Title: 9/11 Flag Memorial with the College Republicans & College Democrats Location: Eaton Humanities, Boulder, CO Facebook Event Link: Click here Description: Set Up: 8 pm on Friday September 10th
Take Down: 7 pm on Saturday September 11th
This is a joint event between the College Republicans and the College Democrats to honor the victims and their families who died on 9/11. Please join us in making this year’s 9/11 Flag Memorial as much of a success as last year’s. Start Date: 2010-09-10 Start Time: 8:00pm End Date: 2010-09-11 End Time: 7:00pm
“[...] look, not only do we have $12 trillion in debt, not only have we mortgaged ourselves to the Chinese, but the tragedy of it is, we have absolutely nothing to show for it, absolutely nothing to show for it. We haven’t invested in our roads, our bridges, our transportation, our ports, anything. What did we do? Well, we cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans and we cost our kids $1.4 trillion. We said ‘we’re gonna cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans, borrow it from the Chinese, and stick our kids with the bill.’ We have spent a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’ve borrowed all of that money from our kids. Medicare Part D, the seniors’ prescription drug program that Bush advanced–might be a great program but we didn’t pay for it. The bailout that ended the last administration, about $800 billion, not paid for. And then, the piece of it that the President, we own, I own, was the recovery package last year which was roughly $760 billion. All that adds up to $12 trillion, and we’ve got to address it. It’s immoral to leave this to our children [...]”
This quote from the above dialogue was quickly turned into an attack ad against Bennet:
“We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it.”
Title: First College Republican Meeting with Senate candidate Ken Buck Location: Eaton Humanities HUMN 250 Facebook Event Link: Click here Description: Free pizza and drinks! Come and meet some fellow conservatives and find out how you can get involved this election! Senate candidate Ken Buck will be our guest speaker. Start Time: 06:00 pm Date: 2010-09-01 End Time: 07:30 pm
As President Obama comes to Denver today to rally support for Sen. Michael Bennet at various fundraisers, Jane Norton has released an ad challenging him to balance the budget by the end of his first term.
Transcript:
ANNOUNCER: The President’s coming to Denver and Colorado needs to send him a message.
JANE NORTON: Mr. President, as a candidate you came to Denver and promised to “go through the federal budget…eliminating programs that no longer work…”
You’ve done just the opposite – massive spending and debt.
It’s ruining our economy and it’s wrong.
Mr. President, you should pledge to balance the budget or else decline to seek re-election. That’d be change we could believe in.
I’m Jane Norton. I approved this message. Let’s Stand Up, Colorado.
On her Campaign Blog, she identifies several options to bring America back toward fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets:
* Cut discretionary spending by 20 percent and then freeze it for three years. This shouldn’t be hard to accomplish – all it would require is a return to 2008 levels.
* Use what’s left of the stimulus and TARP money to pay down the debt. It will show the American people you’re serious about fiscal responsibility.
* End your quest for a government healthcare takeover.
* Then cut taxes on small businesses. Ronald Reagan showed that it works. When small businesses can create jobs through a lower tax burden, tax receipts actually go up!
* End earmarks.
* Finally, do what you promised. Go through your budget line by line and eliminate wasteful programs until the federal government is not spending a dime more than it makes.
The CU Independent, the student media for CU Boulder, is changing college journalism forever.
Starting Tuesday, Feb. 16, the CU Independent is dedicating its resources to speaking out about issues that impact students.
The CU community consists of over 30,000 people, and everyone has the right to speak out about what they believe in and what they’re against.
On Tuesday, the new Speak Out! section of the CU:I will go live and there will be a special event on UMC Terrace. At 12:10 p.m., join the CU:I staff and introduce special campus speakers and keynote speaker Jared Polis, who will be talking about this new campaign and the importance of acceptance on campus.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the president has “been very clear about his support for the House and Senate bills because of what they achieve for the American people: putting a stop to insurance company abuses, extending coverage to millions of hardworking Americans, getting control of rising premiums and out-of-pocket costs, and reducing the deficit.”
That said, Gibbs stated that President Obama “looks forward to reviewing Republican proposals that meet the goals he laid out at the beginning of this process, and as recently as the State of the Union Address. He’s open to including any good ideas that stand up to objective scrutiny.”
Concluded Gibbs, “What he will not do, however, is walk away from reform and the millions of American families and small business counting on it.”
(via ABC)
Will he really consider GOP proposals? We will have to wait and see..
I recommend everyone take a look at Paul Ryan’s A Roadmap for America’s Future: www.americanroadmap.org/
Well, would you look at that. A billboard along I-35 near Wyoming, Minn. depicts George W. Bush with the caption: “Miss me yet?” Pretty funny if you ask me.
Title: 9/11 Flag Memorial with the College Republicans & College Democrats
