Ozarks Virtual Town Hall - Happy Valentine's Day! - February 14th, 2008 -- KEVIN CRAIG for Congress

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The Message of Christmas and the Principles set forth by the Christ (the Messiah) who came that first Christmas are the real solution to America's problems. The Federal Government is at war with Christmas and "The Way of Peace" announced by the Prince of Peace.

Christmas	Bush-Clinton-Obama
John 1:1-18 - The Incarnation The Word became flesh. The Creator of the universe becomes a human being. He came to His own, but His own did not receive Him, preferring darkness rather than light.	"The State is God walking on Earth" The 2 parties are cooperating rival sects in the world's most powerful religious cult.
Luke 1:1-4 Eyewitnesses of the Messiah recorded their testimony. Co-Founder of the Harvard Law School says their testimony would prove the resurrection in any court of law in America, at one time a Christian nation.	No longer a Christian nation, American courts routinely release the guilty and condemn the innocent.
Matthew 1:1-17 Jesus was a descendant of King David.	Obama is a distant cousin of both Dick Cheney and George Bush How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Luke 3:23-38 Jesus was a descendant of Abraham. All those who submit to Jesus as the Messiah (the rightful king of the earth) inherit the promises made to Abraham	Those who reject the Messiah do not inherit the promises made to Abraham, even though Bush defends their right to do so.
Luke 1:5-25 John the Baptist prepares the way for the Messiah, as prophesied of Elijah.	As you read the Gospel accounts, ask yourself how you would react if you knew these accounts were really true. Not just true in some "religious" sense, but reported in the New York Times, proven in a court of law, or acknowledged by your personal hero. (How do you know something is true? Do you even have any "heroes?") How should you change your life if your Creator became a human being? How should Washington D.C. react if this human being claimed to be the true Ruler?
Luke 1:26-38 The Angel Gabriel announces the conception of the Messiah, who will be given the throne of David.
Luke 1:39-45 The unborn John recognizes the mother of the Messiah.	Bush-Obama would chop the unborn John and the unborn Jesus into stem cells for "medical research."
Luke 1:46-56 - "The Magnificat" “He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.” Luke 1:51	The Bush Administration is filled with the power-hungry, who commit adultery in reality or in fantasy.
Luke 1:67-80 Zacharias, John the Baptist's father, prophecies the birth of Jesus the anti-king.	The expectations of Zacharias are 180° opposite those of the Bush-Obama Administration.
Matthew 1:18-25 Joseph told about the Incarnation. "Jesus" means "salvation" "Immanuel" means "God with us"	The Bush Administration thinks it brings salvation. Obama thinks he is Immanuel.
Luke 2:1-7 The Prophet Micah predicted that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. Jesus' parents lived in Nazereth. Therefore God predestined Caesar to issue a decree (probably relating to taxes) that would bring Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem before Jesus was born.	Bush claims the same global power of confiscation and migration as Caesar did. Thousands of Christians have been forced to move out of Iraq to make way for Bush's Islamic Theocracy.
Luke 2:8-14 An army of angels announces the birth of the Messiah, saying, “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace to those with whom He is pleased!”	Man's chief end is to glorify God and live in peace. The Bush Administration's chief end is to erect a "wall of separation" between God and government so that the State gives no glory to God, and to wage war, thereby "stimulating the economy."
Luke 2:15-20 “Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds.”	Washington D.C. isn't listening.
Luke 2:22-24 Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem to obey Leviticus 12:8, which suggests that they were not rich.	Washington politicians are among the richest and most financially secure people in America.

Luke 2:25-35 Simeon had been told he would not die before he saw the Lord's Messiah. He says Jesus is "The One."
	Is Barack Obama the Messiah?

Luke 2:36-38 Anna the Prophetess is another well-known Godly person who acknowledges that Jesus is the Child promised by the prophets.	Where is the Anna of our day who tells us we can trust Washington D.C. to bring salvation?
Matthew 2:1-8 "Wise men from the East" knew of Micah's prophecy that the King of the Jews would be born in Bethlehem.	Are there any wise men around the world who place their confidence in George Bush, Henry Paulson, Paul Krugman, or Barack Obama?
Matthew 2:9-12 The kings from the east present the Messiah with "gold, frankincense, and myrrh."	Rather than bestowing wealth on the King, Obama-Bush confiscates the wealth of others.
Matthew 2:13-18 When Herod got word of the birth of a rival king, he behaved in a perfectly logical way (for someone who wants to protect his power): he massacred all male babies the age of Jesus. Herod recognized that Jesus was a threat to Herod's power.	Every day in America 4,000 unborn babies are murdered. These babies must threaten something. Millions of Americans who call themselves Christians, on the other hand, are no threat to tyranny. None of them are being killed. Bush has killed a thousand times more human beings than Herod did, and confiscated a billion times more wealth than Herod did.

The Republican Party Radio Address:

The The Republican Radio Address was delivered by RNC Chairman Michael Steele.

Response of the Republican Party Saturday Morning Radio Address
Saturday, February 14, 2009 TheHill.com - Murkowski blasts stimulus as "none of the above"	The Republican Response was delivered by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.
This is United States Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
As I speak to you today, Americans from Alaska to Florida are grappling with a very difficult economy. Over the past 14 months, more than 3.6 million workers have lost their jobs, half of them since October. Over the same three-month period, the U.S. economy experienced its worst quarterly decline in 26 years. This is why President Obama called on Congress some weeks ago to pass an economic stimulus plan that would seek to jumpstart the economy and to prevent, as best it could, an even deeper economic spiral.	The government created money and spent it in ways Americans would not have. This created jobs that Americans did not want created. Should the government create more money to "create or save" these jobs? No.
Republicans have been supportive of a stimulus plan all along. Yet, over the past few weeks, a serious difference of opinion has emerged over what an economic recovery plan should include. Democrats, it seems, settled on a random dollar amount in the neighborhood of $1 trillion and then set out to fill the bucket. Republicans, on the other hand, thought that we should figure out what was at the root of the problem, and then see how much it would cost to fix. Since most economists agree that falling home prices are the root of the current troubles, we proposed a plan that would reduce monthly mortgage payments and make it easier to buy a home. The Republican proposal had the added benefit of being about half the cost of the Democrat plan. But Democrats control Congress, which means they got to choose which approach to use. And earlier this week, they hashed out the final details of a bill that, as some of them like to point out, was written almost entirely by them.	The last three TownHalls have seen Republicans agree with this fundamentally erroneous premise. All government stimulus plans are wrong. Falling home prices are the *solution*, not the problem. Rising home prices were caused by government inflation of housing credit.
All Americans, Republicans and Democrats alike, want our economy to recover. The question is: Will this plan work? In this regard, the President's own top economist, Larry Summers, has said that in order for a stimulus plan to work, it must be timely, targeted, and temporary. And, in many ways, the plan that Democrats in Congress approved this week is none of the above. It's not timely because less than half the discretionary spending in this bill will reach its intended target within the next two years. It's not targeted because much of the money isn't even directed where it's needed most. Much of the spending is wasteful, including hundreds of millions for new government cars and golf carts. And some of it places new burdens on already-strapped local and state governments. One Alaska school superintendent said that the increased funding means new services in his district, but that once the stimulus funding runs out he won't be able to pay for them. And canceling some of these programs once they've been created, he said, would expose his district to lawsuits.
Finally, the bill isn't temporary because it calls for a permanent expansion of government that could add hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal budget every year.
All of this is cause for serious concern. But Republicans are also concerned about this bill because we simply don't have the money to waste. Keep in mind: the $1.1 trillion we spend on the stimulus is not Monopoly money -- all of it is borrowed. Some might say the total cost of this bill is lower than $1.1 trillion. They're not including the interest payments.
Where is all of this money going to come from? Well, the government pays its bills by selling promissory notes and by printing money. Who will buy these notes? They will be bought by countries that already hold enormous sums of U.S. debt -- countries like China. And remember, this is just one part of the recovery plan Democrats are proposing. The other parts, as outlined this week by Treasury Secretary Geithner, include $50 billion for housing, and unspecified hundreds of billions -- possibly even another trillion dollars -- for troubled banks, and to relieve financial institutions of so-called toxic assets. All this spending adds up, and it has to be paid back -- paid back by our children and their children. And, as of now, the American people don't have the facts about the total cost.
As a mother, I can say from experience that it doesn't make much sense to plan the family vacation before you figure out whether you can afford it. Yet that's just what Democrats seem to be doing. If Americans can't be assured that these programs will work, they should at least be told what they're going to cost. Taxpayers need to know what Washington is doing with their money. And as Republicans continue to pursue policies that strengthen our economy and create jobs, we'll insist that taxpayers aren't only protected -- but also well informed. Republicans in Congress have pledged to work with the majority party. It's my hope that they take us up on our offer as we closely monitor how and where this money is spent.	The desire to keep Americans "informed" about the way the federal government spends their money assumes that it is possible for the government to spend it wisely. This is not possible. The government spends money that Americans chose not to spend, on projects Americans chose not to invest in. That's all we need to know.
Thanks for listening.