Nov. 29, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement responding to the announcement that the National Labor Relations Board intends to move forward tomorrow with a “quickie” ruling in violation of all of their precedents and protocols in favor of snap elections:

“This obscene attempt to implement through regulation changes in union election laws that Congress has repeatedly rejected is an affront to our nation’s Constitutional separation of powers. The Obama appointees on the Board clearly intend to rush through a monumental change in the law intended to give advantage to organized labor at the expense of fair and honest union elections in the workplace. Unfortunately, the only speed bump in their path is if they are prevented from having a quorum through the resignation of the lone dissenting member, Brian Hayes.

“Mr. Hayes has served on the Board with distinction, but there is no honor in allowing the rule of law to be trumped by petty partisan politics. As difficult as this decision would be, the only honorable path for Mr. Hayes is to resign his seat and deny the rogue majority the quorum necessary to pervert the law of the land.”

Attachments:

ALG Urges Support for Kline Bill to Kill NLRB Snap Elections, Nov. 29, 2011 at http://getliberty.org/content.asp?pl=10&sl=5&contentid=792.

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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Nov. 28, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement responded to Rep. Barney Frank’s decision not to seek reelection in 2012:

“Barney Frank has been a staunch defender of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac throughout the buildup of the housing bubble, even accusing critics of exaggerating the risks posed to the Government Sponsored Enterprises in the 2000’s. Under legislation Frank voted for in 1992, Fannie and Freddie only needed $900 of capital behind a $200,000 mortgage they guaranteed.

“From 2007 until the end of 2010, Frank was the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and when the crisis hit was blindsided by the bankruptcy of the GSEs. Frank led the House’s efforts to bail out Fannie and Freddie and other financial institutions in 2008. To his departure, American taxpayers say good riddance.

“When the time came to reform the financial system, Frank excluded Fannie and Freddie from his signature legislation, even though the GSEs were ground zero of the financial crisis. Frank ignored the warning signs of the crisis, and then when it hit, did everything in his power to cover for Fannie and Freddie. Meaningful financial reform would have been to unwind government involvement in housing finance, instead of affirming it.

“Frank leaves behind a disastrous record that will have consequences for years if not decades to come. His departure comes about twenty years too late.”

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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Nov. 23, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement praised Senate Republicans for blocking the confirmation of the recess-appointed Donald Berwick for head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, leading to him stepping down:

“As government continues to struggle to find a way to add 30 million people to the taxpayer-funded health care rolls thanks to ObamaCare in the midst of a sovereign debt crisis, Senate Republicans are to be praised for blocking the confirmation of Berwick, an official who believes rationing health care is inevitable. In 2009 he said, ‘The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.’

“Berwick also was a radical redistributionist, who believed the only way to have a ‘just, equitable, civilized, and humane’ health plan was to ‘redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate’. His doctrines were pure Marxism, and the only reason he even was allowed to serve was because he was recess-appointed by Barack Obama.

“Now Senate Republicans must be vigilant that whosoever Obama selects to replace Berwick is not just another radical extremist. The nation does not need anybody who believes it is just to take health care away from one person and give it to another as government sees fit.”

Attachments:

Donald Berwick Nominee Alert, May 2010, Americans for Limited Government athttp://www.getliberty.org/files/NomineeAlert%20-%20Donald%20%20Berwick%20-%20Administrator%20-%20CMMS%2005_04_10.pdf .

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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Nov. 21, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a statement urged Congress to simply accept the sequestration option under the August debt deal:

“Given the alternatives, which were phony spending cuts and higher taxes on producers and job creators, sequestration is by far the better deal. There should be no discussion of revenue reform until there are actual spending cuts on the table. All we see now are reductions in the growth of spending. What a farce.

“Even under sequestration, the budget will still increase every single year from 2013 through 2021, albeit at a slightly slower rate. That is, if it even goes into effect. The only year that matters is 2012, when no changes in spending are slated. By the time the 2013 fiscal year rolls around, does anyone expect that even the modest reductions in the growth rate of spending under sequestration will ever be implemented?

“The only thing that has changed under this fiasco is that the national debt ceiling was increased without any real concessions. That’s more borrowing, more spending, and no reform. This is not what the American people voted for in 2010.”

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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Nov. 14, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued a statement praising the U.S. Supreme Court for taking up the case against Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation:

“The Supreme Court decision over ObamaCare’s individual mandate is one that will shape the future of the nation. Based on the outcome, we will either be a constitutional republic of limited powers, or an unlimited plutocracy of ever-increasing mandates on individuals. Government wants to force people to buy health care, U.S. treasuries, and to raid our pension funds — all to prop up the unsustainable entitlement state. That is not the America people believe in. It is authoritarianism.

“The Supreme Court is now the only thing that stands in the way of a government that can literally force people to do anything. No less is at stake in the case over ObamaCare’s individual mandate.”

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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Nov. 10, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson reacted to the release of e-mails by Judicial Watch from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) discussing its controversial decision to attempt to stop Boeing Corporation from building a production facility in South Carolina. The e-mails were released due to a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch.

“Acting NLRB General Counsel Lafe Solomon’s whining that he hasn’t received enough credit for his attacks on South Carolina workers reveals the shallowest of evil. Solomon clearly relishes destroying worker opportunities if it gets him notice in the media. It is unconscionable that someone who has been so instrumental in ‘screwing up the U.S. economy’ still has a job at all.

“Chairman John Kline should haul Solomon before his Education and Workforce committee to inquire as to why he thinks it’s so funny that Americans are losing their jobs. Government officials should not be making light of the fact that their decisions are wrecking the economy.”

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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Nov. 9, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today in a letter urged House Republicans to reject any tax increase deal that may come from the so-called congressional Supercommittee.

“The American people are deeply concerned that a gargantuan tax increase will be included in that proposal,” Wilson wrote.

He is encouraging members to sign a Republican Study Committee letter against more taxes so that “members of the Joint Select Committee understand that any tax increase will be dead on arrival in the House of Representatives.”

“We don’t have a problem that we tax too little, we have a problem that we spend too much,” Wilson wrote, noting that since 2007, spending has increased $1.043 trillion, but that revenues had only dropped $393 billion “[w]ith tax rates essentially the same,” accounting for an aggregate $1.436 trillion increase in the deficit since then.

“That means 72.6 percent of the problem is too much spending, and at least 72.6 percent of the solution must be dramatic spending reductions. The other 27.4 percent of the solution then must entail economic growth, job creation and encouraging investment here in America,” he wrote.

Attachments:

Letter to House Republicans, Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson, Nov. 7, 2011 atwww.getliberty.org/files/TaxIncreaseSuperCommitteeLetter 11-7-11.pdf.

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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Nov. 7, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued a statement blasting Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for handing out $12.8 million in bonuses after costing the U.S. Treasury $170 billion:

“Fannie and Freddie have lost over $170 billion of taxpayer money since being nationalized in 2008, are still bleeding billions on a quarterly basis, and yet the companies have handed out $12.8 million in bonuses. There shouldn’t be any bonuses for these so-called companies. They ought to be liquidated.

“Government policies wrecked the GSEs by blowing up the housing bubble in the first place by weakening lending standards and pushing loans on folks who could not afford to pay back, overleveraging, and using a quota system for what turned out to be shoddy loans. Now government policies in the aftermath of the financial crisis have failed to unwind the failed enterprises, are attempting to loosen lending once again, and are pushing interest rates down even further, preventing the companies from ever returning to profitability.

“Congress should at long last pass legislation that will bring an end to government’s failed, catastrophic mismanagement of the U.S. housing finance sector, not reward that mismanagement with millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded bonuses.”

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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Nov. 7, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued a statement on last week’s announcement that the G20 had agreed to expand the International Monetary fund by anywhere from $300 billion to $350 billion:

“As Europe continues to unravel and fails to get its own fiscal house into order, now the IMF, which the U.S. funds, is being called upon to give a massive bailout to European banks that bet poorly on sovereign debt. The G20 is said to have agreed to at least a $300 billion IMF expansion. But the IMF cannot be expanded by $300 billion without congressional approval since it would put another $53 billion of U.S. taxpayer dollars at risk.

“The U.S has already given at least $20 billion to bail out European banks through the IMF. Not another cent ought to go to bailing out foreign banks. This must come up for a vote in Congress, and when it does, the answer on behalf of U.S. taxpayers must be an emphatic no.”

Attachments:

“Democracy cancelled in the lands that founded it,” By Bill Wilson, ALG President, Nov. 7, 2011 athttp://netrightdaily.com/2011/11/democracy-cancelled-in-the-lands-that-founded-it/ .

“U.S. has already provided $20 billion to bail out Europe,” By Robert Romano, ALG Senior Editor, Nov. 3, 2011 athttp://netrightdaily.com/2011/11/u-s-has-already-provided-20-billion-to-bail-out-europe/ .

“The Future of the Eurozone and U.S. Interests,” Congressional Research Service, Sept. 2011 atwww.getliberty.org/files/R41411.pdf .

“The United States and Europe: Current Issues,” Congressional Research Service, June 2011 atwww.getliberty.org/files/167961.pdf .

Letter to Members of Congress Against European Bank Bailout, Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson, Oct. 26, 2011 at www.getliberty.org/files/EuropeanBailoutLetter 10-26-11.pdf .

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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Nov. 4, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today responded to the slight drop in the unemployment rate:

“The small drop in the unemployment rate is a testimony to the vibrancy of the free market capitalist economy that Obama and his political allies who embrace the Occupy Wall Street movement seek to kill. At least for the last couple of months, our nation’s job creators have overcome the never-ending regulatory attacks by this Administration.

“Let’s not forget that in spite of all the happy talk, 13.9 million Americans who want a job still cannot find one and even the Bureau of Labor Statistics states, “both the number of unemployed persons (13.9 million) and the unemployment rate (9.0 percent) changed little over the last month. The unemployment rate has remained in a narrow range from 9.0 to 9.2 percent since April.

“On top of this admission that this Administration’s economic policies have led to a stagnation consigning almost 14 million of our fellow citizens to life without a job, it would be short-sighted to ignore this week’s Federal Reserve downgrade of our nation’s 2012 economic and job growth prospects. When combined with the rising unemployment rate in Europe and predictions that they are heading back into recession, it is very difficult for this Administration to take a victory lap over these moribund results.

“In fact, one of the ironies of this jobs report is that it affirms that the private sector can and will create jobs in a month that saw two more companies join Solyndra in failing spectacularly after receiving millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars. These failures highlight the foolishness of this administration continuing to try to choose economic winners and losers based upon ideology and political favoritism. If Obama would suspend all of his new regulations to be reviewed by the next Administration, the economy would take off putting people back to work.”

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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