Mountaineers were once free

 

 

As the election draws near our hopes of regaining the White House seem to grow with each Presidential debate, but with two weeks to go our chances of taking a conservative majority in the Senate seem precarious.  One state which appears to be a likely hold for the Democrats is West Virginia (God forgive us if so!), so for my fellow mountaineers allow me to sound a political alarm clock.

Two things will crush the mountain state if the status quo is maintained, Obama-care and the coal-crushing policies of the EPA which has begun to institute a defacto cap and trade policy. Remember it is the stated goal of the Obama administration to make “building a coal fired plant so expensive you’ll go broke”. Obama also says that under his cap and trade plan energy rates would necessarily sky rocket. No sweat, West Virginia will not go to Obama, but we seem Hell-bent to send fellow Democrat Joe Manchin back to Washington.  No, Manchin isn’t a radical lefty who pushes for limits on free speech, like oh... Jay Rockefeller Dem. WV and he did make a stand with Republicans to object to the sprawling power of the EPA and he made one of the all time great political adds by shooting the national Cap and trade bill with a hunting rifle, but consider this: As governor Joe Manchin pushed for and signed Cap and trade legislation in WV. I said: As governor Joe Manchin pushed for and signed Cap and trade legislation in WV. (http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb103%20ENR.htm&yr=2009&sesstype=1X&i=103)

In West Virginia we have this thing called “friends of coal” but with friends like Joe Manchin Coal needs no enemies!

From Manchin’s opponent John Raese: Our nation is at a crossroads. This November, the future of West Virginia is at stake.

We need a President and a Senator who not only defends coal in West Virginia, but more importantly in Washington, as well.

The Manchin-Obama economic policies are crushing West Virginia.

Coal power plants are going out of business. Coal companies like Patriot are filing for bankruptcy protection. Coal stocks are at an all-time low. And West Virginians are losing their jobs.

At the end of 2008, there were 264 coal mines producing coal.

As of May 2012, the Manchin-Obama War on Coal has reduced that number to 174.

Can you imagine what Joe Manchin and Barack Obama would do in the next four years when Obama doesn’t have to worry about running for reelection?

West Virginia can’t afford to find out the answer to that question.

And it’s not enough to just throw Obama out of office. If President Romney is going to be successful he will need a Republican Congress and a Republican Senate.

As important as the White House and House of Representatives are, and believe me no one is more committed to making Barack Obama a one-term president than I am, the real action is in the Senate.

If we are going to correct all the disastrous policies that Barack Obama and Joe Manchin have implemented, it’s going to take 51 Republican Senators.

If we send 51 Republican Senators to Washington in 2012 we can kill Obamacare and save coal.

(http://www.raeseforsenate.org/index.php/2012/08/savethecoal/)

Raase is likely to carry the Eastern Panhandle, the only part of West Virginia that’s not coal-based in its economy. Why does the rest of our great state seem so intent on cutting its own throat? I warn my fellow West Virginians keep sending these Democrats to Washington and our motto will need to be changed to “Mountaineers are always broke”!

Then there’s Obama-care, and the greatest single assault on freedom in the history of our nation. Manchin gripes about aspects of the bill but opposes repeal because there are some good things in it. That is comparable to the French arguing in 1941, “sure there are problems with the German Occupation but we like German bread and Volkswagens so let’s just try to fix the occupation not end it."

Here again is Raese’s take: Besides robbing your family of basic medical care choice, the new Obamacare health plan passed by the Democratic Congress is expected to employ thousands of new IRS agents to track down Americans for payment of healthcare taxes. The cost of the greatest social spending program in the nation’s history is still under debate, but since the inception of Medicare in 1965 the cost of the program has grown 2.7% faster the economy and should reach 20% of America’s GDP within the decade.

Here’s an example. An employer with a number of chain restaurants employs nearly 1,000 full time and part time workers. Each worker generates $58,000 in revenue and that works out to a $3,000 profit per employee when salary, taxes and overhead are deducted. Under President Obama and Senator Manchin’s new government mandated healthcare program, Obamacare, this employer will be forced to pay between $7,000 and $10,000 more per employee. You don’t have to be a mathematics genius to understand this will just not work – and will cost jobs. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office now believes Obamacare will cost the economy more than 800,000 jobs!

According to the Heritage Foundation new taxes, penalties and fees resulting from Obamacare will decrease the amount of investment in the economy. That reduced investment will in turn lead to a decline of productivity causing the economy to produce $706-billion dollars less in goods and services.

Despite election year statements to the contrary in 2010, Senator Joe Manchin had an opportunity last year to repeal Obamacare but voted NO in lockstep with President Obama.

John Raese stands in direct opposition to Joe Manchin and would vote to repeal Obamacare as a United States Senator.

If Obama Care stands that motto will be “Mountaineers were once free”

That’s no joke.

Please West Virginia: Get on the Firing line!