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Congressional Politics - Pay Raise Rollbacks Won't Fix Budget Woes

BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 11, 2010

The Congress is suggesting giving itself a 5% pay cut. I agree with the move and heartily endorse it. However it does not remotely deal with the budget deficit. The savings is only about $3 million a year. It is an insufficient move.

To give the bill real substance if should be amended to requires Members of Congress to give up their healthcare and live with whatever they mandate for the rest of us. To really add substance to the bill I also call for a provision which gives the same 5% cut to all federal employees who make over $100,000.

One last provision should be that all federal employee pay raises given in the last 18 months should be rolled back. The rest of America has had their pay cut during that same time so why are we being asked to fund pay raises for federal employees.

Another provision should require that the entire savings from this bill should be put into the Social Security Lockbox to redeem IOU’s which Congress has put in the lockbox as they took out every bit of cash that Social Security has generated. We must start to solve the problems with Social Security’s insolvency.

Teague May Vote Yes on Health Care Bill

BY Editor, ON MARCH 11, 2010

For Immediate Release
March 11, 2010

Plans to quietly switch his vote

HOBBS - We are only 7 days away from the deadline to pass the health care bill on March 18th and Congressman Harry Teague is still silent on the health care bill.

The Hill newspaper in Washington DC has obtained information that New Mexicans have not been able to, how Teague will vote.

The Hill wrote today: “Most Democrats on The Hill's whip list are definitely going to vote no, but others, such as Reps. Lincoln Davis (Tenn.) and Harry Teague (N.M.), could vote yes.”

Pearce spokeswoman Alicia Collins said, “Congressman Teague has stayed as far away from the issue of health care legislation as possible. Americans are outraged at the possibility that this bill could not only pass, put be rammed through Congress using procedural tricks.”

Collins added, “It is becoming more clear that Congressman Teague plans to vote for the health care bill, but wants to do it as quietly as possible to avoid voter backlash.”

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House Conservatives Fund Endorses Pearce

BY Editor, ON MARCH 10, 2010

Today the Political Action Committee for conservative members of the house, The House Conservatives Fund, announced that they have endorsed Steve Pearce in his race for NM's 2nd Congressional District.

The House Conservatives Fund endorses candidates who support fiscal responsibility, lower and simpler taxes, fewer obstacles to job creation, a smaller and more efficient federal government, a strong national defense, and the protection of traditional family values.

Read article from the Roll Call newspaper below

Teague's Silence Suggests Switch to Support Health Care Bill

BY Editor, ON MARCH 10, 2010

For Immediate Release

March 10, 2010

New Mexicans deserve to know if Teague will vote with them or Pelosi

HOBBS, NM – Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat leaders are busy counting the votes they have to push through the health care bill the American people have said they don't want.

However, Southern New Mexicans do not know how their Congressman plans to vote.

The Washington Examiner wrote in an article yesterday, that Teague, "has given no clear indication as to how he will vote, and his office has not responded to inquiries by The Examiner."

Pearce spokeswoman Alicia Collins stated, "Congressman Teague's silence on the health care bill suggests that he has switched his support and will fall in line with Speaker Pelosi and vote to pass the health care legislation."

Collins added, "It is time for Congressman Teague to tell New Mexicans how he will vote."

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Pearce Speaks In High Rolls

BY Editor, ON MARCH 10, 2010

Alamogordo Daily News
By Michael Johnson, Managing Editor
Posted: 03/10/2010

HIGH ROLLS Republican U.S. House of Representative hopeful Steve Pearce laid it all out on the line Sunday when trying to explain the scope of rising national unemployment to a small gathering of about 20 people in High Rolls.

"We cannot continue to kill jobs," Pearce told the group inside the Lions Club. "You all have seen it here. What did you use to do here in this community? What was your economic base?

There was a long, uncomfortable silence.

"You should know this. How many logging jobs do you have today? Zilch," Pearce said. "We used to have 20,000 jobs in logging and timber in New Mexico. Do you know how many we have today? None."

Pearce, who served as U.S. Congressman between 2003-09 in the 2nd Congressional District, is seeking election this year to that same seat now held by U.S. Rep. Harry Teague. Pearce gave up the seat in a bid to become a U.S. senator, but lost in the 2008 election to current U.S. Sen. Tom Udall.

Pearce discussed many issues of national importance, but tried to explain them in such a way so that people in High Rolls, Cloudcroft and other Sacramento Mountain communities could relate.

Pearce Pledges to Support Permanent Repeal of the Death Tax

BY Editor, ON MARCH 09, 2010

Steve Pearce recently signed the American Family Business Institute “No Death Tax” pledge to support the permanent repeal of the “death tax”.

Pearce has long supported the efforts to repeal this tax permanently and fought for the repeal while in Congress. The death tax is especially harmful to small businesses and family farms by making it near impossible financially to hand down their business from generation to generation. This tax unfairly penalizes business and farm owners and puts people out of work in the process.

The current Congressman, Harry Teague voted along with his party leader Nancy Pelosi to pass legislation to set the death tax at a rate up to 45% for any holdings remaining at the time of a person's passing.

These tax and spend policies are going to hurt American workers and result in job loss at a time we cannot afford more loss.

Democratic Politics And Otero Mesa National Monument

BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 09, 2010

The nation is dying for jobs with unemployment just under 10%. We are spending billions on foreign energy. New Mexico is starving for tax revenues…and the Democrats in Congress are going to make all of them worse. The Administration has proposed to close the Otero Mesa permanently to all drilling for oil and gas. Make your voice heard. Call your representatives to oppose the move.

The Obama administration is taking steps to close off several parts of the Intermountain West to industrial activity, including four areas believed to hold significant oil and natural gas deposits.

The Chile Challenge in New Mexico's Wilderness

BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 08, 2010

I had the opportunity last weekend to participate in the annual Chile Challenge hosted by the Las Cruces Four Wheel Drive Club. This is an ultimate off road adventure. They drive 4WD vehicles on trails throughout the mountains. There are trails for drivers with different expertise levels. They even suggest the drivers and passengers on the expert trails wear full body armor. This “challenge” is definitely for the thrill seekers in Southern New Mexico.

This activity in Las Cruces is in danger of ending because of legislation that continues to make more of our wilderness land off limits to people and activities.

Education is a Factor in Unemployment Rate

BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 03, 2010

We are told the unemployment rate is 9.7% for the month of February. It may be considerably higher, but that is fodder for another conversation.

All employment numbers are aggregates. The 9.7 (or whatever number you feel comfortable) is actually an average of lots of different numbers. Those different subsets are where the real information is in the unemployment report.

For example, people without a high school diploma have an unemployment rate of 15.2%. College graduates have an unemployment rate of 4.9%. That is a stark reality.

The better our education system, the better we compete in the world. The better we compete, the more jobs we have. When we compete in worse fashion, we have fewer jobs.

These are the basics of economic policy. Work hard, educate more, push productivity to higher levels and our national standard of living improves. Fail at these and other nations grab our jobs.

Congressional Democrats Continue to Jam Thru the Healthcare Bill

BY Steve Pearce, ON MARCH 02, 2010

Meanwhile the American economy is damaged, unemployment is at 10%and the vast majority of Americans are worried about the future. CNN released a poll on the day of the Healthcare Summit saying 75% on Americans do not want Congress to pass the Healthcare Bill.

The deficit is skyrocketing; the Healthcare Bill will make it and our economy worse.

The Healthcare Bill should be shelved; the Congress should start removing the roadblocks to job creation and implement policies that foster an environment which will cause companies to start to resume hiring.We need jobs.

We should do more than freeze spending. It would be frozen at over a trillion dollar deficit each year. We should roll spending back, cutting the nonessential government services.

We should be creating policies which would attract manufacturers to come back to this country.

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