GOV. Eddie Calvo is off-island for the next several days. Office of Communications Deputy Director Phillip Leon Guerrero said Calvo will be in Washington D.C. attending a governors’ conference and meeting with federal officials.
From there, the governor heads to Tampa Bay, Fla., for the Republican National Convention. He will be back in time for the primary elections next Saturday.
Republican Party of Guam chairman Mike Benito said Guam’s GOP party representatives for the convention are the governor, first lady Christine Calvo, Telo Taitague, Martha Cruz Ruth, Donna Jones, Peter Alexis Ada, Arthur Clark, Jay Rojas, Dave Sablan, Mike McPhearson, and Bob Bulluck.
Benito said there are committee meetings happening now and next week, adding everyone is in full campaign mode and casting their votes for GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. The GOP convention, which started yesterday, runs up to Aug. 30.
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Gallup Poll, today:
GALLUP DAILY
Aug 19-21, 2012 – Updates daily at 1 p.m. ET; reflects one-day change
Obama Approval
46%
+1
Obama Disapproval
49%
+1
Presidential Election
Romney
47%
-
Obama
45%
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Rasmussen Poll:
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 46% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 44%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided
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This was the Democratic Party at 1000 days. Today it is far worse.
O'bama wants four more years to do more of the same....
.You were talking about the Republican Party I believe ?....
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CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE: Has decreased by 168,000 [source: BLS]
MANUFACTURING: 818,000 manufacturing jobs lost — a -6.5% drop since Jan. 2009 [source: BLS]
BANK FAILURES: 371 Banks have failed [source: FDIC]
STATES: 37 States have higher unemployment rates [source: BLS]
GOLF: 82 rounds of golf — average of one round every 12 days [source: Mark Knoller, CBS –Fox News Tracking]
REPOSSESSIONS: More than 2.4 million homes have been repossessed for failure to pay their mortgage [source: RealtyTrac]
BANKRUPTCIES: Some 4 million total (business and non-business) bankruptcies [source: American Bankruptcy Institute]
GAS PRICES: Up more than 80% and has been over $3/gallon every day in 2011 [source: AAA/OPIS
REGULATIONS – FEDERAL REGISTER: 45,696 pages of new regulatory rules were added to the Federal Register
[source: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register, various years]
AVERAGE WEEKS UNEMPLOYED: Unemployed out of work for an average of 40.5 weeks – that’s more than double since Jan 2009 [source: BLS]
JOB APPROVAL RATING: Dropped nearly 30 percentage points [source: Gallup Tracking]
SPEECHES AND PUBLIC REMARKS: Roughly 806 speeches/public remarks made – once every 1.24 days
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CHINA: Owns $1.17 trillion of our debt (as of July) – a 58% increase from January 2009 [source: Treasury Dept]
GOVERNMENT JOBS: Excluding the U.S. Post Office, Federal Government has added 140,000 jobs [source: BLS]
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: Has averaged 9.4% under Obama [source: BLS]
MORE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: Has been at or above 9% for 840 of the 1000 days [source: BLS]
UNDEREMPLOYED: Nearly 5 million more Americans are underemployed [source: BLS]
REGULATIONS – NEW RULES: 7,076 new final regulatory rules issued [source: Federal Register
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POVERTY: Nearly 3 million more Americans in poverty—poverty rate has gone from 13.2% to 15.1% [source: Census]
FOOD STAMPS: 12 million more Americans living off of food stamps [source: Dept of Agriculture // Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]
GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Spent more than $9.6 trillion – 60% more than the federal government has taken in [source: OMB and CBO]
MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING: Under Obama, the govt has spent an average of $6.6 million every minute and $111,111 every second [source: OMB and CBO
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1,000 DAYS OF OBAMA
DEBT: Total Public Debt Outstanding has increased by $4.2 trillion [source: Treasury Dept]
MORE DEBT: America accumulated as much debt over the past 1,000 days as it had in the country’s first 79,135 days (July 4, 1776 through March 3, 1993) [source: Treasury Dept]
DEBT PER DAY: America’s debt has increased by about an average of $4.2 billion per day [source: Treasury Dept]
INTEREST ON U.S. DEBT: $1.2 trillion has been spent servicing U.S. debt—that by itself would be the world’s 15th largest economy
[source: Treasury Dept]
JOBS: 2.22 million jobs lost [source: BLS
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First, the GOP loves federal spending, but impresses upon folks that it stands on the side of deficit hawks. Locally, they try to shift as many costs to the federal side of the ledger as possible even as they demand for more autonomy. One of the reasons why political status is in limbo is because Gov. Calvo has not been able to rally his own wealthy friends to support the cause. Instead, he has resorted to "throwing some crumbs" (read: kick start the Decolonization Committee) to those who have been traditionally for political status, hoping to appease them until the 2014 elections are over.
Second, the reason why wealthy folks like the status quo is because Guam is a 'tax haven.' So, the game plan is to keep taxes as low as possible, even zero in some cases (plus a rebate, too), then shift costs to the already sapped federal Treasury. The media is complicit in this regard. Since they are a business entity, they are competing with other businesses for that same dollars floating in the economy. You cannot expect, but a nuanced opinion on taxes from them.
Taxes are linked to political status, once again, except here on Guam, they do not want to pay -- enough -- for a self-sustaining Government.
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