we still need all hands on deck! We still have plenty of room for volunteers.

How can you help?
Volunteer to come to Wisconsin: We still have scholarships available to help get you to Wisconsin.
Volunteer to phone bank: We are in the final stages of getting our phones online. Go to the website to sign up and we will contact you as soon as we are ready to go live.
Share your support for WI on Social Media: Facebook and Twitter
Donate money: If you can’t make it, you can help other patriots get to Wisconsin by donating to our efforts.

https://www.teapartypatriots.org/help-tea-party-patriots-in-wisconsin/

The speaker here is Dinesh D’Souza, college president in New York and author of many New York Times best sellers. The movie is from Gerald R. Molen, producer of Academy Award winning Schindler’s List, Jurrasic Park, Brave Heart.

It explains in plain language who Barack Obama really is, what he stands for, and the dangers of him being reelected for another four years.

Watch this short informative video preview of this movie which came out only yesterday and share it with others. The preview has already been seen by over 18,000 people. Within a very short time it will have been seen by millions! After you see the preview, listen to what Dinesh has to say about Obama. Please take the time to hear this and pass it on. – Phil

Hayek’s books are frequently used in college political and economics classes.  However it is written in an easily understandable style for  those of us trying to make sense of the free market principles.  F.A. lables as the “FATAL CONCEIT” the idea “that man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes “.  This is exactly what are current President and his administration are attempting to force on the American people. – Rosemarie

• Paperback:194 pages
• Publisher:University Of Chicago Press (October 4, 1991)
• Language:English
• ISBN-10:0226320669
• ISBN-13: 978-0226320663

After the foundation of the America Republic was well began Payne left for Europe in April 1787. While he was there he wrote another pamphlet the “Rights of Man” a defense of the early French Revolution. At this point Paine’s work and Ann Coulter “Demonic” cross paths.  Ann says “there was not much literature explaining the French Revolution-apart from Paine’s hapless attempts/which would nearly lead to his beheading.  When the French threw him in prison, Paine found out there were some political systems worse than a monarchy. – Rosemarie

• Paperback:240 pages
• Publisher:Running Press (March 2, 2004)
• Language:English
• ISBN-10:0762418133
• ISBN-13: 978-0762418138

Ann says more than a century ago, Gustave LeBon perfectly captured the liberal psychological profile in his    1896 book THE CROWD; A STUDY OF THE POPULAR MIND.  Chapter by chapter  she dissects with copious foot notes and biting wit the liberal mob mentality and its influence on our political culture.  – Rosemarie

• Hardcover:368 pages
• Publisher:Crown Forum; First Edition edition (June 7, 2011)
• Language:English
• ISBN-10:0307353486
• ISBN-13: 978-0307353481

Our next Tea Party Meeting is this Thursday, May 17th, 6:30 pm at The Bungalow Inn, Manistee. We have a busy agenda scheduled and it will be an interesting and informative meeting. As always many of us will be there for dinner at 5:30.  Please join us.

1) Announcements

2) Report from the reorganization advisory committee

3) Jill Nowak,  Manistee County Clerk, will give a brief talk on precinct election inspectors.

4) Our main speaker, Bruce Walker, will give a presentation on state and national energy issues. Bruce is managing editor of InfoTech & Telecom news for the Heartland Institute. Prior to joining Heartland in 2010 he worked at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy as science editor of the quarterly magazine MichiganScience and communications manager for the center’s Property Rights Network. He won a Communicators Award of Distinction from the International Academy of Visual Arts for his documentary on the Boardman River Dam drawdown. Bruce has written and produced publications for General Motors, Buick Motor Division, Ford Motor Company, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. He continues to research and write articles for the Mackinac Center, Action Institute, Michigan View and The American Culture. Bruce will cover a broad range of energy topics from “fracking”, exploration, refinery and transportation (Keystone Pipeline), and regulatory issues. Many of these are likely to be “hot” political issues in the upcoming elections. We hope this presentation will help you separate fact from fiction when you look at the price of gas at the pump.

Hope to see you Thursday!

Tom

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This Capitol Confidential article about Grand Rapids Community College and its struggles to address an expense that is overwhelming their finances may be just the tip of the iceberg for many others educators in the near future. The question is, “What can be done to address the problem?” Whatever the answer is it is sure to cost a number of elected officials their jobs as the choice will not be popular especially amongst staunch members of the MEA.

As we have seen in our local school districts and also here in this article, teachers have already been accepting frozen pay and increased benefit fund contributions. How long can this possibly last? Certainly not the five years as the GRCC staff has had to accept.

What should concern some people is that those teachers who were encouraged to retire early may find themselves receiving less pension than they were promised while those still teaching are forced to contribute even more of their pay into a system that seems to be broken.

‘Taxpayer Burnout’ Likely At Play In Rejection Of Grand Rapids Community College Millage Request

By Anne Schieber | May 12, 2012

GRCC had come under fire in past years for lofty pay and benefit packages. This year, the union representing the teaching staff agreed to a five-year pay freeze and an end to raises based on seniority. The contract still needs to be ratified.

Ender says what the public fails to understand is the huge burden the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System has been putting on districts and community colleges. This year, the community college will have to pay another $2 million out of its $98 million budget toward the retirement system.

Read the full article at: http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/16895

By John D. McKinnon

May 9, 2012, 12:18 PM

Nonprofit organizations’ annual tax returns are lagging indicators, of course, and the political-fundraising landscape has been evolving rapidly. But the Tea Party Patriots’ success underscores the continuing – perhaps even growing – power of the tea party.

Much attention has been focused this election season on super PACs and nonprofits – some with ties to the tea-party movement – that are raising large sums, often from wealthy donors, and pouring it into campaign-themed advertising.

By contrast the Tea Party Patriots and their affiliated groups are generally staying focused on the grassroots ground game – training, issue education, webinars and tele-town halls, and mobilizing of volunteers. The Patriots say they have 3,500 local affiliates, as well as a mailing list of 310,000 small-dollar donors. They also say they’ve raised even more money for the 2012 fiscal year, although they declined to provide numbers.

It’s brick-by-brick organization building, and the results aren’t easily measured. But the Patriots leaders say they’re creating a structure that will last.

At the same time, the Patriots and other tea party groups are maturing, holding fewer raucous rallies and doing more phone-banking.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/05/09/tea-party-patriots-a-12-2-million-haul/

We will be sharing this with other Tea Parties across the state to get a consensus of the Tea Party/Republicans.  Will be interesting to see how it does, or does not align with the final vote in Detroit at the convention this coming weekend.  The results will be sent out as a press release and posted on the michiganteapartyalliance.org web site and facebook page as well as on our web site.

Please click here and take the poll if you are informed and want to weigh in.

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Note: One candidate interview, this with Dave Agema, can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYDnuS0Qd7U&feature=youtu.be.   The Ludington Area Tea Party is not endorsing this or any other candidate.

Please post in the Comments section other candidate interview and /or informational links that you would  like to share.

Consider this article’s selected segments discussing the future of a governor who was elected to turn his state’s economic crisis around at a time when protestors raised the ire of state electors.   As I recall, this was done at a time in CA after the Republicans there attempted to make cuts to public programs while the Democrat’s plan was to tax the rich more heavily.

What’s appalling to me is the attitude by the Sen. Steinberg believing that it is better to allow his state’s residents to milk the financial system for every last drop rather than facing reality.   This sounds like the same attitude we’ve been seeing in Washington D.C.    The question is whether the majority of the electorate would rather face disaster than to treat a wound before it festers and becomes financially life-threatening.   The results from the election on November 6^th 2012 should be a good indication of what’s to come.    

Hang onto your hat because we are likely to be in for a very rough ride unless something is done to repair the shocks on a deficit vehicle that is already showing far too much wear.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/12/MNB31OH8KL.DTL

Gov. Jerry Brown calls for cuts as deficit jumps

Wyatt Buchanan

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Since passing the budget last June, Brown and Democratic legislative leaders have touted their work, saying they had slashed the $26 billion deficit left by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by nearly two-thirds. However, that budget plan relied on a number of risky assumptions, including a projection that tax revenue would grow by an additional $4 billion.

But state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, defended Democrats’ decision to delay making cuts.

“We all hoped for better revenue numbers,” he said. “But on that score, for people most in need, if they lose some of their bare subsistence, at least they will have been able to provide for themselves and their families for a few more months.”

“The cuts are expected to be big, bad and brutal for California families,”  (Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California)