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From Peggy Noonan:
http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2013/02/27/a-message-for-wall-street/
An article in the Wall Street Journal to be considered by the Republicans.

ONE MAN"S VIEW

Is the Tea Party a group of radicals? Obviously no! We are positive constitutional Americans that love our Country.

The Tea Party supports those who aspire to keep America great. The Tea Party has strong principles, and American values. We must make them prominent in the minds of the electorate. We must show that we are in favor of practices that;

·        Uphold and support the Constitution

·        Resist unnecessary taxes

·        Reduce our local, state, and national debt

The Tea Party has had less than positive name recognition because the Democrats and their liberal cohorts of the press continually make unfounded accusations and call the Tea Party names. Democrats, and some of our Republican brothers, in general love this because anyone who does not agree with their ways is accused of being un-American. Racism is one of their favorite slurs. The reason this one is so important is that the majority of Americans, as well as the Tea Party advocates, find Racism so heinous.

The most important thing in political accomplishment is the election to office. The second most is re-election. To achieve election other political importance’s include; name recognition, capital, principles, speaking ability, and a good name or reputation. What we in the Tea Party need to do is assault the Democrats and their supporters with a strong campaign that supports electable conservative candidates. If a candidate has many of our principles, has the name recognition and a positive resume’ we must seek that candidate and offer support of their campaign. Before giving support we must identify our concerns to the candidate, and gain his understanding of our concerns.

Examples are: What should we have done, or what more, to elect opponents of Mayor Wallace, Representative Andrews, and President Obama? We need to exercise our strengths in the campaigns of local, county, state, and national office candidacies.

Adherence to our three tenets will; engender improvement in private employment, protect worker rights, and support the liberty of our citizenry.

We must identify the faults of the liberal give away policies of big government and do all possible, in a legal manner, to defeat everything that increases the size of government.

We must gain, maintain, and prove our positive image, without sacrificing our principles. If the candidates we find are less than perfect, but have the potential being elected, we must communicate with them and influence them in positive directions. An elected candidate is there for us to communicate with in positive voices.

Our government's employees

Washington DC Airport Ticket Agent A Washington DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of why the US is in so much trouble: 1.I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman (Carol Shea-Porter) ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. (On an airplane!)  2. I got a call from a Kansas Congressman's (Moore) staffer (Howard Bauleke), who wanted to go to Cape Town . I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information, and then he interrupted me with, ''I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Cape Town is in Massachusetts .'' Without trying to make him look stupid, I calmly explained, ''Cape Cod is in Massachusetts , Cape Town is in South Africa ..'' His response -- click..  3. A senior Vermont Congressman (Bernie Sanders) called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in Orlando . He said he was expecting an ocean-view room. I tried to explain that's not possible, since Orlando is in the middle of the state. He replied, 'Don't lie to me!, I looked on the map, and Florida is a very THIN state!!'' (OMG)  4. I got a call from a lawmaker's wife (Landra Reid) who asked, ''Is it possible to see England from Canada ?'' I said, ''No.'' She said, ''But they look so close on the map'' (OMG, again!)  5. An aide for a cabinet member (Janet Napolitano) once called and asked if he could rent a car in Dallas .. I pulled up the reservation and noticed he had only a 1-hour layover in Dallas ... When I asked him why he wanted to rent a car, he said, ''I heard Dallas was a big airport, and we will need a car to drive between gates to save time.'' (Aghhhh)  6. An Illinois Congresswoman (Jan Schakowsky) called last week. She needed to know how it was possible that her flight from Detroit left at 8:30 a.m., and got to Chicago at 8:33 a.m. I explained that Michigan was an hour ahead of Illinois , but she couldn't understand the concept of time zones. Finally, I told her the plane went fast, and she bought that.  7. A New York lawmaker, (Jerrold Nadler) called and asked, ''Do airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know whose luggage belongs to whom?'' I said, 'No, why do you ask?' He replied, ''Well, when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag on my luggage that said (FAT), and I'm overweight. I think that's very rude!'' After putting him on hold for a minute, while I looked into it. (I was dying laughing). I came back and explained the city code for Fresno , Ca. is (FAT - Fresno Air Terminal), and the airline was just putting a destination tag on his luggage.. 8. A Senator John Kerry aide (Lindsay Ross) called to inquire about a trip package to Hawaii . After going over all the cost info, she asked, ''Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii ?''  9. I just got off the phone with a freshman Congressman, Bobby Bright from Ala. who asked, ''How do I know which plane to get on?'' I asked him what exactly he meant, to which he replied, ''I was told my flight number is 823, but none of these planes have numbers on them.''  10 Senator Dianne Feinstein called and said, ''I need to fly to Pepsi-Cola , Florida . Do I have to get on one of those little computer planes?'' I asked if she meant fly to Pensacola and fly on a commuter plane. She said, ''Yeah, whatever, smarty!''  11 Mary Landrieu, La. Senator, called and had a question about the documents she needed in order to fly to China . After a lengthy discussion about passports, I reminded her that she needed a visa. "Oh, no I don't. I've been to China many times and never had to have one of those.'' I double checked and sure enough, her stay required a visa. When I told her this she said, ''Look, I've been to China four times and every time they have accepted my American Express!''  12 A New Jersey Congressman (John Adler) called to make reservations, ''I want to go from Chicago to Rhino, New York .'' I was at a loss for words. Finally, I said, ''Are you sure that's the name of the town?'' 'Yes, what flights do you have?'' replied the man. After some searching, I came back with, ''I'm sorry, sir, I've looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a rhino anywhere. ''The man retorted, ''Oh, don't be silly! Everyone knows where it is. Check your map!'' So I scoured a map of the state of New York and finally offered, ''You don't mean Buffalo , do you?'' The reply? ''Whatever! I knew it was a big animal.'' Now you know why the Government is in the shape it's in! I don't write it, I just offer it for your consideration. Like manure, you just gotta spread it around.

A FUTURE TEA PARTY FOR YOUR GRAND CHILDREN

The Sequester

Points to make about the sequester
On the sequester “cuts” not being real cuts
 The so-called sequester “cuts” aren’t even real cuts! This year the government will spend more of your money than they did last year, and next year they will spend even more. If you spent more money year after year, you wouldn’t say you were cutting spending, so why does Washington get away with it?
 Overspending is overspending, no matter which way you look at it. Spending $800 that you don’t have on your credit card instead of $1000, doesn’t mean you cut $200 of spending. It means you’re still overspending by $800.
 Only an extremist would want to stop the sequester. As the National Taxpayers Union said, it is a starting point, not a finish line. Politicians will never actually cut spending if we let the spending radicals like Nancy Pelosi stop us from taking this small step forward.
 The amount of the so-called “cuts” would be enough to run the government for only 4.5 days, and the spending radicals like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid want us to believe that the sequester will be “devastating.”
On the President’s flip-flop
 As the president’s own press secretary admitted, the sequester was President Obama’s idea in the first place. American families are tired of him playing politics and blaming others for his own ideas.
 In July 2011, a White House fact sheet praised the deal that gave us the sequester as "a win for the economy and budget discipline." At the time, President Obama said it didn’t impact the middle class or working families. Now he says it does. He was either lying then, or he’s lying now.
Other points
 What is the sequester anyway? In a nutshell, the sequester is a deal that the President signed into law that says the government will overspend a little less this year than they did last year. That’s it. So they’re still overspending.
 A recent poll conducted by Anderson Robbins Research and Shaw & Company Research shows that 73% of Americans want the government to cut spending, while only 15% want increased spending. The time is now to do what the majority of the American people want done.
 Everyone agrees that we need to reduce the deficit. Let’s start now by keeping the sequester in place, and making the politicians keep their promises, and uphold the laws they pass.
 We need to become an economically sustainable nation. The sequester is a step in the right direction. Don’t let politicians and their well-connected friends stop this little bit of badly-needed progress.
 Recently, Nancy Pelosi said that cutting Congressional pay would undermine their “dignity.” Could she be any more insulting? What about the dignity of the millions of Americans that are still out of work? Or the dignity of younger generations that will be burdened by the massive debt that paid politicians like Nancy Pelosi have racked up? What’s undignified is making a promise to the American people that you will cut spending and then trying to weasel your way out of it when the time comes, hoping that you’ll be retired before the bills come due.

2011 Homestead Rebate

Benefit Payment
Most eligible homeowners will receive their homestead benefit for 2011 in the form of a credit applied to their property tax bills in May 2013. Those homeowners can expect to receive a revised property tax bill or advice copy from their tax collector that will reflect the amount of the benefit. However, any homestead benefit for which you are eligible will be issued in the form of a check (or direct deposit) in May 2013, if (1) your principal residence was a unit in a co-op or continuing care retirement community or (2) you stated in your application that you no longer own the property that was your principal residence on October 1, 2011.

The amount of the benefit is based on an applicant’s income, filing status, property taxes, and whether the applicant was age 65 or older or eligible to claim an exemption as blind or disabled for tax year 2011. Under the terms of the State Budget the 2011 benefit will be calculated using 2006 property taxes. In addition, the 2011 benefit amount cannot exceed the homestead rebate amount paid for 2006 unless there has been a change in an applicant’s filing characteristics. “Filing characteristics” means a reduction in income range, a change in age/disability status or filing status, or an increase in percentage of ownership.

Amounts received under the Homestead Benefit Program are in addition to the State’s other property tax relief programs. The total amount of all property tax relief benefits received (homestead benefit, property tax reimbursement, property tax deduction for senior citizens/disabled persons, and property tax deduction for veterans) cannot exceed the amount of property taxes paid on the applicant’s principal residence for the same year.

 

http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/homestead/hrhownergeninf.shtml

Go to the above for the full story
Jerry Keer 

Don't forget to VOTE if you live in Washington Twp.

Fire district voting at headquarters on E. Holly Road, at 2:00 PM till 9:00 PM.

Message from Sal Coppola re, the voting.

"Hello everyone,

I would like to remind everyone that the Fire District Election will be held this Saturday between 2:00 and 9:00 PM at the Fire District HQ's on East Holly Ave.

Please go out and vote for one of our team member, Rich Silvesti, who is seeking one of the availble positions on the Township Board of Fire Commissioners.

Rich has been supporting our group for many years and is someone who we truly need elected to look out for the interests and safety of the residents of our town.

Rich, we wish you the very best!

Sincerely,"

http://www.wtfd10.com/news/index/layoutfile/home

Go to the site above and file down to the budget.

Fire fighters For the Township of Washington, NJ

Our Congressman has obtained dollars for the township to hire firefighters.

What is your opinion on having fire fighters added for two years?

Will we need or be given another grant in 2015?

An opinion

Conservatives must avoid the way of the Democrats.

The motto of the Medical Profession is “Do no harm”.

 The preamble of the NJ Bar Association contains; “The

 conduct of lawyers and judges should be

characterized at all times by professional integrity and

 personal courtesy in the fullest sense of those terms.”

 It is a shame that the Democrats seem to have the

 motto damage opposition at any cost.

Our government services

THE TINY CABIN A social worker from a big city in Massachusetts recently transferred to the mountains of West Virginia and was on the first tour of her new territory when she came upon the tiniest cabin she had ever seen in her life.  Intrigued, she went up and knocked on the door. "Anybody home?" she asked. "Yep," came a kid's voice through the door. "Is your father there?" asked the social worker. "Pa?  Nope, he left afore Ma came in," said the kid. "Well, is your mother there?" persisted the social worker. "Ma?  Nope, she left just afore I got here," said the kid. "But," protested the social worker, (thinking that surely she will need to intervene in this situation) "are you never together as a family?" "Sure, but not here," said the kid through the door. "This is the outhouse!" Government workers are so very smart.  Aren't you overjoyed that they'll soon be handling all our financial, educational and medical dilemmas?

Your Dollars providing Executive Entertainment

Despicable  Arrogance of Joe Bidenery Friday the vice president takes a helicopter designated as Marine Two from the vice president’s residence in northwest Washington to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. He then hops on Air Force Two to fly back to his home in Delaware. At the end of the weekend, he returns on Air Force Two, usually a Boeing C-32.

 

On Saturdays in warm weather, Biden regularly returns to Andrews on the airplane to play golf at the base with President Obama. 

After the game, he flies back to Delaware. On Sunday evening, he returns on the plane to Washington — all at taxpayer expense.

The Boeing C-32 is a specially configured Boeing 757-200 commercial jet. The cost of flying the plane is $22,000 an hour, so each half-hour trip to or from Delaware costs about $10,000. Each golf game costs taxpayers $20,000. At that rate, the annual cost to taxpayers of Biden’s weekend trips is well over $1 million. That does not include so-called deadhead flights when the plane often flies back to Washington empty and then returns empty to pick up Biden.

 

In addition, the Secret Service rents more than 20 condominiums in the Wilmington area for agents who must accompany Biden when he returns to his home state. Rather than try to find hotel space, the Secret Service decided to rent the condos in part because, even when he knows his schedule in advance, Biden rarely tells agents until the last minute when he will be returning to Wilmington beyond his weekend trips. As a result, agents cannot plan their own lives.
 

A Secret Service agent says that since Air Force Two parks at Andrews, Obama is obviously aware that Biden is running up a huge government tab for each game of golf they play.
 

Biden’s press office had no comment. Asked if President Obama thinks these costs are appropriate and why he has not questioned Biden’s flying to play golf with him at a cost of $20,000 per game, the president’s press office had no comment.
 

Biden’s commutes have cost taxpayers at least $4 million so far. After my story ran on Newsmax, a major media outlet obtained Pentagon records confirming the trips and costs. But so far, that outlet has not run the story. The rest of the media have ignored it. 

In addition to his salary as vice president of $230,700, Biden has free use of the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory. The vice president’s residence is a handsome 9,150-square-foot, three-story mansion overlooking Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington. 

Complete with pool, pool house, and indoor gym, the white brick house was built in 1893 as the home of the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory. Congress turned it into the official residence of the vice president in 1974 and gave it the address One Observatory Circle. 

During the day, at least five Navy stewards attend to every personal need of the second family, including cleaning, cooking, shopping for food, and doing the laundry.
 

Biden has portrayed himself as a regular Joe, a product of a working-class family who takes on millionaires and Republicans who are said to be out of touch with middle-class Americans. Last June, Obama appointed Biden to root out wasteful government spending. But behind the scenes, it’s a different matter. 

Biden’s disregard for the cost of constantly shuttling back and forth to his home in Wilmington and his additional trips to golf with the president betray the arrogant, contemptuous attitude we saw him display toward Ryan during the debate. 

“The White House is a character crucible,” Bertram S. Brown, M.D., a psychiatrist who formerly headed the National Institute of Mental Health, told me for the Secret Service book. “It either creates or distorts character. Few decent people want to subject themselves to the kind of grueling abuse candidates take when they run in the first place,” says Dr. Brown. 

“Even if an individual is balanced, once someone becomes president, how does one    solve the conundrum of staying real and somewhat humble when one is surrounded by the most powerful office in the land, and from becoming overwhelmed by an, at times, pathological environment that treats you every day as an emperor?”
 

The vice president has chosen the emperor approach, revealing his character.
 

Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent ofNewsmax.com. He is the New York Times best-selling author of books on the Secret Service, FBI, and CIA.