GOP Planning 'Take Our Country Back' Rally on Friday
Six elected officials scheduled to speak.
On Friday several notable South Carolina Republicans will be speaking at the Take Our Country Back 2012 Rally at the BI-LO Center in Greenville. Sen. Jim DeMint, Reps. Trey Gowdy, Tim Scott, Mick Mulvaney and Jeff Duncan are joined by State Attorney General Alan Wilson as the speakers.
According to the organizers' web page, there are three main purposes for the rally:
1. Energize conservative voters of the Upstate. Because South Carolina is a “Red State”, we have a lively primary season, but tend to get overlooked during November elections. There are many ways for voters to get involved and aid in promoting the conservative message. Our speakers will not only be rallying conservatives, but also sharing how each voter can help.
2. Unite conservative voters of the Upstate. The Upstate of South Carolina is the largest block of conservatives in the State of South Carolina and among the largest in the nation. We want to give conservatives a venue to gather and show both Columbia and Washington D.C. that the Upstate of South Carolina will fight to retain our freedoms and liberties.
3. Inform conservative voters of the Upstate. We have an amazing and historic slate of speakers that will be sharing what is going on in Washington D.C. and how they are working to promote conservative values and fight against the liberal/progressive agenda. We also will hear about the Petition Candidate movement in South Carolina.
Doors open at 5 p.m. and the event begins at 6 p.m. Admission is free.
NOTE: Organizer Nate Leupp told Patch the event is not sponsored or endorsed by the South Carolina GOP.
Rusty Inman
4:31 pm on Monday, September 10, 2012
While Gowdy, Mulvaney, Duncan and Scott are too new to the political scene to fully understand the in's-and-out's of demagoguery, I have little doubt but that, given their association with Jim DeMint and Alan Wilson, they are getting Ph.D level instruction in them. And I have seen precious little in any of them that would indicate a reluctance to attend all classes, take good notes, and write a 20-page term paper (given that they are anti-intellectual and scholarship-averse, a dissertation for DeMint/Wilson would have to be limited to 20 double-spaced pages or less; and, the fewer cites, the better) in order to have the demagogic hood placed over their heads.
I mean, really, is there a statement that more bears the stench of demagoguery than "We're Gonna' Take Our Country Back?"
The implication is that the country has somehow been "taken away" from "us," whomever "us" is. And, further, that, led by Jim DeMint, Alan Wilson and their eager young student/legislators, "we" are "gonna' take it back."
I just want to know from exactly whom the country has been "taken away." And precisely who "took it away" (though the use of the phrase "liberal/progressive agenda" hints at whom---or, what---the perps might be). And what it would mean to "take it back." And, more specifically, "how" "we" would "take it back."
I would attend their little workshop, but that crowd has never shown an affinity for contrary questions. And I don't want to get fingered as the thief.
Nan Hahn
6:51 pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The GOP/TP wants to take the country back, alright - to the 18th century - the days of the robber barons!
Anon Ymouse
1:34 pm on Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Can these GOP rallies be any more devisive and racist? We all know exactly what they mean by take our country back. All these guys De Mint and company need is the white hood and large cross to burn. They are all disgusting examples of obstructionists gone wild.
martin, bob
2:20 pm on Wednesday, September 12, 2012
All the dems and Obama has left is Divisiveness.
Energy Guy
7:45 am on Thursday, September 13, 2012
Does this look like a recovery?
Energy Guy
7:47 am on Thursday, September 13, 2012
1. More jobs were created per month last year than this year (and pitifully few in both years). Since the start of the year, job growth has averaged 139,000 per month vs. an average monthly gain of 153,000 in 2011. At this year’s pace, it will take 11 years to bring the unemployment rate back down to 5%.
Energy Guy
7:47 am on Thursday, September 13, 2012
2. Back in 2009, the incoming Obama administration predicted sub-6% unemployment in 2012 if Congress passed the $800 billion stimulus plan. Instead, we’ve had 43 straight months of 8%-plus unemployment. And that high level of sustained joblessness is likely contributing to a deterioration in the U.S. labor force and higher structural unemployment.
Energy Guy
7:48 am on Thursday, September 13, 2012
3. The labor force participation rate is lower today than at the start of the year, and lower than at the start of 2011. Yes, the economy has created private-sector jobs every month for the past 30 months, since February 2010. But during that span, labor force participation has continued to drop. If the participation rate were the same today as it was in February 2010, when the job market supposedly bottomed, the unemployment rate would be 10.1%.
Energy Guy
7:48 am on Thursday, September 13, 2012
4. The unemployment-population ratio, which looks at what portion of the working-age population has a job, is also lower today than it was at the start of the year and seems dead in the water:
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/does-this-look-like-an-economy-thats-moving-forward-9-reasons-why-it-really-doesnt/091112employment/
Energy Guy
7:49 am on Thursday, September 13, 2012
5. Average hourly earnings were unchanged in the August jobs report, and are up just 1.7% over the past year. Not only does that match the slowest pace on record, but one you account for inflation, wages are flat to down.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/does-this-look-like-an-economy-thats-moving-forward-9-reasons-why-it-really-doesnt/090712earnings-2/
Energy Guy
7:49 am on Thursday, September 13, 2012
6. Last year, the economy, adjusted for inflation, grew by 1.8%. Right now, it’s on track to do about the same this year. Another year of sub-normal growth, below 3%, means the output gap between where GDP is and where it should be (if the economy were growing merely at trend) continues to grow. If GDP growth in 2011 and 2012 were 3% and not a bit less than 2%, the economy would be $350 billion bigger in 2013 than where it is headed to be.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/does-this-look-like-an-economy-thats-moving-forward-9-reasons-why-it-really-doesnt/091112output-2/
Energy Guy
7:50 am on Thursday, September 13, 2012
8. The day of fiscal reckoning grows ever nearer as the national debt grows, and Washington fails to constrain out-of-control entitlement spending. Indeed, some economists think the debt is already slowing growth.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/does-this-look-like-an-economy-thats-moving-forward-9-reasons-why-it-really-doesnt/091112debt/
Energy Guy
7:50 am on Thursday, September 13, 2012
9. Growth is so slow right now that if anything goes wrong, we are likely to slip back into recession and problems 1-8 above get even worse.
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/does-this-look-like-an-economy-thats-moving-forward-9-reasons-why-it-really-doesnt/091112stall/
Energy Guy
7:50 am on Thursday, September 13, 2012
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/does-this-look-like-an-economy-thats-moving-forward-9-reasons-why-it-really-doesnt/