Do We Need Change?

Are you enjoying the retirement funds you saved during your working years? Or even the funds you earned from your own company's products or endeavors? And have you hoped you could pass on to your heirs what  you won't need to spend?

Forget that. The Democrats want you to pay more in taxes, maybe most of your profits or retirement income. The Democrats want you to pay more in taxes so they can spend it on projects in their home district - and then put their names up front (Marilyn Musgrave spoke against earmarks earlier this year). Democrats want your money so they can spend it. 

Do you think gas prices are high enough but you can get by if errands are planned carefully? Is your home's heating system working adequately during hot spells - or cold snaps - if temperatures are kept at a moderate level? Do you want to do your part in saving the atmosphere?

Forget planning,  moderation and cooperation. Think more about coercion and rationing. The Democrats will demand your cooperation. Gas prices may be taxed so high that it will be too expensive to drive. Or rationing will be enforced again so that those who really need to drive, or can afford the elevated prices because of the supply and demand, will have access to available gas.  Or driving may be monitored so that there will be no more solo drivers. After all, in today's convenient society the highways' traffic is dominated by vehicles with a driver but no passengers. (Count the cars - check it out.)

Do you feel comfortable with your doctor? Is he monitoring your health issues and your insurance plan is covering expenses to your satisfaction?

The Democrats have a new model for the nation's health care system. They will ensure that doctors are overworked, unhappy in their job and will feel underpaid. Democrats will almost certainly guarantee that you will see an assigned doctor, not your long-time friend and care giver. Unless you are having an emergency, when you will be treated promptly, you will wait for your appointment and elective procedures.

Jobs are sure to be lost because of free trade limitations and excessive corporate and excise taxes.

The Democratic candidates for offices and for the presidency are committed to Change: Taxes will change, medical care will Change, the American way of life with Change.

Eliminating these threats to personal and national well being can be accomplished: Vote Republican. Vote FOR Katie Witt, Marilyn Musgrave, Bob Shaeffer, and for President John McCain. 

Where's the Candidate?

Congressional Representative Marilyn Musgrave came to Longmont on Wednesday to talk to constituents in the 4th District. Musgrave worked for and talked with the voters by pumping gas for them at a gas station on Ken Pratt Blvd.

The Times-Call ran a nice photo of Musgrave on the front page of Thursday's edition. The photo, a nice image, took 6 inches of newspaper space (2 columns x 3 inches= 6 column inches.)

Musgrave's opponent came to Prospect on Wednesday, as if on cue, and her photo occupied 27.75 inches of space (3 columns x 9.25 inches = 27.75 column inches). It is an overhead shot and the candidate's image is so small that we would find it hard to pick her out of a police lineup but there is a lot of space around her in the photo, which is above the the fold on the front page.

Musgrave's photo is positioned below the fold in the bottom half of the front page and would be easy to miss while the non-photo dominates the page.

The news story itself runs about 130 lines of copy. The copy devoted to the Congressional Representative runs about 50 lines.

In a sidebar, Musgrave's opponent was allowed to criticize nearly every component of Musgrave's Energy Policy, but Musgrave was not allowed to question any of the opponent's policies.

So goes the news.