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Tag: Jay Riemersma

Riemersma Is correct

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Sat May 07, 2011 at 10:03:09 AM EST
Tags: Jay Riemersma, Congress, Michigan, Debt, Debt Ceiling, Safety (all tags)

The debt ceiling cannot be lifted. In today's Ivory Tower special guest commentary, former US Representative candidate Jay Riemersma calls on the GOP controlled congress to do what is right and ignore calls to do "what has always been done."
Riemersma points out:

To make sense of this statement, we first have to set aside the ridiculous premise that "they've always done it in the past" should guide what Congress does today.
Second, Congress has not always voted to raise the debt ceiling. When they elected not do so in 1995, the sky didn't fall and our economy did not implode. What's really being said here is, "We need to borrow more today so we can begin to have a conversation about saving tomorrow."

Exactly. At what point will we make those decisions? Next year?

And frankly, unless our entire income is outgoing as interest, we will pay our obligations. The threat we will not is absurd. Going forward and adding to that interest burden hardly serves the better prospects of digging ourselves out, unless some have the fantasy that this asphyxiating administration will bring economic prosperity any time sooner, or later. So shorting the next possibility of balance leaves only one other prospect, and that is collapsing the currency.

The Michigan congressional delegation needs to hear from us, that no more debt is acceptable. Not now, and not in the future.

Expanding our obligation now, merely adds to the reality we cannot control our spending. It burdens our children, their children and puts our future health and safety at risk. Expanding it now, or in the future tells us we have forgotten that debt is supposed to be a temporary tool only.

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Anonymous Donations?

By dutch6833, Section News
Posted on Tue Jul 27, 2010 at 03:01:24 PM EST
Tags: Jay Riemersma (all tags)

Can a candidate for U.S. Congress include anonymous donations on their FEC report? A short perusal of Jay Riemersma's reports raises serious questions about the transparency of his campaign.

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Jay Riemermsa Takes to the Airwaves and Kicks off a Money Bomb

By Jay Riemersma, Section News
Posted on Wed May 19, 2010 at 07:46:01 AM EST
Tags: Jay Riemersma, Congress, Conservative, money bomb, primary election, leadership (all tags)

Jay Riemersma's first television ad hit the airwaves yesterday. It's already getting a great response from the grassroots and garnering media attention as well. Now the Riemersma camp is launching the first money bomb of the campaign.

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