{"id":7655,"date":"2009-02-07T08:23:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7655"},"modified":"2009-02-07T08:30:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T13:30:29","slug":"michael-steeles-weekly-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7655","title":{"rendered":"Michael Steele&#8217;s weekly address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new RNC Chair lays out the Republican plan for stimulus;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/S2N9O4lB2Jo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/S2N9O4lB2Jo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>He briefly tells us out WHY the Democrat plan won&#8217;t work and offers the Republican plan &#8211; that&#8217;s what the Democrats failed to do in their eight years of being the Party of No. It&#8217;s easy to just oppose a measure, but offer us something in contrast. It looks like we have common sense at the helm again.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the transcript;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is <span id=\"lw_1234013080_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">Michael Steele<\/span>, Chairman of the <span id=\"lw_1234013080_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">Republican National Committee<\/span>. Democrats have controlled both <span id=\"lw_1234013080_4\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">branches of government<\/span> for less than a month. And you have to wonder if all that power has gone to their heads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the last two weeks, they&#8217;ve been trying to force a massive spending bill through Congress under the guise of economic relief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of us &#8212; Republicans and Democrats &#8212; agree the government must act to kick-start the American economy. <span id=\"lw_1234013080_5\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">American families<\/span> are doing their best to balance their own budgets and pay their mortgages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fastest way to help those families is by letting them keep more of the money they earn. Individual empowerment: that&#8217;s how you stimulate the economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the Democrats have a different philosophy. Instead of leaving money in the family checkbook, they want to send it to Washington, run it through a slow and inefficient government, and hope that does some good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When families keep the money, they spend it, save it, or invest it. And the <span id=\"lw_1234013080_6\" class=\"yshortcuts\">private sector economy benefits<\/span> when families and businesses buy consumer goods or invest it for the future. But when <span id=\"lw_1234013080_7\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Washington<\/span> spends the money, some of it may flow into the economy, but all too often, much gets wasted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democrats in Congress want a one-trillion dollar spending bill. You&#8217;ve heard about the pork-barrel programs they want to fund&#8230; 45 million dollars for <span id=\"lw_1234013080_8\" class=\"yshortcuts\">ATV trails<\/span> and removal of fish passage barriers is one that caught my eye. Exactly what is a fish passage barrier and why does it cost 45 million dollars to stimulate the economy with it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why Republicans in the House voted against uncontrolled spending. This is not a bragging point, but rather a statement that at least Republicans would stand with the American taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But voting &#8216;no&#8217; is not enough&#8230; and Republicans have offered innovative ideas to help struggling families and small businesses. We&#8217;ve offered plans to spark job creation and investment through lower taxes, to stop the taxation of <span id=\"lw_1234013080_9\" class=\"yshortcuts\">unemployment benefits<\/span>, and to help Americans keep their jobs and their homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The comprehensive Republican plan would lower taxes for all working American families. If you&#8217;re married, the first 16,750 dollars you make this year will be taxed at ten percent. Why don&#8217;t we cut that rate in half to give instant buying power to every working American family?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good ideas&#8230; lots of them&#8230; all left out of this plan by the Democrats in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Republicans stand ready to work with reasonable Democrats to do what is right for America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it will take more than bipartisan words from the President. It will require fair-minded action from Democrats in Congress.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Curt at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floppingaces.net\/2009\/02\/06\/steele-cleaning-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flopping Aces<\/a> writes that Steele is cleaning house at the RNC &#8211; that&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve needed since the nineties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new RNC Chair lays out the Republican plan for stimulus; He briefly tells us out &hellip; <a title=\"Michael Steele&#8217;s weekly address\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7655\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael Steele&#8217;s weekly address<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}