Each YR club will be allotted Delegates based on the size of their membership. In order to become a Delegate to the YR Convention all you need to do is notify your local club Chairman that you want to serve as a Delegate. From there, your Chairman will select those to represent your club in at the State Convention where you will have the opportunity to elect your statewide officers for the coming year.

If you want to participate, or if you need further information about the convention, please contact Chairman Cameron Fash at chairman@georgiayr.com.

Tommy Schlosser, who thumbed out four tweets during Mr. Cain’s speech, said he wasn’t concerned that Mr. Cain never held elected office and lacked foreign-policy experience, indicating that the candidate’s outsider status made him appealing.

“One of his strengths as a CEO was he surrounded himself with smart people. He wasn’t the one hand—tossing pizzas or bottling Coke,” said Mr. Schlosser, a 31-year-old insurance salesman from Marietta, Ga., a north Atlanta suburb. “Does it matter that he’s weak on foreign policy? Maybe. But that’s why he’s got a Secretary of State.”

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“We have people who are out of work,” she said. “It’s tough. I think the main concern for the younger voters is the economy. And that is what we wanted to hear about.”

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“I’m too old to be a Young Republican,” Cain joked, “so I guess I’ll have to settle for being one of the old dudes that take the country back with your help.”

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Across the globe, Barack Obama has apologized for American exceptionalism.  He’s promised for the United States to be a more global nation, relying on the strength of good feelings to serve American interests instead of our own abilities.  Domestically, he is no different.  From the stimulus to Obamacare, his policy regimes have made one statement clear – Obama doesn’t believe Americans are capable of forging ahead in the same pioneering spirit.

American businesses are sitting on approximately $2 trillion in cash reserves, cash that can be used for capital improvements, workforce expansion, pay raises, or anything a private enterprise might think necessary to expand.  However “the worry is that corporate taxes may rise as governments try to fill the hole in their finances, and that non-bank firms will get caught up in a regulatory backlash.”  (Source:  The Economist)  In other words, uncertainly in heavy-handed government policies are causing private business to be risk averse by hoarding as much capital to weather the storm as possible.  The foundation of those government policies is Obama’s lack of belief in the market’s ability to produce prosperity.

Our economy will not grow without capital, and capital will not flow without private enterprise feeling comfortable about the risks involved.  So long as regulatory regimes prove way too burdensome, that risk-reward ratio will mean bad things for Georgia.  Our state’s economy still shows higher unemployment than the national average by a full point.  Our infrastructure needs investment, but that requires higher taxes on top of those already coming from the federal government, so citizens are loathe to pay more.

It’s time our president stop demanding we believe in him; we need a president that starts to believe in us.  Our diverse abilities and aspirations allow a free market economic system to flourish if given the chance.  We won’t always be right, but when we are – look out!

Consider this final point.  Steve Jobs was put up for adoption by his biological parents.  He co-founded Apple, but was eventually forced out of the company.  He started another successful company, bought Pixar, and eventually returned to Apple to spearhead its resurgence as a global technology leader.  He’s made the quality of life we live better with his products, and he did so because he loved doing it.  Steve Jobs created thousands of jobs because he took the initiative himself.  He didn’t need Uncle Same patting him on the back along the way.

“My generation, we’re more educated. We’re in more positions of affluence and power. We have more spending capital…[a]nd when you make more, you start looking at your paycheck and you see a big chunk of that is going to the federal government or a big chunk is going to the state government and you start asking yourself, why? Where is this money going?”

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