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Ovide should tell New Hampshire what he would cut if he supports Bill O'Brien's reckless pledge to cut state support for programs like education, local aid

CONCORD - As he campaigns with Steve Forbes and praises the leadership of Speaker Bill O'Brien, Ovide Lamontagne should tell New Hampshire voters if he endorses their Tea Party policies.

"Ovide Lamontagne is accepting the endorsement of Steve Forbes and heaping praise on the leadership of New Hampshire Speaker Bill O'Brien.  Ovide Lamontagne should also tell the people of New Hampshire where he stands on their policies to cut programs like public higher education, aid to local schools and health care for seniors and people with disabilties," Raymond Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party.

Forbes recently endorsed H.R. 9, which would blow a $46 billion hole in the federal budget, forcing cut to programs like Medicare, Pell grants for college students and support for people with severe disabilities. Forbes also opposes the Buffett Rule, a plan that ensures basic fairness - providing that millionaires and billionaires do not pay lower tax rates than the middle class.

Bill O'Brien this week told the Nashua Telegraph that if he was re-elected, he would cut the state budget by another $400 million to fund corporate tax cuts- after already cutting funding for higher education in half and cutting funding for hospitals, seniors and people with disabilities in order to pay for tax giveaways to tobacco companies and tax evaders.

"Standing with Steve Forbes today in Manchester, Ovide should make clear whether he supports the out-of-touch policies, championed by his surrogate, that leave the middle class behind," said Buckley.  "Ovide should tell the people of New Hampshire if he supports his friend Bill O'Brien's latest proposal, and exactly what he will cut."

CBO H.R. 9, Buffett Rule

Perry for President - Steve Forbes to Campaign in NH for Perry - 12.28-12.29

The New Hampshire Rick Perry for President Team is honored to welcome business man Steve Forbes to New Hampshire to campaign on behalf of Governor Perry.  On Wednesday December 28^th, Mr. Forbes, will address the Milford Rotary Club at its regularly weekly meeting and speak at a forum hosted by the Derry Republican Town Committee.

The next day, Thursday, December 29^th, he will be speaking at the NH House Business Caucus Breakfast, co-sponsored by the Concord Chamber of Commerce & Josiah Bartlett Center Business at the Kimball Jenkins Estate in Concord.

Forbes is a businessman, as well as editor and publisher of Forbes magazine. He is also president and CEO of its publisher, Forbes Inc.

As a two-time GOP Presidential candidate (1996 & 2000), Steve Forbes knows New Hampshire well.  In the 2012 Presidential Primary Race, Mr. Forbes has endorsed Rick Perry for President specifically citing his support for Perry's proposed flat tax plan as a "very exciting" way to get the economy back on track.

"Steve Forbes is a well-known fiscal conservative, and provided strong support and advice throughout the process of drafting my economic and jobs plans," said Perry, in a statement. "I am honored to have Steve's endorsement of my candidacy for president."

Wednesday, Dec. 28

12:30 p.m. - Milford, N.H.                                                5:30pm p.m. - Derry, N.H.

Milford Rotary Club Speech                                                       Derry GOP Forum

Milford Community House                                                         Promises to Keep

5 Union Street                                                                     199 Rockingham Road

Milford, NH 03055                                                                        Derry, NH 03038

Thursday, Dec. 29

8:00 a.m. – Concord, N.H.

NH House Business Caucus, Concord Chamber of Commerce & Josiah Bartlett Center Business Breakfast

Kimball Jenkins Estate

266 N. Main Street

Concord, NH  03301

Steve Forbes to Campaign in NH for Perry - 12.28-12.29

The New Hampshire Rick Perry for President Team is honored to welcome business man Steve Forbes to New Hampshire to campaign on behalf of Governor Perry.  On Wednesday December 28^th, Mr. Forbes, will address the Milford Rotary Club at its regularly weekly meeting and speak at a forum hosted by the Derry Republican Town Committee.

The next day, Thursday, December 29^th, he will be speaking at the NH House Business Caucus Breakfast, co-sponsored by the Concord Chamber of Commerce & Josiah Bartlett Center Business at the Kimball Jenkins Estate in Concord.

Forbes is a businessman, as well as editor and publisher of Forbes magazine. He is also president and CEO of its publisher, Forbes Inc.

As a two-time GOP Presidential candidate (1996 & 2000), Steve Forbes knows New Hampshire well.  In the 2012 Presidential Primary Race, Mr. Forbes has endorsed Rick Perry for President specifically citing his support for Perry's proposed flat tax plan as a "very exciting" way to get the economy back on track.

"Steve Forbes is a well-known fiscal conservative, and provided strong support and advice throughout the process of drafting my economic and jobs plans," said Perry, in a statement. "I am honored to have Steve's endorsement of my candidacy for president."

Wednesday, Dec. 28

12:30 p.m. - Milford, N.H.                                                6:00 p.m. - Derry, N.H.

Milford Rotary Club Speech                                                       Derry GOP Forum

Milford Community House                                                         Promises to Keep

5 Union Street                                                                     199 Rockingham Road

Milford, NH 03055                                                                        Derry, NH 03038

Thursday, Dec. 29

8:00 a.m. – Concord, N.H.

NH House Business Caucus, Concord Chamber of Commerce & Josiah Bartlett Center Business Breakfast

Kimball Jenkins Estate

266 N. Main Street

Concord, NH  03301

Perry for President - Steve Forbes Endorses Rick Perry for President

AUSTIN – Steve Forbes today endorsed Gov. Rick Perry for president, citing his firm leadership and appealing economic and tax reform plan.

To view Forbes’ comments endorsing Gov. Perry, please visit: http://www.rickperry.org/news/steve-forbes-endorses-rick-perry-for-president/.

“Steve Forbes is a well known fiscal conservative, and provided strong support and advice throughout the process of drafting my economic and jobs plans,” said Gov. Perry. “I am honored to have Steve’s endorsement of my candidacy for president.”

For more information about Gov. Rick Perry’s record, presidential campaign and plan to get America working again, please visit: www.rickperry.org.

American Principles Project - Forbes: What The Left Fails To Grasp Is That Gold Equals Jobs

http://blogs.forbes.com/ralphbenko/2011/07/18/what-the-left-fails-to-grasp-is-that-gold-equals-jobs/

Ralph Benko

A Golden Age

What The Left Fails To Grasp Is That Gold Equals Jobs

Jul. 18 2011 - 10:57 am  

By RALPH BENKO

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What’s the matter with Thomas Frank?  This question was posed and answered a few years ago in The New York Sun’s review of Frank’s The Wrecking Crew. “Mr. Frank’s point about contemporary conservative politics is straightforward and dogmatic,” writes the Sun. “It lives and breathes to support American plutocracy.”

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton — both governing from the center right — repeatedly were pilloried by the left as plutocratic tools.  And both presided over vibrant creation of many millions of new jobs, the very kind of jobs that are eluding America under President Barack Obama.  The left’s conflation of free market advocacy with plutocracy is at the root of prejudicing millions of workers and would-be workers.  Memo to Thomas:  Nobody hates a plutocrat with greater intensity than a free market advocate. Not even you.

Frank writes in the July issue of Harper’s Magazine on the emergence of the gold standard as an issue of the day. “We realize that yet another eccentricity of the right-wing fringe has moved into the mainstream of American life,” he says. There is a fascinating discussion to be had on the reinstitution of the gold standard and its power to generate jobs.  Instead, Frank’s dogmatism appears to have him mired in the discourse of the 20th, and even 19th, century.

Frank is yet another big name on the left to note and deplore the powerful uprising in favor of restoring the gold standard. His column echoes Paul Krugman’s July 6 New York Times blog post, “The Armageddon Caucus“: “Gold bugs have taken over the GOP.” It also follows Think Progress‘ June 9 report by Marie Diamond that “the Obama years have seen the lowest inflation in 30 years, but Tea Party groups are determined to make returning to the gold standard a litmus test for GOP presidential candidates.  And it looks like they’re succeeding.” The Roosevelt Institute’s Mike Konczal wrote on April 27, “Conservatives are organizing against a full employment mandate and rallying around the gold standard wing of their party.”

So … kudos to these public intellectuals for noticing the populist movement to restore gold.   The way they describe it, however, is completely unrecognizable.  Frank and his compatriots treat the gold standard as a slightly ludicrous (and possibly alarmist) anachronism and as a tool by which the wealthy oppress workers.  This critique is itself an anachronism.  The “ox carts,” “social dystopian” and “Daddy Warbucks” narrative bears no resemblance to what actually is under discussion — and shows little recognition of what is at stake.