Meet The New Press - Podcast for 07/11/09
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Week of 7/11/09
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Hour One:
Maggie Thurber (from Thurber's Thoughts) joins us to talk the politics about our Congressional Representatives (her's is and ours is Carol Shea-Porter) about the pro / con calls coming into their offices during the Waxman/Markey "Cap and Tax" debates. They both have refused to release those ratios, citing that Congress is immune to the Freedom Of Information Act (Maggie filed one against her CongressCritter - and I against Carol Shea-port. So far, both have been refused. Part 1 Part 2
Dave Kreutzer from the Heritage Foundation came on to talk more about the "Cap and Tax" bill but more of the future costs and the utter waterfall of regulation that will inundate American business and people ("...so, you wanna renovate or sell your house, or even change the name on the utility bill - expect to spend THOUSANDS of bucks!...") Part 1 Part 2
Hour Two:
Andrew Hemingway, Chair of the Bristol, NH Budget Committee, comes on to talk about how local government can run effectively on smaller budgets - at 26 years old, he saved the taxpayers over $500,000 by sheer hard work - it is possible. We also talk about returning to the role of the citizen / politician - do the civic duty and then return home (vs the professional politician class that has become parasitical). He also is an announced candidate in NH's Congressional District 2 and will be running in the Republican Primary. Part 1 Part 2
Lori Ingham, a local blogger from ConChrist, comes in to talk about the Franklin, NH City Councilors blowing up their 20 year Tax Cap under the guise of "we have to spend more money because we screwed up and didn't tax enough last year" - once again, politicians behave badley and taxpayers have to pay the price (Kudos to Franklin Mayor Ken Merrifield (heh! The 'Grok loves his pix!) for vetoing their efforts to raise taxes twice - too bad there were way too many BAD politicians arrayed against him and NOT for the taxpayers). Part 1 Part 2
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