Schansberg

JEFFERSONVILLE, IN -- Dr. Eric Schansberg will hold a Town Hall meeting in Room 301 of the Seymour City Hall on Thursday, August 21st, from 6:00-7:00 PM. (City Hall is located at 309 N. Chestnut St. in downtown Seymour.)

Dr. Schansberg is an economics professor at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany and the Libertarian candidate for Congress in the 9th District.

Schansberg will deliver prepared remarks and then field questions from those in the audience.

In his prepared remarks, Dr. Schansberg will address:

• gas prices and energy policy—policies that will work (domestic drilling and a stronger dollar) and policies that will not work (regulations on speculators, subsidies to energy companies, etc.)
• the dramatic but overlooked impact of fiscal conservatism
• our on-going efforts in Iraq
• the oppressive burden of payroll/FICA taxes on income and the need for Social Security reform

JEFFERSONVILLE, IN -- his week, Mike Sodrel proposed a town-hall meeting in each of the 9thDistrict's 20 counties—as well as an independent commission to regulate advertising in the campaign. Rep. Baron Hill replied by refusing the commission and trying to diminish expectations about debates.

According to a story in the News-Tribune, Hill said that he had "good reason to be skeptical of entering into campaign pledges" with Sodrel: "As history evidenced, you did not honor your word and broke our campaign pledge the last time around." Hill said further that he wants Sodrel to apologize before he'll agree to talk about campaign issues with him.

JEFFERSONVILLE, IN -- Just in time for the Olympics, the White House has predicted a $482 billion deficit for 2009—which if successful, would allow the President and the Democratic Congress to set a new world record. A $482 billion deficit would smash the current record of $413 billion in 2004.

The 2009 deficit will extend the current national debt to more than $10 trillion. On top of that, unfunded liabilities—most notably, for Social Security and Medicare—add tens of trillions of dollars in debt.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Hoosier Libertarian hopefuls are descending upon Washington D.C. to make friends with that power city's top libertarian muscle. Steve Keltner, Rex Bell and Dr. Eric Schansberg will be represented at the D.C. meeting and fundraiser to be held Thursday, July 19th.

Former LPIN Chairman and ATLAS! Liberty PAC co-founder Mark Rutherford is assisting with the event organized by John Vaught LeBeaume and his organization, ElectionDissection.com.

In LeBeaume's facebook invitation to members, he writes the following on Indiana's premier candidates:

Eric Schansberg: U.S. House (IN09)
http://www.schansbergforcongress.com

JEFFERSONVILLE, IN -- Dr. Eric Schansberg will hold a press conference at Warder Park in Jeffersonville on Wednesday, July 16th at 9:30 AM—to address a variety of issues about gas prices, "energy independence", and federal policy. (Warder Park is located at the corner of Court Avenue and Spring Street in downtown Jeffersonville.)

Dr. Schansberg is an economics professor at Indiana University Southeast and the Libertarian candidate for Congress in the 9th District.

In his prepared remarks, Dr. Schansberg will address:

• the importance of expanding domestic drilling of the Gulf Coast and in ANWR
• the dramatic but overlooked impact of the weaker dollar on the price of gas
• the (limited) usefulness of reducing the size of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
• proposed policies that cannot significantly decrease the price of gas: windfall profits taxes and additional regulation on "speculators" and "price gougers"
  

JEFFERSONVILLE, IN -- LPIN Candidate for 9th District debuts his YouTube video, filmed on July 4th in Bloomington.

JEFFERSONVILLE, IN -- During recent TV interviews on Louisville's WAVE-3 and Indy's WTHR-13, Baron Hill asserted that speculators in the futures market are causing gas prices to be as much as 50% higher. Hill cited unnamed economists in making this claim.

Eric Schansberg, an economics professor and the Libertarian candidate for Congress in the 9th District, found this incredulous. "I can't imagine an economist making that claim. If it's true, he and Baron should take advantage of their superior knowledge of the market, change their investments, and make a ton of money."