SOURCE: http://www.americanparchment.com

Go here to learn more: http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

PCs get to vote for the leadership of the Party and help determine, by majority vote, which candidates get the endorsement of the Party in the Republican primary races. Only takes a few hours of time a month. With half the PC slots in the Party nationwide vacant, and with a fifty-fifty split right now between conservatives and moderate RINOs in the PC ranks, the Party is there for the taking by conservatives/libertarians if we’d all just get off our duffs and get to a meeting of the local GOP and volunteer to become a PC. Want to save your country? Then invigorate the “main enemy” of the Debtocrat/Socialist Party with your presence.

(By the way, half of the Party leadership, the moderates, DON’T WANT YOU TO BECOME A PC, BECAUSE THEY AND THEIR RINO CRONIES WILL GET VOTED OUT OF THE LEADERSHIP — THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THIS BASIC CIVICS.)

Becoming a PC should be every conservative’s first priority. Blogging and carrying a sign at a Tea Party or attending a town hall is great, but unless we have better leadership and candidates in the main adversary party, the Debtocrats will get returned to power. It’s all about the Constitution and all about winning the elections. The best way to restore the Constitution and to have better candidates who respect the Constitution is to join the Republican Party at the grass roots and make it happen. It’s a numbers game. The more conservatives we have in the Party in the precinct committeemen ranks, the more likely it will be that we’ll get better elected leadership within the Party and in the general elections. Michael Steele was elected not by registered Republicans but by the precinct committeemen in all fifty states.

Also, you can go to http://www.redstate.com to learn more, too. Just type in the words precinct and committeeman into the search pane and hit the search button and links to a lot of good info will be presented too you.

Thank you.

Cold Warrior

I am only one. But I am a conservative Republican precinct committeeman and desperately trying to get other Constitution-loving conservatives and libertarians to do the same.

http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2009/09/02/434-new-conservative-precinct-committeemen-and-counting/

I want the US to be a country that produces and exports goods that people want and need. But, that doesn’t happen through putting up ridiculous protectionist barriers against import products consumers want and need. I’m all for being self-sufficent and self-reliant as a country… but that doesn’t come at the expense of blocking all imports and being afraid of competition. That make no logical sense and history has proven that (see Smoot/Hawley).

If you want to offer solutions to our current job situation or ways for our economy to re-emerge than I suggest you spend more time understanding the theory of free market economics and less time attacking someone like me who DOES understand it. I actually know the reason/cause/solution to our systemic economic problems. I just have the stones to speak the truth even when it reveals an ugly fact and the realization that things won’t come easy or be all sunshine and lollipops.

There is a large sector of our economy where “malinvestments” need to be clensed and losses need to be realized. That will be painful, but it is a reality. But, we will recover and dig ourselves out of it. I have great faith in the American people.

You might want to re-read my post. I didn’t say that it was the “cause” of the Great Depression. Loose monetary policy and the Federal Reserve DID cause the Great Depression and I have zero disagreements there. I said that the Smoot-Hawley Tariff helped “perpetuate” the depression…. just a tab bit of a distinction there. There were a meriad of policy failure that the gov’t made to sustain the depression instead of allowing it to self-correct as in 1920 (where another “depression” did occur and lasted about 16 months i believe with zero government intervention).

Since you do not know what protection is, I’ll help you out. Protectionism is the economic policy of restricting trade between states/countries, through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, quotas, and other government regulations designed to limit or even eliminate imports and prevent foreign company’s from competing. Call me crazy but that sounds strikingly familiar with what you proposed.

People who fail to understand the harms of protectionism are quick to say we should erect tariffs because we are losing jobs overseas to our foreign competition. Well, those same folks fail to realize that all goods that are imports are PURCHASED with dollars (USD) that all have to end up back here in the United States. China exports to us and receives USD and can either buy T-Bills (which they have a lot of and are basically underwriting our debt), exchange their USD with another currency entity (who must hold on to the dollars and spend how they see fit), or take those dollars and re-invest them back into the US as a capital good (such as a plant, stock, or other USD denominated investment vehicle).

We could easily remedy this buy addressing how much we spend/save as a country. The trade deficit exists because we do not SAVE any of our money as a country and are not competitive on the global market as an exporter compared to as others (such as China or Singapore or Japan). If we saved more and consumed less and with other countries saving less and spending more… the trade deficit would shrink. Obviously there are nuances to this (which exchange rates and other things), but the bottom line is that we are largely not competitive with other countries. To name a few, we have huge government outlays that must take $ out of the private sector (corporate/payroll taxes), we punish additional investments on capital and marginal production (capital gains tax, marginal tax rates, progressive income taxes, etc), we have extrodinarily high legacy costs on labor and pension benefits draggind down companies, and we as individual consumers all have on average $54,000 in non-mortgage debt per household.

I pray that our nation will get back to actual capital formation, savings, thrift, production, and exporting goods at competitive prices other consumers of the world (and within our domestic economy) will buy. There are many many policies that would have to change to allow this to happen and not enough words here to explain them all (other than what I’ve explained above).

Not left vs. right anymore. Unfortunately its our government Vs. We The People.

It will take the collapse of the dollar to wake everyone up.

The Federal Reserve was the cause of the Great Depression – and we had protectionism as you call it during the most prosperous years of this nation and this nation has gone deeply in to debt with your “free trade” idiocy. Time to go back to what works. Works just FINE for other nations….you know, the nations that are booming like China. Duh. Try to keep up. Those preaching this free trade nonsense are nearly all globalists who want to throw this country under a bus.