The return to fiscally responsible government

Fiscal responsibility needs to be mandatory of our elected officials. You certainly would not spend recklessly with your family’s money and then hope for the best in the future.  Yet somehow it has become common place for our government to do just that. The national debt has become such a enormous problem that it literally hinders the decision making of all spending legislation. It doesn’t matter what political party you belong to, either way it is fiscally irresponsible to continue such unsustainable and reckless spending with no regards to the national debt.  Those officials that continue to do so need to be quickly removed from office. Please make the effort this election cycle to educate yourself on some of the most crucial and costly legislation that will burden the  American people for generations to come.

10/30/10:  Raihala endorses Sean Duffy

Julie Lassa has done nothing to show us that she won’t continue her liberal voting ways. We can ill-afford to risk sending her to Washington to join the liberal controlled rank and file Congress. That being said, I would like to believe that those that voted for me in the primary will trust in my decision and join me in voting for Sean Duffy.

Sean Duffy represents the change that we have been patiently waiting for. By voting for Sean, we can be assured that balance will be restored to Congress and the irresponsible spending of our future, by the liberals in power, will come to a stand still for the next 2 years.  This, I can assure you, is a good thing!

2010 is one of the most crucial elections in our nation’s history. Please, always make a responsible and informed decision when voting.  Our nation’s survival is at stake!

DON RAIHALA

As a small business owner I would never dream of spending money recklessly and hope that in the future my books will balance.  Likewise, I would never commit myself or a client to a contract that I had signed without reading or clearly understanding its ramifications.  Yet these acts are all too common in Congress.  When I saw what was shaping up to be business as usual this election cycle; I made the decision to commit to what my heart had always been telling me to do - get involved, inspire others, and make a difference. That commitment to you starts today. I will provide to you, what someday I would hope to call my constituents, the factual information you need to see and hear in order to make an informed decision this election cycle. Please join me here frequently, as this website will be in a constant state of upgrade.  Not all will like the information shared, but most will be able to see the importance of this fall’s elections.  Thank You very much for the opportunity!

Achieving Fiscal Responsibility

“I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed”.

William Proxmire (D) former WI Senator

The late Senator William Proxmire (D) said it all in the above quote, but apparently few listened. Almost everyone can agree that former President George W. Bush did a poor job of being fiscally responsible. He was irresponsible in starting the extremely costly military conflicts and started the ball rolling with those reckless TARP bailouts.  Apparently no lesson was learned and the bouncing ball political blame game goes on.  President Obama continues that recklessness at nearly double the spending pace of what Bush started. As indicated in the 2011 Obama administration budget plan below, the total debt held by the public (the largest portion of the national debt), continues to grow uncontrollably with careless spending policies. Clearly, there is no plan in place to fix and reverse the trend that ultimately will only lead to this nation’s economic collapse. As a Congressman I will work to strive for the implementation of a balance budget amendment to the United States Constitution.

Table S-1 of the Obama Administration 2011 budget can be found at  http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/tables.pdf

National debt statistics provided by the U.S. Treasury Department can be found at  http://treasurydirect.gov/govt/govt.htm

Protecting our Nation’s Sovereignty

 “Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous”

William Proxmire (D) former WI Senator

We, as a nation with a real adjusted unemployment rate closer to 18%, can not afford to release these jobs to people that are here illegally in this country. Along with the job loses are the added social service costs, schooling costs, health and emergency medical costs, police enforcement costs, jail and prison costs, and the least talked about is the hit on the U.S. monetary supply when currency is shipped out of the country.

Not only does having a weak and porous border have dire economic consequences to everyone’s pocketbook, but it also provides a continual source for illegal activity that is doing severe harm to our nation. Illegal drugs, human traffickers, terrorists, kidnappers, gangs, military style weaponry, disease, and a smorgasbord of nationalities from all over the world are entering this country illegally.

No one is saying that immigrants are not worthy to live in this country. What needs to be understood is legal citizen status is an earned privilege and not a right that we are lead to believe. There is an official orderly legal process that needs to be followed if someone desires permanent entry into our great nation. Our federal government needs to be the strong enforcer of our borders instead of wasting time and resources on trivial lawsuits against states that need this enforcement now.  This is an utmost matter of national security.  I would vote for the strengthening of our borders to ensure total protection from all unknown threats and would never vote for amnesty for those illegally in our great country.

A quick note on Cap & Trade

“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”

Mark Twain

On June 26, 2009 the House of Representatives passed, on a 219-212 vote HR 2454 The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.  The bill, more commonly known as Cap & Trade, caps greenhouse emissions, provides for an exchange of emission credits and mandates more renewable energy.  It is also known for being a punishing tax on consumers and companies.  I believe that the people of this great nation can ill afford to tackle such a worldly problem at this time of economic hardship. I will vote to repeal or not fund this bill as it puts a unjust burden on the people of the United States.  Penalizing our U.S. citizenry with taxation and regulation on energy consumption is not the answer to a potential worldly problem that is based on faulty climate data.

Al Gore is the main vocal authority on climate change and the Obama administration has thus far followed his lead in an attempt to pass legislation that would instill an unjust and unfair energy cost increase to the American people. On November 4, 2009 Gore did an interview with Charlie Rose which forever opened my eyes to the great fraud of global warming science. This is a must see video.  It is a bit long, but worth it to see the man and science behind global warming. Much like his book ‘An inconvenient truth’, the video is riddled with lies, falsehoods, deceptions, convenient lies and misdirections.

When asked by Charlie Rose, “what would Al Gore like to see the [emissions] standard be?”

“80-90 percent reductions as soon as possible”

Al Gore (at 17:17 in video)

[Note: A $40,000 Chevy Volt and wrapping your house in 4 inch foam and removing the windows may make you close to compliance.   Don Raihala]

Literally ended the mega-job super oil refinery expansion in Superior by his shoot from the hip oil industry fear tactic comment:

“Alberta tar sands, [have] much more CO2 per gallon of gasoline, will give a Prius the carbon footprint of a Hummer”

   Al Gore (at 38:00 in the video)

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Thank you for your interest in my candidacy and your overwhelming support!  I can be reached by email at don@donforcongress.com

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