Sam Farr congresman from CA has no comment re NOAA fines for biologist and jet ski use to save surfers

Also, NOAA recently levied enormous fines — which keep going up — against two persons using jet skis to save surfers in Monterey Bay.

The overall issue is that a federal agency (NOAA) under Obama and with the blessing of local congressman Sam Farr now controls access of the public to use of Monterey Bay. Do you accept this control?

Because the jet ski users are contesting the charges, NOAA’s response has been to double and triple the fines. Per discussion by Dr. Bill on radio 1080, NOAA is acting as judge, jury and prosecutor and not allowing any defense.

Sam Farr, congressman for the Monterey and Santa Cruz, CA area, refused to come on a local radio show Saturday, Jan. 14 and discuss his views of NOAA and the legal charges against people using the Monterey Bay for work and play. Sam Farr’s office likewise did not contact the radio station. Farr’s offices were contacted repeatedly without success.

“Put a sign on your car, in your window and on a telephone pole telling Sam Farr what you want” says Dr. Bill on 1080 Radio. “Or just write, Sam Farr — Farr Out!”

NOAA’s senior positions are filled with political appointees who push for the political agenda of the current administration. Dr. Bill refers to NOAA as the “green Gestapo”.

Per the 1080 radio show Jan. 11, 2012 NOAA spent millions of Obama Stimulus money on a new building close to the beach at Asilomar CA state park in Monterey, CA. NOAA will not permit any non-native plants in the area and has built a building which, to put it mildly from the comments of listeners to the raido show, does not blend into the environment. Check out the NOAA building next time you drive along the Asilomar state beach beach in Monterey.

For more information on NOAA, congressman Sam Farr’s lack of response to air his views on NOAA and current fining of the biologist and jet ski users contact
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Will Rep. Sam Farr tear up his socialist card?

Sam Farr is one of seventy plus socialists elected to the United States Congress.  Below is a letter to Sam from a citizen in his district:

Sam, tear up your socialist card.  Our nation is at a crossroads.  The 2012 elections will be about ideology.   Will American slide further into socialism?     Or will America return to  the conservative values of our Founding Fathers and Mothers?

Socialists  typically  believes that government is the solution, that everything good comes from government and that all belongs to government who  dispenses it wisely. Socialists believe that government creates jobs and wealth.

Conservatives believes in limited government, that federalism rightly limits the powers of each branch of government,  and that under God individuals have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — with the least interference as possible from government.

Sam,  please support and vote for fiscal responsibility.

Just as families must live within their means, so too  must nations.  Look at Greece.

If a family overspends by $5,000 it cannot start next year’s budget with an increase of 5 K.  The same  goes  for nations.  Therefore Sam ,  please vote to stop all automatic government increases.

All families must live on a budget.  So must America.  Yet months and months go by and the Democrats refuse to make a budget.

Sam, Please  change your ways and support and vote for a balanced budget.

When a family’s income drops their expenses too must drop.  The same for nations.  Growth is flat.  We must cut government spending.   How?

Sam, please support and vote for substantial cuts and no increases in taxes.  How?  Read what Paul Ryan wrote as to how to make substantial fiscal changes.  They make sense.

Why wait for the Supreme Court to weigh in on Obama-Care.  De-fund it now. If the government has the power to require every citizen to purchase  X,  then there is no limit to  what the government can require.  That is precisely the path of socialism  that lies ahead.

So, again  I ask  Sam Farr:  Will you tear up your socialist card?  And, join a tea party or start one?  America is at a crossroads, right?  

 letter  to Sam Farr from  Cameron Jackson, Monterey Bay Forum, POB 1972, Aptos, CA 95001-1972

email address:   DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

Finally in July, 2010 the Obama administration raised the loan guarantee rate for SBA loans from 75% to 90%. And, banks started to make more SBA loans to small business. The The Penny Ice Creamery in Santa Cruz, CA got such a loan. Taxpayer money will pay the bank back 90 percent of the loan if the ice cream store fails. Try out the ice cream and come back to comment. The Penny Icecreamery is located at 913 Ceder Street in Santa Cruz. 831 204-2533. What say you — Is this the way to create jobs?

from the website for The Penny Icecreamery:
“At Penny, she’s making artisanal ice cream from scratch, and the plan is to offer nine different flavors a day. Everything will be local, organic, seasonal, etc. And as you can see from the ice cream photo to the right, there will definitely be some Manresa-esque flairs.

small ice cream store gets 90% SBA loan

The menu will change very frequently — the Wednesday farmers’ market is a block away — but to give you an idea of the offerings, here’s a current version of the nine flavors, as described by Davis (speaking with a blackberry vanilla popsicle in hand):

1.Tahitian vanilla
2.Dark chocolate sorbet
3.Fresh mint and cocoa nib
4.Coffee toffee
5.Blackberry corn, made with corn grown at Baker’s three-acre farm
6.Caramel
7.Bourbon bacon chocolate
8.Brown butter-spiced pecan with chili spice
9.Raspberry rose sorbet
In support of a Santa Cruz neighbor, Penny will use Verve Coffee for the coffee toffee, the affogatos and other coffee-related items. On the rest of the menu, expect rotating things like the aforementioned popsicle, floats (like a melon sorbet scoop with cucumber granita in a cilantro mint soda), sundaes, malts, tiny toasted cinnamon meringues, and a very intriguing pate de fruit. But again, it will change regularly.

“Another cool tidbit is that Penny is a licensed pasteurizer — one of the few ice cream shops with that distinction in the entire area (Ici in Berkeley is one) — which means they’re really making ice cream from scratch.

So — what do these luscious looking ice cream cones cost?

And does America need jobs created with 90% guaranteed loans? The Housing mess happened in part because the government gave money to put people into houses that they could not afford. Are SBA 90% guaranteed loans part and parcel of the same problem? DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

Opposed to Democrat incumbent Sam Farr are a number of candidates including Republican Jeff Taylor.

Jeff Taylor, Republican opposes Sam Farr for U.S. Congress

My question did not get asked.

My question for Sam Farr: The membership roster of the American Socialist Party shows you, Sam Farr, as a member.

If that is true, >why are you a socialist? If that is not true, what have you done to remove your name?

The gist of what I did hear on KSCO: Sam Farr spoke proudly of ObamaCare. Sam Farr lauded his accomplishments to provide government programs to help people.

I wonder whether Sam Farr makes much attempt to listen to his constituents. I don’t think so. For example, Sam Farr said that — in the last 17 years he has been in office representing Santa Cruz and Monterey — he had never heard a Kay Zwerling editorial.

Kay Zwerling's conservative editorials not heard by Sam Farr

Therefore, I don’t think Sam Farr listens to KSCO — one of the few independent radio stations in northern California.

So what did the other candidates say? The other four candidates sounded more similar than different. All four strongly oppose out of control spending. All four discussed ways how to grow the private sector and create private sector jobs.

The one woman, Mary Larkin, says on her website: “… the current administration seems to have our economy on the fast-track towards destruction and none of us can sit idly by any longer.”

As a conservative independent. I am at odds with all of Sam Farr’s comments per the KSCO discussion. And I liked largely everything that the other four candidates said. So how to choose?

Think of the decision how to vote akin to choosing an ice cream. For me, Sam Farr is akin to licorice which I cannot stand. I could never eat a licorice ice cream cone.

On the other hand, I like strawberry, chocolate, vanilla and mint. Those voices — a Libertarian, a Green Party a Republican and a write-in — all sound good. I liked what I heard from all of them.

How to choose? Like the two basics — Vanilla and Chocolate — the United States has a two party system.

Though I certainly liked what I heard write-in Ron Kabat say on KSCO, I wish as a Tea Party movement supporter he could support Republican Party candidate Jeff Taylor.

What Ron Kabat says on his website:
“My PROPOSAL –> Members of Congress should voluntarily accept a 15% wage cut until our national deficit begins to decrease for three years AND our national unemployment rate falls to 6%….”

I tried to contact Ron Kabat on his web site but there is no contact form, no email address and and no way to leave a message. That sends a message I dislike — it is hard to connect to someone who wants to represent us.

The votes for Kabat, the Libertarian and the Green Party are great as a Custer’s Last Stand but not likely to remove Sam Farr from office.

Let’s hope we get real change: Repeal ObamaCare. Repeal all the bail outs. Cut the deficit. Grow the private sector. Cut taxes. Promote small business. Cut bureaucracy and red tape.

To remove Sam Farr from office, a Democrat and member of the American Socialist Party, - can third party candidates and Tea Party movement supporters agree on what they have in common? Can they support one candidate who can defeat the Democrat “achievements” of the last two years?

What do you say? How best to vote out a Democratic incumbent who has been in office the last 17 years? Let’s get all the third party and Tea Party candidates to join in support of one candidate: Jeff Taylor.

So how is the write-in in Alaska doing? Sarah Palin calls it Operation Chaos.

KFQD 750 AM radio host Dan Fagan is calling the plan an act of “civil disobedience” to protest what he views is an illegal effort by the state to aid Murkowski’s write-in campaign. Fagan supports Republican nominee Joe Miller, a tea party candidate who beat Murkowski in a primary upset earlier this year.

A website devoted to promoting Sarah Palin, another Miller backer, dubs the effort Operation Alaska Chaos.

The state Republican and Democratic parties went to court to stop the state from providing voters at polling stations with a list of write-in candidates’ names. The parties and other voting-rights advocates argue that the list provides Murkowski with an unfair advantage and violates state law.

That case remains active in the Alaska court system, with the state Supreme Court scheduled to hear oral arguments on Friday.

But Fagan isn’t waiting for a last-minute decision. The host hopes that his effort will diminish any advantage Murkowski could receive via the state-sanctioned write-in list, by crowding the list with 100 or so names of new write-in candidates who filed before Thursday’s deadline.

(Photo of Murkowski: AP/Chris Miller)

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Look at Sam’s background, education, job history and experience.

Where did Sam Farr grow up and where does he live? Sam Farr grew up and lives in Carmel, California. Carmel is the most expensive, “old money” area in the 17th district. Yes, there are two Safeways in the Carmel Valley area. Who does Sam Farr rub shoulders with living in Carmel, CA? Does he hear the “pop, pop, pop” sounds of gun shots that are frequently heard in Salinas, CA? What has Sam Farr done to reduce gang violence?

How was Sam Farr educated? No public school experience for Sam Farr. No rubbing shoulders with all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds. No military experience where one must deal with all sorts of people. Sam Farr attended only private universities, i.e., Santa Clara University and Monterey Institute of International Studies.

3) How broad is Sam Farr’s job history? Sam Farr has only worked for the government. After 2 years in the Peace Corp, Sam Farr went to work in Sacramento, CA. Connected through his father, Sam Farr worked 10 years doing budget work for the California Assembly. For the last 17 years Sam Farr has represented the Santa Cruz – Monterey area for the 17th District.

If you only know government then the government is the best and only solution for all problems. And that appears to be Sam Far’s modus operandi.

4) What are Sam Farr’s accomplishments in 17 years as a Congressman? Per Wikipedia, thanks to Sam Farr there now is an ocean advisor in the President’s cabinet. That accomplishment happened in 2008.

Yes, taking care of our oceans and Mother Earth is important. Is it best done by more government bureaucracy? Sam Farr thinks so.

Oct. 8, 2009 Peggy Noonon writes Revolt of the Accountants, a perceptive article about elites and why Americans increasingly dislike – or hate — elites. Read below:

written by Peggy Noonon in Wall Street Journal, Oct. 8, 2010
“If you write a column, you get a lot of email. Sometimes, especially in a political season, it’s possible to discern from it certain emerging themes—the comeback of old convictions, for instance, or the rise of new concerns. Let me tell you something I’m hearing, in different ways and different words. The coming rebellion in the voting booth is not only about the economic impact of spending, debt and deficits on America’s future. It’s also to some degree about the feared impact of all those things on the character of the American people. There is a real fear that government, with all its layers, its growth, its size, its imperviousness, is changing, or has changed, who we are. And that if we lose who we are, as Americans, we lose everything.

This is part of what’s driving the sense of political urgency this year, especially within precincts of the tea party.

The most vivid illustration of the fear comes, actually, from another country, Greece, and is brilliantly limned by Michael Lewis in October’s Vanity Fair. In “Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds,” he outlines Greece’s economic catastrophe. It is a bankrupt nation, its debt, or rather the amount of debt that has so far been unearthed and revealed, coming to “more than a quarter-million dollars for every working Greek.” Over decades the Greeks turned their government “into a piñata stuffed with fantastic sums” and gave “as many citizens as possible a whack at it.” The average Greek government job pays almost three times as much as the average private-sector job. The retirement age for “arduous” jobs, including hairdressers, radio announcers and musicians, is 55 for men and 50 for women. After that, a generous pension. The tax system has disintegrated. It is a welfare state with a cash economy.

Much of this is well known, though it is beautifully stated. But all of it, Mr. Lewis asserts, has badly damaged the Greek character. “It is simply assumed . . . that anyone who is working for the government is meant to be bribed. . . . Government officials are assumed to steal.” Tax fraud is rampant. Everyone cheats. “It’s become a cultural trait,” a tax collector tells him.

Mr. Lewis: “The Greek state was not just corrupt but also corrupting. Once you saw how it worked you could understand a phenomenon which otherwise made no sense at all: the difficulty Greek people have saying a kind word about one another. . . . Everyone is pretty sure everyone is cheating on his taxes, or bribing politicians, or taking bribes, or lying about the value of his real estate. And this total absence of faith in one another is self-reinforcing. The epidemic of lying and cheating and stealing makes any sort of civic life impossible.”

Thus can great nations, great cultures, disintegrate, break into little pieces that no longer cohere into a whole.

And what I get from my mail is a kind of soft echo of this. America is not Greece and knows it’s not Greece, but there is a growing sense—I should say fear—that the weighty, mighty, imposing American government itself, whether it meant to or not, has for years been contributing to American behaviors that are neither culturally helpful nor, as we now all say, sustainable: a growing sense of entitlement, of dependency, of resentment and distrust, and an increasing suspicion that everyone else is gaming the system. “I got mine, you get yours.”

People, as we know, are imperfect. Governments, composed top to bottom of imperfect people wielding power, are very imperfect. There are of course a million examples, big and small, of how governments can damage the actual nature and character of the citizenry, and only because there was just a commercial on TV telling me to gamble will I mention the famous case of the state lotteries. Give government the right to reap revenues from the public desire to gamble, and you’ll soon have government doing something your humble local bookie never had the temerity to try: convince the people that gambling is a moral good. They promote it insistently on local television, undermining any remaining reserve among our citizens not to play the numbers, not to develop what can become an addiction. Our state government daily promotes what for 2,000 years was understood to be a vice. No bookie ever committed a crime that big.

Government not only can change the national character, it can bizarrely channel national energy. And this is another theme in my mailbox, the rebellion against what government increasingly forces us to become: a nation of accountants.

No matter what level of life in which you operate, you are likely overwhelmed by forms, by a blizzard of regulations, rules, new laws. This is not new, it’s just always getting worse. Priests are forced to be accountants now, and army officers, and dentists. The single most onerous part of ObamaCare is the tax change whereby spending $600 on goods or services will require a 1099 form. Economists will tell you of the financial cost of this, but I would argue that Paperwork Nation is utterly at odds with the American character.

Because Americans weren’t born to be accountants. It’s not in our DNA! We’re supposed to be building the Empire State Building. We were meant, to be romantic about it, and why not, to be a pioneer people, to push on, invent electricity, shoot the bear, bootleg the beer, write the novel, create, reform and modernize great industries. We weren’t meant to be neat and tidy record keepers. We weren’t meant to wear green eyeshades. We looked better in a coonskin cap!

There is I think a powerful rebellion against all this. It isn’t a new rebellion—it was part of Goldwaterism, and Reaganism—but it’s rising again.

For those who wonder why so many people have come to hate, or let me change it to profoundly dislike, “the elites,” especially the political elite, here is one reason: It is because they have armies of accountants to do this work for them. Those in power institute the regulations and rules, and then hire people to protect them from the burdens and demands of their legislation. There is no congressman passing tax law who doesn’t have staffers in his office taking care of his own financial life and who will not, when he moves down the street into the lobbying firm, have an army of accountants to protect him there.

Washington is now to some degree the focus of the same sort of profound resentment that Hollywood liberals inspired when they really mattered, or seemed really powerful. For decades they made films that were not helpful to our culture or society, that were full of violence and sick imagery. But they often brought their own children up more or less protected from the effects of the culture they created. Private schools, nannies, therapists, tutors. They bought their way out of the cultural mayhem to which they’d contributed. Their children were fine. Yours were on their own.

This is part of why people dislike “the elites” and why “the elites,” especially in Washington, must in turn be responsive, come awake, start to notice. People don’t like it when they fear you are subtly, day by day, year by year, changing the personality and character of their nation. They think, “You are ruining our country and insulating yourselves from the ruin. We hate you.” And this is understandable, yes?

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