September 7th, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today blasted Barack Obama’s pick for head of the Council of Economic Advisors, Alan Krueger:

“In light of his refusal to condemn the extremist remarks of Teamsters’ boss Jimmy Hoffa, promising to ‘take out’ the tea party, it is deeply disturbing that Barack Obama would nominate someone who has taken the radical position of advocating for the unionization of prisoners. Alan Krueger has even supported paying the minimum wage and overtime to prisoners. This is the man that is supposed to turn our broken economy around?”

Attachments:

“Crazy Krueger,” Americans for Limited Government Research Foundation, September 7th, 2011 atwww.getliberty.org/files/AlanKruegerUnionizePrisoners9-7-11.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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Sept. 6, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today condemned Barack Obama for praising Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa, who at an Obama campaign event in Detroit on Labor Day called on union faithful to “take these son-of-a-bitches out” to win the “war on workers” he said was led by the Tea Party:

“President Barack Obama owes an immediate apology to every hard working American and each member of Congress who supports the Tea Party movement for his affirmation of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa’s call to violence against his opponents at Obama’s Detroit Labor Day rally. If ever there was doubt that Obama is more comfortable with a megaphone and teleprompter than as the leader of the free world, yesterday ended it.

“If Obama fails to apologize for this call to violence against members of Congress and others who don’t agree with his radical policies, Speaker John Boehner should rescind his invitation to speak in the House of Representatives. In the wake of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, Hoffa’s rhetoric is unconscionable, but Obama’s praising of it shows that he has never risen above his radical community organizer roots.”

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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September 2, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson responded to the just-released August unemployment numbers saying:

“Obama’s economy continues to fail to produce the private sector jobs to even meet the needs of new entrants in the economy, let alone those who are currently unemployed. What is stunning is that the economy created zero jobs in August. It is almost criminal that Obama continues to offer the same failed stimulus solutions that focus upon his radical agenda to change our economy from the most productive in the world to one where hope is replaced by despair and innovation is punished.”

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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September 1st, 2001, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement praising House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for proposing offsetting spending cuts for every dollar spent on disaster relief:

“Majority Leader Cantor is to be thanked for being the responsible adult in the room for suggesting that every dollar of disaster relief should be offset by a dollar of real spending cuts. Radical leftists like Virginia Organizing are charlatans who believe you can have everything all the time with no consequence.

“This is the danger of government’s unbridled spending spree, which is that when you really need to fulfill a core government function, like disaster relief, the government has already wasted all of its money on unnecessary spending. Just because a hurricane or an earthquake has hit, does not mean the nation’s fiscal situation has become any less dire. We still need to cut spending.

“Cantor is to be praised, but we also believe that for every dollar of disaster relief, there should be $2 of real, offsetting spending cuts — that should be taken out of the Departments of Labor, Commerce, and Housing and Urban Development. If we cannot cut non-essential spending in the midst of an emergency, when can it be cut?”

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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August 31st, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today called on the White House to publicly ask Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, to settle its $1 billion in outstanding potential tax liability for 2002-2009:

“Barack Obama should ask his friend Warren Buffett to pay the $1 billion that the IRS says his company owes to demonstrate his true commitment to ‘shared sacrifice’ by paying what is due under the current tax law. Perhaps this $1 billion tax fight from 2002 to 2009 is why he felt as if he was undertaxed. Not every American has hundreds of lawyers and accountants to protect them from the IRS. So it would be fitting if Obama asked Buffett to put himself in the position of the average American and pay without the benefit of the advice of thousand-dollar-an-hour lawyers.”

Attachments:

“Buffett’s Billion Dollar Tax Hypocrisy,” ALG President Bill Wilson, August 31st, 2011 at http://netrightdaily.com/2011/08/buffetts-billion-dollar-tax-hypocrisy/ .

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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August 29, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Gibson Guitar was raided by the U.S. Department of Justice recently for an alleged violation of environmental laws including the Lacey Act. Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today called on Tennessee Senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander to investigate whether the Department is selectively targeting companies for criminal investigations that do business in right-to-work states:

“Tennessee Senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander should immediately demand a full explanation from the Obama Administration for their apparent targeting of Gibson Guitar — which makes all of their guitars in the U.S. Based upon facts available, the only thing that distinguishes Gibson’s import of wood and that of its competitors is that Gibson is located in Tennessee, a right-to-work state, and its main competitors are located in non-right-to-work California and Pennsylvania.

“In the wake of Obama’s National Labor Relations Board’s attempt to prevent Boeing from expanding into right-to-work South Carolina, it is reasonable to question whether the Justice Department raid of Gibson is a gross abuse of power to appease their politically important Big Labor allies. It is up to Senators Corker and Alexander to get to the truth, no matter how ugly it might be.”

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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August 25th, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today blasted an Obama Administration proposal to offer $85 billion of refinance loans for underwater mortgage borrowers:

“With homeowners underwater in their homes by about $700 billion, Obama’s $85 billion of bailout-refinance loans will not address 88 percent of the negative equity that is out there. The whole reason the crisis began was because cheap loans were provided to those with poor credit. Now, the Obama Administration wants to return to this failed policy to prop up his sagging reelection prospects by directing the money to favored constituencies that took out loans which could not be repaid. This is nothing more than an $85 billion Obama-Reelect slush 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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August 19th, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today blasted an Obama Administration proposal for yet another new make-work “stimulus” spending program:

“Even if Obama borrows yet more money from the Fed and China to expand the federal workforce by a million, it would only result in a 0.65 percent decrease in the nation’s unemployment rate. With borrowing costs and benefits are included, it would cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars with little noticeable impact on the nation’s ailing economic health. There are more efficient — and profitable — ways to create jobs.

“To foster a robust economic recovery, the government need only get out of the way. The Fed has held interest rates so low for so long, that it is more profitable and safer for financial institutions to borrow at near-zero rates and invest in treasuries than it is to engage in traditional lending. Moreover, the nation’s structural trillion-dollar-plus deficit steers more money than ever away from equities and into government bonds. That is precisely the opposite of what needs to happen to expand the economy.

“The weak dollar has also fostered higher consumer and producer prices, which has led to a commensurate slowdown in spending. A combination of smaller government and sounder money is needed to get our economy moving again, and free up resources for the private sector to create the jobs we need for a sustained recovery.”

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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August 17th, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today praised Texas Governor Rick Perry for calling any attempt to print money to benefit the Barack Obama’s reelection chances over the national interest “almost treasonous”:

“Continuing to print money to pay the debt is nothing more than a political dodge from the hard choices that our elected officials are hired to make. Governor Perry is to be commended for recognizing this pernicious scheme for what it is.”

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

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August 12th, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today praised the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for striking down ObamaCare’s individual mandate:

“This is just one more confirmation that ObamaCare’s individual mandate does not pass constitutional muster. We are disappointed that the court chose to reverse Judge Vinson’s ruling declaring the entire law null and void. The Democrat-controlled Congress of 2010 would have never implemented ObamaCare without the inclusion of the individual mandate. It is more important than ever that the Supreme Court resolve this issue by affirming Vinson’s original decision that the individual mandate is both unconstitutional and cannot be severed from the rest of the law.”

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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