Dr. Samuel Rivers III for SC House District 15

I look forward to serving in State House and joining the conservative South Carolina leaders fighting for:

Economic Opportunity for All

As a Conservative Republican, I believe in basic principles of self-reliance and accountability. We live in the greatest country that has ever existed and we are free to strive for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. With hard work, principled living and responsibility, anyone can succeed here.

Can our government play a role? Absolutely! Our government can promote legislation that nurtures entrepreneurial-ship, innovation and creativity by limiting the amount of regulations placed on thriving South Carolina small businesses and lowering the tax responsibility of business owners so they can invest in job growth.

In the State House, I will represent the citizens in my district by always supporting bills and enforcing laws that foster job growth and economic opportunities.

Education

Our children’s education should not be limited to the classroom. Hand in hand with parents at the helm, we, as Conservatives, believe that parents and guardians have the greatest responsibility to educate children. We can, however form alliances within our community to supplement educational opportunities by working with law enforcement agency leaders, school leaders, community organization leaders and faith based leaders. These alliances should lower taxes due to less duplication of services and will also limit the size of government.

Freedom and Personal Liberty

As a Republican, I believe the role of the government is to protect us as citizens and not encroach on our right to live as law-abiding citizens making our own decisions for how we govern our lives.

Our government was never meant to be the sole provider for the basic needs of its citizens. With the exception of aiding our most vulnerable citizens, the government should not operate as a business with limitless growth potential funded by us, the taxpayers, with no oversight by us, the taxpayers. A runaway government is just as dangerous as a runaway train without a conductor.

Taxes

I recognize that we need to simplify the tax system; both to lower rates and to broaden the tax base so that taxation becomes an instrument for promoting economic growth. I will work to keep the tax structure stable so that investors and entrepreneurs are not confronted with a constantly shifting set of rules that makes it impossible for them to plan ahead.

South Carolina has an abundance of natural resources, a high quality of life and a labor environment that provides a competitive and pro business environment for job creators. Our tax code, however, is decisively anti business and uncompetitive. South Carolina needs a tax code that encourages new business and does not punish them. We need a tax code that is fair and efficient and not a tool to doling out political favors to special interests.

I believe in the conservative principle that Americans should be able to keep the money they earn. We pay taxes for the operations of government; it’s my belief that taxes should only be collected by a system that is simple and fair, and that causes the least possible disruption to the productive economy. I will work towards a long term solution to lower and flatter tax rates and reduce corporate income tax rate.

Your financial support plays an important role in South Carolina state House primary. I’ve been working hard to earn every vote in South Carolina District 15. And today, every single dollar will matter. I need your help today to make sure I’m able to carry a conservative message to South Carolina State House of Representatives.

Will you make a donation of $5 or more today?

Your donation will make a big difference.

Make checks payable to

Samuel Rivers for House / P.O. Box 760 / Goose Creek, SC 29445

Jeff Foxworthy has announced that he will be hosting a new game show “Are You Smarter Than a Community Organizer?”

Tryouts will be held November 6th at a polling place near you.

Doesn’t Obama have an unfair advantage in the presidential race? After all he gets to run in 57 states but the republicans only get 50.

• Is it true that Debbie Wasserman Schultz was stopped and they found 125 pounds of dope on the driver’s seat?
• It seems to me that this election will swing on just how enthusiastically the dead are about voting.
• If you can’t remember 23 years worth of sermons from Rev Wright, how can you remember where you left the Doomsday button?
• Obama’s definition of “green energy” is when he expels energy doling out taxpayer money to billionaires, he expects a lot of green in return.
• Did you ever consider the reason that the Kamikaze program was such a bust is because the ones who were really good at it never made it through basic training?
• Is pro-gress the opposite of con-gress?
• Is Mr Wasserman Schultz in love or just addicted to dope?
• These Occupiers are everywhere. Occupy Wall Street, Occupy LA, Occupy Charlotte. It seems the only three places they don’t occupy is a job, a bath or their minds. (Not to be confused with Ron Paul voters who both work and bathe)
• Listening to liberals this election year, don’t you get the impression that Diogenes could walk all the way through the Democratic National Convention without even slowing down?
• Did you ever wonder if Obama’s financial advisors take their own advice? After all, they’re not broke.
• I favor waterboarding and the Chinese water torture. But locking someone in a room with Babs Boxer, Maxine Waters and Wasserman Schultz is where I draw the line.
• Whern Obama first said he needed 4 more years, I was skeptical. Then I realized, he’s right. There are 167 million people not on food stamps yet.
• If you put 30 apes at typewriter’s would one of them eventually type out Obama’s budget proposal?
• Would the result have been different if Nero had played golf instead of the fiddle?
• What makes you madder? That Obama keeps going on vacation or the fact that he keeps coming back?

As an Illinois state Senator, Obama voted three times against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which authorizes hospital staff to provide medical assistance to infants who survive a botched abortion.

He believes that in partial birth abortions, the baby should be left to die. No effort should be made to help that baby survive the trauma of the botched abortion. Doesn’t that tell you something about the content of the character of this man? The man who is the President of this country.

I find it hard to believe that any Christian supports him. And it is even more troubling given the attacks on Christianity in the three and a half years of his presidency. The problem we are facing with Progressiveness in America goes beyond politics. We are truly experiencing a battle between good and evil. Which side are you on?

This excellent article by Lloyd Marcus —- an artist, singer, production designer and musical producer who is affiliated with the Tea Party Express, and happens to be black —- sums up Obama’s and the left’s (black and white alike) endless attack upon on life in the womb.

Highlights from the article:

Think of the Secular Progressive Movement as a pro-abortion patchwork quilt of various anti-America groups. These people hate everything about America from the light bulbs we use, to our consumption of beef, to our love affair with the automobile….

…..Why are these leftist blacks more loyal to their Holy Grail of abortion than they are to their fellow blacks; all the while claiming rich white Republicans and the Tea Party are the enemies of black America? …..

…..Why are so-called African-American activists, all democrats, at odds with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s niece, Alveda King who is a committed Christian pro-life advocate?

…..What is up with these people on the left? Why do the same folks who passionately defend the life of a whale, spotted owl, baby seal, a toad and a death-row serial killer, get extremely angry at the mere suggestion that a woman consider not killing her baby? Why?

……Obama’s obsession is so strong he is willing to risk reelection. How else can you interpret Obama basically giving Catholics the finger, of which, a majority supported him last election? I once thought Obama voted against the Born-Alive Act and passionately supported Planned Parenthood to secure the hard core radical feminist vote. I was wrong. Obama’s commitment to abortion goes far deeper……

This is no contest —- Ryan chews him up and spits him out. Geithner says “We don’t have a definitive solution… We just don’t like yours”.

That this partisan butt kisser (there, I said it) has the gall to say this, and not get beat up in the “mainstream media”, is unfathomable, but it’s the way they cover for their messiah and his minions.

Note, this is from C-Span, not Saturday Night Live.

It is so funny listening to liberals shed crocodile tears over the “children” every time they want one of their socialistic plans passed. But the fact remains that liberals hate children, especially poor children (liberal speak for minorities) Take Washington DC for example.
Candidate Obama favored the vouchers issued by Washington DC to poor families, that allowed them to send their kids to private schools, where they receive a much better education. However, President Obama wiped out that voucher program within 2 months of taking office. He did this because his bosses at the teacher’s union told him to. The program was revived thanks to John Boehner, a conservative hate monger who wants to poison the water and the air and wants to throw grandma from the cliff etc etc etc.

Now Obama looks to kill the program again once and for all. I mean it makes sense. He doesn’t want his children at Sidwell Friends to have to attend class with “ghetto blacks”. How simply gauche that would be. Rich liberals simply won’t stand still for that kind of thing.

In DC 1600 people are getting 8,000 dollar vouchers for their kids based on economic need. These kids are getting better educations and for 2/3 s of the cost of a public education. (DC spends 12k per student)

So if the students get a better education and it costs much less, why in the world would anyone object to such a plan? The answer is simple. Pure greed. The NEA, who long ago proved they could care less about children want to maintain their ability to collect dues from every teacher and the liberal politicians line up for their kickbacks from the unions. The kids be damned.

Also, this week we hear that Obama is now ransacking kids lunches. There is no legal or constitutional basis for this. We now know that this was not an isolated incident and the evidence points at this being applied due to the First Vacationer’s antiobesity program. But what happened? A little girl was told her turkey (low in fat) and cheese (dairy product), banana (excellent source of iron) was not good enough. So what did they give her? processed (various chicken parts, including beaks and claws) chicken nuggets.

The scary part is if Obama (whose mommie was a commie) gets reelected what other intrusions can he and will he make to our every day lives? If the Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, will the liberals then use that to enforce eating, sleeping and exercise habits based on the commerce clause? Kagan admitted in her confirmation hearings that she believes they could. And you know La Raza’s representative on the court, Sotomayer will go along.

And on the massive debt, Obama and his liberal elves in the congress are bankrupting America with………..who will have to pay for that? The children.

So next time you hear Nancy Pelosi, Barack Insane Obama and Harry Reid talk about the poor “children”, just think about how cruel and mean spirited they are to children (other than their own of course. The elites have a different set of rules) and laugh your ass off.

Please join us Monday, February 27, 6PM, at Charles Towne Landing! Speaker Harrell will discuss the 2012 Legislative Agenda that was released on February 8. Moderator will be Kelly Golden host of 94.3 WSC’s Charleston’s Morning News.

The Legislative Agenda can be viewed here.

Speaker Harrell will present a brief overview, then take questions from the audience. We anticipate a great turnout similar to last year’s event, so come prepared with your questions. There are many topics that deserve your attention: Education Funding, Tax Reform, Spending Limitations, Regulatory Reform, Charter Schools, Budget and Control Board, etc. We will pay particular attention to how their agenda matches the one we distributed in November in preparation for the 2012 Legislative Session. We need to be vigilant on what is happening in Columbia, and should be assessing the incumbents’ performance in preparation for November’s election. This event is one opportunity to become more knowledgeable on what Legislators are doing on our behalf. We look forward to seeing you there. More information to follow soon.

Among the many lies Obama has perpetrated during his tenure, none can compare to his death panel. Repeated denials and a press willing to cover for the most inept and corrupt president of all time, cannot negate the fact that Obamacare does indeed include a death panel.

You will no longer have a choice

Are you aware that this panel is already in operation? many don’t, but it is. They grade medical procedures with A,B,C,D and I (incomplete evidence) Anything listed as A and B must be covered in full by insurance companies with no copays or deductables. In order to cover these costs, insurance companies are forced to not include coverage for low rated tests.

And just what kind of tests have the panel found to be unnecessary? How about breast cancer screening for women 40 to 49. How about routine prostate cancer screening or tests for the viruses that can cause cervical cancer? Click here for more

In 2008 nearly half a million women died worldwide from breast cancer or 13.7% of all deaths of women. What makes prostate cancer so deadly is that many men do not display any symptoms and without early detection, death ensues. Cervical cancer also requires testing as many times there are no symptoms. Beginning to feel safer under Obamacare?

It's all about the almighty dollar

Look at the Obama priorities. Paying for the morning after pill, tubal ligation and birth control pills are an irrefutable necessity but screening for cancer is not. As Ebenezer Scrooge Obama would say “If they’d rather die they better do it now and decrease the surplus population.” That’s the whole idea behind his death panel. Let them die and save the money that can be used to provide birth control and any other screwball idea the liberals have.

The panel is based on the British panel called NICE (National Institute for Comparative Effectiveness ), which is a misnomer if I ever heard one. This panel decides when a medical procedure is no longer cost effective. For instance, if you smoke and need surgery, you can be forced to quit smoking for 6 months before receiving medical help.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has studied the British model and it leads to 25,000 premature deaths every year in England. Our population is 6 1/2 times larger than England, meaning we can expect 162,500 premature deaths per year. Probably more because England does allow cancer screenings.

If you have private insurance now and they refuse you treatment, there is three layers for appeal. The death panel in Obamacare does not allow for appeals. In fact, the way the panel is set up, they can hold all their meetings behind closed doors and they are not required to inform the public when they eliminate a service.

Meet your new chief physician

The house oversight committee can investigate but they cannot force panel members to answer questions and congress is powerless to change the decisions of the panels.

To begin addressing these problems, Congress should make the task force subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which would at least require it to hold its deliberations in public. Congress could also make it a full-fledged part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which already convenes its meetings. That would make the task force subject to the Administrative Procedures Act and all the rules that bind other regulatory bodies, including the legal requirement to consider public comments and provide avenues for appeal.

In the meantime pray (unless you are in school or a public venue) that you don’t get cancer. Oh, and if you think something as common as anesthesiologist won’t be added to the panel evaluation, take a look here.

Ever since Sarah Palin crashed onto the national scene, she has been a lightening rod for abuse. Even members of our own party have called her everything from uneducated to downright silly. I cannot tell you just how many liberals have said that she can see Russia from her house. Those words were indeed spoken by a true idiot, Tina Fey. (may her career rest in peace)

Time and time again, they try to denegrate her in order to advance themselves. I have come up with a solution. I ask them point blank if Sarah is an idiot, and of course they say yes. Then I ask that person if they are an idiot. Invaribly, they say no. I then post the following:

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As mayor of Wasilla:

#1  Took a town that had not grown in 30 years and grew it by adding big box stores. She was able to convince these stores they would be profitable and they are. In fact, Wasilla with a population of just 6300 has 50,000 people shopping there every day. It enabled her to cut property taxes by 75% and personal property and inventory taxes by 100%. The income from the malls allowed her to do much for the city.

• Updated sewer system.
• Repaved every road in Wasilla and added needed infrastructure by getting the new big box stores to chip in.
• Built a multi sport arena for the children of Wasilla.
• Kept a glass jar on her desk with the name and phone number of all residents. Once a week she would pull a name randomly and call them to see what they thought of the city.

As Chairperson of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

#1  - As ethics officer, she found there was corruption on the committee being perpetrated by a member of her own party. She went to the head of the commission, the legislature and the governor seeking help in rooting it out. It soon became apparent to her that the corruption was widespread and it needed to be stopped. She got the head of the commission (a republican) and the secretary of state (another republican) to resign and face criminal charges.

#2  - She quit her well paying job, cutting her family income by 60%. Working as a private citizen she was able to not only get the commissioners fired, but thrown into prison to boot.

#3 – Seeing that the corruption ran all the way up to the governor’s office, she decided to run herself and won.

As Governor of Alaska

#1 – Her first act as governor was to veto a popular new law depriving gay couples of the same benefits straight couples get. And this from the woman dims allude to as a homophobe. It was her contention that her personal beliefs should not enter into governing the state and that all people deserve equal rights. What a fruitcake huh?

#2 – She took on the oil companies and made them increase their payments to the state for the oil and gas they took from there.

#3 – Despite dim hand wringing over her expenses, she was able to make 30% more public appearances as the former governor while cutting the travel expenses by over 80%!!!

#4 – Again cut taxes (this is becoming a habit) while still giving every resident of Alaska checks for 2500 dollars from the increased oil and gas money.

#4 – Before she knew she was carrying a special needs kid, she adopted a plan to triple the money spent on education for children with special needs.

#5  - In 2008 she was voted a 25,000 dollar pay raise which she refused to accept.

#6 –  Although dims blame her for the bridge to nowhere, the truth is congress passed the expenditure in 2005, BEFORE she was governor. She pulled the plug on the plan as “wasteful”.

#7  - Has worked hard to build a gas pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48 states, which would greatly increase the states income while at the same time lowering the heating costs in the lower 48. Others had been trying for 35 years to build it and all of them failed. Sarah succeeded. Exxon with TransCanada are building the 26 billion dollar pipeline.

#8 – Went to court to force oil companies to either use their leases or forfeit them.

At this juncture I ask them what they have accomplished. Silence.

America needs more idiots, and we need them NOW!!!!!!!

This is an easy one. The left loves taxes because they don’t pay them. And I don’t mean one here or there, I mean everywhere………Sam I Am. So much ground to cover. Where shall we begin? Let’s start with Obama’s appointments.

Tom Daschle

Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for Dept of Health and Human Resources. Once he was appointed, we found out that he owed taxes. Lots of them. He never counted the car and driver services he got for three years, one year’s consulting fees, and took illegal charitable contributions. In all, he underpaid on 353,552 dollars in income or false deductions. For that he owed 128,203, plus another 11,964 in interest.

Ron Kirk

Ron Kirk, Obama’s pick for Chief Trade Representative. He didn’t pay taxes on speaking fees and wrote off 17k for Maverick season tickets.

Timothy Geithner

Timothy Geithner, Obama’s pick for Treasury Secretary. Geithner failed to pay 34,000 in taxes on his income from the International monetary Fund. He tried to pass it off as an innocent mistake because of the way the IMF pays. That would have been a good excuse, had he not testified in front of congress in 1998, explaining the complicated circumstances.

Rep Hilda Solis. Obama’s pick for Labor Secretary, owed state on local taxes on their auto business. Additional tax cheats picked by Obama include Kathleen Sebelius, Nancy Killefer, Capricia Marshall, and others. And it’s not just cabinet officers who owe back taxes. In the White House staff, there are 41 who owe a total of over 831,0000 dollars.
Now add to the list other democrat politicians who are tax cheats, like Charles Rangel and Al Franken, who had to be taken to court in New York State in order to get him to pay up.  Sherrod Brown, the big tax lover failed to pay his property taxes 3 years in a row and the property he owned was actually listed

Warren Buffet

up for the Sheriff’s Auction.  Then there’s Media Matters who has a 501(C)(3) tax exempt status.  As such they are not allowed to provide the DNC or WH with coordination, but they do.  They won’t lose their tax exempt status until 2013, when our corrupt president and the head of the DOJ are nothing but a very bad memory.

Obama likes to talk about people paying their fair share, but shouldn’t we make the democrats pay their current taxes before we raise anyone else’s?

Also the champion of high inheritance taxes, Teddy Kennedy, didn’t have to worry about the taxes himself as the family trust is in Fiji, where Poppa Joe put it when FDR informed him the tax structure would change. The tax started in 1916 and only applied to assets that were liquidated. FDR changed that to all assets with a few deductions.

And I saved the biggie for last. Warren Buffet, Obama’s favorite billionaire and the man who cries that he pays a lower percentage than his secretary. Perhaps he would be paying more than her if he paid the 1.05 billion (billion is not an error) he owes through his Berkshire Hathaway investment fund.