Archives for March 2013

March 19, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement in support of a House Republican Study Committee proposal to balance the budget in 4 years:

“The Republican Study Committee’s Back to Basics Budget rolls back the massive growth of government since Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid took over Congress in 2007 and puts us on a sustainable path for the future.

“America faces an unprecedented debt crisis that threatens our very future as a sovereign nation with our national debt now larger than our entire economy, with the gap growing increasingly wider.  In the past three years, the debt has grown by an average rate of 10 percent each year while our economy has only grown nominally by 3.8 percent.  This debt spiral is not sustainable, and immediate, aggressive action is necessary by Congress to bring it under control.

“The Back to Basics Budget goes a long way toward reversing the financial emergency induced increase in the size of government since 2007, which has been funded by an almost $8 trillion increase in the national debt.   Continuing this debt cycle under any guise is simply unacceptable.

“It is inevitable that interest payments on this massive debt will rise, and an increasing percentage of our tax revenue will be spent on paying off bankers and foreign governments making it all the more difficult in the future to bring the budget under control.

“Rather than consign future generations to being debt slaves to foreign powers around the world and the banks that fund them, every member of Congress who cares about our children’s economic future should not just support, but vocally argue in favor of the Back to Basics Budget which gets to balance in four years.

“As a contrast, the Senate Democrat Budget Committee released a budget last week that never gets to balance, increases the national debt by trillions and calls for another 60 percent growth in government.

“The alternatives are clear, and the Back to Basics Budget provides the most direct pathway to breaking the chains of debt that threaten our nation’s very economic future.

“Americans for Limited Government urges a yes vote on the Back to Basics Budget.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Adam Bitely at (703) 383-0880 ext. 126 or at media@algnews.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

 

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March 13, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement in opposition to Obama’s likely nominee to head the Labor Department Thomas Perez:

“President Obama’s likely nominee for Labor Secretary Thomas Perez’s attempted cover up of the involvement of Obama political appointees in the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case makes him unfit to serve in any further capacity in this or any other Administration.

“Perez knowingly lied to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission when he insisted under questioning that political appointees were not involved in overturning the decision to not to prosecute two New Black Panther Party leaders who were caught on camera threatening voters at a Philadelphia polling place.

“Even U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton found in Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice that documents in the case, ‘appear to contradict Assistant Attorney General Perez’ testimony that political leadership was not involved in that decision.’

“It is shocking that Obama would consider appointing someone who should be prosecuted for perjury rather than promoted to Labor Secretary.

“Sadly, that Perez is even being considered to be the nominee reveals a great deal about Obama’s arrogance and utter disregard for the  constitutional advice and consent process that he would even consider, let alone offer up, someone as unfit as Perez .

“If it is left to the Senate, they must do their constitutional duty and reject Perez.  At a time when our nation is in a jobs crisis, the public has a right to demand better than a political hack who has proven that he is willing to do or say anything regardless of truth.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Adam Bitely at (703) 383-0880 ext. 126 or at media@algnews.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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March 11, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement praising Florida Senate and House committees that have killed Governor Rick Scott’s proposal to expand Medicaid:

“Both these Senate and House committees have saved federal taxpayers some $20 billion from 2014 to 2019, and Florida taxpayers another $1 billion by 2022 by not following Governor Scott’s ill-advised proposal to expand Medicaid by 1 million people. This should set the stage for other state legislatures, like Arizona, Michigan, and Ohio, to break ranks with their governors by refusing to implement Obamacare.

“Overall, if every state were to expand Medicaid, it would increase spending by more than $117 billion a year in additional costs just for starters. In this case, not implementing Obamacare is the best medicine for what ails the U.S. economy: too much debt.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Adam Bitely at (703) 383-0880 ext. 126 or at media@algnews.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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Labor Participation has not been this bad since 1981

March 8, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement in response to the latest job numbers:

“Private employers continue to move forward in creating jobs in spite of regulatory headwinds and higher taxes.  Incredibly, while the number of jobs created by the private economy continues to grow, the number of people who are abandoning the workplace also continues to accelerate.  In February alone, almost 300,000 more workers left the workforce and the percentage of workers in the labor force dropped to its lowest level since 1981 at 63.5 percent.

“It is stunning that in spite of running a consistent trillion dollar plus deficit, with the Federal Reserve propping up the housing sector to the tune of $40 billion a month, that we are still seeing a mass exodus from the workforce by Americans in Obama’s economy.  In fact, almost twice as many Americans just said no to the Obama economy than got jobs in February.  This stark rejection of hope for a better future by so many, stands as a bright red warning sign about our economy’s long-term future.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Adam Bitely at (703) 383-0880 ext. 126 or at media@algnews.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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March 6, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today condemned the House of Representatives for rushing a vote on a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through September 30, 2013 that funds Obamacare, the National Labor Relations Board, and the EPA. It had also promised the American people in 2010 that “We will give all Representatives and citizens at least three days to read the bill before a vote”:

“It is incredible that the House of Representatives in its zeal to avoid any conflict is throwing away its only constitutional leverage to stop the Obama Administration’s out of control power grab on labor, environment and health care.

“The House majority was elected due to their promise to stop Obamacare and rein in Obama’s big government schemes, and today’s decision to continue funding the very programs Republicans have ‘campaigned’ against can be seen as nothing less than a retreat from the limited government agenda.

“It is my hope that this is merely a retreat and not a wholesale abandonment of the fight against Obama’s government expansion by this Congress.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Adam Bitely at (703) 383-0880 ext. 126 or at media@algnews.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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March 4, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement urging the House to pass H.R. 807, the Full Faith and Credit Act, that would prioritize interest payments to our creditors in the event the debt ceiling is reached, and to tie it to the upcoming continuing resolution due by March 27:

“We are pleased the Republican Study Committee has offered up the Full Faith and Credit Act that will ensure that never again is a vote on the debt ceiling treated as a vote on default. No president or Secretary of the Treasury should ever have the option of whether or not to service the debt. It is shocking that skipping payments is even allowable under the law.

“The House should tie passage of the Full Faith and Credit Act to the must-pass continuing resolution due March 27. It is critical that this occur prior to the next round of votes set to occur on the debt ceiling, which has been suspended until May 19, in order to take Obama’s threat of default off the table in debt ceiling negotiations.

“If this reform is not passed by then, Obama will be able to run the table on Congress by again threatening default. Except this time, he could demand that the debt ceiling be indefinitely suspended or eliminated altogether, removing any legal constraint on the unbridled expansion of the debt, now nearly $16.7 trillion, a sinkhole which threatens to swallow not neighborhoods, but the entire economy and global financial system.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Adam Bitely at (703) 383-0880 ext. 126 or at media@algnews.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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March 4, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government urged the U.S. Senate to reject Obama nominee, Gina McCarthy, for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

McCarthy has been embroiled in scandal after scandal which can only indicate either pure managerial incompetence or a complicity in the failure to perform her most basic duties.

One example that reportedly has held up McCarthy’s nomination at the White House was the failure of the EPA’s radiation monitoring system in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

McCarthy, who currently heads the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, has come under withering criticism after the EPA’s own Inspector General issued a report revealing that at the time of the Fukushima disaster many of the Agency’s radiation monitors were out of service or so poorly maintained that they failed to work with 20 percent completely out of service.  The report goes on to report, “In addition, six of the RadNet monitors we sampled (50 percent) had gone over eight weeks without a filter change.”  EPA policy calls on operators to change the filters twice per week.”

Bill Wilson, president of Americans for Limited Government, called on the Senate to reject McCarthy as, “unfit to run a Burger King, let alone a Cabinet level agency that threatens our nation’s economy through its series of strange and bizarre regulatory rulings.”

McCarthy has also been on the cutting edge of a budding controversy over her approval of the use of DuPont’s R1234yf air conditioning refrigerant in U.S. vehicles, ignoring a massive European recall by Daimler Benz when the product caught fire in crash testing scenarios.

Wilson expressed outrage over the McCarthy R1234yf decision stating, “This is an example where a German car company has discovered that a product that is being foisted upon them by environmental agency’s is actually dangerous, and environmentally toxic, yet McCarthy has turned a blind eye to the health and safety hazards that she is creating through EPA incentives for car company’s to use this deadly refrigerant.

“At a time when Obama’s own State of the Union threat to continue to pursue unilateral executive actions through the EPA in lieu of climate change legislation, no nominee to the EPA should be confirmed, and it particularly foolish to allow a nominee who has twice put the public safety and environment at risk while in her current position. Gina McCarthy should be fired, not promoted based upon her record in office.”

Attachments:

ALG Nominee Alert, Gina McCarthy, March 2013 at http://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Regina-McCarthy-NomineeAlert-2013.pdf

“Obama and his rogue EPA,” By ALG President Bill Wilson, Feb. 14, 2013 at http://netrightdaily.com/2013/02/obama-and-his-rogue-epa/

Interview Availability: Please contact Adam Bitely at (703) 383-0880 ext. 126 or at media@algnews.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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