Jan. 13, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising in part the Supreme Court’s decision to leave an injunction in place on the OSHA vaccine mandates, but blasting its decision to allow similar mandates against health care workers to be enforced:

“The Supreme Court is right to stop the Biden OSHA vaccine mandate that would have potentially thrown millions of Americans out of work. The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution is not a blank check for the federal government to regulate every aspect of Americans’ lives and it is a relief that the Supreme Court is recognizing that fact.

“On the other hand, it is disappointing that the Court ruled that hospital and other health care systems that take Medicare and Medicaid are subject to intrusive federal regulations that impact their ability to provide health services at a time when when have a health care labor crisis. By forcing doctors, nurses, social workers and other health care personnel to comply with a federal vaccine mandate, the Court is treating those workers as second class citizens by virtue of the important role they are playing in the pandemic. What’s more, Justice Elena Kagan’s comments that if you’re funded by the federal government, you should be controlled by the federal government, should galvanize efforts of Congress to remove Obamacare root and branch.

“President Biden has the power of the bully pulpit and can seek to lead using it. Instead, Biden attempted to strong arm the American people into compliance, wasting valuable months in a pandemic and using the overbearing power of the administrative state, all of which is a cautionary tale of why the fight for limited government is more important now than ever.  The OSHA mandate may be dead, but federal power over health care is very much alive.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-478-4643 or at cmortensen@getliberty.org .

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All governors should protect their state investments from non-transparent Chinese entities and the evil which they perpetrate on the Chinese people.

Fairfax, Va. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and some of his administration’s top officials moved this week to protect their state investments from non-transparent Chinese companies. Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Richard Manning issued the following statement in support of Gov. DeSantis:

“Americans for Limited Government strongly supports Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s choice to pursue divestment of his state’s pension funds from Chinese assets.

“Chinese assets are not suitable for any pension fund investment due to their lack of transparency and the resulting inability of honest pension fund managers to determine their viability. What’s more, Chinese corporations are interconnected with the Chinese Communist Party, which engages in a barely-muted cold war against the United States.

“Finally, and perhaps most important of all, Chinese corporations, and China as a whole, encourage the use of slave labor for the manufacturing of goods. The Department of Labor has long recognized Uyghur Muslims and other religious and ethnic minorities who have been forced into state-sponsored labor and re-education camps by the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang and elsewhere across China. The 2020 report published by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs lists China 17 times as using children and slaves to make goods, many of which find their place on the shelves of U.S. retailers like Walmart. Artificial flowers, bricks, Christmas decorations, coal, cotton, electronics, fireworks, fish, footwear, garments, gloves, hair products, nails, textiles, thread/yarn, tomato products, toys are all listed as being made with child or slave labor in China.

“The Department of Defense has also condemned the vast concentration camp system in China said to be housing up to 3 million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province alone. In 2019, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs Randall Schriver told a Pentagon briefing, ‘The [Chinese] are using the security forces for mass imprisonment of Chinese Muslims in concentration camps,” justifying the use of the term because “given what we understand to be the magnitude of the detention, at least a million but likely closer to three million citizens out of a population of about 10 million.’”

“ALG urges every governor in the U.S. to follow Gov. DeSantis’s lead and protect their state investments from non-transparent Chinese entities and the evil which they perpetrate on the Chinese people and the world.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Americans for Limited Government at 703-478-4643 or at cmortensen@getliberty.org.

Dec. 10, 2021, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the latest inflation numbers showing 6.8 percent increase in consumer prices the past twelve months, the highest since the early 1980s:

“6.8 percent inflation would have been unimaginable a year ago when the rate stood at 1.2 percent. This more than five-fold increase in consumer prices is a direct result of the destructive Biden economic policies and is largely driven by his war on energy and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s big spending ways. The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to remove the description of ‘transitory’ inflation should tell everyone to buckle, because help is not on the way from Biden’s failed presidency.”

For media availability contact Catherine Mortensen at 703.478.4643 or cmortensen@getliberty.org.

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