The rules are clear and unambiguous, the Senate President Harry Reid now has to assign members of the Senate to a conference committee to reconcile the differences in the 2 bills, the Senate Version with a 2 month extension and the House version with a full year extension.

President Obama himself favored the 1 year extension until he didn’t! Why is President Obama playing with the poor and middle class? Is this part of his Class Warfare strategy to win re-election?

President Obama also told a few lies or at least serious spins of half truths.

President Obama claims it is $40 per week while the CBO says it is about $1000 per year or $20 per week. Yes, even the $20 is a lot of money to someone living week to week, unemployment check to unemployment check, I understand. I wonder however if the millions of elderly retirees and others on Social Security and Medicare are aware that Obama is talking about taking money away from Social Security and Medicare to fund this Re-election Year Christmas present!

President Obama told the story as if the Rules for Conference Committees didn’t exist and those mean old Republicans are taking money away from you. He makes the giant leap that the people are stupid and don’t understand the rules.

In Summary you must decide do you want to support the Senate Democrats led by Senator Harry Reid and President Obama so you can get a tax break that totals $320. Assuming that you use the pie in the sky President Obama figures, or $160 using the CBO figures. Or do you support he House Republicans who want you to have a Payroll Tax cut of $2080 using President Obama’s figures or $1040 using the CBO numbers.

Either way it is a no brainer, Senator Harry Reid should call the Senators back, assign a committee, and do this right!

Representative Boehner stick to your guns, stay on the high road, hold out for the principle of running the Government as it should be and not this haphazard approach of President Obama and the Democrats that has caused so many problems already!

In Texas, Governor Perry is fighting a war with the Mexican drug cartels along this expansive border, with little to no help from the Federal Government. Governor Perry has had to enlist the Texas National Guard and the Texas State Police Special Forces to try to reign in the daily incursions along this huge border. Furthermore, in an act of Treason, the Obama Administration, specifically the Department of Justice under Eric Holder through the “Fast and Furious” program has been supplying military grade weaponry to the enemy!

Then to state that after you decided to run for the Office of President of The United States you went to your landscaping company and demanded they fire the illegal immigrants working on your properties. That is quite an admission. You were fine with them offering you cut rate service up until the cost savings were no longer beneficial because being a candidate for public office took precedent. Its always all about what is best for Mitt!

Mitt tell us about your record on illegal immigration while Governor of Massachusetts! You did nothing, in fact illegal’s are afforded in-state tuition at Massachusetts higher education institutions!

Mitt Romney, extremely squishy on illegal immigrants!

Everyone needs to stop paying their mortgages, is one of the techniques they hope to use against the Big Banks. They think this will bring America to their knees and I now have to agree they are correct.

I know my property taxes are escrowed with my mortgage. I don’t pay my mortgage my property taxes won’t be paid! No property taxes collected, no Police, Fire, Public employees, or Teachers will be paid! The banks won’t have any money to loan to the municipalities, the cities and towns will have to shutdown! There will be no money for the banks to loan to people buying cars, voila, the Auto Workers unions will collapse.

No money coming in to the unions, no money to pay for union benefits! The union pension Ponzi Schemes will collapse!

I’m just guessing, but I assume that the average Conservative home has guns and enough ammunition to protect their property from any intruders including the Cities and Towns trying to take them for tax liens. With no police to protect the city and town workers I doubt they will be attempting to take conservatives homes. The liberals on the other hand won’t be able to protect themselves their families or their homesteads, and will probably want to give them up freely anyways to help out their union friends that caused this.

Let the Revolution begin!

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Bob DeMaura

Do I start with the fact that we had a somewhat weak candidate. Oh, he was very conservative in his views, Right to Work, Castle Doctrine, Right to Life, etc. but he wanted to run as a moderate to not upset his Peterborough base of voters. I was told at one point to be careful mentioning the “T.. P…. words,” in fact please refrain from using them in connection with David Simpson and his campaign. He also wanted to stay aloof of the fray, not get down into the trenches and fight. No negative Letters to the Editor about the opponent Leishman allowed.

There was an offer from ABLE-NH (a disabled lobbying group) and Leishman to participate in a forum run by ABLE. Of course, this was a rigged game with a stacked deck, but instead of negotiating with them, it was outright rejected. I authored the Letter to the Editor explaining the campaigns position, that it was not appropriate for a Special Interest Lobbying group to run the forum, I really wanted to say the truth, this was a rigged game with a stacked deck by a hyper-partisan group looking to get more stuff for themselves and their children, hoping to trip up Simpson for quotes to put in the paper.

We were fortunate in having the NH GOP and the Hillsborough GOP come out to “Help Us” or were we? Yes, they did some really good works I guess. Advice on how many mailers to send out, how many signs were needed, things to say or do with reporters. They also came in with a “Canned” campaign all laid out on a spread sheet. It was an awful plan for a NH House Seat special election. All the phone calling was being done by volunteers at the GOP Headquarters in Concord. This relieved the candidate from doing any of the actual calling as he was in Peterborough and the phone banks were in Concord!

It seemed to me the schedule was upside down and backward with phone calling early in the campaign leading up to a few weekends of “Literature Dropping” one for each town in the district. That was a major issue with the locals in the campaign namely myself. New Ipswich is large and very rural; Peterborough is large and somewhat rural. There is no way you were going to reach every Republican household in one day in these towns.

But the fact that they wanted to do literature at the end and phone banking at the beginning made no sense to me. I wanted to get literature in the voters hands early on in the cycle including Absentee Ballot Request forms. I was informed that no one uses Absentee Ballots and it is a waste of time perhaps that is true especially if you get the forms to them in the last week of the campaign! Even defining “Literature Dropping” was an issue, they wanted to place it and run, I wanted to knock on every door and hand them the literature, bring back a list with the “Not Homes” flagged so they could be called on a follow-up by the candidate or staff in the district not some anonymous people in Concord.

Frustrated with the “Help” from the GOP,  Jeff Frates-Fox from New Ipswich and I started slogging our way through New Ipswich Republican addresses supplied to us by the GOP. Note, no Undeclareds were on this list as the theory was to “let sleeping dogs alone” Soon after we started this I was removed as campaign chairman, the official excuse was for not keeping the spread sheets updated with things like the meeting place for the “Literature drops” scheduled a month out. Did I mention that the spread sheets were in possession and control of the NH GOP. I presume the real reason was the NH GOP wanted to take full control of the process and I wasn’t following their plan.

I practically begged the candidate and some of his other staff to start working the Peterborough addresses immediately. The response was they didn’t think we should change the campaign strategy and schedule in mid-stream! I asked a number of times who was taking care of Greenville, the answer was we have it under control. I don’t think the candidate did any voter outreach in Greenville, all they got was phone calls from NH GOP office and a literature 'drop and run' at the very end.

So there you have it, a weak candidate not willing to do the dirty work, a proven losing campaign strategy now 0 for 3 over the simple system we used last fall to get 4 Republicans elected in H03.

How did they beat him, a huge turnout in Peterborough made up primarily of women (at least 3 to 1 possibly 4 to 1 over male voters) sympathetic to the ABLE moms trying to just get services for their children, teachers who were frightened by the unions that they would lose their bargaining rights and gays looking to protect gay marriage. Republicans in Greenville and New Ipswich not willing to go out of their way to support another candidate from Peterborough who doesn’t come out to see or call them didn’t help the cause.

Good news is the 2012 election cycle is right around the corner. The NH GOP and the Hillsborough GOP will be so busy with the other races they will leave us alone out here to do our thing the way we know it works!

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Bob DeMaura

Update: In Peterborough, 586 Democrats voted, 290 Republicans, and 394 Undeclareds with Simpson getting 358 total votes! These could be off by one or two as this was a quick hand count!

President Obama himself along with a number of Hollywood elites such as Matt Damon came out and stated that they could pay more taxes and felt that anyone in their position should pay more taxes.

These “Limousine Progressives” could solve this issue all on their own, it is as simple as not taking all the deductions and exemptions allowed when filing their income taxes. The IRS will not chase them down because they paid too much or didn’t take all the allowable deductions. No, the IRS will just accept their tax returns and cash the check.

Note the key word here is “Allowable” deductions and exemptions. You are allowed deductions and exemptions but you are not forced to take them, they are not mandatory!

Instead of all this faux bluster over raising taxes on everyone, they can solve the issue all by themselves.

So why don’t they?

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Bob DeMaura

NHInsider Owner/Operator

Run the transmission lines down the highway right of ways that already exist!

Or is that just too simple a solution and doesn’t keep nearly enough lawyers busy.

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Bob DeMaura

Owner/Operator NHInsider.com

It’s obvious she really doesn’t know the difference. After 4 years of Democrat majority in NH we are left with a Billion (that’s a thousand million) dollar unfunded hole in the state’s budget. They expanded state government every year. Now the Republican controlled house is getting this under control. Every state agency budget faces scrutiny. This includes DHHS, the largest agency in the state, cutting their budget. The legislature doesn’t tell them where to cut, that is the job of our meek Governor Lynch, and the management staff of the state agencies. They can make this political, only cutting services or they can do the hard work of restructuring DHHS and the other agencies to be more efficient.

Lynch could have stopped the out of control spending. Two years ago, Lynch downshifted most of the unfunded costs to the cities and towns. Last year being an election year, Lynch chose to borrow the unfunded costs through bonding adding hundreds of millions to the states debt service. Ironically, the Democrats proclaim a hatred for large financial institutions while their policies enrich the very organizations they supposedly hate.

Another writer bemoaned the elimination of the 10% lottery tax. That tax has cost the state millions in lost revenue. If you are from Maine , Massachusetts or Vermont why would you pay an absolute 10% tax in NH, when you can make similar wagers in your own states and pay the income tax after deductibles of no more that 7%. Isn’t the lottery already a 50% tax on folks bad in mathematics? Every dollar you chase away with the lottery tax costs the state $0.50 in revenue, so they can collect 10% of the prize money over $600. This is rather small as the prize pool is about $0.50 of every $1 with only a small percentage of the prize pool going to winners over $600

The Ledger Transcript’s bias is showing. Writing fear mongering story after story straight from the Democrat talking points is not reporting. Your conservation writer Ian Aldrich used his column to spout “We are not Broke” another Democrat talking point meaning there is plenty left to tax. Does Aldrich know that if he isn’t broke he can send in any extra money to the Government at any time? He could also donate it to places like the Harris Center supporting conservation or to the local town welfare departments for social issues, or any of the numerous non-profits like MATS, The Grapevine or Shelter From The Storm.

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Bob DeMaura

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Peterborough, though it has its haughtiness at times, has a ton of low-income and workforce housing. West Peterborough has two large low income projects as well as a number of the old “Mill” multi-families. Downtown Peterborough has a number of multi-families, as well as an apartment complex that was converted to Condo’s. Just off downtown Peterborough on Summer Street. there are a number of Multi-family dwellings along with a huge apartment complex and two medium size apartment complexes. North Peterborough has Riverview which I believe the Town of  Peterborough took for taxes owed and now uses it to house people who come in seeking welfare assistance. North of Conval high school is Prospect Heights (Now Pine View) which is also a huge apartment complex with a number of Condo buildings as well. South Peterborough has RiverMead, an Elderly housing complex, with another elderly complex between the Elementary School and the Golf Course.

Sharon is a town of single family houses. They have no low income housing, no workforce housing, no elderly housing, and very few multi-family homes. They have no industry or commerce to speak of, relying on Peterborough for nearly everything. Sharon has very restrictive zoning and building requirements, a minimum of 2 acres for lot sizes and they only issue a small number of building permits per year. Less polite company would call this SNOB Zoning!

For some reason Peterborough’s Town Administrator, who we pay approximately $50/hour plus benefits, keeps negotiating deals with Sharon based on population comparisons instead of Property valuations. I personally have spoken on this topic a number of times on Town Meeting floor as well in Letters to the Editor, I seem to get no where as the powers that be somehow feel like they have to keep the rich folks in Sharon well cared for. I was actually told this by a Library Trustee who claimed if I kept making waves about how Sharon pays it would jeopardize their fundraising efforts for a new Library addition!

Using population comparisons to figure Sharon’s share of the financial burden is wrong on so many levels.

As stated above Peterborough has a fluid and dynamic population compared to Sharon’s relatively static population. It is a moving target and changes constantly. Regarding the recycling center, most of Peterborough’s population causing the formula to favor Sharon lives in locations that use trash removal services (dumpsters) never going near the recycling center.

Peterborough taxpayers pay for services based on property value not how many occupants are in the building. We also pay for all the town services; we are not allowed to “pick and choose” Ala Carte, from the Peterborough town services menu. Sharon gets to pick which services they want to contract and pay for. Even poor people get to have police and fire protection, ambulance service, access to the recycling center and recreation opportunities when paid for based on property value.

Property value is a stable calculation that is set one time each year. Using Property value, Sharon should be paying approximately 7.5% of the costs for each service they want to use. It is a simple, easy calculation and would save Peterborough a ton of hours of negotiating by our Town Administrator. Here is the number if you don’t like it, shop elsewhere for your town services!

The income tax scheme which is really a wage tax on the poor and middle class and paying for services based on population shows clearly that Social Justice ends at Mark Fernald’s wallet.

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Bob DeMaura

This scientist pointed out that the Quake in Chile in 1960 was so strong that it actually changed the way the earth was positioned on its axis. A shift in the tilt so to speak. This change would certainly answer the question why is the ice expanding on one side and contracting/melting on the other side.

If you check any of my responses to any of the blogs that refer to Global Warming/Climate Change, and in conversations about Global Warming/Climate Change, and OK yes a few Letters to the Editor, I always asked wouldn't a change in the earth's tilt even slightly cause this ice expansion contraction phenomena.

Well it appears I have been vindicated. The earth did change it's tilt!

Now for that Greenhouse Gas Theory.

Man Made green house gas in the atmosphere, increasing levels of CO2, etc. will not cause Global Warming! It will in fact cause Global Cooling as it blocks the Sun's rays from getting through. The Sun is responsible for nearly all the heat on the planet. Mans activity alone would not provide enough heat energy to keep the planet warm enough to support life of any sort!

Since NH is a concealed carry by license state, law abiding citizens carrying guns can be present anywhere in the state except on school grounds. If this is truly about the safety of the children then we can expect the teachers will no longer support any activities that place the children in the presence of guns.

Examples of activities to cancel are sports such as Golf, Alpine Skiing, Swimming, and Ice Hockey. No more stopping at McDonalds on the way home from events at other schools. Trips to museums, nature preserves, environmental camps, sports camps, band camps, chorus and drama events are no longer safe unless held at a public school. Class trips to the Statehouse, Washington DC or to foreign countries. The schools must pull support for the YMCA’s American Heritage Tour and New England Heritage tours.

For Peterborough’s Children and the Arts Day it could be a blessing. They are having a financial shortfall due to the Town requesting some funding from the program for providing public safety personnel. The program will now be restricted to school property to make it safe for the children. No longer can we allow all the local schools to post the kids artwork around town, then have a huge parade with dancing, singing, music, and art, art, art everywhere!

Was this a cheap, vile, fear mongering, demonizing, political ploy by the Teachers Union, a tactic taught by Saul Alinsky in his book “Rules for Radicals”, or is this real concern for the safety of the children? You decide!

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Bob DeMaura

NHInsider Owner/Operator