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Third District Dinner

When: This Saturday (4/28)

Social Hour: 5:30pm

Dinner Hour: 6:30pm

Where: Eagles Nest Event Center

Located at Eagle Glen on State Rd 205 east of US 30

Columbia City

There is no Breakfast Club meeting for April

Survey: People Who Watch No News
Know More Than Fox Viewers

When pollsters and academics single out Fox News viewers and try to determine what they know, or don't know, as compared to other media consumers, the results tend to be embarrassing. Then again, that's what happens when a national cable news channel with vast resources devotes itself to misinformation.....it misinforms people.

A new report from Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind Poll continues the awkward Fox News trend, and adds a new twist -- Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don't watch any television news.

Republican Idea to Help Americans?

Slash benefits for low and middle income taxpayers

for a big tax cut that benefits the rich.

How much of your taxes are being paid

so the rich can get richer?

How much of your taxes pays for the lifestyle of the rich?

What if the Country Isn't Really Broke?

OWS

Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #OWS is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations. The movement aims to expose how the richest 1% of people are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future.

What If the Tea Party Wins?

They Have a Plan for the Constitution, and It Isn’t Pretty

It is difficult to count how many essential laws would simply cease to exist if the Tea Party won its battle to reshape our founding document, but a short list includes:

  • • Social Security and Medicare • Medicaid, children's health insurance, and other health care programs •
  • • All federal education programs • All federal antipoverty programs
  • • Federal disaster relief • Federal food safety inspections and other food safety programs
  • • Child labor laws, the minimum wage, overtime, and other labor protections • Federal civil rights laws Read More

Mistake in bill affects public works wages

A mistake in a bill meant to loosen construction wage requirements in Indiana will force all public works projects – regardless of the cost – to go through a process establishing wage rates.

Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, said legislative leaders only recently discovered the error in House Bill 1216 that will affect state and local projects costing less than $150,000 for six months.

“There was a drafting error. It was not caught, and (the legislative services agency) has apologized to us,” Long said. “It should have been caught.” Read More -- Journal Gazette

It appears Republicans Senatate Majority Leader David Long and House Speaker Brian Bosma thought they were too good to read the bill.

New Polling Says Overwhelming Majority Wants Social Security Left Alone

SSA

Ask the voters and they'll tell you: Social Security cuts are off the table when it comes to cleaning up the budget mess in Washington.

Fresh polling from Ohio, Missouri, Montana and Minnesota published first by TPM show voters in the states overwhelmingly oppose any cuts to the Social Security entitlement program, even in the name of reducing the national debt. The coalition of progressive groups which sponsored the survey say the polls send a clear message to the Democratic Senate incumbents up for reelection in each state: cut Social Security and you'll incur the wrath of an angry electorate. Read More

2012 Indiana Democratic Party State Convention has been awarded to Fort Wayne.

The 2012 convention will mark the first time that the Democratic Convention has been held outside of Indianapolis.

Mayor Tom Henry, the Democratic Party of the Third Congressional District, and Visit Fort Wayne (Fort Wayne Convention and Visitors’ Bureau) have campaigned the Indiana Democratic Party to move the convention for several months.

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Who Are The 1%

Check it Out

Tell the Koch Brothers

and Republicans.

America is Not for Sale!

Republicans are deliberately

sabotaging the recovery

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Income of 1%

starts at $343,927

Average tax breaks

for millionaires

$75,000

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You Pay Higher Taxes

When the Wealthy

Don't

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Poll: Majority wants tax cuts eliminated for wealthy, extended for others

Fifty-one percent of adults believe that the Bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire for wealthy families, but should be extended for middle- and lower-class families.

A CNN/Opinion Research poll released Friday showed a narrow majority for one option lawmakers are considering for handling the Bush tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of this year.

Asked which of the following statements comes closest to their view, 51 percent said "those tax cuts should continue for families that make less than 250 thousand dollars a year, but taxes should rise to the previous level for families who make more than that amount."

More at The Hill by Jordan Fabian
10 Terrible Things Republicans Will Try to Do If They Take Over in November
Think things are bad now? Take a look at what could happen if Republicans retake Congress in November.
  • 1) Shut down government to stop health care bill.
  • 2) Attempt to privatize Social Security.
  • 3) Spend every waking hour investigating the Obama administration.
  • 4) Repeal the 14th amendment -- divest immigrants' children of citizenship.
  • 5) Cap and trade? Forget about it.
  • 6) More disastrous economic policies like the practices that caused our financial crisis.
  • 7) Kill or drastically slash Food Stamp program
  • 8) Roll back and repeal equal rights for gays.
  • 9) Abandon the unemployed.
  • 10) Paralyze one branch of our government.
25 (Scary) Things Republicans WILL DO if They Regain Power!
With the barrage of sound bites, talking points and rehearsed rhetoric, many times the message can actually be smothered by all the well-practiced words. With 9 days until the midterm elections November 2nd, it is of vital importance that all Americans know exactly what the Republican/Tea Party goals are, should they be successful in their quest to regain power. A quick look at their actual plans/agenda shows just how detrimental a GOP victory could be to 98% of Americans.
  • 1) Abolish minimum wage laws which would force American workers to work for less pay.
  • 2) Block unemployment benefits forcing millions of Americans to literally starve.
  • 3) Slash Social Security benefits-even up to half of what they are now forcing senior citizens to literally starve.
  • 4) Gut Medicare funding.
  • 5) Gut Medicaid funding.
  • 6) Abolish Department of Education.
  • 7) Abolish Department of Energy.
  • 8) Abolish the Veteran's Administration.
  • 9) Cut much of state financial aid needed to avoid massive layoffs of teachers, police, fire, etc..
  • 10) Cutting state aid would have a trickle down effect on local municipalities/suburbs-forcing them to do layoffs of police, fire, as well as close libraries, etc.
  • 11) Defund various categories of new heath care reform stripping millions of Americans of much needed access to quality health care.
  • 12) Reverse aspects of financial reform to aid corporate/wall street in the continuation of unscrupulous practices against Americans.
  • 13) Extend tax cuts for the richest 2% adding an additional $830 billion more in deficits.
  • 14) Block funding for homeless veterans and homeless women.
  • 15) Disregard the needs of middle America, minorities and the poor.
  • 16) Work toward increased privatization of prisons.
  • 17) Block lending programs/tax breaks for small businesses.
  • 18) Paralyze the Obama administration with endless subpoenas and investigations in hopes of impeaching President Obama.
  • 19) Will literally shut down the government by defunding programs.
  • 20) Repeal the 14th amendment which provides citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
  • 21) Kill cap and trade efforts.
  • 22) Slash food stamp programs.
  • 23) Roll back and repeal equal rights for gays.
  • 24) Privatize Social Security.
  • 25) Cut education spending along with college student aid.
These are just 25 (and yes...there's more) of the actual objectives of the GOP should they regain power. As all can see, their views, ideas and goals are extremely AGAINST 98% of Americans and would definitely lead our country down the road to destruction. Although the media is well aware of this list being the GOP agenda it has been very disturbing witnessing to what degree they have purposefully withheld these facts from We The People. Media manipulation is at an all time high and it will be up to us, through social media and every other way that we can, to share the truth...since the media won't. (So, as with everything we post, feel free to share)
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Health Reform Hits Main Street (Kaiser Foundation)
White House White Board: CEA Chair Austan Goolsbee Explains the Tax Cut Fight

A short, animated movie -- featuring the "YouToons" -- explains the problems with the current health care system, the changes that are happening now, and the big changes coming in 2014.

Talking Points: Eight False Things The Public “Knows”
  • Myth 1: President Obama tripled the deficit.
  • Reality: Bush's last budget had a $1.416 trillion deficit. Obama's first reduced that to $1.29 trillion.
  • Myth 2: President Obama raised taxes, which hurt the economy.
  • Reality: Obama cut taxes. 40% of the "stimulus" was wasted on tax cuts which only create debt, which is why it was so much less effective than it could have been.
  • Myth 3: President Obama bailed out the banks.
  • Reality: While many people conflate the "stimulus" with the bank bailouts, the bank bailouts were requested by President Bush and his Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson. (Paulson also wanted the bailouts to be "non-reviewable by any court or any agency.") The bailouts passed and began before the 2008 election of President Obama.
  • Myth 4: The stimulus didn't work.
  • Reality: The stimulus worked, but was not enough. In fact, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the stimulus raised employment by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs.
  • Myth 5: Businesses will hire if they get tax cuts.
  • Reality: A business hires the right number of employees to meet demand. Having extra cash does not cause a business to hire, but a business that has a demand for what it does will find the money to hire. Businesses want customers, not tax cuts.
  • Myth 6: Health care reform costs $1 trillion.
  • Reality: The health care reform reduces government deficits by $138 billion.
  • Myth 7: Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, is "going broke," people live longer, fewer workers per retiree, etc.
  • Reality: Social Security has run a surplus since it began, has a trust fund in the trillions, is completely sound for at least 25 more years and cannot legally borrow so cannot contribute to the deficit (compare that to the military budget!) Life expectancy is only longer because fewer babies die; people who reach 65 live about the same number of years as they used to.
  • Myth 8: Government spending takes money out of the economy.
  • Reality: Government is We, the People and the money it spends is on We, the People. Many people do not know that it is government that builds the roads, airports, ports, courts, schools and other things that are the soil in which business thrives. Many people think that all government spending is on "welfare" and "foreign aid" when that is only a small part of the government's budget.

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