DALE VIRGIL BLANCHARD FOR CONGRESS
SOLON, OH 44139
ph: 216 978-0237
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ABOUT DALE VIRGIL BLANCHARD
WHO IS DALE BLANCHARD?
Dale Blanchard is an Accountant. A 17 year resident of Solon, Ohio, Dale and his wife Jacquelyn, a Cleveland Municipal School teacher, moved to Solon from Twinsburg, Ohio in 1990. All together, Dale and Jacquelyn have lived in what is today the 14th Congressional District [Between living in Solon and Twinsburg] 24 years. They have 3 children. Two of their children are adults and graduates of Solon High School. One is a graduate of Bowling Green State University and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada and employed as an Accountant. One is a college student with aspirations of becoming a teacher. The youngest of their children is a freshman at Solon High School.
Dale Blanchard was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended both Cleveland Public and Catholic Schools and Graduated in 1975 from John Adams High School. He then attended Cleveland State University and earned a BBA Degree in Accounting in 1979. During his studies at Cleveland State, Dale Blanchard learn a great deal about Economics, Finance, Federal Monetary Policy and Business Decision Making. Dale Blanchard passed the CPA examination in 1984 and became certified in 1985.
Dale Blanchard worked for the CPA firm of Watson Rice & Company once out of college but has spent most of his career with the Illinois Department of Revenue as a Tax Auditor and an Audit Supervisor. During his professional career, Dale Blanchard has observed how Federal Budget, Tax and Monetary policy effect American business and the American Economy.
As early as his teenage years during the early 1970’s, Dale Blanchard was motivated to want to support actions that would lead to more people living more prosperous lives. His chief concern was the plight of the poor. But he was also very concerned that African-Americans lagged behind non African-Americans in per capital and per house hold incomes. Eventually, this lead to his decision to major in Accounting when he attended collage so that he could learn more about business and economics.
While attending Cleveland State University, Dale Blanchard received a well rounded education, especially in Business Administration disciplines. But the subjects that grabbed his interest the most were Economics, Money and Banking and Business Quantitative Analysis classes. In those classes Dale Blanchard excelled and learned about the American Capitalistic System; how government actions can encourage businesses to take actions that will expand the size of the American Economy faster or slower; how Federal Reserve Board policy can help expand the American Economy and help stabilize prices; and how businesses make decisions on setting prices and determining optimum production output levels. Dale Blanchard believes that this knowledge places him or any Business School major student in a far better position to represent Americans in Congress than any Lawyer who lacks Business School training.
But in addition to possessing knowledge of Business and Economics, a good representative in Congress must possess Good Character, Honesty and a Basic Desire to want to Help his Fellow Citizens.
Dale Blanchard is a Born Again, Bible Believing, Son of the Living God. In short, he is a Christian. In addition to what being a Christian is to all Christians, Dale Blanchard’s faith has shaped his character and life’s objectives of wanting to help others.
First, Dale Blanchard has learned that God has an unconditional love for all of us. God wants what is best for all of us, no matter how much we love him or disappoint him. His grace remains with us. Dale Blanchard wants the best for all Americans. Obviously, Dale Blanchard is limited in how he can improve the lives of others, but he does know that the best way to help to improve the lives of as many Americans as possible is to Grow the American Economy faster. When the American Economy grows faster, the Standard of Living of the American People improves. Dale Blanchard wants to improve the Standard of Living of all Americans, whether they agree with him or not; whether they are Democrats, Republicans or Independents; whether they are Poor, Middle Class or Wealthy; and whether they live in the Rust Belt or in other regions of the country, Dale Blanchard wants to improve their Standard of Living.
Second, Dale Blanchard admires Jesus Christ for his total dedication to the concept of the truth. Dale Blanchard learned that sometimes people will love you for the things that you say and other times they will despise you, even to the point that they will want to kill you. But when Jesus was faced with persecution, he remained dedicated to the truth. Dale Blanchard too will remain dedicated to the truth. Sometimes Dale Blanchard will say things that some people want to hear and sometimes Dale Blanchard will say things that some people may not want to hear, but that they need to hear. So since people need to hear these things, Dale Blanchard will always tell the truth to the best of his ability.
Dale Blanchard wants to be your friend. This does not mean that Dale Blanchard wants to be your buddy, but rather Dale Blanchard wants to be your friend. The difference between a buddy and a friend is that a buddy will tell you things that you want to hear, but a friend will tell you things that you need to hear.
Most successful politicians are successful because they are buddies to a majority of their constituents. They are very good at telling people things that they want to hear, but they fail their constituents by not doing what is in their best interest. Dale Blanchard, however will consistently tell you what you need to hear. And if that means Dale Blanchard will not win an election, so be it! If a candidate is being truthful with the voters, it is up to the voters to support that candidate. If the voters select the buddy who will lie to them by telling them that they can receive rewards without any sacrifice just to get their vote and reject the friend who tells them the truth, then this shows the character of the voters and the voters will receive what they deserve.
Dale Blanchard has good character and has no problem with voters who expect their representatives to have good character. But, Dale Blanchard in return expects voters to exercise good character. When voters exercise good character, they select better representatives. And once Dale Blanchard is elected to office, he will do what is in the best interest of the American People.
THE STAGNANT U.S. GOVERNMENT
2009 – 2010
By Dale Blanchard
February 15, 2010February 15, 2010
A major problem with the United States is the existence of a Stagnant Government. Today, in 2010, our country faces tremendous challenges. We have a slow growing economy and a jobless economic recovery. The U.S. has rising health care and health insurance cost and 47 million Americans at any one time are without health insurance. We have unimaginable sized current Federal Budget Deficits and totally unacceptable sized midterm and long term budget deficits that will cripple our economy. And as a result the U.S. has a frustrated public.
Although we have all of these challenges we can prevail and the U.S. economy can comeback stronger than ever. But this will only occur if we work together. Democrats and Republicans must compromise somewhat and work together to solve America’s problems.
Unfortunately, we have a dysfunctional Government due to the very high levels of partisanship. This is because the extremist in both Parties control the Parties. Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of this but currently, it is the Republicans who are the most partisan, by far. The Republicans have made a political decision to fight President Obama on every front. Whether it is Health Care Insurance, Stimulus Legislation, Tax Legislation or Balancing the Federal Budget, the Republican Party has decided to abandon the President. In fact their number one propaganda minister and party boss, Rush Limbaugh, has expressed that he wants President Obama to fail. Limbaugh has sent his orders out to all of the Republicans in the U.S. Congress that they better not vote with the Democrats unless he gives the OK and if he doesn’t give the OK and you cross him, he will recruit a true Conservative [Right Wing Extremist - Fascist] to oppose you in the primary.
Case in point, Arlen Specter, was a Republican Senator from Pennsylvania. But after his support for the 2009 Economic Recovery Act, which angered Limbaugh and the other right wing extremist, Senator Specter was forced to change parties. He became a Democrat. We welcome him. But Specter had been in a loyal Republican Senator for 29 years; many times voting in ways that he knew were not in the best interest of his country but in a way that showed his loyalty to the Republican Party. But once he voted for the Economic Recovery Act, against Limbaugh’s command, the right wing extremist threatened to come at him. Realizing that he would probably lose in a Republican Primary, Senator Specter decided to change parties.
Specter is not alone. Other non ideological Republicans such as 2008 Republican Presidential Nominee, Senator John McCann, are now facing serious challenges from extremist right wing candidates. Limbaugh and his right wing extremist control the Republican Party, and this has lead to the high level of partisanship that grips the Republican Party and limits our nation’s ability to work together.
But, in all fairness the Democratic Party has its problems too.
One problem has to do with high levels of partisanship. Although the Democrats are not as much in lock step in opposition against the Republicans as the Republicans are against the Democrats, the Democrats have been guilty of obstructing reasonable Republican policies in the past. For example, the 2003 Senior Prescription Drug program was opposed by far too many Democrats. Now I understand that there were many problems with the program and it wasn’t the program that most Democrats, if any, would have proposed. But it was better than the status quo at that time it should have received more Democratic support. Often, the Perfect the enemy of the Good.
Another problem of Democrats is that Democrats support too many positions that are just bad policy and this frightens too many Americans. It frightens not only Republicans but also frightens most Independents and even many centrist and moderate Democrats. These positions include an energy policy that lacks any provision for becoming less dependent on far-east and other imported oil by increasing domestic oil production or increasing the number of nuclear power plants. These positions include a health insurance plan that attempts put private health insurance companies out of business. These positions include attempting to balance the Federal Budget only on the backs of high income Americans instead of raising taxes on all Americans so that all Americans contribute to solving the Deficit problem. These positions include failing to acknowledge that chaos promoting terrorists are at war against the U.S. and the entire civilized world. These positions include closing the Guantanamo Bay POW facility because of WHAT? And the U.S. will move these prisoners WHERE? By WHEN? And WHY? These positions include Abortion on Demand, promoting the Gay Lifestyle as mainstream, and wanting to take Guns away from law abiding citizens. These policies scare people and in the end this creates a situation where half of the working people in this county vote against their personal economic interest and vote Republican. As Democrats we must stop frightening people
Finally, for one year the Democrats had total power. Democrats held the presidency, a majority in the House of Representatives and a filibuster proof super majority in the Senate and simply failed to Govern. What an opportunity lost. The Democrats could not get a Health Insurance Policy passed because they could not propose a reasonable one. The Democrats were able to pass the2009 Economic Recovery Act which has expedited the end of the rescission and the beginning of the recovery, and that was great. But the Democrats have not passed policies to increase the demand for labor, encouraging private companies to increase their hiring of American workers yet. What is taking so long? And is it now too late?
The end result is U.S. Government is Stagnant and our solvable challenges are not being met because the extremists in both parties are in control of both Parties.
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DALE VIRGIL BLANCAHRD
SOLON, OH 44139
ph: 216 978-0237
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