Archives for June 2012

June 6, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement supporting an amendment to HR 5325 by Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) that would cut $3.1 billion from the budget:

“The Mulvaney amendment to HR 5325 would save taxpayers an additional $3.1 billion from the energy and water budget while protecting critical functions such as the Army Corps of Engineers and nuclear safety. These cuts are the type of low-hanging fruit that should be easy for the House to enact, and represent the types of cuts that a majority of members have supported in the past. If House Republicans are truly committed to restoring order to our nation’s fiscal house, Mulvaney’s $3.1 billion of sensible savings will be enacted post-haste.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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June 6, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement praising the calls of Bill Clinton and Larry Summers to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax rates, going further by calling for the current rates to be made permanent:

“When the Obama White House loses allies like Clinton and Summers on an issue as central to Obama’s reelection campaign as taxes, there is blood in the water. This episode indicates that the smart money is beginning to price in an Obama defeat, and now Democrat members in Congress will likely be seeking to distance themselves from Obama.

“Congressional Republicans should take full advantage of this growing fissure in the Democrat party leadership, and demand not just that the current tax rates be extended for a year or two, but be made permanent. And the vote should be on its own merits in an up-or-down vote, not as a trade-off for another payroll tax holiday that will further bankrupt Social Security. Nor should it be tied to another continuing resolution that accepts up front trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see.

“The vote should simply be on making the current rates permanent, and members can choose whether they want to destroy the economy with the largest tax increase in American history, or give the economy the certainty of where rates are going to be for the foreseeable future. And then the American people will know who stands with Bill Clinton and Larry Summers and the overwhelming majority of Republicans in Congress, and who stands with Barack Obama and the radical fringe spending lobby.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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June 5, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government president Bill Wilson today issued a statement on the impact of the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall elections on the willingness of elected officials to vote to limit government:

“Big labor has gone all-in in their attempt to defeat Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker through a recall election, and in spite of spending tens of millions of dollars over the past year and a half, the election is too close to call on election day.

“Every freedom-loving Wisconsinite needs to vote today, because the outcome of this recall will determine the willingness of politicians across the nation to take on and defeat the seemingly all-powerful public employee unions.  Public employee unions have transformed public servants to the taxpayer’s masters in local, state and federal government, and if Governor Walker wins the recall vote, it will be the first step in restoring the consent of the governed.

“The recall is so important to Big Labor that they have gone all-in and put their national credibility on the line.  Incredibly, the unions oppose Governor Walker in spite of the fact that his reforms actually saved their member’s from layoffs that were scheduled to take place if they had not passed.

“Big Labor’s support for laying off its members over reasonable reforms is just one more bit of evidence that they are more in favor of maintaining power rather than supporting their members’ true interests.

“Today, the people of Wisconsin can send a shockwave to elected officials across the nation in favor of putting the taxpayer back in charge of the government budget process and wresting control from those unions who are driving our nation’s local, state and federal governments into bankruptcy.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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June 4, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement urging the House Financial Services Committee to move HR 2313 to the floor of the House for an immediate vote:

“It is not up to U.S. taxpayers to prop up a failed currency like the Euro, nor was the International Monetary Fund ever intended to be used to bail out economies as large as Europe’s. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Spencer Bachus is running out of time to send HR 2313 to the floor of the House, which would roll back $108 billion of additional commitments the U.S. made to the IMF in 2009.

“Already, U.S. lending to the fund has topped $32.7 billion, with bailouts in Europe accounting for most of that at over $24 billion. If the House does not wish U.S. taxpayers to be on the hook for propping up Greece, Portugal, Spain and the rest of the Eurozone, now is the time to withdraw what remains of the Pelosi-Reid-Obama European bailout fund.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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June 1, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today responds to the May unemployment report:

“Today’s Labor Department report on unemployment is devastating to Obama’s re-election chances.  His economy is dead in the water, and is not producing enough jobs to meet the needs of those entering the workforce.  Yet, all Obama has to offer is more of the same policies that have failed in Europe and are now failing in America.

Aside from nation’s payroll employment only increasing by a paltry 69,000, far short of the 150,000 needed to meet the monthly needs of the economy, the number of Americans who have been unemployed long-term is up to 5.4 million and almost one in four teenagers who want a job are unemployed.

The devastating result of Obama’s failed policies is seen in the despair of America’s workers who are losing their skills while they sit on the job sideline, and in the frustration of teenagers who are unable to gain the necessary experience to be productive in the future.

Truly, a sad legacy for a presidency that is long on rhetoric, but short on basic understanding of the free market principles that have built our nation’s middle class and have made our nation great.  Somehow, Obama must have missed those classes while debating theory in Harvard’s Ivory Towers with like-minded elitists.”

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To read last month’s unemployment analysis, click here: http://netrightdaily.com/2012/05/april-jobs-report-rains-on-obamas-parade/

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson

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