How Do We Break the Cycle of Higher Tuition and More Debt?
Posted on Feb. 18, 13 | 04:02 PM by Barney Keller | Topic: General Economics"Infrastructure rhetoric is a bridge to nowhere"
Posted on Feb. 15, 13 | 04:13 PM by Barney Keller | Topic: Government Spending
Over at Reuters, Media Critic Jack Safer takes the media's coverage of the "civil engineering-industrial complex" to task:
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Whenever the phrase “our crumbling infrastructure” passes the lips of a politician or appears in the pages of a newspaper, I change the password on my checking account and move my wallet to the front pocket of my jeans. So when President Barack Obama invoked our “aging infrastructure badly in need of repair” in his State of the Union address on Tuesday and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria used his perch yesterday to complain that Obama wasn’t proposing near enough for infrastructure, I closed my bank accounts, canceled my credit cards, converted my liquid investments into gold bullion, dumped them into 55-gallon drums, rolled the drums into a backyard pit and poured a load of cement over the heap.
It’s not that infrastructure doesn’t crumble — everything turns to dust eventually. Obviously, useful bridges, ports, airports and highways need to be maintained, and as a country grows it needs new ones. It’s just that the press allows members of the civil engineering-industrial complex to bamboozle them into believing that all calls for building infrastructure are equal.
The whole thing is worth a read. Yet another good reason to devolve infrastructure spending to the states. The Cato Institute has an excellent paper on this topic you can read here.
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It’s not that infrastructure doesn’t crumble — everything turns to dust eventually. Obviously, useful bridges, ports, airports and highways need to be maintained, and as a country grows it needs new ones. It’s just that the press allows members of the civil engineering-industrial complex to bamboozle them into believing that all calls for building infrastructure are equal.
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Free trade is an economic issue that is near and dear to us here at the Club, mainly because the benefits from freer trade are so strong, but also because it's an issue that Democrats and Republicans alike either misunderstand or don't care about. Therefore, we have a lot of work to do in order to expand economic liberty around the globe through more trade.
So, it's with that in mind, that I'd like to share with you the new members of the Ways & Means subcommittee that has jurisdiction on trade in the 113th Congress. I've listed them below along with their rating on trade issues from the Cato Institute.
As you can clearly see, with the exception of Rep. Lynn Jenkins of Kansas, its disheartening to see that the supposed leaders of advancing free trade in the House don't have the kind of record that we would hope to expect.
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So, it's with that in mind, that I'd like to share with you the new members of the Ways & Means subcommittee that has jurisdiction on trade in the 113th Congress. I've listed them below along with their rating on trade issues from the Cato Institute.
As you can clearly see, with the exception of Rep. Lynn Jenkins of Kansas, its disheartening to see that the supposed leaders of advancing free trade in the House don't have the kind of record that we would hope to expect.
- Devin Nunes, Chairman (68% on barrier votes, 27% on subsidy votes)
- Kevin Brady (81% and 11%)
- Dave Reichert (67% and 64%)
- Vern Buchanan (71% and 25%)
- Adrian Smith (57% and 13%)
- Aaron Schock (71% and 0%)
- Lynn Jenkins (86% and 100%)
- Charles Boustany (63% and 9%)
- Peter Roskam (57% and 75%)
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Writing for National Review, Neal Freeman explains how the Buckley Rule came into existence and how it was defined by the man himself, not the revisionist definition that Karl Rove is trying to spread.
This is a great article.
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This is a great article.
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What's So Great about Economic Freedom?
Posted on Feb. 11, 13 | 02:06 PM by Barney Keller | Topic: General EconomicsClub for Growth President Discusses GOP Primaries with Crossroads President
Posted on Feb. 05, 13 | 03:24 PM by Barney Keller | Topic: Club in the News
Club for Growth President Chris Chocola discusses GOP Primaries with the President of American Crossroads.
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Watch Out, Speaker Boehner
Posted on Feb. 04, 13 | 08:10 AM by Andrew Roth | Topic: Club in the News
Here's the lede to a new article about the Club at National Review:
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One of the many banes of John Boehner’s speakership is an unassuming former Republican congressman from Indiana named Chris Chocola.
Chocola, the president of the Club for Growth, has become an influential congressional disciplinarian, but his hard-line positions have earned insiders’ scorn.
“He meddles in everything,” complains a Republican aide.
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Thank you everyone for the well wishes while I've been away. After Abbie was born, I wasn't able to distract the bureaucrats - they still issued her a social security number, so my poor girl will forever be in the cross hairs of the government.
I'm back in the saddle here at the Club so it's time to get back to work. We have a country to save!
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I'm back in the saddle here at the Club so it's time to get back to work. We have a country to save!
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Club for Growth President Chocola: GOP lacked plan "before the crisis hits'"
Posted on Jan. 25, 13 | 10:30 AM by Barney Keller | Topic: Club in the NewsClub Vice President Andy Roth is a New Dad!
Posted on Jan. 24, 13 | 08:19 PM by Barney Keller | Topic: Other
Congrautlations to Club for Growth Vice President Andy Roth on the birth of his daughter, Abigail Roth! She's 6lbs, 4oz and both Andy and his wife are doing great.
Abigail's first question was who she could support in a primary against all the R.I.N.O.'s who have helped saddle her with $52,000 in debt the day she was born. (Actually, she just cried a lot. We still think it was about the debt.)
Tweet your congratulations to @AndyRoth.
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Abigail's first question was who she could support in a primary against all the R.I.N.O.'s who have helped saddle her with $52,000 in debt the day she was born. (Actually, she just cried a lot. We still think it was about the debt.)
Tweet your congratulations to @AndyRoth.
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Key Vote Alert - "NO" on Sandy Relief Bill (HR 152)
Posted on Jan. 24, 13 | 03:15 PM by Barney Keller | Topic: Key Vote Alert Senate"NO" on Senate Fiscal Cliff Deal (HR 8)
The Club for Growth urges all members of the U.S. Senate to vote "NO" on the $50 billion Sandy relief bill (HR 152). Consideration on the Senate floor is expected as soon as today. If there is a vote on the package, it will be included in the Club for Growth's 2013 congressional scorecard.
Instead of passing a pork-filled bill packed with non-emergency spending items, Congress should pass a disaster relief-only bill that is fully offset with spending cuts elsewhere and contains measures to ensure accountability over billions in taxpayer dollars.
As we have repeatedly said in previous key vote alerts, there are more responsible ways to pass disaster relief legislation. For starters, funds could be released in installments to make sure the resources are spent more wisely. They should also strip out all immaterial line items, and fully offset all expenditures with spending cuts elsewhere. Serious reform would also include a way for the states to take over the responsibility for future disaster relief funding so that accountability is more localized.
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