Real Leadership needed in Washington DC says Ryan B
UNEMPLOYMENT The government underestimates the unemployment rate.[1] A honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work. With medical benefits (single payer like all over the industrialized world), a reasonable work week, some sort of retirement benefits and some sick time and paid vacation time. Is that too much to ask?
The people of South Carolina are not looking for a handout, but if anyone is entitled to a bail out, we are! We don’t need promise making, promise breaking politicians to lie to us about how good things are going while they sell us down the river and approve the trade agreements that have sent so many of our jobs overseas perhaps never to return.
BANKERS Well, simply put, it a graph. One line, say a blue line, charts the income of the wealthy against inflation over time it goes up, straight almost aimed for infinite, I mean that chart it climbin like a moon rocket. And there is a green line, the peoples line, yes the income does steadily rise, but the prices rise faster and we are not as well off as we were in years past. Our labor does not buy as much as it used to we are not really breaking even with our income increases but the corporate profits and salaries go straight up. WE have had 29% foreclosures in the past two years and more are coming. Our government gave enough money to the bankers to pay off every mortgage in this country. What for. FOR NOTHING!!!
When there is a class of people and corporations whose spending power is infinitely greater than that of the working people it becomes very difficult to keep things fair. Consider that the same corporations and people that are making profits by moving our jobs overseas are the ones that own the newspapers and the television stations, and the radio stations, so you aren’t going to hear much of what they don’t want you to hear.
And that is why it is so important that everyone pay close attention to details. Compare what you are told is happening by the media and the government and the corporations, yes, compare what they tell you to WHAT YOU ACTUALLY SEE HAPPENING!!!
I see at what look like 20% unemployment in many communities and I don’t see it getting better.
EDUCATION
I see teachers being fired and class sizes being raised and the education budget being slashed to the point where our educators are powerless to give our children the skills they will need to compete in a world job market. That should rank among our highest priorities.
HEALTH CARE
The Congress just took a vacation without fixing the Medicare problem, our veterans and our seniors are getting inferior service. The American Medical Association is very critical of the situation and I stand with them. The nation can afford giving everyone adequate healthcare and any one who says different is probably making way too much money for the benefit humanity gets out of it. We do not need a layer of insurance companies and bureaucrats like a nest of leeches sucking our life’s blood so we can’t afford proper health care. We can put these bureaucracies to work monitoring the oil companies and the financial industry and we will let them keep a % of the graft and corruption they discover but funnel most of it back into the economy where it will be more than enough to give our people health care, and probably educate and feed them if we really have to.
How is that for a solution, take the profit out of healthcare and use the insurance bureaucracy to monitor the oil companies, banking, and wall street.
And bring almost all of our troops home. Treat the ones for PTSD that need it and put our soldiers to work rebuilding this country’s infrastructure, implementing sustainable energy programs, lets stop farming out the work that our core of engineers should be doing four times better and ten times cheaper than our politician’s buddys’ companies are doing it for us now.
We are in trouble here at home. We need our young men here and our money here.
IF anyone has any ideas they want to suggest that aren’t too much wilder and don’t involve robbing and killing the people and might work I would definitely like to hear about it.
If elected I will try to listen to and understand the problems that are brought to me and to help with searching for solutions. I am always open to suggestions. If you have a good idea share it. If I am elected operators will always be standing by to take your calls. The good the bad and the ugly.
I am Brian “Ryan B. Doyle and I approved this message.
[1] Just like BP underestimates the oil spill rate. It turns out they may have to pay a penalty by the barrel so of course they would rather say seven thousand barrels a day than look at totals in excess of seven-hundred million barrels, no one has said for sure yet how many millions of gallons per day, but I have heard it suggested that it approaches huge numbers.
Two Democrats running for 3rd District seat say they can work with GOP
May 17, 2010 by comrex
Filed under Federal, South Carolina, US
Greenville News www.greenvillenews.com
By Anna Simon • Clemson bureau • May 17, 2010
Both Democratic candidates running for the 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary claim to be that person who can work across the aisle in Congress for the good of the district.
“The key is to be able to listen to what the people in your community want,” said Brian Ryan B. Doyle, of Aiken, who added that his radio show gives him experience in listening to many voices. “I have the experience to do that and go to Washington and make the change — real change and bring back what the 3rd Congressional District has been missing for the last 15 years,” he said.
Jane Ballard Dyer, of Easley points to her “wealth of experiences” as an Air Force captain, working mom and grandparent that help her understand of basic family needs the residents of this district face daily. “I’m the person who can go to Washington and sit down with people on both sides of the aisle and find solutions that will move our country forward,” Dyer said.
It was 15 years ago that Democrat Butler Derrick took his trademark suspenders and retired from the seat he held for 20 years, a seat the party, and especially the two June 8 Democratic primary contenders, desperately want back.
With U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett now in the governor’s race, the primary is being watched by party members who hope to regain the predominantly rural 10-county district that extends from Pickens and Oconee counties southward to Aiken County.
It’s a district rich in resources including water, timber and nuclear energy production but poor in jobs, a need both candidates stress in their campaigns.
Yet the bigger issue for many Democrats is which candidate has the best chance of winning back the district in November and defeating the eventual winner in a field of six Republicans vying for their party’s nomination in the June primary and a likely GOP runoff.
Neither Democratic contender has held prior political office; both can cite personal achievement and unconventional careers.
Dyer, 52, and a FedEx pilot, was the first female Clemson University graduate to become a U.S. Air Force pilot.
Doyle, 35, of Aiken, is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, dishing politics weekday mornings on the Urban Media Broadcasting Network’s “Water Cooler Moment” and counting down top tunes on weekends.
Dyer, who two years ago lost to Barrett, then the Republican incumbent, said she’s not discouraged. Her father ran for office as a Republican and lost in a race years ago, when she was a child and when predominantly Democrats were elected in South Carolina. She grew up chewing on dinner table conversation about politics and believes in a two-party system.
“Our state will be much better served if every time you go to the ballot you have a choice,” Dyer said. “It is tragic that so many people will vote based on just a party and not looking into individuals.”
South Carolina “has had its share of not very stunning leadership in the last few years,” said Dyer, who wants people to consider candidates in both parties “and see who wants to solve the problems and who just wants to talk the party line.”
Doyle describes himself as a “different kind of Democrat,” willing to buck the party line. To regain the formerly Democratic seat, “The party needs a candidate who’s willing to tell the party we’re wrong on some issues,” he said.
Doyle lobs criticism at Dyer as well, saying he’s challenged her to debates in all 10 counties in the district and she’s “avoided” his invitations. “If she is going to run from me, if she can’t debate me as a Democrat, there’s no way she can debate anyone on the other side of the aisle,” he said.
Dyer said she hasn’t avoided the invitations and hasn’t been able to schedule debates because of her work schedule.
Jobs and health care
Both candidates have proposed ways to create jobs in the district, and both are interested in capturing federal “green industry” dollars to do that.
Dyer would involve rural electric cooperatives in hiring local residents to help poorer families make their homes more energy efficient, wants to help small businesses get loans to keep them viable during the slow economic recovery, and capitalize on Clemson University and state technical colleges in the district to train a labor force for new jobs in energy and transportation.
As a congressional leader, Dyer said she would work with community, business and elected leaders to convince industry that this is a good place to bring their jobs.
Doyle attacks the North and Central American free trade agreements as a key reason for jobs leaving the district and moving overseas. He said he would call for limits and increased taxes on goods shipped into the U.S. in order to discourage large corporations from seeking cheap labor overseas and keeping manufacturing jobs here.
He also would like to suspend taxes on small businesses for six months to enable them to save money and hire more people.
On health care, Doyle, who worked as a paramedic for 12 years, said the new legislation needs to be fixed but not scrapped. People shouldn’t have to buy health insurance and small businesses making under $10 million a year should be exempt from providing employee health insurance because the cost could put them out of business, he said.
He also calls for a 30 percent cap on what insurers can charge people with pre-existing conditions.
Dyer said the new health care legislation, while not perfect, contains “lots of good things.” It will help those on Medicare, provide medications for seniors “in the gap,” allow young college graduates to stay on their parents’ plans, guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions and help bring down the national debt.
“This is a first step. We need people who will work to find solutions to make it better,” Dyer said.
As a congressional leader, Dyer said she would work with community, business and elected leaders to convince industry that this is a good place to bring their jobs.
Doyle attacks the North and Central American free trade agreements as a key reason for jobs leaving the district and moving overseas. He said he would call for limits and increased taxes on goods shipped into the U.S. in order to discourage large corporations from seeking cheap labor overseas and keeping manufacturing jobs here.
He also would like to suspend taxes on small businesses for six months to enable them to save money and hire more people.
On health care, Doyle, who worked as a paramedic for 12 years, said the new legislation needs to be fixed but not scrapped. People shouldn’t have to buy health insurance and small businesses making under $10 million a year should be exempt from providing employee health insurance because the cost could put them out of business, he said.
He also calls for a 30 percent cap on what insurers can charge people with pre-existing conditions.
Dyer said the new health care legislation, while not perfect, contains “lots of good things.” It will help those on Medicare, provide medications for seniors “in the gap,” allow young college graduates to stay on their parents’ plans, guarantee coverage for pre-existing conditions and help bring down the national debt.
“This is a first step. We need people who will work to find solutions to make it better,” Dyer said.
Letter to President Obama from Candidate for Congress
Candidate for Congress SC
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
FROM BRIAN “RYAN B” DOYLE for Congress
November 30, 2009
Hon. President Barack Obama
President of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20006
Fax and Mailed
RE: Suspending Payroll Taxes and Requiring Banks to make Loan to Small Business Owners
Hon. President Obama:
I am writing on behalf of the America people and small business owners across the country in need.
I am a candidate for Congress for the 3rd Congressional District of South Carolina. My district was hit hard due to the North American and Central Trade Agreements. We have lost thousands of jobs and small businesses are closing their doors. I believe it’s now time to review both agreements and make the necessary changes to save the few American jobs we have left in South Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Mississippi and Pennsylvania.
As a democratic candidate I am asking you Mr. President to order our treasury Secretary, Hon. Timothy F. Geithner to suspend payroll taxes as of Dec 31, 2009 for six months to help Americans and small business owners.
I believe this will help bail-out the real people who are suffering the tax payers. This will help simulate our economy and help our GDP. I know that you have been working hard to fix our financial crisis that you inherited. We need your help and support now more than ever.
I remember my two radio interview with you as an syndicated radio talk show host and you said “we have to get American back on the right track”.
I am also asking the administration to require banks and leading institutions that received government assistance to start lending money to small business owners. I believe it would only be fair to audit and confirm that banks loan or make available at least 25% of the monies they received from the tax payers.
In order to move forward and out of this financial crisis we can no longer allow the banks to use tax payer’s money to provide lavish bonuses nor buy or merge with other failing companies. We must demand real growth into our economy. Banks have failed to earn their bailouts and live up to the expectations of the American people.
I am working hard to bring more jobs and better opportunity to the people of the 3rd congressional district of South Carolina. I believe truly in my heart you want the best for all Americans and not only for large corporations and rich bankers. Now is the time to bail-out the American people and small businesses.
Please help me help the people of South Carolina and Americans. Please suspend payroll taxes for six months and give Americans and small businesses a chance to get back on their feet. God Bless you, your family and the United States of America.
Best Regards,
Brian “Ryan B” Doyle for Congress
Brian Doyle,
Candidate for Congress
3rd Congressional District South Carolina
