Mark Zaccaria for Congress Newsletter

Leadership for a Change

Volume 1 Number 7

In This Issue

Campaign Fundraiser

Downsizing Government

The Price at the Pump

Let's start with the Price of Gasoline. There's no immediate shortage of Crude Oil. The reason the Saudi's refused to increase their production is because they can't move all of what they are pumping today. The problem is with Refinery Capacity. Here in the US we haven't built a new oil refinery in 30 years or so, but our population has has grown dramatically in that time and everybody wants to drive. That was OK while off shore refineries could make the extra gasoline we needed. Now, though, the rise of industrial economies in India and China have increased the Demand for those finished products while maxed out capacity has limited their Supply. Surprise Surprise, the price is going up.

So what is the 'Government' going to do about it? How about moving forward with the citing and construction of new American Refineries? How about new exploration for oil deposits here in America? How about clearing the way for the development of profitable private sector businesses offering alternative energy sources?

We haven't built Refineries because people don't want them in their back yards. We haven't tapped known reserves in ANWR or off Florida because of Environmental concerns. That goes for new exploration in the Dakotas, too. We haven't seen a lot of capital-intensive alternative energy ventures because government deficits have absorbed all the available capital.

With a little more Leadership, for a change, the people of Rhode Island's Second District could be raising their voices with others that encourage the improvements in industrial infrastructure we need to increase our own capacity to produce fuels. In the 1970's we managed to build the Alaska Pipeline without melting the Permafrost or ending caribou migrations. With a little more Buzz from Little Rhody do you think we could demand the same levels of environmental protection for new domestic crude production today? And what if the people of the District started the move towards Balanced Federal Budgets? What a concept. With the Feds out of the borrowing business do you think we'd have more Capital Formation to fuel the growth of new businesses in alternative energy and elsewhere? I do.

If you do, too, your next move should be to demand the leadership that I will supply in Congress. -MZ

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Dear Friends & Neighbors,

This edition of the Mark Zaccaria, District Two (MZD2) Newsletter is dedicated to the concept of Supply & Demand. It is Economics 101 but people still overlook its relevance to so many of the problems faced by our nation today. Better yet, explaining things observed in the real world using Supply & Demand is not a partisan trick or some GOP slight of hand. It's more like the old saying that 'The Laws of Physics will be Strictly Enforced.'

So let's see what this country and this campaign look like when viewed through the lens of Supply & Demand.

- Mark Zaccaria

Carcieri to Attend May 29th Fundraiser

In Campaign Economics there is one universal corrilary to the Theory of Supply & Demand. It is that the Supply of Contributions has difficulty measuring up to the Demand of the Campaign Plan. Happily, Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri has agreed to lend a hand in fighting this phenomenon in the District 2 Race. He will join members of the RI House and Senate along with Mark to welcome members of the Rhode Island Business Community for a Fundraiser and informal dialog on the future of our state and nation. The time is 6:00 - 9:00pm on Thursday, May 29th, 2008. The place is Cassarino's Restaurant, on Attwels Avenue, in Providence.

Please support Mark Zaccaria's run for the US Congress by planning to attend. Please plan to use the opportunity to see for yourself that the Republican Party in Rhode Island has a vibrant, viable plan in place to make things better in our state. Take special note that this coordinated effort involves Republicans from local races, through those hoping to bring balance to the State Legislature, to the Federal Candidates like Mark. To get your Invitation Click Here

The Upside Potential to Downsizing Government

Our present Representative in Congress has repeatedly supported legislation proposing increases in the size and mandate of the federal bureaucracy. Each time the federal government grows in this way it absorbs more of the authority each of us once had over our own lives. No doubt this accumulation of authority is initiated with the thought that it will help people. Making laws like this ignores human nature, though. People feel better about themselves and their accomplishments when they can select them and undertake them on their own authority.

Think about the relationship between Responsibility and Authority. Responsible behavior can only be expected of those who have the authority over their actions to choose that option. By growing the government we are using more and more of our own hard earned dollars to facilitate the inefficient decisionmaking of institutional government. That straps us for cash individually even as it weighs us down with more regulation. When the Supply of Tax Dollars is depleted how will the Demands of a hungry government be met?

Here's an alternative scenario. What if the goal of government was not to be the parent of all its citizens. What if the role of government was to create an environment that protected it's citizens from disorder so they could be unhindered as they went about their business as they saw fit?

Many suggest that's a naive pipe dream. They have that opinion because we're so far away from that ideal right now that they can't see how we'd actually get there. Mark Zaccaria knows how to get there, though: Just set the goal for ourselves and take the first step in that direction.

It won't happen overnight. It won't happen at all, though, if we don't select political leadership that will manage that change for us.

Do You Get Up Early on Sundays?

Mark Taped an appearance on the radio program, Minority Monitor, hosted by George Castro.

The show airs on Sunday Morning, at 6:00am, on Coast 93.3 FM.

This will be the first of several visits mark will make to Minority Monitor between now and Election Day.

If you agree with me that our nation needs to lean in the direction of less government rather than more, I need your help. Please forward this message to friends in your E-Mail Address Book and ask them to take a look at my campaign. Of course Financial Contributions are also sorely needed. Right now there is a David & Goliath relationship between my campaign fund and that of my opponent. If that's the case throughout the campaign it won't matter how 'Right' my message is, no one will hear it and your current Rep will get his fifth term. To help me prevent that please Click Here. Finally, though, the help that everyone in the Second District needs from you is to have you stay engaged in the decision making process underway in this election.

Sincerely,

Mark Zaccaria
Mark Zaccaria for Congress