Aug. 19, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging that Department of Defense whistleblower Adam Lovinger be rehired after reports vindicate his finding that the Office of Net Assessment failed to properly audit contractors:

“Adam Lovinger did his job.  He pointed out that the Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment failed to properly audit contractors and require that they actually do the work for which they were paid and a just released Inspector General report has proven Lovinger’s allegations to be true in the case of the infamous Stefan Halper, who was identified as someone who sought to infiltrate and spy on the Donald Trump campaign for president in 2016.

“Lovinger’s whistleblower claim has been born out, and it is outrageous that the same career bureaucrats who authorized what appear to be fraudulent studies, were able to punish Lovinger and fire him for standing up for the taxpayer.  The Acting Secretary of Defense should immediately reinstate Lovinger with full back pay and whatever compensation he is entitled to under the laws put into place protecting whistleblowers from reprisals.

“Mr. Lovinger is an example of what the best in our civil service should be about, and the fact that he and his family have suffered enormous financial loss simply because he had the audacity to point out that DoD contracts were not being fulfilled is unacceptable and he needs to not only be made whole.  In terms of those career bureaucrats who abused the system and Mr. Lovinger, civil service personnel actions should be taken against those who were more interested in covering up the spending scandal than protecting the public treasury.”

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Aug. 9, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to support the individual right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment:

“Billionaire leftists like George Soros, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and John Arnold are spending millions of dollars to exploit the tragedies of El Paso and Dayton to undermine the individual right to keep and bear arms. Whether it be Soros’ campaign to elect anti-gun prosecutors who fail to fully enforce the law against violent criminals while aggressively pursuing enforcement of fraudulent red flag claims without due process, or Gates, Bloomberg and the Arnold Foundation that have spent their resources convincing so-called moderate Republicans that they can be just a little bit pregnant when they support slippery slope measures leading to gun confiscation, it all leads to the same outcome. Every American gun owner who simply believes in individual liberty should contact their Congressmen, Senators and the President and tell them to say no to the billionaire leftists and support the right to keep and bear arms and due process.”

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Aug. 8, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump’s sanctions on Venezuela and urging the 90-day waiver for U.S. oil interests to be extended indefinitely:

“President Trump is wisely imposing economic sanctions and tightening the financial screws on the exceedingly corrupt Nicolas Maduro regime In Venezuela. However countries like China and Russia have been actively working against the U.S. by sending billions into Venezuela, financially propping-up Maduro’s failed Socialist regime. Most importantly, President Trump has shown a strategic deftness in extending a 90 day waiver to U.S. energy companies operating in Venezuela, a country that presently controls access to the world’s largest known oil reserves.  China and Russia crave both Venezuela’s oil and the geopolitical foothold it provides in the southern Caribbean less than 3,000 miles off our America’s Gulf Coast, and the President’s actions send a clear signal their continued meddling will not stand.

“However, in order to assure long-term operational security when the duly elected government of Juan Guaido gains the levers of power in Caracas, it is essential that the 90 day waiver for the American energy industry be extended indefinitely.  U.S. oil companies found and developed the fields in Venezuela in the 1920s, and by 1950, the South American country enjoyed the second largest GDP per capita in the world, behind only the United States.  The murderous Maduro regime has accelerated the devastation of the nation’s economy begun by Hugo Chavez with the per capita GDP shrinking to levels not seen since 2000.  While Maduro has taken a wrecking ball to Venezuela, maintaining basic U.S. interests in operating their oil fields will allow a democratic president Guaido to restore national prosperity, free from Chinese and Russian entanglement in Venezuela’s most precious financial asset – its vast oil wealth.”

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Aug. 5, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging members of Congress and candidates for President to join with President Donald Trump in denouncing all political violence:

“While the nation grieves the senseless loss of life in El Paso and Dayton, President Donald Trump has rightly denounced the racist, white nationalist attack in El Paso and the attack in Dayton by a radical, pro-Antifa leftist who thought his political opponents were Nazis who deserved to die. There is nothing controversial about denouncing political violence, all of it, and we call upon Republicans and Democrats to do so, regardless of the political motives of the killers.

“The Dayton attacker was an Elizabeth Warren supporter, yet none of the Democratic candidates for President have denounced the Dayton shooter’s violent revolutionary leftist ideology that legitimizes Antifa, and they should do so immediately. Ignoring Antifa will not make them go away, it will only empower them and encourage further acts of violence. When a Bernie Sanders supporter shot up the Republican congressional baseball practice in 2017, he immediately denounced it. That is what leaders must do when violence is perpetrated in their names.

“We need to come together as one nation to denounce political violence of every stripe and all violent ideologies that contribute to it. Nobody should get a pass. The El Paso shooter was a racist ideologue who embraced the Christchurch mosque manifesto and wanted to kill immigrants and Hispanics. The Dayton shooter was a leftist who called the ICE firebomber in Tacoma targeting federal law enforcement a ‘martyr,’ embraced misguided comparisons of immigration enforcement to the Holocaust, the Gestapo and concentration camps, and promoted targeted violence against his perceived political opponents. Individuals can be radicalized on the left and on the right. Only denouncing political violence and terrorism on one side is no denouncement at all, it is empty partisan blindness that contributes to the problem. We call upon every member of Congress and candidate for President to join with President Trump in denouncing all of the violence and to join with him in confronting radicalism and extremism in our midst.”

Attachments:

“Massacres in El Paso, Dayton underscore that political violence right or left is never the answer,” By Robert Romano, Aug. 4, 2019 at http://dailytorch.com/2019/08/massacres-in-el-paso-dayton-underscore-that-political-violence-right-or-left-is-never-the-answer/#comment-4566783811

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Aug. 2, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the latest jobs numbers:

“283,000 more Americans were employed in July than in June with the number not in the labor force shrinking by 183,000.  Over the past twelve months, the number of employed has jumped by more than 1.3 million about 200,000 more than the civilian labor force increased. Since Jan. 2017, the Trump economy has produced 5.16 million jobs in the household survey.

“Americans continue to see job opportunity growth that is positively impacting people across the socio-economic spectrum with average hourly earnings continuing to rise. July’s Labor Department report shows that our nation’s economy continues to grow and move forward with the only thing holding it back being a shortage of workers.  That will be the economy’s challenge over the next few years, as baby boomers continue to retire out of the workforce, identifying, encouraging and skilling those who are currently out of the workforce to meet our nation’s future economic needs.”

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Aug. 1, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for opposing patents and intellectual property for life-saving pharmaceuticals in the Democratic debate:

“Elizabeth Warren was dead wrong when she chose to attack the intellectual property protections contained within the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.  Her focus on the intellectual property rights of those who develop life-saving drugs and biologics should concern every person in America who is hoping to see an end to Alzheimer’s disease, various cancers and other lesser known diseases like dengue fever in our lifetimes.  Intellectual property protection is the simple concept that drives innovation as it guarantees that those who take the risks get to recoup a profit from taking those risks.  Unfortunately, Elizabeth Warren and those of her ilk, reject this fundamental concept, and as a result would tear away the incentive to invest in new drug development.

“The future of medicine is rapidly changing with innovations in nano-technology, robotics and biologics poised to change many of today’s assumptions about longevity and treatment.  It would be foolish to follow the rearview mirror focused approach of those like Warren who would stifle this bright future for human wellness by denying the financial incentives to make it a reality.”

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Aug. 1, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump’s decision to levy an additional 10 percent tariff on the remaining $300 billion of Chinese imports that were not yet taxed:

“China’s empty promises in previous trade talks make it extraordinarily difficult to view them as a true business partner. President Trump’s announcement that a new 10 percent tariff will be imposed on $300 billion of the remaining Chinese imports sends a clear message to President Xi that promises mean little if actions do not follow. While most people will focus on the short-term impact on markets, it is important to note that China’s failure to stop the sale and shipment of fentanyl to the U.S. tops President Trump’s concerns. While campaigning in 2016, President Trump witnessed the ravages of opioids on communities across America and promised to do something about it. In the past year, he negotiated a deal with Xi to stop the flow deadly fentanyl to our shores. The Chinese failure to keep this agreement is reason enough to punish them economically, and is proof that President Trump puts the lives of American citizens ahead of multinational corporations.”

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