Fairfax, Va. – Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging President Trump to reject one-size-fits all medical pricing schemes:

“One-size-fits-all medical pricing is a dream come true for Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders and AOC who want health care nationalized.  This quick but deadly fix for the Obamacare created surprise medical billing issue seems simple, put a flat price on all medical services across the nation, but instead it is a nightmare which will end many health services in rural areas.  Don’t believe me, look at what has happened to California where this government rate setting was put into place.  Rural areas, Donald Trump’s base, found themselves with fewer and fewer health service providers to access, for the simple reason that rural health care is more expensive to provide than suburban care.

“For years America has struggled with health care disparity between urban and rural areas, and imposition of the Pelosi one-sized fits all rate plan will make it much worse.  What’s worse is that once the federal government controls the pricing of both medicines and medical services, any vestige of an honest health care system is wiped away.  We have all witnessed the power of controlling health care during this Chinese virus crisis, but imagine the horror when DC bureaucrats are setting medical services prices at rates where they become unavailable at any cost.

“President Trump should just say no to one-size-fits-all medical services rate setting remembering that the citizens it hurts most are those who gave him his 2016 victory.”

Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to a new report by the Senate on “Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns” by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on Finance:

“The report released this morning contains the least surprising, shocking revelations in history. Anyone paying attention to the Joe and Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine knows that Hunter Biden made a fortune representing a corrupt company, Burisma, and that then-Vice President Biden used his influence to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired who was investigating Burisma for corruption.

“It is also not surprising that Joe Biden abused his position as Vice President when he brought his son, Hunter, to a meeting with Chinese officials after which the young Biden got a $1 billion investment deal with no qualifications except his daddy’s office. Now more than six months after Pelosi’s political impeachment was dismissed as nothing more than garbage, the truth is being fully exposed about the corrupt dealings which the impeachment was intended to obscure. If Joe Biden committed a crime selling the office of Vice President, it would be insane for the public to ever entrust him with the Oval Office.”

Attachments:

“Biden, Poroshenko call confirms quid pro quo loan for new prosecutor general. Was it to stop the investigation of Burisma who Biden’s son worked for?” By Robert Romano, May 26, 2020, at http://dailytorch.com/2020/05/biden-poroshenko-call-confirms-quid-pro-quo-loan-for-new-prosecutor-general-was-it-to-stop-the-investigation-of-burisma-who-bidens-son-worked-for/

“Hunter Biden may have to pay back the millions he made, which were stolen from the people of Ukraine, under U.S. law,” By Bill Wilson, Nov. 26, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/11/hunter-biden-may-have-to-pay-back-the-millions-he-made-which-were-stolen-from-the-people-of-ukraine-under-u-s-law/

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Sept. 23, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s speech yesterday to the United Nations:

“President Trump laid the wood to the Communist Chinese regime at the United Nations.  The President chastised the Chinese over their decision to export the coronavirus to the world while stopping flights and travel from its point of origin to the rest of China and urged the world to hold them accountable.

“The President then continued by reminding the United Nation’s delegates that China leads the world in carbon emissions, nearly twice those in the U.S., hitting China in their polluted soft underbelly.

“Beijing is a government which allows unprecedented amount of pollution, enslaves its own people, encourages forced organ transplants from live political and religious dissidents and minorities, and forces millions of minorities into concentration camps.

“It is astonishing that the world tolerates the Chinese government on the world stage. But what is even more astonishing is that America’s Wall Street continues to pour our nation’s retirement, government and private investments into China, propping up their house of cards economy.

“Let me be clear, just as President Trump called on the United Nations to hold China accountable, it is unconscionable that America’s financial titans proceed with business as usual making Americans who entrust them into unwitting Chinese slaveholders.  Wall Street needs to listen hard to President Trump’s UN address and search their souls as to which side of the moral fence they wish to stand.  In this nation, there is no place for those who not only tolerate slavery but fund and profit from it.  It is time for America to www.DivestChinaNow.org.”

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Sept. 18, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg harkened back to a time when Americans could oppose each other on policy while maintaining cordial and friendly relationships with those they disagreed with — and she will be rightly mourned.

“While the passing of a Supreme Court Justice is always fraught with political intrigue, the election season makes this choice even more significant. With the President’s history of transparency and his recent announcement of potential appointees to the Supreme Court for public scrutiny, the constitutionalist judicial philosophy of any of his appointees is clear.

“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should take every step possible to expeditiously confirm any nominee President Trump should announce to replace Justice Ginsburg. This is a somber time for our nation but that does not relieve the President or the Senate of their responsibility to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat.”

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Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest state jobs numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

“It should be no surprise that states with Democrat governors who have imposed some of the most draconian economic shutdowns are suffering the highest unemployment rates, according to a just released report by the U.S. Labor Department.

“According to the report: ‘Nevada had the highest unemployment rate in August, 13.2 percent, followed by Rhode Island, 12.8 percent, and Hawaii and New York, 12.5 percent each.  Nebraska had the lowest rate, 4.0 percent, followed by Utah, 4.1 percent and Idaho, 4.2 percent.’

“Nevada, Rhode Island, Hawaii and New York have had notoriously harsh shutdown edicts by their respective governors, while Nebraska, Utah and Idaho, all with GOP governors, have pushed a balanced approach to the Chinese COVID crisis, protecting both public health and their state’s economies.

“It is a dead certain bet that Democrat governors are sabotaging our nation’s national economic recovery through their misguided shutdowns. The Trump economic rebound has been largely accomplished without the participation of Democratically controlled states.  It is a crime that Democrats continue to put electoral politics over the well-being of their own constituents. Denying their citizens jobs is hurting their people economically, physically, and mentally.”

Fairfax, Va. – Americans for Limited Government president Rick Manning issued the following statement in support of President Trump’s announcement on Constitution Day that he will create a commission to promote “patriotic education” and establish a grant to develop a “pro-American curriculum.”

“The left has sold America a big lie. The lie is that politics has no place in our education system. This lie is always directed at conservatives who seek to have our American education system extol the virtues of our nation, while focusing upon the building blocks for critical thinking. Marxist academics succeeded in destroying these very values without any vote of the people or the consent of the governed.

“President Trump is 100% correct in his effort to reestablish the teaching of American foundational principles in our nation’s schools. While the New York Times and the Obama administration common core curriculum writers poison our students with a hate America narrative that runs through our history books, museums and formerly free press, President Trump’s actions are a good first step to teaching real American history to our children.

“The sad truth is that if those of us who know that America is the greatest country that God has ever put on this earth, creating more wealth and freeing more people from the shackles of government slavery than all previous nations combined, don’t stand up to the academic bullies to have this story of America told to our children, America will be lost.

“President Trump deserves a collective thank you from all Americans for taking this stand to begin to fight for the hearts and minds of our children against the torrent of hate spewed by those who profess to teach.”

Fairfax, Va.- Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement on the latest income and rapidly dropping continued unemployment claims numbers:

“2019 demonstrated that capitalism, cutting unnecessary regulations, lower taxes and honest trade deals work together to decrease income inequality and raising average wages by $4,400 in 2019 to a record of $68,700.

“While the impact of the China virus has set our economy back, there can be no doubt that President Trump has the right prescription for continuing the record rebound we are currently experiencing, with 13.8 million jobs recovered since labor markets bottomed in April, and another 1 million Americans off of unemployment benefits the week ending Sept. 5.”

Sept. 13, 2020

Fairfax, Va. — Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government, issued the following statement in response to President Donald J. Trump’s Facebook post today about medicare prescription drug prices:

“I am very disappointed that President Trump chose to pursue the simplistic solution of fixing U.S. pharmaceutical prices to those of socialist foreign governments.  Allowing foreign socialists to set U.S. prices is a profoundly bad idea and will lay one of the final pieces in place for the complete federal takeover of health care.  As we have seen throughout the Chinese-originated virus pandemic, those who control health care can and do justify anything and the public will follow.  It is my fervent hope that President Trump will reconsider this mistake before it gets so ingrained that it cannot be undone.”

President Trump’s Facebook post:

Just signed a new Executive Order to LOWER DRUG PRICES! My Most Favored Nation order will ensure that our Country gets the same low price Big Pharma gives to other countries. The days of global free-riding at America’s expense are over and prices are coming down FAST! Also just ended all rebates to middlemen, further reducing prices.

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Sept. 11, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement of attempts by a Chinese company, J Capital Research to short the Northern Dynasty Minerals stock which owns Pebble Mine:

“A Chinese company that has placed a stock market bet against the development of the Pebble Mine has not surprisingly put out a report attacking the viability of the mining plan.  The battle over the development of the Alaska mine has been at the center of a high profile environmentalist opposition campaign funded by people determined to end the US mineral extraction industry altogether.

“I have been to where Pebble Mine will be, and let me make this clear, if you cannot develop a mind in this desolate location, you will never develop another mine in America.

“There is no surprise that a Chinese firm would be trying to submarine the mine’s future. China has long sought to dominate ownership of rare earth minerals and recently it has been discovered that Pebble Mine would produce a large quantity of a rare earth metal, rhenium, which is instrumental in building aircraft engines. Rare earths are essential for the production of many military and high tech items, and attempts by a Chinese short seller to undermine Pebble Mine should be rejected out of hand.

“Of course, the ultimate irony is the joining of environmentalists and China in opposing a U.S. mine.  Once again we find that many in the environmental establishment are willing to turn a blind eye toward the environmental disaster that is China while seeking to end the development of necessary extraction competitors.  This unholy alliance makes China stronger and the world less safe as the Communist Chinese government would hold the keys to the materials necessary to build our most sophisticated weapons systems, subjecting our nation’s leaders to coercion.

“The truth is that America has many necessary rare earth minerals within our borders just waiting to be mined, and the U.S. government should move forward on approval of Pebble Mine as an important first step in restoring our ability to end our dependency upon a Beijing regime which is engaged in war tactics against us.”

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Sept. 11, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reflecting on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 by al Qaeda that claimed 2,977 lives:

“19 years ago, America promised to never forget, yet today, the New York City Police Department finds itself being at least partially defunded while the city is under siege by anarchists. The Minneapolis Police Department has been completely defunded. And communist rioters continue to occupy the streets of many other Democrat Party-run cities, burning and looting in an internal rebellion that in some ways comes close to the shock and horror of 9/11 and is tearing this country apart.

“America is the greatest country in world history, and just as we refused to be intimidated by al Qaeda, today we need to stand up and have the same resolve against the Antifa rebellion. But if we fail to stand united against lawlessness and political violence, the idea of America may fall. We are a nation conceived in liberty, where all are created equal with certain unalienable rights. On this day, I encourage every American to read Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which in 272 words encapsulates the sacrifice, the vision and the reason that was needed to preserve the Union. Keeping America great is not just a slogan, it’s what each of us must commit ourselves to, lest we lose not only our freedom but the shining city on the hill that every human longs to emulate.”

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