Defeat Gil Gutknecht and Elect Tim Walz in Minnesota 
If you want a real change then elect Tim Walz, who challenges the outrageous falsehoods on which Gutknecht's candidacy rests. Gutknecht in a recent debate seen nationally on C-Span uttered what might be the most egregious falsehood of the entire current campaign season when, responding to Walz's warnings about the U.S. economic picture stated that the current economy is "the best of the last 25 years."
That statement along with the pattern evidenced behind it supplies more than enough ample reason to conclude that Gil Gutknecht is unfit to serve in Congress. Padding the record is a frequent reality of political life, but to call the current economic picture our best in a generation is an outrage.
Two quick visits to the U.S. Debt Clock and the National Priorities Project renders Gilknecht's claim absurd, not to mention harmful in substituting illusion for reality. An earlier visit today revealed that the U.S. debt stood at $8,572,789,691,629.70.
David M. Walker is the Comptroller General of the United States, the nation's leading accountant. In a Sunday, October 28 speech delivered in Austin, Texas, Walker is quoted delivering a dire warning to Americans. "This is about the future of our country," Walker stated pertaining to the alarming U.S. debt. "We the people have to rise up to make sure things get changed."
The quote appears in an Associated Press article written by Matt Crenson, who issues a bleak warning of his own:
"What they (government operatives) don't talk about is a dirty little secret everyone in Washington knows, or at least should.... The ship of state is on a disastrous course, and will founder in the reefs of economic disaster if nothing is done to correct it."
Crenson points out that a rapidly spiraling national debt rapidly approaching $10 trillion could reach $46 trillion or more when adjusted for inflation. That is almost as much as the total net worth of every person in America, including economic heavyweights such as Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
An America that should be sufficiently alert and aware of the precipitous disaster that could easily envelop the nation owes it not only to the present citizenry but those who will follow to act now. That means removing from office purveyors of snake oil such as Gil Gutknecht and others like him.
Gutknecht and his rubber stamp Cheney-Bush allies have assisted in placing America in its current swirling sea of red ink by blindly endorsing a rush to war in violation of international law and voting for irresponsible tax cuts targeted largely to the nation's wealthiest citizens.
Tim Walz, Gutknecht's opponent and the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominee in the 1st Congressional District, made one of the debate's most salient points when he revealed that the Forbes list of America's wealthiest citizens is now filled by billionaires.
Through initiating right wing Republican tax shifts to middle class America and enriching the nation's wealthiest citizens more Americans have fallen below the poverty line.
Despite bombastic claims that Republicans are stronger on the law and order issue, national crime statistics are on the rise just as they had been previously after Ronald Reagan initiated two major tax cuts largely benefiting the wealthy.
The national crime rate fell under Bill Clinton but is rising once more as the Cheney-Bush regime focuses its efforts on enhancing the largesse of multinational corporations such as Halliburton, Bechtel, Exxon and pharmaceutical giants.
Gutknecht speaks of "winning the war on terror" from the failed Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle neocon perspective. He fails to account for the fact that the tragedy he decries occurred after Cheney and Bush unleashed "shock and awe" attacks and subsequently occupied Iraq.
Tim Walz is a retired Command Sergeant Major who served 24 years in the National Guard and was recently deployed to Italy. His background of experience enables him to see the Iraq War in a broad perspective.
This is the time to clean house in the House. It is time for the blind followers of a failed neocon Republican regime to go, which means a fresh start with Tim Walz in the 1st Congressional District of Minnesota.
KEYWORDS: Tim Walz, Gil Gutknecht, David M. Walker, U.S. Debt, Iraq War
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