Creating Real Jobs: QuantumSphere and the Challenge of 2010

This weekend it would help slow down the Democrat-led rush to cripple the economy with the vast new taxes and regulations of Obamacare by sending a message to the Democratic majorities who are destroying the jobs of the United States that real change is coming. The very best way to do that is by sending contributions to two Republicans running for two Senate seats held by Democrats. If Senate Democrats see contributions pouring into the campaign coffers of Republican candidates running in toss-up states and they see it against the backdrop of this past Tuesday's votes in Virginia and New jersey, those who want to keep their jobs will pause, even if the funds are flowing into campaigns against their colleagues. They will know their turn is coming.

Congressman Mike Castle is running for the Delaware Senate seat previously held by Vice President Biden and for which the Vice President's son, Beau Biden, will be campaigning. Castle is a very popular figure in Delaware, a former governor, and the front-runner in the polls. All he will need are resources to put that seat in the GOP column. Castle is center-right, with an American Conservative Union lifetime rating of 52%. You can contribute online here .

Former Congressman Pat Toomey is running for the Senate seat held presently by Arlen Specter . Specter may not survive the Democratic primary, but either way, Toomey will be matched up a hyper-liberal a year from now. Toomey is a conservative's conservative --the former head of the Club for Growth. He is also an indefatigable campaigner. You can contribute online here.

To stop the country's economic slide --and its foreign policy confusion-- we need to elect both the center-right Castle and the conservative Toomey. If you are a conservative, you ought to contribute first to Castle, and if you are a moderate Republican, start with Toomey. Both men agree on cutting spending and restoring a tax policy that is growth oriented. Both oppose Obamacare. Each could use $25, $50, or $100 or more. Besides calling the congressmen and senators listed below to urge a no vote on Obamacare, take the 10 minutes and spend the $50, $100 0r $200 (or more) to fully fund the campaign ahead. Serious people can win next November, but they have to get funded now so that 15 months from now a new Congress appreciate of and not hostile to the QuantumSpheres of the world replaces the current wrecking crew.

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Joe485 Wrote: Nov 13, 2009 12:39 AM

Frederic Bastiat of the 1840s French Liberal School (liberal in the classic definition) addressed this best with his prescient and always funny parables. His best one was about the govt intervening in the economy by banishing windows in order to prevent candles makers from having their candles melt, thereby stimulating the economy.
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Jimbo93 Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 7:18 PM

Edges, why are you sooo stupid? You mean, he's not going to allow the 2010 elections like he wasn't going to allow these past mid-term elections?

Take your conspiracy nonsense back to the basement of the place you're hospitalized.

RKH Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 6:35 PM

You complain Hugh used no facts and figures. Where are yours? What is the reference?

Just a tidbit of fact checking determines that the GOP did not start 401k's. They were passed into law in 1978 - remember good old Jimmy Carter and the democratic congress??? Google it.

Now since you have been proven wrong on your original premise and you have no facts or figures to back up your claims. Put a sock in it and check the facts libtard!

Edges Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 5:49 PM

Obama is not going to allow an election in 2010.

Polar Bear2 Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 1:37 PM

Hewitt is correct. Good candidates need all the support we can give them, esp. financial. They are going to be up against George Soros money. What they have going for them is huge public outrage against the bums currently infesting Washington since Congress and the Obamuniust have managed to offend a new collection of voting blocs.

I will also donate to whoever wins the Republican primary in Nevada against Dingy Harry and whatever Republican runs against the grifter, Dodd. California is shaping up with a rather charismatic woman running against the repulsive Babs Boxer. Not all Californians are knee-jerk liberals with their heads up their butts. The 70 year old socialist hag Speaker would probably get re-elected if she were...

Cepat2 Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 9:08 AM

it is difficult to vote the Party line for candidates like Castle. Simply having the R behind one's name is insufficient for my support. The more we look at the person, and their past performance(s) in areas of responsibility, the better our choices will be. As to the 435 usurpers of the House - through all the bums out. The few good ones will get back in...maybe. The housecleaning will have more good effect than trying to select the best of the worst congress in American history.

ChH Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 8:32 AM

They require continual new contributions to support the existing retired base.

Once a company has been in business long enough to have a full complement of retirees to support, they can NEVER shrink, or they won't be able to meet their obligations.

Maybe you read about this in the news recently?

Pension plans have the same or greater inherent risk as 401(k)'s - they just do a better job of hiding it up-front.

FeargalX Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 4:12 AM

Defined benefit retirement plans existed for years and had preferential tax treatments for decades. 401ks were originally designed to have nothing to do with providing for retirement of workers -- it was a loophole created so highly paid executives could get extra compensative and also to put more money into investments. The problem is that 401ks replaced pensions. Pensions have insurance -- 401ks do not. If people recklessly manage pensions -- you can more easily also sue -- and even criminally charge people. 401ks have no such restrictions. If people were still signed up to pensions (our police still are, high ranking execustives still have them, our military does too, not to mention elected officials) -- they would actually be...

ChH Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 2:49 AM

will impoverish the elderly over the next few years - but not because they created 401(k)s - rather because they acted to erode the value of investments in 401(k) plans by spending like drunken sailors, and doing nothing about the $10 trillion debt and $100 trillion fund shortfall projected for medicare and soc-sec over the next few decades.

Oh - by the way, companies that provide your vaunted pensions ... are being bankrupted by them. Not a sustainable plan.

I'll take instability with an average 10-12% return over stability and low returns any day.

I agree that a Chavez - or Peron - type of dictatorship is coming. And then our 401(k)'s will be worthless - not because of wall street, but because the government...

FeargalX Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 12:23 AM

So the GOP has created a very unstable future for those who right now are from about 46 to 62. At the same time of these bad public policies, we have fewer people (gen X) to pay for the baby boomer's who will be the elderly poor. Thanks to Bush and others in the GOP, we have also let in massive numbers of very poor uneducated Mexicans. The Karl Rove strategies at most will get about 30% of the Mexican vote -- still way short of a wash of 50%. We are likely to have a Chavez type of leadership down the road -- you can argue all you want for an alleged freemarket utopian system, but if a majority of the future voters are a combination of the elderly poor and Mexicans what do you expect?

FeargalX Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 12:17 AM

While people might look to Virginia or Hoffman as evidence of a strong conservative GOP in our future, demographics and facts show us that is wrong. In the next 20 years we will have unheard of numbers of very poor elderly people. Whose fault is that? The GOP got rid of pensions, replaced them with 401ks -- and guess what, the administrative cost are higher and there is no stability with such a system. While you may think that Bismark was wrong for his German social reforms -- the alternative would have likely been a Marxist early 20th Century Germany (and not a utopian Adam Smith country).

FeargalX Wrote: Nov 08, 2009 12:12 AM

Hugh must live in the republic of anarchy because the U.S. has heavy-handed regs already (lots of drugs in the U.S. require a doctor's prescription, but in other developed countries not so). The U.S. also has done things (like presribing huge amounts of Vioxx) that does not reflect well on our system. We spend what we spend per person in our system -- our government already spends more per person than systems with universal coverage. He has no evidence that our system is so great -- he ignores actual stats and facts (that are not contested). Hugh and many of the GOP believes we have many jobs in the U.S. that Americans won't do -- so we need more illegals here -- its what the chamber of commerce and the farming and restaurant...

ChH Wrote: Nov 07, 2009 8:36 PM

435's a bit harsh. I'm sure we can find 2 or 3 that are worth keeping.

Just don't ask me which ones...

Pistol Wrote: Nov 07, 2009 8:24 PM

Me.

Scrap Iron Wrote: Nov 07, 2009 7:46 PM

We need true conservatives in congress. The h$ll with the GOP. New blood will bring change.

I saw a bumpersticker the other day-
Let's evict 435 squatters from the hall of congress in 2010.

Anyone else with me on tis?

ChH Wrote: Nov 07, 2009 7:02 PM

Short version - Mike Castle has joined the Republican Main Street Partnership, which means he is more likely to stab us in the back than the average GOP congressman (who have already spent the last 10 years stabbing us in the back more than normal).

Senators in the RMSP:
Susan Collins
John McCain
Olympia Snowe

If anyone here thinks we need more GOP senators like those three, we'll have to agree to disagree on that one...

Also, Pat Toomey passed my new litmus test by opposing W's TARP bailout last year. Castle failed.

I used to have "putting a seat in the GOP column" as a goal - but all that got us was bloated budgets, misplaced focus, and a bunch of career politicians more interested in the...

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