July 11, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the latest power outages in Texas:

“It might shock people to discover that the state of Texas has fallen into the same green energy dependency cycle which has captured California.  At least that is what the agency overseeing utilities in Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), is reporting.

“ERCOT is urging Texans and Texas businesses to conserve energy this week due to a projected capacity shortage.  How could Texas, the king of oil and natural gas, be facing an electricity shortage, you might ask?  A combination of record high demand, failure to add new coal, natural gas and nuclear thermal capacity and the failure of the wind to blow is the answer.  Remember this is the same Texas ERCOT which has encouraged the growth of wind and solar without increasing the capacity of coal, natural gas and nuclear over the past decade putting all of the future electricity needs of the oil state at the whim of the wind and sun gods.  Just two winters ago, it was Texas which suffered from massive power outages due to wind and solar shortages and a cavalcade of other operational mistakes, and now they find themselves in the same exact vice.

“California is well-known for being whacko-stupid in their pursuit of unreliable energy displacing coal, natural gas and nuclear, but the fact that the nation’s second most populous state has allowed its own internal electricity generation system to fall into the green abyss is beyond absurd.  The difference is that Texas legislators are supposed to be smart enough to allow markets to work.  Unfortunately, they decided on a state run electricity generation plan years ago which is now bearing the sour fruit of shortages, like all socialist systems do.  It is time for Texas to revisit their state electricity generation strategy before they become the laughing stock of the country.  A state which has mocked California for a generation suffering because they didn’t understand that to have a reliable grid, you need reliable energy sources.  As an oil and natural gas producing state, you would think the politicians in Austin might have read their own brochures.”

Attachments:

“Texas hasn’t expanded baseline electricity generation capacity in a decade, boosted wind and solar instead,” By Robert Romano, Vice President of Public Policy, Americans for Limited Government Foundation, March 8, 2021 at https://algresearch.org/2021/03/texas-hasnt-expanded-baseline-electricity-generation-capacity-in-a-decade-boosted-wind-and-solar-instead/

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July 6, 2022, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in anticipation of the latest jobs figures to be released on July 8:

“I predict that the June jobs report that comes out this upcoming Friday, July 8, will signal the beginning of the end of the jobs boom.  This won’t likely show up through a massive uptick in the unemployment rate, but rather by a continued downward trend on hours worked by the average worker with perhaps a slight increase in the unemployment rate.

“The news is providing scattered reports that job offers are being rescinded, and some prominent companies, like Tesla, are beginning the layoff process. The new unemployment insurance claims report remains in what would traditionally be described as low, it is troublesome that claims have crept up steadily and significantly over the past three months in almost stealth increases.

“Independent economic analysis by Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow is predicting that our economy is likely currently in a recession, and employers feeling the combined pinch of anticipated sky-high labor cost increases due to inflation and uncertain economic times ahead, will likely be shifting labor resources to pay the most productive employees and shed those who contribute least to the bottom line.  This is the natural course of business, and I expect the upcoming June unemployment report to reflect the beginning of this cycle.”

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June 30, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following on the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s 2021 term which included West Virginia v. EPA, Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist., New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization:

“Today ends the most consequential Supreme Court term in more than a generation, as the Court eviscerated the power of the administrative state to contrive regulations outside the intent of Congress in the West Virginia v. EPA case, ended the federal legal onslaught against the free exercise of religion in the Kennedy, made it clear that individual liberties enumerated in the Constitution extend across state lines in the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association case, while rejecting the Court’s power to write legislation by ending the inferred right to abortion and returning the issue to the states in the Dobbs case.

“This Court restored individual First and Second Amendment rights, federalism and took a giant swipe at the power of the Article II executive branch of government to write laws through regulation.

“It is a great day in America and as we head into Independence Day weekend, the fireworks will shine a little brighter and pop a little louder as they proclaim the reclaimed freedom primarily due to the efforts, clarity and vision of Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. America is more free today than it was six months ago, and all liberty loving Americans should look at this day as a watershed in turning the tide against the ever-encroaching administrative state’s encroachment on individual liberty.”

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June 29, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging opposition to “American Innovation and Choice Online Act”:

“I have a great deal of respect for Representative Ken Buck, (R-Colo.), but I cannot understand why he would be pushing a Democrat anti-trust bill which does not include prohibitions on social media censorship of conservative viewpoints. Yet that is exactly what Representative Buck is doing in his on-going support for the ‘American Innovation and Choice Online Act’ (AICOA).

“Buck himself admitted that President Joe Biden will not sign a bill that, ‘harms the kind of censorship that the Democrats have appreciated in the last few years.’

“In plain terms, Biden won’t sign any bill that stops social media censorship of conservative thought. Not a surprise given that this administration (Department of Homeland Security) has admitted to working with social media companies to censor speech related to 2020 election security and COVID on their website. And it is this same agency which was pushing to have a Disinformation Governance Board to coordinate government wide social media censorship efforts of conservatives.

“So the question seems obvious.  Why would any Republican support without precondition giving the federal government more power over social media companies knowing that the Biden administration is already leveraging those companies to shutter speech on the right?

“They shouldn’t.  Americans for Limited Government urges every member of Congress, including Rep. Ken Buck, to join us in opposing passage of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act.”

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June 24, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that returns the question of abortion law to the states:

“In 1973, Roe v Wade was wrongly decided by the Court, as the right to an abortion wholly contrived by activist judges. The Dobbs decisions rightfully returns this question to the states. Interestingly, with Democrats holding a 60-vote majority in the Senate and a substantial majority in the House in 2010, they never attempted to codify Roe into federal law, leaving the Court with no other choice but to return the issue to the states. If the left wants to blame anyone for today’s, they should look to Speaker Nancy Pelosi squarely in the eye, ‘Why didn’t you try to put it into federal law?’ The only thing for the Court to consider were state laws, and what the limit to those are. In this case, with a solid 6-3 ruling, the Court ruled that’s states is where the issue will remain for the next generation. Suddenly state legislature and gubernatorial races just became a lot more interesting as abortion laws will be decided in State Capitols.”

Attachments:

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf#page=8 “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. The Court overrules those decisions and returns that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”

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June 16, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to President Joe Biden’s June 14 speech to the AFL-CIO, when he stated in part that “I don’t want to hear anymore of these lies about reckless spending. We’re changing people’s lives!… by the end of the fiscal year, we will have cut the federal deficit by another $1.6 trillion — in one year.”:

“President Joe Biden may be tired of hearing about how his reckless spending has played a major role in spiraling inflation in Americans’ day to day lives, but he can’t run away from the facts. When he took office inflation was 1.4 percent, but today, inflation is raging at 8.6 percent and is in no way transitory. Home mortgage rates were at 2.6 percent, now they are up over 6 percent. And real wages that were up 4 percent in 2020 are now down 3 percent the past 12 months.

“If Joe Biden were to be honest that our nation in 2020 faced an unprecedented crisis where $3.1 trillion dollars were spent above and beyond the budget in an attempt to restore the economy that was deliberately tanked due to Covid, and that he mistakenly insisted on spending another $2.4 trillion in 2021 on Covid and infrastructure, then he would have to admit culpability in the nation’s current stagflation.

“In the absurd world of Washington, D.C., Joe Biden bragged in the same speech that the deficit was cut more under him than at any time in history. While technically true, every sentient person in America knows that the budget deficit was reduced due to spending less money on the Covid crisis and not because of any action taken by President Biden. In fact, it was Sen. Joe Manchin and the Republicans in the Senate who refused to spend an additional $3 trillion on Build Back Better, with Manchin noting that inflation was out of control due to reckless spending. Incidentally, the White House Office of Management and Budget projects that 2022 will have the third largest deficit in American history at $1.4 trillion.”

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June 9, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to a letter by Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Aleandro Mayorkas after a whistleblower revealed that the Department of Homeland Security’s disinformation efforts predate 2022:

“The U.S. Congress needs to repeal language in the CISA Act of 2018 that authorized the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate censorship with the private sector in the first place. It is impossible to reconcile the First Amendment rights of citizens with a federal government that by its own admission is ‘routing disinformation concerns to appropriate social media platforms’. Senators Hawley and Grassley have done a great job in continuing to pursue this issue. As these whistleblower documents clearly show, DHS and CISA have been censoring Americans’ speech through their social media sycophants well before anyone had heard of the Disinformation Governance Board. The scary part is that the law establishing CISA allowed and continues to allow them to do it and Congress must rip the language authorizing censorship through social media coordination out by the roots.”

Attachments:

“Congress authorized DHS and CISA’s Disinformation Governance Board activities—in 2018,” By Robert Romano, May 2, 2022 at https://dailytorch.com/2022/05/congress-authorized-dhs-and-cisas-disinformation-governance-board-activities-in-2018/

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