Yearly Archives: 2007

Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . . :::Sunday’s Downsize DC Conference Call radio show is going to be a repeat of last week’s episode. We’ll get to that in a moment.

But first, we want to talk about Breakfast with the Babka’s — in New Hampshire, February 24th.

Jim Babka will be giving a speech, at the Free State Project’s Liberty Forum. The speech is titled, “How New Hampshire can Change the Federal Government Forever.” We’ll give you a hint: Jim’s speech has something to do with the Read the Bills Act.

The Liberty Forum will be great fun. Other speakers include John Stossel from the ABC Show 20/20, Rob Kampia of the Marijuana Policy Project, and Congressman Ron Paul.

Would you run the ultimate experiment in Iraq?

Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . .::::::Please forward to concerned friends . . .::::::President Bush has had four years to bring peace to Iraq. Every experiment he’s tried to achieve that goal has failed. Now he wants to expend more American lives and money on yet another experiment. ::::::The Democrats, by contrast, seem to have adopted a “stay the course” strategy. They oppose the President’s new experiment, but seem in no hurry to leave the laboratory. ::::::U.S. policy is adrift, at the cost of innocent American lives and hundreds of billions of your tax money. It’s time to stop the experiments.

We stated our theme for 2007: AGGRESSIVE ACTION!

January lived up to it. We . . .

* Made our monthly budget goal in nine days. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could do that again?

* Set a new mark for messages to Congress — 45,024

* Had our 9th best month for recruitment with 651 new Downsizers (yes, only three months were better last year).

* Exceeded January of last year by 39,078 messages to Congress, and 461 new recruits

* Delayed a vote in the House on regulating grassroots organizations like DownsizeDC.org

* Defeated these grassroots regulations in the Senate,

* Proved the concept that we can join liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to work together for common goals and actually force Congress to change direction

* Started advertising the “Read the Bills Act” — our first ad will appear on Reason.com at any moment, and more are set to follow (we’ll let you know when our ad is up on the website)

* Raised our monthly pledges up over $6,500 . . .

Now we want to

Darol Dickinson gives an account of a visit from a USDA Investigator. Read all about it here. ::::::If this is how the USDA treats ranchers, farmers and vetinarians now, imagine how much worse it will get under the National Animal Identification System?

Downsize DC Media Announcements

Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . .::::::Wow! The Maine legislature just passed a resolution refusing to comply with the federal REAL ID Act, and calling on Congress to repeal it.::::::The vote was overwhelming. The Maine Senate voted for the resolution 34 to ZERO, while the Maine House passed it 137 to 4!::::::Ouch! That’s a real spanking for Congress. Now . . .::::::The REAL ID Act is on the ropes, so it’s time to throw as many hard punches as we can. Please send more messages to Congress today asking them to repeal the REAL ID Act. Here’s what I’m going to say in my message:

Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . .::::::In this issue:::::::* The 800-pound gorilla in our living room:::* The Senator doesn’t know what he passed:::* Media announcement

Jim Babka will be on Newsmakers with host Peter Ferrand on WRJN AM 1400 in Racine, Wisconsin. The 30 minute interview will start shortly after 1 PM Central time. It appears there is no way to listen to the show on the Net.

Today’s Downsizer-Dispatch . . .::::::Percy Bysshe Shelley said that, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Shelley was, of course, a poet, so it’s understandable that he got it wrong. Who are the real “unacknowledged legislators?”