COLONEL’S CORNER

THE ELECTION APPROACHES

“America First, Party Second”

Michael Bendas

Republican Candidate

3d Congressional District

This Email is long, but it is worth taking 5 minutes to read.

It is OUR country, time for WE THE PEOPLE to take it back!!

Who is Mike Bendas?

MICHAEL BENDAS is a graduate of West Point (US Military Academy) and retired from the Army as a Colonel.  As a business consultant, he helps small and medium sized businesses to compete in today’s environment, to grow and to create jobs.  He is a fiscal conservative that believes that every American should have a chance to succeed by being raised in a crime free atmosphere and have educational opportunities to make reaching the American dream possible.  He hates political corruption and nepotism. 

My opponent, Congressman Dan Lipinski votes over 95% of the time with the Pelosi wing of the House.  He supports the big spending bills, and contrary to what he has professed he is NOT a fiscal conservative.

We are approaching one of the most critical elections in the last fifty years.  Americans trusted the Democratic Party with the Presidency, 60% of the Senate and 59% of the House of Representatives.  These are huge majorities!

WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE?

Spending is out of control with no end in sight

The deficit is projected by the CBO (relatively independent Congressional Budget Office) to be at or near 1 TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR indefinitely.

It is incumbent on each generation to pay their own debts - - - Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson makes sense, doesn’t he?

Ø      Dan Lipinski has been a reliable vote for the Pelosi budgets. 

Ø      Lipinski voted “Present” (not YES, not NO) on the $800,000,000,000 stimulus bill, then told Crain’s magazine that it was too small.  Yes, that is YOUR money.

Ø      Mike Bendas will oppose spending increases and will work to cut the deficit by $100 billion each year he is in office until we have a surplus and are paying down the debt that will be passed to the next generation.

Ø      Mike will work to eliminate the Energy Department which costs $24 billion per year, has 16,000 employees and has failed in its mission since 1977.

9+ million Americans cannot find jobs

The “stimulus” bill with $800 billion of YOUR money was a reward to certain groups for the last election.  There were no real incentives to businesses to grow and start hiring.  We are losing jobs because of unfair trade practices by China and other nations.

Ø      Dan Lipinski’s answer was to write legislation which created another federal bureaucracy to study how other nations create jobs.

Ø      Mike Bendas understands that we know what needs to be done.

·         Give banks a direct incentive, e.g. kick in the butt, to increase business loans

·         Reduce the red tape for business by eliminating unnecessary regulations and simplifying the ones still needed.

·         Reduce business taxes from 35% to 20%, other industrialized nations who are our competitors are at 15-20% which helps their exports, hence jobs.

·         Demand that China let their currency float freely on the international market which could create over 500,000 jobs, or freeze their imports to the U.S. if they continue to practice currency manipulation. 

·         Demand that our trading partners respect US patents and intellectual property rights.

Ø      Mike will propose legislation to pay employers $1500 per month for 24 months for each job that they create and hire a person to fill.  This is designed to lower the hiring threshold for businesses during this time of uncertainty. 

·         For 1/8^th of the cost of the stimulus bill we could employ 3,000,000 Americans who will pay payroll taxes, income taxes and their houses will not go into foreclosure. 

·         They will buy products which will create more jobs.

·         This will NOT be a permanent government program, it will end when unemployment drops below 7% for a fiscal quarter.

Unions are rewarded for their hundreds of millions of dollars spent on Democrats

The unions are huge supporters of the Democratic Party.  In the this election three of the public employee unions have spent over $170 MILLION supporting Democrats. 

The takeover of the auto companies was a bailout of the UAW’s overly generous benefit plans.  YOU, the taxpayer, pumped billions into those plans which pay pensions that you could only dream about.

Obama signed a Presidential Directive (PD) that required that all federal construction projects over $25 million be awarded to companies with a Project Labor Agreement (PLA), defined as a union agreement.  This freezes out non-union companies and employees from federal projects.  This is unfair, un-American and unconstitutional.

Ø      Dan Lipinski supports the unions totally.  Seven of his top 10 contributors are unions, all of them contributed the maximum permitted by law.

Ø      Lipinski is a co-sponsor of a bill to eliminate the right of a secret ballot for the union forming election, e.g. card check.

Ø      Mike Bendas is worker oriented.  He supports the worker’s right to form a union, but strongly opposes card check which is pro-union leadership but anti-worker.

Ø      Mike adamantly supports the idea that any credible, competent company should be able to bid on a federal contract.  This will save the country billions of dollars. 

Ø      It will give minority and other non-union workers the same right to work on a contract as a union based company.

End the Entitlement mentality, and get America back to Individual Responsibility

America become great through individualism, e.g. we were responsible for ourselves.  We took risks, worked endless hours to create businesses that dominated the world, and we reaped the rewards.

We are becoming a society of entitlements.  It is time to get back to our core values.

A single mother and three children if one of them has been “diagnosed” with ADD or ADHD can collect over $41,000 per year.  There is absolutely no incentive to get a job.

Ø      Mike Bendas believes in a “Hand Up, Not a Hand Out”. 

Ø      Mike will propose to replace government college loan and grant programs with a National Volunteer Service (NVS) so that every child, rich or poor, can attend college or a trade school.  The NVS would provide opportunities in many governmental agencies from the national parks to health care to agriculture, etc.

·         After two years of service the volunteer will receive a benefit similar to that of the military services. 

·         NVS volunteers will have access to online college and trade courses during their service to help them get a head start on their career. 

·         Older Americans could join and serve in the NVS.  They could elect to have their earned benefits be applied to their Social Security account to improve their retirement.

·         NVS volunteers can replace some of the governmental bureaucrats who earn an average of $120,000 per year including their pension and benefits, thus helping to reduce the deficit.

Ø      Mike Bendas will work on legislation to stop the abuse of the Social Security Disability Insurance system.  There are too many folks who could work but choose not to do so.  You and I are paying for that abuse.

Ø      Mike will fight the latest scam which is to get children with minimal attention challenges, that would have been considered normal a decade or two ago, diagnosed with ADD or ADHD so that they can get tens of thousands of dollars a year of governmental benefits.

Term Limits

When people, even honest ones, are in power too long, the temptations are too great.  Our founding fathers intended that the Congress be made up of citizens from every walk of life.

Ø      Mike Bendas is committed to introducing an Amendment to the US Constitution to limit Representatives to the House to 12 years of service, and Senators to 18 years in Congress. 

Ø      Mike will also look at campaign financing to reduce the advantage that the incumbent has in Congressional races.

Mike Bendas will work with Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats (fiscally conservative Democrats who believe in a strong national defense) and other Congressmen who believe in fiscally conservative and family values to pass legislation to stem this nation’s drift, or race, to become an entitlement society and to “redistribute” people’s hard earned income.

I, Michael Bendas, request your vote to represent you in the US Congress.  If I fail to do a good job, fire me in 2 years!

VOTE ON NOVEMBER 2d

VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN MIKE BENDAS FOR THE US CONGRESS

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One final issue. 

Vote NO to retain Judge Kilbride (a really poor judge)

Vote YES to retain Judge McDunn (a conscientious judge)