IS THIS WELL CRAFTED POLITICAL CARTOON SHOWING OUR “COMMANDER IN CHIEF” MAYOR WINNECKE ON HIS WAY TO ATTEND THE SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 “CALL TO ASSEMBLE” HOSTED BY THE VETERANS COUNCIL OF VANDERBURGH COUNTY HELD AT THE VETERANS MEMORIAL COLISEUM?

NO, THIS CARTOON IS SHOWING MAYOR WINNECKE ON HIS WAY TO THE POORLY ATTENDED  “MAYORS TRAVELING CITY HALL”  EVENT HELD ON SEPTEMBER  23, 2015!

WE WONDER WHY MAYOR WINNECKE DIDN”T WANT TO FACE A FEMALE TO CASUALLY TALK ABOUT LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL ISSUES THAT EFFECT US ALL?  WE FEEL ITS TIME FOR THE MAYOR TO “MAN  UP” AND FACE GAIL RIECKEN IN AN OLE FASHION LINCOLN-DOUGLAS STYLE QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION HELD AT THE VETERAN  MEMORIAL COLISEUM ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2015!  ENJOY THE CARTOON!

Reports that the official unemployment rate has fallen to 5.1 percent may appear to vindicate the policies of easy money, corporate bailouts, and increased government spending. However, even the mainstream media has acknowledged that the official numbers understate the true unemployment rate. This is because the government’s unemployment figures do not include the 94 million Americans who have given up looking for work or who have settled for part-time employment. John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics estimates the real unemployment rate is between 23 and 24 percent.

Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, few in Washington, D.C. acknowledge that America’s economic future is endangered by excessive spending, borrowing, taxing, and inflating. Instead, Congress continues to waste taxpayer money on futile attempts to run the economy, run our lives, and run the world.

For example, Congress spent the majority of last week trying to void the Iranian nuclear agreement. This effort was spearheaded by those who think the U.S. should waste trillions of dollars on another no-win Middle East war. Congressional war hawks ignore how America’s hyper-interventionist foreign policy feeds the growing rebellion against the dollar’s world reserve currency status. Of course, the main reason many are seeking an alternative to the dollar is their concern that, unless Congress stops creating — and the Federal Reserve stops monetizing — massive deficits, the U.S. will experience a Greek-like economic crisis.

Despite the clear need to reduce federal spending, many Republicans are trying to cut a deal with the Democrats to increase spending. These alleged conservatives are willing to lift the “sequestration” limits on welfare spending if President Obama and congressional democrats support lifting the “sequestration” limits on warfare spending. Even sequestration’s miniscule, and largely phony, cuts are unbearable for the military-industrial complex and the rest of the special interests that control our government.

The only positive step toward addressing our economic crisis that the Senate may take this year is finally holding a roll call vote on the Audit the Fed legislation. Even if the audit legislation lacks sufficient support to overcome an expected presidential veto, just having a Senate vote will be a major step forward.

Passage of the Audit the Fed bill would finally allow the American people to know the full truth about the Fed’s operations, including its deals with foreign central banks and Wall Street firms. Revealing the full truth about the Fed will likely increase the number of Americans demanding that Congress end the Fed’s monetary monopoly. This suspicion is confirmed by the hysterical attacks on and outright lies about the audit legislation spread by the Fed and its apologists.

Every day, the American people see evidence that, despite the phony statistics and propaganda emanating from Washington, high unemployment and rising inflation plague the economy. Economic anxiety has led many Americans to support an avowed socialist’s presidential campaign. Perhaps more disturbingly, many other Americans are supporting the campaign of an authoritarian crony capitalist. If there is a major economic collapse, many more Americans — perhaps even a majority — will embrace authoritarianism. An economic crisis could also lead to mob violence and widespread civil unrest, which will be used to justify new police state measures and crackdowns on civil liberties.

Unless the people demand an end to the warfare state, the welfare state, and fiat money, our economy will continue to deteriorate until we are faced with a major crisis. This crisis can only be avoided by rejecting the warfare state, the welfare state, and fiat money. Those of us who know the truth must redouble our efforts to spread the ideas of liberty.

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PRESS RELEASE FROM GAIL RIECKEN FOR MAYOR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

GAIL RIECKEN PROMISE TO CUT WASTEFUL SPENDING IF ELECTED MAYOR

During Monday night’s City Council meeting, Republican City Councilman Dan McGinn, a close advisor to Mayor Winnecke, discussed increasing the local income tax as a way of a fixing the city’s financial problem. This increase would bring the local income tax from 1% to 1.25% or a 25% increase.  This would raise an extra $4 million per year into the city’s coffers.

“City Councilman McGinn’s comment that we could raise the local income tax 25% to solve the city’s financial problem’s proves to me that the administration’s post-election surprise will be to raise income taxes 25% instead of making the cuts that are needed.” said Riecken.  “This tax increase would only add a pittance to the deficit in the General Fund.  We need real changes in how Mayor Winnecke and his administration spends money.  Over the last 4 years, the current administration has continued to increase spending, without regard for the city’s cash flow.

This over-spending has caused the current cash flow crisis that has placed at risk the city’s ability to make its payroll.  Rather than increasing taxes, the city needs to cut wasteful spending and improve efficiency.  Many city residents feel overburdened with the cost of living in Evansville now, this increase would only add to that burden.”

Gail Riecken is running for Mayor of Evansville and is a former Evansville City Council-woman, Evansville Parks Director, and a current member of the Indiana State House of Representatives.  She is a lifelong Evansville resident, has been married for 47 years, and has 2 children and 3 grandchildren.