1. Urgent!

2. The Climate Change Tax

3. Budget Drama at the State Capitol

4. Stimulus Dough will be used to Fight Fat

5. Tax Dollars with Wings

6. You Can Get Your Own Stimulus Cash!

1. Urgent!

Let your voice be heard on government run health care for all! Congress is set to vote on Representative Pelosi's sweeping health care "reform" bill on Friday, November 6. Don't wait until it's too late, act now and tell Congress you want to make your own health care decisions!

Congressman Mike Pence knows what is at stake and outlines the detrimental effects the health care bill will have on our country in a short, 3-minute video. Please help protect our freedom to make our own health care decisions!

Please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUER68W-ps

2. The Climate Change Tax

In response to the radical agenda in Congress to cap CO2 emissions, numerous Minnesota non-profits have formed the "No Cap-and-Trade" Coalition. It is an alliance of organizations concerned about the devastating impact that cap-and-trade legislation could have on American families, businesses and the faltering U.S. economy.

This regulatory scheme is projected to cost the average family over $1,700 per year in new energy costs, growing to over $6,000 per year by 2035. Independent analyses of cap-and-trade proposals project the loss of millions of additional jobs and trillions of dollars out of the nation's GDP.

Under a cap-and-trade system, government sets a cap on the total amount of carbon that can be emitted nationally; companies then buy or sell permits to emit CO2. The cap gets cranked down over time to reduce total carbon emissions. Cap-and-trade will impose a carbon tax on all goods and services produced in the United States.

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3. Budget Drama at the State Capitol

From the "Minnesota Leadership Summit" in September to last week's "Balanced Budget Subcommittee," you would think state legislative leaders were discussing this year's budget woes. Just last May the state's two-year budget was left unresolved after Governor Pawlenty vetoed the DFL's $1 billion tax increase. And in June after the legislature adjourned, Gov. Pawlenty balanced the budget himself with a seldom used provision of state law called "unallotment."
However, these budget talks under the Capitol dome aren't about this year's budget or even musing about the annual budget forecast due in early December. Rather the topic of the day was about the state's 2012-2013 budget.

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4. Stimulus Dough will be used to Fight Fat

Hennepin County wants to change its citizens' nutrition and exercise behavior - and they want tax dollars to do it. As part of its campaign to fight obesity, the Hennepin County Board directed staffers to seek $10 million in stimulus money from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to improve nutrition and encourage biking and walking in the suburbs.

While Minnesotans are struggling to make ends meet during this economic downturn, the county is pledging to work on ordinances to increase density of grocery stores and community gardens and decrease access to fast food. Hennepin County's decision proves once again they lack all fiscal soundness and budgetary common sense.

Hennepin County blames the lack of local government aid for their budgetary woes, yet it can't help but enter the federal stimulus money grab in an effort to change the bad habits of suburban couch potatoes.

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5. Tax Dollars with Wings

Under a program called the Essential Air Service, the federal government is paying airlines more than $200 million in taxpayer money to fly airplanes that are, many times, nearly empty, to places most of people never need to go.

Delta flies twice a day to Thief River Falls, an airport where the phone sometime rings without anyone there to answer it. The airline is paid $1.3 million for those flights. That amount added to the $2.9 million Delta gets for Hibbing flights equals $4.2 million of taxpayer dollars every year.

Despite the dismal numbers, the government is slated to spend more taxpayer money to add another daily flight to Hibbing.

In an unsurprising statement, Delta says it welcomes the prospect of continuing service under the Essential Air Service program.

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6. You Can Get Your Own Stimulus Cash!

With the vast and growing number of ways the Obama Administration is wasting your tax dollars, we would like to hear from you about the most outrageous, ridiculous or down right egregious ways you have seen stimulus money being spent.

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2nd Place - $50
3rd Place - $20

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