NHGOP STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S DISASTEROUS BUDGET

Concord – New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Horn released the following statement today on President Obama’s budget:

“President Obama’s budget is a fiscal disaster that is radically out of step with the traditional New Hampshire principles of limited government, lower taxes and less spending. The Obama budget raises taxes on working families, adds more debt to pay for the president’s bloated spending proposals and never balances. It also fails to address the long-term fiscal challenges facing our country and does nothing to reform and preserve programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid for future generations.

“Senator Shaheen, Congresswoman Shea-Porter and Congresswoman Kuster need to stand up for New Hampshire by opposing the president’s disastrous budget. If they fail to denounce this irresponsible proposal, it will serve as another indication that they are completely out of touch with the Granite State’s fiscally conservative values.”

Rep. William O'Brien's Comments on President Obama's FY 2014 Budget Proposal

Rep. William O’Brien’s Comments on President Obama’s FY 2014 Budget Proposal

“President Obama has once again failed the American people,” said Rep. William O’Brien (R-Mont Vernon).  “We need leadership in Washington that recognizes that, when we have just learned that the number of Americans forced out of the work force is at an historical high, now is not the time to propose another round of economically destructive tax increases, cuts on Medicare providers to our senior citizens, and deficits that never end and will grow by $5.3 trillion over the next 10 years.”

“What is particularly disappointing to New Hampshire citizens in the Second Congressional District is to hear of the immediate support given by our member of Congress, Ann Kuster, to the President’s reckless lack of leadership,” O’Brien added.  “She called a lifetime of permanent deficits adding up to $5.3 trillion in more borrowing against our children’s future over the next 10 years ‘a balanced approach.’  With a budget that never balances and nearly $600 billion in new taxes, one has to wonder what a liberal approach would look like.”

 “Ann Kuster has once again shown that her years as a lobbyist in Concord looking to grow government on behalf of her paid special interest clients did not give her the traditional New Hampshire value of fiscal responsibility, for it is clear she does not even know what a balanced budget would be,” O’Brien continued.  “Permanent deficits are not a balanced approach.  Neither is borrowing an additional $5 trillion a balanced approach.  New Hampshire needs Congressional representation in Washington that knows what it is to make spending choices and that the fiscal irresponsibility of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are not New Hampshire choices.”

William O’Brien is a state representative from Mont Vernon, serving his fourth term in the New Hampshire House.

ALG's Daily Grind - Obama's jobless recovery

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CEI Today: Public shaming & "too big to fail," Obama's sulfur standards, and fudging on Facebook

PUBLIC SHAMING & "TOO BIG TO FAIL" - BILL FREZZA

Forbes: We Can't Save Capitalism Unless We Denounce Its False Prophets

A debate is raging among free market advocates regarding the proper posture to take with respect to Too Big to Fail (TBTF) banks.

Quite simply, we should not shy away from tarring and feathering any supposed “capitalist” who goes to Washington hat in hand, looking for favors to “save” America’s financial sector, auto industry, “green” energy economy, or what have you. Whether it’s Goldman Sachs, General Motors, or General Electric, we need to shout to anybody who will listen that any one firm imploding will not blow up the economy. Being pro-business is not the same as being pro-market. There is no reason why defending the right of money changers to operate free from onerous regulations should translate into letting the counterfeiters run amok and the temple priests loot the public treasury.

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> Interview Bill Frezza

OBAMA SULFUR STANDARDS - MARLO LEWIS Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Environmental judge, jury & policeman Marlo Lewis Jr. is a senior fellow in the energy and environment program at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank advocating limited government. Lewis spoke to the Trib regarding the Obama administration's environmental mandate to significantly reduce sulfur levels in gasoline. Q: Is there a genuine environmental need for stricter sulfur standards? A: I don't believe so. We've basically seen a 60-percent reduction in emissions since 1980, air pollution levels are at their historically lowest levels, and over the last nine years we had a reduction in the sulfur content of gasoline from 300 parts per million down to 30. The Environmental Protection Agency is like a lot of government agencies — it always assumes that it must go further. And you know, in fact, it has to assume that, otherwise it would no longer have a reason to exist. If it declared that the air pollution threat was over and we can relax now, what more need would there be for an EPA?  > Read the full Q&A > Interview Marlo Lewis

COMPUTER FRAUD - RYAN RADIA April 4, 2013: Reining in the CFAA Congress is mulling an update to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1984. Under the CFAA, it is currently a federal crime to enter an incorrect age on your Facebook profile or an incorrect weight on a dating website profile. Associate Director of Technology Studies Ryan Radia suggests that the CFAA should be reined in, instead of expanded, as a draft currently circulating around Capitol Hill proposes. > Listen to the Liberty Week podcast >Interview Ryan Radia

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CEI ANNUAL DINNER & GALA FEATURING THE HONORABLE RAND PAUL JUNE 20, 2013 cei.org/ceidinner

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CEI Today: Obama's BRAIN initiative, the myth of welfare reform, and green tyranny

OBAMA'S BRAIN INITIATIVE - WAYNE CREWS

Forbes: Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative

In a widely reported announcement, President Barack Obama outlined a major research initiative to map the human brain, building on his State of the Union appeal for more federal research.

Media and the Web went wild over the BRAIN initiative (or “Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies”), and it is obviously sexy. Many of us deeply desire these advances. But sometimes government inhibits rather than facilitates, even without realizing it.

Let me just state it flatly: Overabundance of taxpayer funding of scientific and technology research is incompatible with a future of optimally and lightly regulated science and technolgy specifically, and with limited government generally. > View the full commentary

> Interview Wayne Crews

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CEI ANNUAL DINNER & GALA FEATURING THE HONORABLE RAND PAUL JUNE 20, 2013 cei.org/ceidinner

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