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We follow the principles in the WV GOP party platform:

1. That faith in the individual is the foundation of our future; that the basic rights guaranteed in the United States Constitution and the West Virginia Constitution must be upheld.
2. That free enterprise is essential to economic growth.
3. That all citizens are guaranteed equal rights and justice before the Law regardless of race, creed, color, age, sex or economic station in life.
4. That all citizens have the freedom to work and enjoy the fruits of their labor; that all citizens are guaranteed the freedom to contract, to own, and control their property.
5. That all citizens have the right to participate in a free economy.
6. That the honor and dignity of the Flag of the United States of America should be protected.
7. That every individual citizen of West Virginia is empowered by assuming personal responsibility for self, family and community.
8. That traditional values, education, and religious freedom are the foundation of our country’s future.

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From http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122705663771939523.html

His friends advise Barack Obama to launch a “New” New Deal. Maybe that’s because the old New Deal is sinking fast.

Mr. Obama’s one deeply false note during the campaign was his harping on “deregulation” as if that were the source of current troubles. His real problem is the crack-up of the world FDR built.

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Barack Obama gets taken for a ride by the UAW.

Fannie Mae was a New Deal creation, subsidizing the securitization of mortgage debt. FDR’s successors piled on the subsidies for housing debt and incentives directed at low-income borrowers. Kaboom.

Then there’s the UAW, born in 1935. For decades the UAW steadily traded away domestic auto market-share to imports and transplants to keep its aging membership toiling away toward their golden pensions and collecting wages and benefits twice those of their competitors. It worked for a while . . .

Mr. Obama must be looking around and beginning to suspect he will be pouring his political capital, along with considerable taxpayer capital, down bottomless holes for the next four years. He won’t be building a legacy as the new FDR, but cleaning up after the last one.

Fannie and its twin, Freddie Mac, have already come back for a second helping of taxpayer money as their once-profitable business model devolves into a politically directed subsidy machine for propping up home prices and delaying foreclosures. Their next meltdown, in government hands, is all but written in the cards.

AIG, an otherwise healthy insurance company that went bust betting on housing debt, has already consumed taxpayer loans and capital injections nearly as big as AIG’s $200 billion market cap when it was one of the world’s most admired firms. AIG still has a valuable insurance business, but ignoramuses in Congress and the press are busy destroying it. The company sells many of its products through busy independent agents. It uses lush “seminars” to encourage them to sit still for pitches about why AIG should still be trusted despite AIG’s purgatory in the headlines. But these seminars only produce more outraged grandstanding from the political commentariat.

It will take years for the government to get AIG off its hands, and there likely won’t be much value left for taxpayers when it finally does.

But the really giant sucking sound is the auto sector, getting ready to gobble up whatever hopes Mr. Obama might have had for an ambitious, forward-looking presidency.

He and Nancy Pelosi naturally insist that any “bailout” must hit multiple bogies. They want UAW jobs to be preserved. They want the shibboleth of energy independence advanced. They want “green” cars to please the Tom Friedmans of the world. They want to tell taxpayers they’re getting more for their money than just a bailout of Detroit.

All this makes sense to a politician, but not to any practical person, who knows that multiple bogies are bound to be conflicting bogies. You could just barely envision a bailout that wouldn’t necessarily be a disastrous waste of money, one that would help Detroit create a competitive cost structure in pursuit of building products that are competitive in the marketplace. But this is just the opposite of what Mr. Obama and his Democrats have in mind.

Prepare to witness, then, the awesome capacity of an unreformed Detroit to consume taxpayer billions with nothing to show for it.

That Mr. Obama had been sent by history to assuage the insecurities of the middle class with a “New” New Deal was always a tad detached from reality anyway. The reason is those giant legacies of existing New Dealism known as Social Security and Medicare, about which he was careful to say nothing intelligible during the campaign. These programs worked for a while too, but now their expected revenues are (in present value) about $99.2 trillion short of the expected outlays required to assure present and future workers their promised comfort in retirement.

Then again, Mr. Obama did say something in his campaign about tax rebates for all these payroll taxpayers. He also said something about government matching contributions to incentivize today’s low- and middle-income workers to save for their own retirement.

Voilà, personal accounts funded by payroll-tax givebacks — strangely similar to the solution our current president promoted to help workers escape the impending insolvency of the government retirement programs. Mr. Obama envisioned himself extending FDR’s work. He may end up finishing George Bush’s.

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” —Calvin Coolidge

“When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.” —Fredrich August von Hayek

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” —H. L. Mencken

Let me sort of describe my overall policy.
What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.

I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.

That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.

The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.
It’s just that it will bankrupt them.

Listen to his words here:

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13. Record of baptism– Not released or ‘not available’.

Written by Jerry Teasley of Pine Mountain, GA. Former Banker.

Most of my friends know, I have tried to stop thinking, but I can’t help it in the wake of all the recent economic news.

My banking career started in 1970 and ended in 1993, but I still keep close ties to the industry.  During my banking years I did learn one or two things along the way.  The problem with our economy today is from a liberal thinking congress, senators, and presidents, as well as greed and dishonesty..  When you put these together it spells disaster in any area of our life.

Ask any banker (just walk in and ask one that has been there for 15 or 20 years) and they will tell you these are the FACTS:

Under Jimmy Carter we received the Community Reinvestment act.  This law says banks have to make loans in low income areas and it has forced many lending institutions to seek to make loans to people in areas that lenders would not normally go because of the risk and low property values. (Sub Prime Loans)  This was in 1977. In 1980 president Carter and a Democratic controlled congress passed the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act– The law also removed the power of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors under the Glass-Steagall Act and Regulation Q to set the interest rates of savings accounts. A Sad fact is we are all still feeling the effects of his policies and decisions 30 years later.

Then in 1995, Bill Clinton, (in between interns) made changes to the Community Reinvestment Act, that forced an increase in the number of loans to these people and the aggregate dollar amounts loaned.– Larger loans to people with less income in areas  where the collateral value would go down instead of up. (Clinton should have had his mind on the long range effects of this in stead of Monica and a good cigar.) This was in response to pressure from “community activists.” Can you think of a former Community activist running for president?  Hint - he’s a Democrat

In 1999 Mr. Clinton signed to repeal the Glass-Steagall act which had protected taxpayers since the Great Depression.

In 2003 President Bush tried to propose a change in regulatory control over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and place both companies under the control of the Department of the Treasury, but was voted down by the liberal democrats led by Barney Frank. Remember the name Barney Frank, he is one of Obamas top two economic advisors

Now, Mr. Obama claims that all our financial  problems are because of Bush’s failed economic policy, and he has on his payroll the very people that were in control of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Barney Frank)  that received huge $$$$$$ bonuses while they were running things.  Mr. Obama has received the second largest amount of donations (over $126,000) from these companies and he has only been in the Senate 2 years.

When Enron went belly up, we demanded Senate hearings and investigations.  Why aren’t the Democrats demanding the same with these companies?

“I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times several years ago.