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5/1/2013
The Republican Party of Wood County is an all volunteer grassroots organization dedicated to promoting conservative Republican values in central Wisconsin.
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nt Ronald Reagan said, “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves”.
Government exists to protect individual freedoms and liberties. Limited government is a fundamental belief of our party.
We believe that all people are equal in the eyes of God and should have equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity, regardless of race, creed, age, sex, and national origin.
Government is necessary to preserve a strong national defense, ensure individual liberties, provide a responsible economy, ensure justice, and to do jointly what would be too difficult for citizens to do separately. However, taxation that exceeds the necessary Constitutional functions of government erodes private ownership, decreases individual initiative, stifles the economy and mortgages the future of our children.
We enthusiastically support the bill of rights, a federal representative democracy, fair elections, and the sanctity of life.
Elections are won with the support of the grassroots and you are being heard. We need you to continue to be the voice of reason for our elected officials and the party as a whole. So we need your help. It takes volunteers like you to get the job done. Please visit our site, learn more about us, and join us as we make a difference.
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“Generations of Americans have grown up with the distinct impression, if not overt belief, absorbed within the public schools and through the mainstream media and Hollywood, that without the federal welfare state and its “anti-poverty programs,” millions of Americans would lie groaning in the streets, hungry, destitute, and homeless, as the rest of us, cold-hearted, insensitive, and uncaring, step over them on our way to McDonald’s to gorge ourselves on capitalist fast food slathered in lethal trans fats.”
The Great Transference, American Thinker, 12/4/2012
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The arrogance is unmistakable, and incredibly common among their ilk. Pundits who know nothing about guns tell us that less people would be shot if the government regulated more. People who know nothing about healthcare or insurance tell us that people would get better care and spend less if the government regulated more. And like clockwork, these same people who know nothing of fertilizer plants tell us that fertilizer plants wouldn’t experience accidents if the government regulated them more.
Government regulation is the recommended panacea of the progressive media elite, but when you examine the substance, it’s nothing more than a placebo to make people who don’t know anything about a given subject feel better. They believe that they are putting “experts” in charge. It seems a travesty that this needs to be explained to two such lofty intellectuals as Ohman and his editor, but accidents sometimes happen regardless of how many overpaid government bureaucrats are overseeing something.
William Sullivan, American Thinker, May1, 2013
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“The second primary doctrine of the 1960’s radicals is that by utilizing the vehicle of a massive central government, they could control the citizenry and create their concept of a “fair” society. It is the ideal philosophy for those who, so enamored with themselves, can wallow in their self-importance and rule with a heavy hand the same masses they claim to protect. Obama and his fellow-travelers can thus justify bankrupting the country as a necessary part of the transformation of the United States. However, this same approach tried in other nations has never accomplished its stated goals and has been an abysmal failure, leaving the people deeper in poverty and with a greatly diminished standard of living.”
American Thinker
October 15, 2012, Barack Obama’s October Surprises
By Steve McCann
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“Most of us do not deny we had the fortune of positive influence in our lives, if only to instill that our ultimate success or failure would be our own. We grew up in the age of Reagan when the only good government was a limited government. Our parents, mentors, friends, employers, and Sunday school teachers all recognized and soundly rejected Marxism. The pharmaceutical company that allowed me my first real opportunity, among the thousands it employed, brought to market lifesaving drugs and medical devices, despite government regulation, bureaucracy, and the highest corporate tax rate in the world. To think it dared presume to profit as it bettered the lives of real people, creating foundations that provided scholarship and support to real students and the scientific community, bettering communities for the road worker, teacher, and executive alike, even as it invested in its next innovation. To think government could possibly believe it is friend, not foe, to such success.”
Michaelin Harlin, American Thinker blog, July 16, 2012
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“The belief that wealth consists not chiefly in ideas, attitudes, moral codes, and mental disciplines but in definable static things that can be seized and redistributed — that is the materialist superstition. It stultified the works of Marx and other prophets of violence and envy. It betrays every person who seeks to redistribute wealth by coercion. It balks every socialist revolutionary who imagines that by seizing the so-called means of production he can capture the crucial capital of an economy. It baffles nearly every conglomerateur who believes he can safely enter new industries by buying rather than by learning them. It confounds every bureaucrat of science who imagines he can buy or steal the fruits of research and development.”
George Gilder, NRO 8/20/2012
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“In 1959, when Wisconsin became the first state to enact a public-sector collective-bargaining law, it wasn’t widely understood what the distorted incentives of government unionism would lead to. Five decades later, the wreckage is all around us. The privileges that come with government work — hefty automatic pay raises, Cadillac pension plans, iron-clad job security, ultra-deluxe health insurance policies — have in many cases grown outlandish and staggeringly unaffordable. What Keith Geiger, the former head of the National Education Association, once referred to as “ our sledgehammer, the collective bargaining process,” has wreaked havoc on state and municipal budgets nationwide.
Now, at long last, the pendulum has reversed. The 50-year mistake of public-sector unions is being corrected. Walker’s victory is a heartening reminder that in a democracy, even the most entrenched bad ideas can sometimes be unentrenched. On, Wisconsin!”
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, 6/10/2012
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“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Sam Adams [Quoted by Blogger Rick Moran at American Thinker]
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BIPARTISAN COMMISSION IN FAVOR OF VOTER ID: ” Critics of requiring voters to present a photo ID at the polls say the practice would disenfranchise minority voters, and some even accuse proponents of being motivated by racism. They don’t mention, however, that a 21-member bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter, advocated just such a policy in 2005.”
PJ Media, 01/31/2012
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President Reagan understood [the American desire for self-rule]. In his first inaugural address, he reminded us that “from time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?”
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Wow, is Illinois and Chicago great or what?
Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago?
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago . . . 221 killed in Iraq . . . AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the entire US.
President: Barack Hussein Obama
Senator: Dick Durbin
House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr.
Governor: Pat Quinn
House Leader: Mike Madigan
Atty. Gen: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Mayor: Rahm Emanuel
The leadership in Illinois - all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago!
Of course, they’re all blaming each other.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country.
Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois. And he’s going to ‘fix’ Washington politics for us???
George Ryan is no longer Governor, he’s in PRISON!
Of course he was replaced by Rob Blajegovitch who is…that’s right, also in PRISON!
And Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned a couple of weeks ago is because he is fighting being sent to…that’s right again, PRISON!
The Land of Lincoln, where our governors make our license plates.
But you know what? As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of Chicago,
nothing is going to change, except the state will go broke before the country does!
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There must be something liberating about ignorance. Back when most members of Congress had served in the military, there was a reluctance of politicians to try to tell military leaders how to run the military services. But, now that few members of Congress have ever served in the military, they are ready to impose all sorts of fashionable notions on the military.
After watching a documentary about the tragic story of Jonestown, I was struck by the utterly unthinking way that so many people put themselves completely at the mercy of a glib and warped man, who led them to degradation and destruction. And I could not help thinking of the parallel with the way we put a glib and warped man in the White House.
There are people calling for the banning of assault weapons who could not define an “assault weapon” if their lives depended on it. Yet the ignorant expect others to take them seriously.
— Thomas Sowell, National Reiew Online, 12/25/2012
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“Increasing the price of gasoline is effectively a highly regressive quasi-tax that disproportionately impacts the poor and lower-middle class, who can’t afford new highly fuel-efficient cars or to pay high housing costs to live close to work. Given that 80% of families making less than $50K/year have a car and spent about $1,500 on gasoline when gas was $2.80/gallon, the increase to $3.80/gallon is effectively a 1% flat tax increase on those making $50K/year and a 2% flat tax increase on those making $25K/year.
In addition, higher gasoline costs drive up the costs of pretty much everything Americans buy that is not locally produced due to the increase in shipping costs. In this context, increases in the cost of gasoline translate into a sales quasi-tax, and it is well established that sales taxes are highly regressive.
President Obama has also been waging a war on other energy sources. He is working hard to essentially end the use of coal for generating electricity in America by establishing overly restrictive environmental quality requirements on coal-fired power plants. In 2015, when the regulations come into effect, the price in power is projected to increase by a factor of 8 or more in areas that currently use coal-fired plants.”
American Thinker, September, 2012
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“A common liberal misperception about the nature of God’s laws is that they exist merely to establish that God is the top dog; that people have to dance to His tune.
In reality, the Judeo-Christian worldview holds that God’s laws are designed to help us be as happy as we can in this life, and in the next. God is a loving Father, not a cop hiding in order to catch us speeding so it makes sense that He would define laws to help us not to oppress us. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that violating His laws results in suffering and a variety of adverse consequences.”
The Liberal War on Responsibility
American Thinker 1/19/2013
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Big government’s appetite for taxes is insatiable. It will spend everything it is given and more. True, “starving the beast” has done little to reduce government spending. But feeding the beast is not likely to be more successful. In the end, the only thing that will actually kill the beast is killing the beast. That means actually cutting spending.
Michael Tanner, National Review Online, 11/16/2011
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The phrase “tax cuts for the rich” has been repeated endlessly by Democrats without one Republican that I know of saying, “Folks, I don’t lie awake at night worrying about millionaires’ tax problems. Millionaires have lawyers and accountants who get paid to do that. But I do worry about jobs being lost to millions of American workers because we make the business climate here worse than in other countries. That’s a high price to pay for rhetoric.”
Thomas Sowell, National Review Online, 5/2/2012
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“Liberalism nowadays may be the last great holdout of old-fashioned prejudice. By telling themselves they’re against group hatreds of all kinds, and dismissing their opponents’ arguments as nothing but bigotry in disguise, liberals grant themselves license to despise. They swear, mock, and hate with a clean conscience, never guessing they’re turning liberalism itself into an outpost of bigotry in reverse. The flip side of liberal guilt is this hidden license to hate.”
Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online, June 14, 2011
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“A lefty is like a child at a birthday party complaining that another kid got a bigger piece of cake than he did.”
From an American Thinker post The Left’s Big Obsession by Jon Hall, Sept. 24, 2011
