This week, the House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a hearing on legislation aimed at rolling back a host of new, union-backed rules by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). While House Democrats and the NLRB have already vowed to stop the legislation from ever reaching the floor, the hearing itself puts the NLRB in the position of yet again defending its controversial | Read More »
There are a few basics principles that limited government conservatives can agree to; taxes should be low, spending should be restrained, government should not encroach upon personal liberties, the markets should be free and open, and elected officials certainly shouldn’t be pick winners and losers in the marketplace. Yet recently, many conservatives have been forgetting this last principle and advocating for the Federal government to | Read More »
President Obama recently released his latest ploy to save the American economy. The trouble? It is same as the old plan. The so-called “American Jobs Act,” at a cost of $447 billion, is nothing more than the second part of the Obama stimulus which failed to result in anything but higher debt and deficits, crony capitalism and further economic stagnation. Luckily, while the Obama administration | Read More »
Under President Obama, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has become little more than an appendage of big labor. With former AFL-CIO and SEIU lawyer Craig Becker leading the charge the NLRB has passed one anti-worker, anti-growth ruling after another. The worst amongst all NLRB offenses is most likely their lawsuit to stop Boeing from locating a manufacturing plant in the right-to-work state of South | Read More »
Federal and state policy is currently treating two sets of players within the same industry differently. These differences have allowed one set of players to gain a leg up on its competition, in some cases even driving their competition out of business. I’m talking about the disparity between the methods sales taxes are collected when purchases are made online versus at a brick-and-mortar store on | Read More »
Earlier today Americans for Job Security placed a large inflatable rat outside the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) headquarters in Washington, D.C. The effort was planned to coincide with the NLRB’s hearing regarding “quickie” union elections, and shed light on the agency’s recent decision allowing union bosses to employ intimidation tactics in labor disputes. With a crippling unemployment rate of 9.2 percent and millions more | Read More »
We are headed in the wrong direction. With another month of rising unemployment, it is clear President Obama’s economic policies are simply not working. American workers have long known what this month’s job report confirms: we are not on a path to recovery. It is time to put an end to the failed job-killing policies of this administration and enact pro-growth, pro-jobs public policy which | Read More »
Watch the video and sign the petition! The United States government is set to run out of money by August 2. For decades politicians have overspent and increased our debt limit with hardly a second thought, but now our country is at the brink. Overspending and an unsustainable debt load have shaken the foundations of our economy and created uncertainty in the markets. It is | Read More »
Floridians currently face an array of serious matters that require urgent attention. The state is carrying a $3.6 billion deficit. It has an 11.1 percent unemployment rate. So why do some people think that state legislators should be spending time on the locality-specific matter of red light cameras instead of measures aimed at closing the budget gap and getting the jobless back to work– especially | Read More »
Many have seen the signs in local restaurants: “A minimum of $10 to use credit card.” For consumers, it is an inconvenience. For small businesses owners, it is the only way to protect their bottom line from large credit card companies and Wall Street banks that impose onerous fees on every swipe. Today, each time you slide your card, credit card companies receive 2 to | Read More »
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