Sept. 4, 2020, Fairfax, Va.— Today Americans for Limited Government president Rick Manning issued the following statement on the August unemployment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

“Today’s employment report shows that this is President Trump’s ‘Great American Rebound’ from the Chinese originated coronavirus economic shut down. Since April, 13.8 million Americans have returned to work as a direct result of President Trump’s leadership to save lives and safely reopen the economy. Trump is America’s jobs president.”

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Sept. 3, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement noting the number of unadjusted continued unemployment claims has dropped from 15.8 million on July 25 down to 13.1 million on Aug. 22 as 2.7 million Americans left unemployment a month, according to the Department of Labor:

“The Trump administration delivered more great news for people who want to work as the unemployment claims report shows that another unadjusted 2.7 million Americans have come off of continued unemployment between July 25 and Aug. 22 from the depths of the Chinese COVID virus crash. That will surely build on the between 9 million and 10 million jobs that have been recovered in the three months since our economy began to reopen after April. Tomorrow’s unemployment could be another huge gain for the American people in terms of dropping the unemployment rate, recovering jobs and bringing more people back into the work force, thanks to President Trump’s leadership to reopen the economy and as COVID cases continue to stabilize.”

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Sept. 2, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to rescind home rule for Washington, D.C.:

“Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser’s call for the removal or defacing of the Jefferson Memorial, Washington Monument and other D.C. landmarks puts the nail in the coffin for the argument that the District should be self-governed. Washington, D.C. was set up constitutionally as a federal district to house the federal government as a limit on the national government.  Since Congress granted the District home rule in 1973, it has seen a drug addled mayor, a federal budget control board so it could avoid bankruptcy and on-going corruption.  Here is the truth.  Over the past few months, America has witnessed our national monuments being defaced, the local government choosing to not provide adequate protection for people leaving the White House following the President’s nomination acceptance speech, and a local refusal to call out the D.C. National Guard in the face of riots that threatened the security of the White House.  The D.C. Mayor has even refused to pay for the hotel rooms for the National Guard members who were called to serve from South Carolina and Utah to defend the city.

“The sole reason Washington, D.C. exists is to house the federal government, and the D.C. local government has effectively abdicated that responsibility putting our nation’s lawmakers and others at risk.  It is time for Congress to rescind the home rule act, declare a smaller portion of D.C. to be part of the federal district and return the remainder of the city to the state of Maryland.  Protecting our national treasures, monuments and even politicians is too important to leave up to incompetent radicals dedicated to the destruction of America and our history.  It is time to end this failed experiment by repealing home rule and jettisoning a significant portion of the current District of Columbia to beleaguer the poor citizens of Maryland.  The city has lost its right and honor to house our federal government as well as the tourist revenues generated through that honor.”

To view online: https://getliberty.org/2020/09/congress-should-rescind-d-c-home-rule-2/

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Sept. 1, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to former Vice President Joe Biden’s question, “Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?”:

“Joe Biden asked a simple question, ‘Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?’ The answer is yes.  When Biden refused to condemn the violence that has gone on in Portland for almost three months, his silence was consent to that violence.  Don’t ask me, ask his running mate Kamala Harris who wrote in Cosmopolitan, ‘In times like this, silence is complicity.’

“So, Joe when you don’t come out of your basement and denounce the rioting, burning and violence in Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Chicago and Washington, D.C., while allowing your surrogates to pretend that it wasn’t happening, you were complicit.  Now you try to claim to be some kind of great moderate with the ‘you know me’ line.  Joe, what we know is that your convention did not stand up to those who seek to destroy our country and the rule of law.  Your convention did not stand up to those who would defund the police. Your running mate supported cutting $150 million from the LAPD.  Your political party refused to allow Senator Tim Scott’s police reform bill to come to the floor of the Senate and you said nothing.

“Your running mate indicts you with her own words, because your silence on the riots makes you complicit in every store that has been burned, every law enforcement officer who has been killed or injured and every innocent bystander who has been attacked and in some cases killed.  We know you Joe, you are the guy who is too scared to stand up for what is right and after the fact complains about those who did.

“Yes, Joe, we know you.  And we know that our President can’t hide in his basement in fear and remain silent as domestic terrorism grips our streets.  It is because we know you, that America will not vote for you.”

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Aug. 31, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging U.S. stock exchanges to de-register 31 Chinese companies the Department of Defense has labelled as owned or controlled by the Chinese military:

“The Pentagon has named another eleven Chinese companies as owned or controlled by the Chinese military. The announcement comes on the heels of a June Pentagon announcement naming an additional twenty companies as Chinese military controlled. The size and scope of the companies named by the Department of Defense is breathtaking ranging from Huawei to China Communications Construction Company which is heavily involved in the Chinese government’s Belt and Road initiative.

“The Pentagon has named another eleven Chinese companies as owned or controlled by the Chinese military. The announcement comes on the heels of a June Pentagon announcement naming an additional twenty companies as Chinese military controlled. The size and scope of the companies named by the Department of Defense is breathtaking ranging from Huawei to China Communications Construction Company which is heavily involved in the Chinese government’s Belt and Road initiative.

“DoD’s on-going effort to identify Chinese companies which are national security threats is a momentous step forward in protecting American investors and most importantly businesses from entangling themselves with these risky and dangerous firms.

“The latest list includes: China Communications Construction Company (CCCC); China academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT); China Spacesat; China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd; China Electronics Corporation (CEC); China National Chemical Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (CNCEC); China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina); Sinochem Group Co Ltd; China State Construction Group Co., Ltd.; China Three Gorges Corporation Limited; China Nuclear Engineering & Construction Corporation (CNECC).

“This latest list points to the danger of U.S. investments in Chinese assets.  It is a dead certain guarantee that these companies litter Emerging Market Index Funds and U.S. investors have been unwittingly capitalizing these companies who are part of China’s effort to gain military capacity to challenge our nation.

“Every U.S. stock exchange which has any of the 31 companies listed on them, need to de-register them immediately.  What’s more portfolio managers and index fund managers have a responsibility to rid these companies from their investments.  Americans don’t want to capitalize China’s military industrial complex and those mutual funds which include Chinese investments unwittingly make Americans investors in companies focused upon defeating the United States of America.”

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Aug. 25, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the first night of the Republican National Convention:

“The first night of the Republican National Convention stood as a stark contrast to the dark vision of an evil America proposed by the Democrats just last week. The emphasis on the opportunity of America and the American dream is the exact kind of forward-thinking optimism that people want and need during this Covid crisis. The speakers, ranging from African-American Georgia State Representative Vernon Jones to Donald Trump, Jr., had a consistent message about America’s greatness and exceptionalism, a place where everyone has an opportunity to succeed and meet their dreams and aspirations. Before the Chinese virus struck down our economy, African-Americans, Hispanics, and women were working at levels never before seen in our history.

“Congressional candidate Kim Klacik’s story is particularly important as she seeks to represent one of the most economically devastated districts in America, overcoming decades of Democrat neglect. It is not compassionate to consign people living in the inner city to boarded up buildings, trash-heaped and rat-infested streets and regular drug gang violence where it is unsafe for children to go out and play.

“The GOP vision shines like a bright light of hope for those Americans the Democrats have long taken for granted with false promises of prosperity ahead.”

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Aug. 24, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in support of the development of Pebble Mine in Alaska following an Aug. 20 letter by the Army Corps of Engineers requesting mitigation by Pebble Mine Partnership:

“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is strongly urged to take every reasonable step to ensure that Pebble Mine becomes a reality. This Administration has put a premium on ending our dependency on China for rare earth metals, and now in the wake of the announcement that rhenium, a key component to aircraft engines, was discovered at the Pebble Mine, this makes the development of Pebble Mine a national security must. Our nation can no longer stick our head in the ground to the reality that China’s worldwide rare earth dominance is a severe threat to national security.

“The sad truth is environmentalists have never found a mine they like, and it is largely due to their efforts that the U.S. is now 100 percent dependent on rare earth imports and 82 percent dependent for rhenium according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The Trump administration has rightly made reversing this situation a high priority. With Pebble Mine’s progress in addressing the environmental mitigations being required by the Army Corps of Engineers, the mine meets and exceeds the legal standard for development and should be accelerated due to the national security concerns. This is both good national security and resource development policy, and meets the President’s priorities.”

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Aug. 20, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today blasted a new 0.5 percent “adverse impact” fee to be assessed on all mortgage refinances starting Sept. 1:

“At a time when it can already cost thousands of dollars in closing costs to refinance a mortgage, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two dinosaur quasi-government giants, have decided to implement an ‘adverse impact’ fee of 0.5 percent on all refinances.  President Trump and Federal Housing Finance Agency head Dr. Mark Calabria should be all over the leaders of these two institutions right now over this decision to try to dry up the refinancing market at a time when it is federal government policy to pump as much money into the economy as possible with record-low interest rates to overcome the devastating impacts of the Chinese-originated virus.

“Through this new 0.5 percent tax on home refinances, Fannie and Freddie effectively are saying that they should collect a significant fee on every refinance, taking that money directly out of the pockets of homeowners who are seeking to lower their mortgage costs or pulling some of the dead money out of their homes to use for whatever purposes they deem important.  Apparently, Fannie and Freddie think that it is better for the Treasury to keep pouring money out that America doesn’t have, rather than allowing people to fully take advantage of the equity in their homes.  While to the multi-millionaires who run Fannie and Freddie, a new bureaucratically imposed $500 tax for every $100,000 refinanced may not seem like much, it actually is the difference for many of whether a refinance makes sense at all. This will kill, at least a portion of the market, for mortgage refis.

“According to research firm Equilar and quoted by the Washington Post, ‘At Fannie Mae, five executives earned more than $2 million each last year, while four executives at Freddie Mac earned more than $3 million.’  It seems that a few of these multi-million dollar employees should be out of work due to this outrageous bureaucrat-imposed tax increase that will effectively make some people choose not to access their own money that is within the equity of their own homes.”

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Aug. 20, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to former President Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention:

“Last night’s Democrat convention show featuring former President Barack Obama offered revealing insights into their own view of Joe Biden’s vulnerabilities. Obama’s contention that President Trump is not up to the job is clearly his acknowledgement that his former vice president was never competent to be President of the United States, let alone now as Biden’s impairment becomes more and more clear.

“The first clue of Obama’s concern about Biden was found in his last-minute endorsement of the Biden candidacy after all alternatives had been eliminated. Someone who is a political ‘brother’ doesn’t get left publicly begging for an endorsement when it matters most. The second clue was Michelle Obama’s earlier speech in which she spent next to zero time on Biden’s accomplishments as vice president, while going low in an attack on President Trump. You can always tell what the Democrats fear most by what they attack. Just a Hillary’s greatest vulnerability, her ties to Russia, resulted in the DNC producing the Steele dossier, the attacks on the uber successful and competent president Trump reveal the truth about the diminished Biden.”

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