Libertarian Party of Indiana's Weekly Podcast - Hamilton County Edition
Friday, June 12, 2009
I was recently interviewed for the Libertarian Party of Indiana's Weekly Podcast to talk about my plans for growing the Hamilton County LP.
LPIN Executive Director Chris Spangle is a radio pro, a former producer at Indy's WXNT for the Abdul in the Morning show. I answered Chris' questions about my plans, and the challenges in reaching voters in a traditionally Republican county, and one that is split between the highly developed suburban landscape of Carmel, Fishers, and Noblesville, and the rural and small towns of Sheridan, Atlanta, and Strawtown.
Here's the spoiler: The goal is a full ballot for 2010. The plan is to continue to recruit qualified candidates, but especially disaffected small business owners. We will also begin to work at the precinct level to build our base.
You can hear the entire interview by following this link to the podcast archive.
You can also subscribe to get every podcast episode downloaded to your iTunes or other service. Follow this link to subscribe. All 30 podcasts are available!
It was fun to be interviewed. Certainly, it was a turning of the tables, as I am the regular host of the Podcast. Many thanks to Chris Spangle for being the guest host!
Labels: Carmel, Chris Spangle, Fishers, Hamilton County Libertarian Party, Libertarian Party of Indiana' Weekly Podcast, Noblesville, WXNT
posted by Mike Kole @ 12:27 AM,
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June Meet-Up
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Hamilton County Libertarians meet on the first Thursday of each month, for an informal discussion of the issues of the day. June's meetup is tomorrow!
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Barley Island, Noblesville
7pm - ?
Link: RSVP on the Meetup website
Our group is a good one, and is growing! We had Barley Island ask us to let us know when we meet, so they can have a server just for us.
Be sure to join the fun, even if only for an hour. We'll talk about the GM bailout, the Indiana budget, and anything else you wish to bring to the round table! The food and beer is good, so be sure to stop by!
Labels: Barley Island, Meet-Up
posted by Mike Kole @ 4:07 PM,
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Libertarian Party's Prosperity Plan
Saturday, May 30, 2009
The Bush & Obama Administrations have brought us false stimulus and offensive bailouts. So, what is the Libertarian Party's alternative? Its' 3-point Prosperity Plan:
1) Repeal the income tax: Adopt legislation repealing the income tax and abolishing the Internal Revenue Service. Until the income tax is repealed, adopt legislation preserving the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and enacting across-the-board income tax cuts.
2) Adopt the Balanced Budget Amendment: Adopt a constitutional amendment requiring the federal budget be balanced, and balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures, not by raising taxes.
3) Abolish corporate welfare and bailouts: Adopt federal legislation prohibiting any federal spending program that provides payments or unique benefits and advantages to specific companies or industries, terminating programs that provide direct grants to businesses, eliminating programs that provide research and other services for industries and ending programs that provide subsidized loans or insurance to businesses.
Taxes are a drain on productivity. Sure, some taxation is necessary in order to fund the proper functions of government, as enumerated in the Constitution. But, that's the limit, for the greater the tax burden, the greater the drain.
We keep hearing that cuts will be 'painful'. Painful? You mean, more painful than our disappearing purchasing power? More painful than having to work longer to keep more of the money you earn? If you have a job at all? Let's try that 'pain' that cuts are alleged to bring.
The bailouts are just wrong. Every parent knows that if you reward a child's naughty behavior, you get more of it. We know that bailing out businesses that make lousy decisions corrects nothing, it only encourages more bad decisions. So, why are we doing it? Ask a Republican or a Democrat.
Those two parties have proven their ineptitude. The more they do, the less prosperous we are.
Get involved. Become a Libertarian candidate. Support Libertarian candidates. Only then will you get real change, and better than that, real prosperity.
Labels: bailouts, Libertarian Party, Prosperity Plan, stimulus, tax cut, taxes
posted by Mike Kole @ 11:32 AM,
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