Tuesday's Republican Primary

I received an e-mail from Robin Yess about Tuesday's primary.  I did a bit of homework about the three candidates, Wendy Long, George Maragos, and Bob Turner. Like most Republicans, the three say that they favor lower taxes; however, they are vague about how low.  Turner says that Obamacare should be repealed and tax increases should be avoided.  Avoided? How about tax cuts to eliminate the Departments of Energy, Education, and Labor?

Wendy Long is a lawyer. Her website says this:

 The main purpose and idea of my campaign is not original. I can't claim authorship. An inspired group of New Yorkers and other Americans came up with the idea, about 225 years ago.
It's called limited self-government, of the people, by the people, and for the people.

No one in this country is above the law, and no one is beneath it. The law is what protects the weak from the strong, affirms the dignity of every person, and overlooks no one in its demand of equal justice.


That sounds good, but what does it mean?  Would she have opposed the Bush-Obama bailout of Wall Street and the Fed's $29 trillion subsidization of global banks?  Her Republican colleagues believed those actions were constitutional. Local news sources such as Cayuga County's Auburnpub.com offer sketchy information about the three candidates.

When you log onto George Maragos's website, there is a video that does not work properly. How come Netflix can stream two hour movies into my television, but Maragos can't get a one-minute video to work?  Also, his secure e-mail (the site doesn't give any other contact information) limits questions to 245 characters (characters, not words), so I could not ask him a few simple questions.

According to Maragos's site:

We must take action now to reduce the deficit, eliminate wasteful spending, and reform entitlements in order to restore America's economic strength, provide for individual opportunity and guarantee future prosperity for our children. Government programs which have proven ineffective and wasteful should be terminated...Medicare and Social Security are a sacred commitment to our seniors and should be protected. Senator Gillibrand voted to kill these programs by her vote against raising the national debt ceiling.

I thought the Bible is sacred, but Medicare is a political program.  Maragos puts Social Security up there with the Ten Commandments.  On the one hand he says that government programs that are ineffective should be terminated.  On the other he says that one of the most ineffective programs, Social Security, is sacred.   Might we conclude that Maragos is a Three-card Monte dealer who says one thing to attract conservatives' votes and another thing to attract special interest money?

I have a basic question for any candidate: Where did you stand on the bailout?  None of the coverage in New York's all-thumbs media answers that question.  I attempted to send e-mails to the three candidates.  Only Ms. Long has an e-mail program that allows voters to send her an e-mail to inquire as to her positions.  The following is the e-mail I sent to her aide, Lynn:

Dear Lynn:

What are Ms. Long’s position on local governments’ transferring political authority to NGOs (as has been recommended with respect to the Route 28 Bypass proposal in Ulster County)? This is a longstanding strategy of environmental extremists like the WWF that has been supported by both Republican and Democratic politicians.

What is Ms. Long’s position on Ron Paul’s proposal to audit the Fed?

What is Ms. Long’s position on the 2009 bailout?

Sincerely,

Mitchell Langbert

Within minutes, Lynn responded with the following message:

 

From: Lynn Krogh [mailto:lynnkrogh@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 12:50 PM
To: Mitchell
Subject: Re: NGOs, Fed, Bailout

I just passed on your inquiry to Wendy.  She's traveling in Buffalo right now, but I'm hoping to have these answered asap.

Thnx

Lynn Krogh

518.618.7074

Lynn@wendylongfornewyork.com

M

My response to her was as follows:

Thank you. You’re the only campaign that has a way to e-mail questions, and I’m very impressed that you got back to me so quickly. 

Of the three, Wendy Long seems to be the one who knows how to run a campaign.  So few candidates do.  I don't think we can expect a true limited government candidate at this point in history.  The best we can do is split the nation's governance between Democrats and Republicans and hope that they will do as little as possible. Unfortunately, both parties seem to like Agenda 21 and both love the Fed, so unless the public gets tired of being milked like cattle we can expect an increasing degree of totalitarianism no matter who gets elected. 

 

Canadian Radio Discusses Agenda 21

http://johnconner1984.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/city-planning-and-the-un/

Mike Marnell sent me the above-linked radio show concerning Agenda 

21. The hosts, Ron Stephens and John Conner, and their guest, 

Jessica Lauren Annis, are knowledgeable. Annis is a trained city 

planner who blanched at the indoctrination in her education in 

Canadian universites. She heads a group called Operation Pushback. 

Be patient with the tape's quality. I listened to the whole show. It is well 

worth your time. 

Mike Marnell, publisher of The Lincoln Eagle, asked me to listen to it. 

I had just written the following introduction to Agenda 21 for The Eagle: 

Introduction to Agenda 21

Mitchell Langbert, Ph.D.

Agenda 21 celebrated its 20th birthday this month.  It is an environmentalist plan of action that aims to reduce your standard of living.  It is not a fantasy or theory.  It was signed under the administration of a Republican president, George H.W. Bush.   According to the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs' Division for Sustainable Development's website (http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/):

Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment…

The United States has agreed to be subsumed under the "United Nations System" without public debate.  According to an informal straw poll that The Lincoln Eagle has conducted, no politician in Kingston has heard of Agenda 21; Mayor Gallo and his colleagues cannot assess the degree to which the proposed city plan reflects it. 

The text of UN Agenda 21 is posted on the aforementioned website.   It combines environmental extremism with economic illiteracy.  It advocates globalization and concentration of corporate economic power.  It claims that because Americans have a high standard of living other countries are poor.  This claim is incorrect. Human capital, entrepreneurship, and technological innovation create wealth.  In the 1940s Henry Hazlitt wrote an excellent book, Economics in One Lesson, which anticipated and refuted the fallacies that the UN now perpetuates through Agenda 21.  

UN Agenda 21 serves as a coordinating document for numerous initiatives, including town and city plans that have been proposed by politically connected consultants in Olive, Woodstock, and other towns in Ulster County and around the country.  The initiatives tend to reduce or attack small landholders' property rights while facilitating land grabs by banks and large developers.   Using terms like smart growth, cluster housing, and green development, the plans combine a pretense of environmentalism with intended subsidization of well-connected banks and developers.  The US Green Building Council's Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED) is linked to Agenda 21.  I interviewed LEED's sponsors; they told me that they have designed a building code that they would like to see implemented everywhere in the country.  The code would coerce new building standards; some proponents advocate making it retroactive, which would force moderate-income homeowners who cannot afford tens of thousands of dollars in retrofitting costs into city projects.   President Obama's failed Cap and Trade bill would have enforced expensive regulations on individual homeowners and initially called for retrofitting.   The Olive Town Plan mentioned, but did not insist on, refitting.

Under Agenda 21, commercial banks benefit by lending for city projects; developers profit from sweetheart deals; politicians like Senator Bonacic and Congressman Hinchey benefit from campaign contributions; environmentalists empty the rural regions of human population;  special interests celebrate while the average homeowner's life is diminished.  

A Short History of Progressivism

The Progressives claimed that they could expand government, but freedom's improvement in the standard of living and lessening of income inequality would continue.  The improvement in the standard of living stopped and income inequality increased, but the Progressives said that it wasn't due to Progressivism; it was, they said, due to freedom.

Ineptocracy

H/t Jim Crum.