The government didn’t increase personal consumption, it enforced thrift. And investment is what’s needed now, not an election-year pop. By Richard P. Rumelt Despite two years of fiscal and monetary stimulus, the U.S. economy is sagging. This has renewed the argument over the usefulness of more stimulus, and many of its proponents make an analogy…
Monthly Archives: August 2011
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California Governor, Jerry Brown, Betrays Children – Signs SB 48
CA state leaders gives California families a choice, submit or lose property and liberty. SB 48 was introduced by Sen. Mark Leno (D-SF) and passed by the CA Senate and CA Assembly on party line votes…Democrats for and Republicans against. This bill is so bad that even the LA Times editorialized against it. Governor Jerry…
Tom DeWeese
Corporate Social Responsibility
Why Private Industry Keeps Telling Us to “Go Green” By Tom DeWeese I’ve sounded the alarm over the dangers of Sustainable Development and the agenda for top-down control through what proponents call the “Three Es,” which includes the Environment, the Economy, and Social Equity. A fourth rail to imposing Agenda 21 is called Corporate Social…
Frank Lasee
The EPA Conquers America
By Frank Lasee. It’s bad enough that Congress keeps churning out oppressive, government-enriching regulation. But sometimes bureaucrats even “tailor” laws to give themselves powers that Congress didn’t intend them to have. That’s what’s happening with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which asserts it can alter the plain meaning of the Clean Air Act in order…
Paul Chesser
American Tradition Institute Fellows Expose ‘The War on Natural Gas’
By Paul Chesser Who are the multi-million dollar foundations and activists, nonprofits, media groups and academics that are attacking the natural gas industry and its safe, effective hydraulic fracturing process? Who spreads myths and lies about a business that has created thousands of jobs and has delivered energy extracted from U.S. lands to millions of…
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CRG Unveils Hidden School Wage and Benefits Costs
Findings Reveal Benefits Routinely Exceed 100% of Wages Some Wisconsin Schools Defy Law and Refuse to Provide Data Journal Communications Subsidiary Refuses to Publish Data CRG Advocates, the issue advocacy arm of the Citizens for Responsible Government Network, has unveiled a new online, searchable database revealing previously unreleased data on the wages and benefits of…