The reason I’m rarely blogging here is because I have spent most of my time over the past 6 months blogging at NH Insider.
Please navigate there for my latest posts.
http://www.nhinsider.com/steve-mac-donald/
or go to http://www.blognetnews.com/new_hampshire/
I will resume posting here as well at some future date.
Thanks.
| Party | County | District | Vote | |
| Belvin, William | Republican | Hillsborough | 6 | Yea |
| Bergin, Peter | Republican | Hillsborough | 6 | Yea |
| Bolster, Peter | Republican | Belknap | 5 | Yea |
| Brown, Julie | Republican | Strafford | 1 | Yea |
| Case, Frank | Republican | Rockingham | 1 | Yea |
| DeSimone, Debra | Republican | Rockingham | 6 | Yea |
| DiFruscia, Anthony | Republican | Rockingham | 4 | Yea |
| Dokmo, Cynthia | Republican | Hillsborough | 6 | Yea |
| Gargasz, Carolyn | Republican | Hillsborough | 5 | Yea |
| Gleason, John | Republican | Rockingham | 5 | Yea |
| Gould, Kenneth | Republican | Rockingham | 5 | Yea |
| Hunt, John | Republican | Cheshire | 7 | Yea |
| Jasper, Shawn | Republican | Hillsborough | 27 | Yea |
| Kidder, David | Republican | Merrimack | 1 | Yea |
| Lockwood, Priscilla | Republican | Merrimack | 6 | Yea |
| Millham, Alida | Republican | Belknap | 5 | Yea |
| Pilliod, James | Republican | Belknap | 5 | Yea |
| Rowe, Robert | Republican | Hillsborough | 6 | Yea |
| Veazey, John | Republican | Belknap | 4 | Yea |
| Wells, Roger | Republican | Rockingham | 8 | Yea |
At about 11:00AM this morning the New Hampshire House voted along party lines (Final vote 216 to 150) to kill Don Itse’s amendment, HCR6 that essentially reminds the Federal government that their powers are few and limited, and that the peoples are many, clarifying New Hampshire’s sovereignty based on the 10th amendment of the US Constitution.
A packed gallery booed the final vote, some observers promising to make those who voted in favor of the ITL committee ruling pay for their failure to stand up for New Hampshire’s Live Free or Die motto. The cat calling was so prolonged that the State police assigned to monitor the gallery had to remind people to quiet down or leave the gallery.
The Republicans did request and receive a roll call vote, wanting very much to have this vote on the record.
For those of you interested in seeing which way your reps went, you can go to the state web page and check it out once its posted. Remember that voting yes to an ITL means you want to kill the bill. So a yes vote on HCR6 was a vote against the amendment.
Can John Lynch capitalize on the slim advantage of Keynesian economics? .
First off, Obama is couching his spending addiction in Keynesian economics. He has to realise that it won’t actually work unless he has spending a) on projects that will have a positive economic impact on long term growth outside of government, and b) tax cuts that actually expand economic opportunity and stimulate short term growth in the business community now.
Tax cuts are the key. They create long term stability and attract business and investment that will eventually increase revenue to offset the initial deficit spending. Government spending never creates more revenue for the government, so when deficit intolerance intrudes on poor spending choices, taxes are raised–killing growth–and the Keynesian model collapses, creating economic stagnation, and a drawn out recession.
President Obama’s stimulus is destined to fail without a major retool because his spending is loaded with handouts that do no significant long term economic good, and what he calls tax cuts are actually welfare checks that do no short term lasting good. Keynesian spending was never meant to fund art or special interest groups and if Obama persists he will have stimulated nothing of lasting value, including his usefulness as a leader.
But John Lynch has an opportunity to make New Hampshire the place to do business—partly on the Federal dime–if he has the sense to take a chance and makes the right decisions. He may get up to 300 million, and if he handles it properly, he might save New Hampshire some of the pain other New England states are pre-destined to suffer because of their tax policies.
Thanks to the government the cost of living and doing business in New Hampshire just went up again.
It goes like this. In 2007 the state mandated that by 2025 providers get 25% of the energy they provide from renewable sources (Wood, wind, solar, etc) and that process (its called RPS, the Regional Portfolio Standard) is already under way . This Jan 1st 2009 we began the RGGI cap and trade scheme which requires energy providers to buy carbon credits quarterly whose increased costs are also passed on to rate payers.
So these government mandates are now pig-piling on top of your lifestyle, in a down economy no less, during a ten year cooling trend, all to solve a problem that doesn’t even appear to exist. How bad is it–get the numbers on the jump.
