ALG's Daily Grind - Who coordinated multi-agency attack on tea party group?

May 21, 2013

Who coordinated multi-agency attack on tea party group?

Coincidence? Group targeted by multiple government agencies, including the IRS on tax-exempt status, but also law enforcement, the Texas state Democratic Party, a U.S. Senator and more.

Cartoon: Axe man cometh

IRS gets a promotion.

Collapse of bee colonies is latest target for anti-pesticide groups

Anti-pesticide groups want the U.S. and EU to ban a widely used class of safe "neonicotinoid" pesticides, by blaming them for bee population declines in various countries. Except, the doses that bees receive in lab studies "are far above what a realistic field dose exposure would be," biology professor says.

Regions Bank: Fed debate over QE heats up

Fed governors debate when to taper off trillions of dollars of monetary expansion.

ALG - Unemployment rate drops as 663,000 abandon workforce

April 5, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement on the latest job numbers:

"663,000 Americans dropped out of the workforce last month.  206,000 fewer Americans were employed.  290,000 more Americans were unemployed.

"Yet, the headline will be that the unemployment rate dropped in March to 7.6 percent.

"Never has the lie of the improving Obama economy ever been more starkly revealed than in today's March unemployment report, where the consequences of the destruction of the American workforce by policies that promote government dependence over work are hidden behind a statistical drop in the percentage of workers who are unemployed.

"At this rate, Obama may just make history by achieving a 0 percent unemployment rate because nobody's in the workforce. You might just call that full unemployment. "

To view online: http://getliberty.org/unemployment-rate-drops-as-663000-abandon-workforce/

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ALG's Daily Grind - Mexican corruption case a wake-up call for American leaders

March 22, 2013

Mexican corruption case a wake-up call for American leaders

Elba Esther Gordillo case should compel the Obama Administration to reexamine its ongoing kowtowing to union bosses — most notably the ongoing erosion of worker safeguards against union corruption.

Current Obama appointee to NLRB faces civil RICO lawsuit over union embezzlement

Unconstitutional "recess" appointee to the National Labor Relations Board Richard Griffin is alleged to have engaged in threatening activity toward local union local officials who investigated a case of embezzlement at the union he served as counsel of.

Banks in Cyprus? Really?

How can a country that comprises less than 2 percent of the GDP of the entire Eurozone threaten to tear it apart?

Smith: What could cause interest rates to rise?

Charles Hugh Smith warns that central banks cannot keep inflation at bay forever, and when it does hit, higher interest rates will be the only way out.

ALG's Daily Grind - No Fed exit anytime soon

March 13, 2013

No Fed exit anytime soon

If new Federal Reserve purchases, particularly of treasuries, were to suddenly stop, interest rates for government debt sold on the market would likely have to rise to attract buyers, crushing taxpayers with hundreds of billions of dollars of higher interest payments.

The cowardly carbon tax

By taxing carbon based energy sources at their origin, the tax would ripple through the economy, leading to higher prices for consumers, who would naturally blame the grocer, the energy company, utility, car-maker or just the seeming whims of others that cause prices to skyrocket.

New York's 'Sustainability' Plan: aka 'Agenda 21'

"Agenda 21" was first introduced to the world at the 1992 UN-sponsored "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro. It addresses virtually every facet of human life and describes in great detail how the concept of "sustainable development" should be implemented at every level of government.

Investment News: SEC says Illinois misled investors over pension funding

"Agency claims the state raised $2.2B in bond offerings without full disclosure."

ALG's Daily Grind - The Fed can't print growth

Jan. 31, 2013

The Fed can't print growth

A printing press is no replacement for real productivity, a lowered cost of doing business, and regulations that welcome company creation.

Preserving the Middle Class:  Who Cares?

A Center for American Progress 35-point plan to "strengthen" the middle class suggests not a thriving, independent linchpin of American prosperity but an homogenized, stagnant and, yes, dependent voting bloc. 

WSJ:Courts? Who Listens to Courts?

"[W]hen a federal court rules the recess appointments [to it] illegal, the NLRB declares that it will keep doing business as if nothing happened."