VA BUDGET QUESTIONS by Tom Cranmer - Why is the budget not a "budget?" It is more of a forecast of revenues and expenditures. - Why are expenditures self-adjusting? By law they have to be balanced with revenues. In 2010 VA had a $400 million surplus. The Sunshine Review reported the "Revenue Stabilization Fund has shrunken from $1.19 billion in 2006 to $295 million in 2010." - What are the biggest tricks in the budget? To delay funding $600 million [...]
VCDL will be participating in a media event set up by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) this Wednesday, March 30th, starting at 11:30 AM in Washington, D.C. in front of Fox News (corner of North Capitol Street and Louisiana Ave. NE). The event will have a large billboard display saying, "Gun Save Lives - 2,191 Americans use guns for self-defense every day" Starting today (Monday), the truck with that billboard has already begun [...]
Register here http://www.constitutiontownhall.com/Hillsdale/Microsite/microsite-April16-schedule2.aspx Webcast Schedule Saturday, April 16, 2011 10 - 10:15 a.m. (EDT) "Choosing Liberty": Welcome and Introduction The Honorable Mike Pence U.S. Representative, Sixth District of Indiana Today citizens must choose whether they will live as citizens, or subjects. 10:15 - 11: 15 a.m. (EDT) "How Our Economic Liberty Has Been Diminished" Dr. Paul Moreno Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History, Hillsdale College Economic liberty was revered by the Founding Fathers, who enshrined its principles in the Constitution. A [...]
Received Via Email: According to the calendar, today is the last day of session. And it would be, too, if we had a budget. With the clock ticking down to zero, however, it looks like we're going into overtime. We will take up a few bills in conference today, but the budget towers over every other consideration, and if we don't finish today, we will be back soon to get the job done. For now, I would like to use [...]
THE MAKING OF AMERICA A LEARNING EXPERIENCE YOUR FAMILY WILL NEVER FORGET Dr. W. Cleon Skousen and his staff spent 16 years researching the writings of our Founding Fathers, from which this seminar is based. This will be one of the most awe inspiring and informative days you'll ever spend. The seminar cuts right through the falsities and misunderstandings of the Constitution and gets right to what the Founders intended by the Constitution, in their own words. A must know [...]
Call Your congressman and tell them that in this time of economic fraud/waste/abuse that we don't need more. Much has also been made of the threat of engine-related groundings. In fact, there are no documented instances of fleet-wide groundings in the past 30 years. Such talk is a scare tactic. In addition, an alternate engine won’t help the industrial base. GE is the largest military engine manufacturer with sole-source positions on the F/A-18 and several thousand Black Hawks and Apaches. [...]
There is a war even within "conservatism", it surrounds spending cuts for the Military. Sometimes trimming the fat can be a good thing. Just ask Oprah. In all seriousness, isn't it time we look long and hard at spending cuts for the military? If we are serious about getting rid of fraud/waste/abuse in government then we can't leave out one of the largest budget items on the list. Currently the Military is debating the "alternate engine" for the F-35. A [...]
From Phillip Van Cleave NOTE DATE CHANGE: I have just learned that the Sussex County Board of Supervisors will NOT hear the proposed ordinance to restrict shooting ranges on February 17th. The ordinance WILL be coming up on March 17th at 7 PM, so if you live in the general area, mark your calendars so we can show up in force! VCDL Alert I don't know if there are sufficient words in the English language to express my disdain and [...]
Being that Governor McDonnell and others in Richmond are talking about spending 4 billion dollars maybe we should stop and take a look at "what is in a billion" eh? Author Unknown How many zeros in a billion? This is too true to be funny. The next time you hear a politician use the Word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about Whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, But [...]
The machine is moving full speed ahead to get this absurd transportation package rushed through. The fools that have been elected seem to think we are stupid. That we don't notice the revolving sales pitch that hits us every legislative session. " The Sky is falling, If you don't support this bill the end of the world will be upon us".
