Jan. 25, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump for putting America first at the globalization summit at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland:

“The World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland is to globalists as the Burning Man Festival is to California hippies, an irresistible flame to which they are drawn. President Donald Trump’s arrival in Davos has created a nervous excitement amongst the world’s economic elite jet set as they anticipate the most powerful man in the world declaring their policies a failure. Ironically, the International Monetary Fund has upgraded prospects for world economic growth precisely because of the President’s just-passed tax cuts that are raising wages and creating jobs. Hopefully, the gathering will listen to the President and understand that a flourishing American economy means a booming global economy. The greatest fear of those in attendance is that the President will reassert his determination to put America first by engaging in and enforcing bilateral, fair and reciprocal trade agreements, rather than the massive multinational deals preferred by his predecessors that were designed to put America last.”

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Jan. 23, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at Davos, Switzerland in which he said, “Many societies and countries are becoming more and more focused on themselves… It feels like the opposite of globalization is happening. The negative impact of this kind of mind-set and wrong priorities cannot be considered less dangerous than climate change or terrorism… Everyone is talking about an interconnected world, but we will have to accept the fact that globalization is slowly losing its luster… [In its place] the forces of protectionism are raising their heads against globalization. Their intention is not just to avoid globalization, but to reverse its natural flow… The solution to this worrisome situation against globalization is not isolation. The solution is in understanding and accepting change”:

“India’s Prime Minister Nanendra Modi is the ultimate hypocrite. His nation, with the sixth largest economy in the world, gets the benefit of the same trade rules as Bangladesh, and has benefitted from $4.7 billion of General System of Preferences plus another $28 billion of foreign direct investment from the U.S. in 2016 alone. While India benefits from its own protectionist policies, with high tariffs, intellectual property theft and forced price controls for those who invest in India, Modi wants to lecture the world as if India was some pinnacle of free trade.

“President Donald Trump has held out a hand of friendship to the Indian government during his first year in office and given Modi’s new-found interest in rolling back protectionism, Trump should open the door to a bilateral U.S.-India trade deal by removing India from the GSP and closing the door on India’s grotesque trade barriers forever. We are glad that Prime Minister Modi has seen the light and wishes to join the developed world in free, fair and reciprocal trade — now he needs to show that his Make in India isn’t just a public relations fraud.”

Attachments:

“Foreign Direct Investment and Regulatory Uncertainty: Failures of the ‘Make in India’ Campaign,” By Alex Holcomb, Assistant Professor of Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Texas at El Paso, Jan. 23, 2018 at https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Make_in_India_Report.pdf

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Jan. 23, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government Foundation today published a paper by Alex Holcomb, Assistant Professor of Finance at the College of Business Administration, University of Texas at El Paso criticizing the “Make in India” program as “India [is] imposing price controls, demanding technological transfers, and instituting other manifestations of non-tariff barriers once investments are undertaken. The campaign therefore often amounts to little more than regulatory entrapment.”

In a statement, Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning blasted the program, saying, “Davos is the coming out party for the government of India as a leading world trade partner. And while the U.S. should welcome India’s step forward, we must recognize the obstacles the government there has to overcome to end the cycle of regulatory entrapment, intellectual property theft and other tariff and non-tariff trade barriers. India, the sixth largest economy in the world, is ready to exit the General System of Preferences, designed for developing countries, and truly participate in the global economy.”

Manning urged President Donald Trump to use his trip to Davos, Switzerland to get a better deal: “With President Trump headed to Davos, Switzerland, this would be a great opportunity to initiate talks with India to pursue a bilateral, reciprocal trade relationship that protects U.S. investments in India, while growing both economies.”

Attachments:

“Foreign Direct Investment and Regulatory Uncertainty: Failures of the ‘Make in India’ Campaign,” By Alex Holcomb, Assistant Professor of Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Texas at El Paso, Jan. 18, 2018 at https://getliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Make_in_India_Report.pdf

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Jan. 22, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump for instituting tariffs on Samsung and LG washing machines after they were being dumped into U.S. markets:

“Samsung and LG had a plan.  Dump washing machines onto the U.S. market in contravention of the South Korea-US free trade agreement, to grow market share.  They were caught three times by U.S. trade authorities and this time, under President Trump, they got punished. Free trade agreements only work when they are respected and President Trump showed that he will carry a big stick if a company tries to cheat on trade deals.”

Attachments:

“Trump urged to punish Samsung and LG for trade cheating,” Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning statement, Jan. 16, 2018 at https://getliberty.org/2018/01/trump-urged-to-punish-samsung-and-lg-for-trade-cheating/

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Jan. 22, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting the FBI’s apparent destruction of 5 months of text messages between Peter Strozk and Lisa Page leading up to the appointment of Robert Mueller as Special Counsel, an investigation they ended up working on:

“Nixon’s secretary Rose Mary Woods erased 18 minutes of tape and became infamous. The FBI erased five months of text messages leading up to the Mueller investigation, and expect the American public to believe it was a random mistake. This is worse than Watergate. The text messages between agents Strozk and Page are instructive because earlier messages that were released included the involvement FBI Deputy Director McCabe and the desire of top-level FBI officials to create an ‘insurance policy’ against a Trump presidency. This apparent FBI cover-up and destruction of evidence must be met with the harshest penalties available under the law. These rogue federal employees should be serving in a federal penitentiary, not receiving a federal paycheck.”

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Jan. 20, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting Senate Democrats for shutting down the government to impose illegal alien amnesty:

“The Democrats have chosen to shut down the government over their demand of amnesty for illegal aliens. Mitch McConnell is right to tell Chuck Schumer that the people of the United States will not be extorted by the Democrat minority that seeks to run the government. It is fitting that the Democrats have chosen a shutdown to try to force illegal aliens to the head of the immigration line in front of those around the world who respect the system and wish to come to America the legal, right way.

“However, today’s shut down is more important than the temporary inconvenience it may cause. The Democrats choosing to shut down the government on the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s taking office in an attempt to impose their legislative minority over those who elected the President to office is emblematic of their general Trump Derangement Syndrome.  It is time for Chuck Schumer and his band of malcontents to come to grips with the fact that Donald Trump is President, and stop their on-going campaign of obstruction at any cost.”

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Jan. 19, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the House of Representatives to release the House Intelligence Committee memo proving the Obama administration weaponized the nation’s intelligence services and Justice Department against political opponents:

“The House Intelligence Committee memo outlining Obama era abuses within the Justice Department and intelligence services, which were weaponized against political opponents, needs to be released. Based upon multiple statements by Congressmen familiar with the memo, our worst fears appear to have been realized. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ unflinching pursuit of the truth is a singular act of political heroism and patriotism. There is a reason the Framers created three branches of government, and Devin Nunes has proven that Article I oversight and investigation is integral to preserving to our freedoms from attempted tyranny.”

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Jan. 18, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging President Donald Trump and Republican Congressional leaders to issue a warning that there will be no back-pay for non-essential federal employees should there be a partial government shutdown:

“As a potential government shutdown looms because of Democrats’ insistence on providing amnesty for illegal aliens, President Trump should make it clear that non-essential employees who are laid off based on the shutdown will not receive payment for days not worked. It is unfair to those employees deemed essential who are required to come to work with a promise of back-pay to then give that same back-pay promise to those who are vacationing. It is unfortunate that the Democrats are putting their illegal alien constituencies ahead of the public employees who would be laid off without pay, but if you don’t work, you shouldn’t get paid.”

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Jan. 17, 2018, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the House to add the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s (R-Va.) immigration legislation to the 2018 omnibus spending bill and send it to the Senate:

“Speaker Paul Ryan is fortunate that his House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte has crafted a strong answer to the illegal immigration question. While few thinking people want wholesale amnesty as presented in the Graham-Durbin Senate alternative, Goodlatte’s legislation ends chain migration, eliminates the visa lottery, builds the wall and institutes E-Verify. While it seems clear that the Democrats who used their minority in the Senate to threaten military pay and veterans’ benefits on behalf of illegal aliens, the immigration debate provides Speaker Ryan the opportunity to impose real substantive reforms through the government funding process. Stick the Goodlatte bill on the spending bill, send it to the Senate, and force Democrats to close the DACA door out of their desire to continue the current overrunning of America.

“Most of the increase of the U.S. population in 2016, 2.3 million, according to U.S. Census and DHS data was immigration at 1.18 million, 68 percent of which was chain migration, versus a 1.14 million natural increase, that is, births minus deaths. That almost never happens. The last time was 1991, when amnesty was implemented and chain migration was peaking. Before that, you have to go back to the early 1900s to find immigration outpacing natural population increases. Now is the time for real reform and the House needs to lead the way.”

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Jan. 16, 2018, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today in the following statement urged President Donald Trump to accept the International Trade Commission’s recommendation to punish Samsung and LG for trade violations:

“This week, President Trump will decide if South Korean companies Samsung and LG will be punished for being caught dumping washing machines into the United States not one, not two, but three times.  For the two companies, who are now promising to build washers in the U.S., cheating on the U.S.-South Korea trade deal has allowed them to build U.S. market share to the point where between the two of them they now have over a third of the entire market.  This was not a mistake, but a determined business plan, and if the KORUS agreement is going to mean anything, President Trump must affirm the penalties recommended by the International Trade Court.  If free trade agreements are going to have any meaning, then when companies are caught and convicted on multiple occasions of gross violations of the rules, they must be held accountable, rather than simply being allowed to profit for a generation due to their lawlessness.”

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