West's Weekly Wrap-Up

West's Weekly Wrap-Up

Here are the facts for America since January 2009:

- More than 2 Million Americans are unemployed, close to 26 Million are underemployed (National unemployment at or above 9% for 28 straight months, double that in the Black community.)

- Average gas prices have gone from $1.83 to $3.45.

- Federal debt has gone from $10.6 Trillion to over $15 Trillion, with three straight years of trillion-dollar-plus deficits (debt per person has gone from $34,000 to over $48,000)

- Food stamp recipients up by 41%, with 16% more Americans in poverty at 6.4 Million, the Misery Index is up 65%, and nearly 48.5% of Americans are on government aid.

- Home values are down 11%, and health insurance premiums are up 23% from $3,354 to over $4,000.

- United States global competitiveness is down from 1st to 5th in the world.

Yet with these abysmal statistics, all we hear from the big megaphone of the White House is we need to tax people, particularly certain people, more. We hear about extending payroll tax holidays which is nothing but a band-aid approach only providing a very short-term impetus. What no one is telling the American people, especially Seniors, is that the constant use of payroll tax breaks continues to erode the funding of Social Security – which is already running a deficit. When combined with the unemployment situation, we are speeding up the demise of Social Security in America.

If the solution is to extend unemployment benefits, then we are creating a situation where we must continue to borrow more money to fund initiatives, which will promote and exacerbate the destructive economic indicators.

We currently borrow 42 cents on every dollar… a dollar which soon, thanks to the insidious monetary policies emanating from the Federal Reserve, may not be the default currency of the world.

This is not leadership. It is policy by election cycle sound bite where the purpose is just to get reelected. Politicians are now preying on the uninformed electorate and are not developing visionary pro-growth economic policies for America. The obvious goal is to create more victims in America, an America of dependency - not individual independence.

West get's to the point again.

Texas Redistricting

Texas Redistricting

Dates of Interest in the Current Redistricting Cycle

2010

April 1, 2010	Census Day
Summer–Fall 2010	Regional outreach hearings in selected cities
December 31, 2010	Deadline for delivery of state total population data

2011

January 10, 2011	Deadline for announcement of number of congressional seats apportioned to the states
January 11, 2011	82nd Legislature convenes
February 15, 2011	Earliest likely delivery of census population data
April 1, 2011	Deadline for delivery of census population data
May 12, 2011	Last day to pass house bills under current rules (rules may change)
May 30, 2011	82nd Legislature adjourns; deadline for enactment of state senate and house districts
May 31–August 27, 2011	Legislative Redistricting Board convenes if legislature fails to adopt a senate or house plan
Summer–Fall 2011	Special session on congressional and State Board of Education plans could be called, if necessary
October 26, 2011	Last day Legislative Redistricting Board may adopt a plan
Fall 2011	All plans drawn by the legislature, the Legislative Redistricting Board, or a state district court must obtain preclearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
June–December 2011	Possible court challenges to redistricting plans

2012

January 2, 2012	Filing deadline for 2012 elections
March 6, 2012	Primary elections

When is and election not an election?
When the Democratic Party and their Judges subvert the Voting Process again, this time in Texas.
How else could Resident Obama have been selected?

No American Patriot would ever vote for In(Hu)sane Obama once, much less a second time.

Archived Blog: 15 Signs of Our Obama Times

Archived Blog: 15 Signs of Our Obama Times

To meet what they thought was a clear and present danger of having one of the most powerful and dangerous Mexican drug cartels conducting commando campaign operations on US soil, the Obama Administration instead opted to try their customary "hope and change" approach.

So they called in the Bureau of Land Management of the US Department of the Interior.

The Bureau produced 15 signs and erected them along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 in the Vekol Valley area.

The billboard-size signs informed travelers that they were entering an "active drug-and human-smuggling area."

The signs alerted drivers and passengers that they might encounter "armed criminals" and "smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed."

Really, that's the action the Obama Administration took!

Again, which side are they on? They can't be that stupid.

Constitutional Amendment Election Early Voting Starts Today! Get your Guide at FreeVotersGuide.com « Texas Legislative Update: A Liberty Institute Blog

Constitutional Amendment Election Early Voting Starts Today! Get your Guide at FreeVotersGuide.com « Texas Legislative Update: A Liberty Institute Blog

October 24^th, 2011 – First Day of Early Voting

November 4^th, 2011 – Last Day of Early Voting

November 8^th, 2011 – Election Day

Nobody knows and nobody is voting.

You can get voters guide here, but the last day to vote is November 8, 2011.