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On April 8, 1952, President Harry Truman ordered Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer to seize and take over operation of most of the country's steel mills. Truman cited no legislative authority for his actions. Instead, he cited the Korean War. Truman claimed there was a national emergency and his presidential war powers were all the authority he needed to nationalize the steel industry. The steel companies fought back, and in the landmark case Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer the Supreme Court found Truman's actions to be unconstitutional.
Justifying President Barack Obama's unprecedented control over the U.S auto industry, an administration official told Politico: "We're in an economic crisis, which takes shared responsibility and shared sacrifice. The only way that we will recover is if everybody puts a little skin in the game." Unlike Truman, Obama actually has some legislative authority to hang his nationalization hat on: the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds that Obama is using to control General Motors and Chrysler. But, as we argued at the time, the broad delegation of powers in the bill makes it constitutionally suspect. Did any member of Congress voting for EESA really even contemplate that the bill would lead to a President of the United States saying this:
"In this context, my administration will offer General Motors adequate working capital over the next 60 days. During this time, my team will be working closely with GM to produce a better business plan. %u2026 I am confident that if we are each willing to do our part, then this restructuring, as painful as it will be in the short-term, will mark not an end, but a new beginning for a great American industry; an auto industry that is once more out-competing the world; a 21st century auto industry that is creating new jobs, unleashing new prosperity, and manufacturing the fuel-efficient cars and trucks that will carry us toward an energy independent future."
As great of a lawyer, community activist, and law professor as President Obama may have been, when has he ever run any company or come up with a single business plan. Now he's running General Motors? But Obama didn't stop at auto company CEO:
"No one can deny that our auto industry has made meaningful progress in recent years. Some of the cars made by American workers are now outperforming the best cars made abroad. In 2008, the North American Car of the Year was a GM. %u2026 just in case there are still nagging doubts, let me say it as plainly as I can -- if you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always. Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been. Because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warranty."
Did we elect a president or a car salesman? Problem is, when we let the government become a market participant, there is no difference. Hence the slew of other incentives Obama threw at the auto industry.
Back in November we argued that bankruptcy was the best option for General Motors. But others argued that General Motors needed more time to prepare for a filing. Its now four months later and the Obama Administration is now claiming GM should have another 60 days. This political charade must end. No President of the United States should be selling cars out of the Grand Foyer of the White House. It's embarrassing. Bankruptcy is still the best policy for General Motors and Chrysler.
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Justifying President Barack Obama's unprecedented control over the U.S auto industry, an administration official told Politico: "We're in an economic crisis, which takes shared responsibility and shared sacrifice. The only way that we will recover is if everybody puts a little skin in the game." Unlike Truman, Obama actually has some legislative authority to hang his nationalization hat on: the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds that Obama is using to control General Motors and Chrysler. But, as we argued at the time, the broad delegation of powers in the bill makes it constitutionally suspect. Did any member of Congress voting for EESA really even contemplate that the bill would lead to a President of the United States saying this:
"In this context, my administration will offer General Motors adequate working capital over the next 60 days. During this time, my team will be working closely with GM to produce a better business plan. %u2026 I am confident that if we are each willing to do our part, then this restructuring, as painful as it will be in the short-term, will mark not an end, but a new beginning for a great American industry; an auto industry that is once more out-competing the world; a 21st century auto industry that is creating new jobs, unleashing new prosperity, and manufacturing the fuel-efficient cars and trucks that will carry us toward an energy independent future."
As great of a lawyer, community activist, and law professor as President Obama may have been, when has he ever run any company or come up with a single business plan. Now he's running General Motors? But Obama didn't stop at auto company CEO:
"No one can deny that our auto industry has made meaningful progress in recent years. Some of the cars made by American workers are now outperforming the best cars made abroad. In 2008, the North American Car of the Year was a GM. %u2026 just in case there are still nagging doubts, let me say it as plainly as I can -- if you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always. Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been. Because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warranty."
Did we elect a president or a car salesman? Problem is, when we let the government become a market participant, there is no difference. Hence the slew of other incentives Obama threw at the auto industry.
Back in November we argued that bankruptcy was the best option for General Motors. But others argued that General Motors needed more time to prepare for a filing. Its now four months later and the Obama Administration is now claiming GM should have another 60 days. This political charade must end. No President of the United States should be selling cars out of the Grand Foyer of the White House. It's embarrassing. Bankruptcy is still the best policy for General Motors and Chrysler.
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- The brazen occupation of a Pakistani police academy Monday is the latest indication that Islamist terrorism now threatens Pakistan's political stability nationwide.
- According to a report from the Congressional Budget Office the Social Security trust fund surplus is forecast to all but vanish next year.
- Under assault everywhere, contracts are now seen as being rewritable.
- Of the 64 colleges and universities that made it into the NCAA tournament, only nine reported spending no money on lobbying last year.
- As G-20 leaders meet this week, analysts worry over big slides in global trade
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Ask Heritage: The Liberal Welfare State
The 1996 welfare reform bill changed the way government treated welfare. But last week the Left reverted back to the liberal welfare state in the "stimulus" bill. Hidden in the bill was a massive increase in welfare spending. While the 1996 reforms gave states more money if they moved people OFF welfare, the new policy gives states more money if more people stay ON welfare.
Here are the facts on the new welfare policies in this bill:
%u2022 Total welfare spending in the bill for programs providing cash, food, housing, and medical care to the poor is over $260 billion or roughly one third the cost of the bill. This represents about $6,700 in new welfare spending for every poor person in the United States.
%u2022 But that is just the cost for the first two years. The "stimulus" bill hides the real cost behind a budgetary gimmick that pretends all the new welfare spending will end in two years, even though clearly much of the new welfare spending is intended and designed to be permanent.
%u2022 The added cost is another half trillion dollars. The overall 10 year cost of the "stimulus" bill in welfare spending alone will be nearly $800 billion. This new spending amounts to around $22,000 for every poor person in the U.S
This bill has so much welfare money in it, it's no wonder they had to give an incentive to states to keep people on welfare-that's the only way they could spend all the money!
The bill contains expansions to food stamps, the earned income tax credit, the refundable child credit, Medicaid eligibility standards, Pell grants, and Title I education grants. But probably most disconcerting is President Obama's "Make Work Pay" refundable tax credit, which will provide up to $500 in cash to low income adults who pay no income taxes, including able-bodied adults without dependent children. This policy is designed solely to redistribute wealth from taxpayers (middle and upper class individuals) to low-income individuals.
It seems some bad ideas never die, and the welfare state is certainly one of them. Before 1996 the government heaped benefits on low-income individuals, crippling them in a cycle of dependency, and providing no incentives for state and local governments to help their citizens get jobs. And with last week's bill, it seems we are turning back the clock and reinstating these failed policies again.
For more information about how the "stimulus" bill abolished welfare reform and adds new welfare spending, click here.
IN OTHER NEWS:- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is travelling to Asia this week to reaffirm Washington's commitment to a redominant role in the region. More info on her trip is found here and here.
- Edwin J. Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation, calls on Congress and the Administration to live up to their promises and stated ideals.
Change we Believe In
Seeking common ground, The Heritage Foundation is reaching out to President-elect Barack Obama with specially designed policy memos on subjects where his words line up with our vision of how to solve the most critical issues facing America. Each entry in the series, titled "Change We Believe In: Memos to President-elect Obama," will cite the incoming president's own words as a starting point for potential agreement and necessary follow-through.- Morning Bell: Car Salesman in Chief
- Volume 1 Missile Defense, Health Insurance, Cutting Taxes, Nuclear Iran
- Volume 2 Visa-Waiver, Domestic Energy, Improving Education
- Volume 3 Budget Reform, Border Security, Pakistan, Terrorism, Religious Freedom
- Volume 4 Legal Reform, Stregthening NATO, Protecting Property Rights, North Korea
- Volume 5 Defending Marriage, Reducing Poverty, Financial Regulation, Entitlement Spending, United Nations
- Change The Heritage Foundation Believes In
- Change We Believe In Vidoes
- General Topics of Memos
- Recent Reserch on General Memo Topics
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- Memotary: Discussing the Issues
- Insider Online: More on General Memo Topics
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Volume 1 Missile Defense, Health Insurance, Cutting Taxes, Nuclear Iran
curated content from YouTubeVolume 3 Budget Reform, Border Security, Pakistan, Terrorism, Religious Freedom
curated content from YouTubeVolume 4 Legal Reform, Stregthening NATO, Protecting Property Rights, North Korea
Volume 4: Legal Reform, Stregthening NATO, Protecting Property Rights, North Koreacurated content from YouTubeVolume 5 Defending Marriage, Reducing Poverty, Financial Regulation, Entitlement Spending, United Nations
Volume 5: Defending Marriage, Reducing Poverty, Financial Regulation, Entitlement Spending, United Nations
Special Report #46, Special Report #45, Special Report #44, Special Report #43, Special Report #41curated content from YouTubeChange The Heritage Foundation Believes In
During this week of inaugural celebrations, The Heritage Foundation has put together a series of memos to President Barack Obama identifying policy areas where his words line up with our vision. Heritage issued a similar series of policy memos for Bill Clinton shortly after he won the 1992 election. One outlined the architecture of what became the bipartisan welfare reform of 1996.
For the Obama Administration, Heritage experts have examined over 20 policy areas including taxes, health care, entitlements, education, missile defense, energy independence, criminal and civil justice reform, border security, strengthening NATO, and our relations with such nations as Iran, China, Russia and Pakistan.- Spending: President Obama campaigned on a platform of fiscal discipline, promising to go through the federal budget, line by line to eliminate waste. The Heritage Foundation is excited about this promise, and with the United States dropping in her economic freedom ranking this year, now more than ever is the time to make this commitment. Heritage suggests lowering spending by eliminating waste, pork, corporate welfare, and farm subsidies, and reforming entitlements.
- Energy: The Heritage Foundation was encouraged by President Obama's defense of increased oil production and nuclear power during his campaign. We hope that the Obama Administration will permit offshore drilling for domestic oil and natural gas. We also encourage the Administration to reform the arduous permitting process for new nuclear power plants, to modernize nuclear waste management, and to open foreign markets to U.S. commercial nuclear suppliers. Lastly, we recommend the Obama Administration not enact global warming policies or energy taxes that will harm the economy and have no evidence of benefiting the environment.
- Religious Freedom: President Obama spoke of the inability to disconnect one's religion with one's politics in a speech in 2006. We could not agree more. Our constitution forbids establishing an official national religion, but it does not call for the separation of religion and politics. The Heritage Foundation encourages the Obama Administration to protect the ability of faith-based organizations to make employment decisions based on religious ideals, and to uphold the right of medical professionals to care for patients without being forced to violate their religious beliefs.
In difficult times, we must resist the temptation to blindly turn to government as the answer. All too often the problem is government, and the solution is to provide more freedom from government. Less government spending, less government intrusion on the energy market, and less laws inhibiting religious freedom would solve the three issues above.
To view all of Heritage's memos to President Obama and his new administration, click here.General Topics of Memos
Recent Reserch on General Memo Topics
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Immigration, Citizenship & Border Security: Tackling Fraud in H–1B: Work Visas Need Sensible Oversight
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Asia and the Pacific: The Coming U.S.& China Trade Conflict
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Federal Budget and Spending: Defense Spending Fraud, Waste, and Abuse: Hype, Reality, and Real Solutions
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DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society: Exploring Concepts of Liberty in Islam
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Immigration, Citizenship & Border Security: Don't Let E-Verify Perish in the Next Congress
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Energy and Environment: Protectionism Won't Fuel a Nuclear Renaissance
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Education: Federal Education Bailout Is Not the Answer
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Ballistic Missile Defense: Principles and Proposals for NATO Reform
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Health Care: How a Public Health Plan Will Erode Private Care
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Iran: Low Expectations for Secretary of State Rice's Middle East Trip
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Taxes: Permanent Tax Relief - Not Tax "Holidays" - Stimulates Economic Growth
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Recent Events
- Protect America: Immigration and Border Security: Immigration Services for the 21st Century: Next Steps
- 7/22/08
- Entitlements: Federal Budget and Spending: Biennial Budgeting: An Important Step Toward Fixing a Broken System
- 2/14/08
- Family and Religion: DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society
- 10/21/08
- Protect America: Immigration and Border Security: Moving Forward on Visa Waiver Reform
- 2/14/08
- Energy and Environment: Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
- 12/04/08
- Education: Flunked FIlm Screening
- 9/23/08
- Health Care: Workable Solutions for Long-Term Care
- 9/24/08
- Protect America: Middle East: Iran and the Next Administration: Policy Options
- 10/22/08
- Entitlements: Taxes: The Flat Tax in Bulgaria: How We Did It, What Are the Results, and What's Next?
- 7/17/08
Memotary: Discussing the Issues
- Protect America: Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security: Commentary: Don't Count On Economy To Stop Illegal Immigration
- 15 December 2008
by James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
They are leaving. Illegal immigrants, that is.
Analysts from both ends of the immigration debate, from the Center for Immigration Studies to the Pew Hispanic Center, agree. The "unlawfully present" population in the United States has shrunk - and it's getting smaller. - American Leadership: Asia and the Pacific: Commnetary: Korean Conundrum: What if Kim's Kaput?
- 10 September 2008
by Peter Brookes
News reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has had a stroke could certainly be true. At 66, he's no spring chicken, especially considering his reportedly colorful lifestyle. - Entitlements: Federal Budget and Spending: Commentary: Government is Costing You a Bundle
- 17 July 2008
by Rebecca Hagelin
Congratulations: The rest of your 2008 paychecks belong to you and your family. Enjoy!
Oh, you didn't hear?
The "mainstream" media probably didn't tell you, but July 16 was this year's "Cost of Government Day." As Americans for Tax Reform notes, that's the date on which the average American has paid his share of the financial burden imposed by the spending and regulation that occurs on the federal, state and local levels. - Family and Religion: DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society: Commentary: Preparing the Way: Evangelicals and the election
- 15 August 2008
Preparing the Way: Evangelicals and the election
by Ryan Messmore
Are evangelicals swerving to the left in American politics?
Throughout the primary season, the mainstream media loudly trumpeted the idea that younger evangelicals' attention to the environment and "social justice" issues signals a departure from traditional concerns such as abortion and marriage. - Protect America: Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security: Commentary: Immigration question
- 7 August 2008
by Helle C. Dale
It never occurred to us that moving to Fairfax County from the District would be a bit like moving to a foreign country. During the week we have been in our new home, we have had maintenance crews from Mexico, and our garden has been done by an elegant Chilean garden service owner. The cable installation was done by a Venezuelan; our cleaning lady is from Bolivia; and the baby-sitter from Peru. To many Americans, this would not seem a surprising state of affairs as the country has gotten used to the luxury of plentiful manual labor from south of the border. - Energy and Environment: Energy and Environment: Commentary: Arctic security heats up
- 6 November 2008
by Peter Brookes
By many accounts, the sea ice that covers much of the earth's Arctic region is melting. The size -- that is, the extent -- and thickness of the Arctic ice floes are diminishing, following a three-decade trend and brushing up against last year's historic lows. - Health Care: Commentary: Conservative Nation: All is not Left.
- November 25, 2008
By Michael Franc
One question surfaces repeatedly as the pundits obsess over the exit polls. Have Americans lurched to the Left in any meaningful way? If so, are they likely to sign long-term leases in Hotel Obama, or are they simply on loan until they experience the consequences of modern-day liberalism? - Protect America: Middle East: Commentary
- 10 July 2008
by Peter Brookes
It's not unusual for a state to conduct military exercises, but Iran had a lot more in mind when it literally went ballistic yesterday - launching nine medium- and long-range missiles during its "Great Prophet" war games. - Entitlements: Taxes: Commentary: Congress Declares War on Taxpayers
- 18 December 2008
by Brian Darling
This week on Capitol Hill, we expect to see at least two specious ideas up for consideration -- a bad stimulus package and an ill-advised automaker bailout.
Insider Online: More on General Memo Topics
- Immigration: Entitlements: Not Just a Health Care Problem
- By Arin Greenwood, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Issue Analysis, 12/04/2008
Guest worker programs' restrictive elements render them unworkable. Attempts to stem the flow of laborers merely deprive employers of legal workers and drive labor underground, which causes not only a flood of undocumented workers, but also leaves some workers exposed to abuse by unscrupulous employers. More open borders would best suit workers' and employers' needs-and would also improve border security by reducing the incentives for people to sneak into the country illegally. However, the idea of more open borders is politically unpopular. Guest worker programs are more likely to be accepted by wide segments of the public, and improved guest worker programs would be better than the programs now in existence. - International Trade/Finance: Free Trade: The Fairest Trade Policy for America
- By Daniella Markheim, The Heritage Foundation
WebMemo, 12/15/2008
A central theme in Barack Obama's campaign platform-and potentially in the President-elect's trade agenda-is the belief that free trade policies have been unfair to U.S. workers and businesses. It is true that U.S. trade commitments to lower tariffs and other trade barriers have exposed some of America's producers to foreign competition, and in some cases even driving them out of the marketplace. In many more cases, however, U.S. firms have responded by improving their products and their production processes. High U.S. corporate tax rates, complex and inefficient jobs and retraining programs, costly regulations, weak protection of property rights around the world, and other policy failures are the real threats to American competitiveness-issues that erecting trade barriers though "fair" trade policies will not resolve. - Budget & Taxation: What Automakers Could Learn from Public Schools
- By Andrew J. Coulson, Cato Institute
Report, 12/17/2008
Where the Big Three really went wrong was in asking for a "one-time" bailout. That's like a Band-Aid for an axe wound. Detroit will still have to face fickle consumers and competitors with lower labor costs. If the Big Three fail to cut costs and improve their offerings, they'll be right back on Capitol Hill in a year or two, hat in hand. What the automakers should have asked for was permanent government ownership and control. Consider how well this has worked for public schools. Between 1970 and 2005, real, inflation-adjusted public school revenues more than doubled, to nearly $12,000 per pupil. And the schools didn't have to compete with anyone or show any improvement to get it! - Family, Culture, and Community: The Church and the Terror State
- By John Couretas, Acton Institute
Report, 12/12/2008
With the death last week of Patriarch Alexy II, Russian Orthodox Christians lost their first "post-Soviet" leader. The patriarch presided over the resurrection of the world's largest Orthodox Church. While led by Alexy, the church was openly criticized by many Russians for being too pliable, too accommodationist with its old adversaries in the Kremlin. In choosing a new patriarch, the Russian Church now has an opportunity to come to grips with this past, and with other questions: nationalism, the status of minority ethnic and religious groups, secularization and consumerist materialism. Will the new patriarch lead the Church into a future of growth and spiritual renewal, or will he strike another "Faustian bargain" with autocratic leaders? - Immigration: "Surge Two": Northward Flood of Mexicans Likely to Increase after U.S. Election
- By George W. Grayson, Center for Immigration Studies
Backgrounder, 11/07/2008
Escalating violence highlighted by decapitations, torture, and kidnappings plagues Mexicans, with drug cartel hit men and run-of-the-mill thugs generally targeting their victims. Money, revenge, ransom, extortion, access to drugs, and turf battles often explain these heinous activities. On September 15, 2008, a major act of terrorism took place for the first time. These and other atrocities will profoundly change the dynamics of migration flows to the United States, which - contrary to conventional wisdom - have skyrocketed under President Felipe Calderón, who took office on December 1, 2006. How will the next putative leader of the free world react to a possible Second Surge? Will he turn a blind and patronizing eye to the callous behavior of Mexico's pampered grandees or will he insist that they marshal their cornucopia-shaped nation's boundless resources to inspire hope in and uplift the long-neglected downtrodden, who - absent inspired leadership - could flock to an irresponsible redeemer like López Obrador in the next presidential showdown? - Natural Resources, Environment, Science: Lights Out for Thomas Edison
- By H. Sterling Burnett, Amanda Berg, National Center for Policy Analysis
Brief Analysis, 12/18/2008
Consumers consider many factors in addition to energy efficiency when they purchase light bulbs. The ban on incandescent bulbs will be costly and potentially dangerous. The public has not yet embraced compact fluorescent bulbs, and the government should not impose on consumers its preferences regarding the types of lights used in the home. As the deficiencies of compact fluorescent bulbs become more apparent with widespread use, perhaps Congress will let consumers decide. - Education: Unbearable Burden? Living and Paying Student Loans as a First-Year Teacher
- By Neal McCluskey, Cato Institute
Policy Analysis, 12/17/2008
It is widely believed that starting public school teacher salaries are too low, and student loan burdens are too high. But according to this study, first year teachers in even the least affordable of the 16 districts examined can easily afford to pay back their debts. Indeed, with just some basic economizing, a first-year teacher could not only pay back average debt, but could handle debt levels nearly three times the national average. This does not mean that current teacher salaries or student debt burdens are "right"-only markets can determine that-but it does mean that there is no need for policymakers to intervene in either teacher pay or student aid to assure that college graduates can afford to become public school teachers. - National Security: Building Cyber Security Leadership for the 21st Century
- By James Jay Carafano, Eric Sayers, The Heritage Foundation
Backgrounder, 12/17/2008
Efforts to use the cyber domain for malicious purposes have matured in scope and sophistication over the past two decades. This threat will only intensify as terrorists continue to embrace its low costs to entry and states operationalize its power as a new domain of 21st-century warfare. Meeting this challenge in both the public and private sectors will require careful planning and consideration in the coming years. Initiating a professional-development, cyber-strategic leadership program to begin training future leaders in the complexities of the cyberspace arena is imperative to the future security of America's cyber infrastructure. - Education: Mandating College Student Health Insurance: A Costly Idea for Texas
- By Arlene Wohlgemuth, Tiffiny Britton, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Policy Perspective, 12/12/2008
Mandating college student health insurance would do little to actually reduce the rate of uninsured young adults. Requiring all students to have health insurance would disproportionately affect minorities and lower income students, the largest groups of uninsured which are also the groups the state hopes to enroll in higher education in greater numbers. It would add extra cost to the already high and rising cost of higher education, making higher education unaffordable to more Texans. - Foreign Policy/International Affairs: If Islamabad's Accountable, Is Inter-Services Intelligence to Blame?
- By Jagadeesh Gokhale, Malou Innocent , Cato Institute
Report, 12/17/2008
We may never know who gave the final order for the assault on Mumbai. Given recent calls by Pakistan's new president for rapprochement with India, the attack may not have been desired by Pakistan's new leaders. If the Mumbai attack was indeed supported by Islamabad, then the operation was almost surely a deliberate attempt by elements of Pakistan's intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), to revive tensions with India. If the Mumbai assault was indeed a deliberate policy move supported by hawkish elements within Pakistan, U.S. and Indian policymakers must emphasize to Pakistan's leaders that periodically stoking a rivalry with India is futile. - Budget and Taxation: Structural Solutions for Maryland's Structural Deficit
- By Cecilia Januszkiewicz, Free State Foundation
Perspectives from FSF Scholars, 12/15/2008
Maryland has serious ongoing fiscal problems that can only be remedied with significant reforms to the legislative and budgetary processes. In the face of projected budget deficits far into the future, meaningful reforms are necessary in order to instill a greater sense of fiscal discipline in the state's elected officials. The reforms recommended in this paper are principally directed to requiring legislators to identify a specific revenue source for each new or expanded program, to improving the spending affordability process and to providing Maryland's elected officials and its citizens, with greater access, in a timely fashion, to fiscal information.
MyHeritage.org: Memo Matter
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Federal Budget and Spending: Morning Bell: Obama's Net Spending Cut Promise
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Family and Religion: Morning Bell: Protecting Religious Liberty
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Health Care: Obama's Phony Health Care Facts
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Protect America: A Setback in the Fight Against Terror
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America is Still Liberty's Best Hope
Since its Founding, America has been committed to the ideals of freedom and liberty.
In his new book, Liberty's Best Hope: American Leadership for the 21st Century, Heritage expert Kim Holmes outlines how America has drifted from these ideals and how the nation can once again lead the world with purpose and principle.
Event: Liberty's Best Hope: American Leadership in the 21st Century
American Leadership for the 21st Century | 3/4/2008
In his new book, "Liberty's Best Hope," Heritage's Kim Holmes challenges those who say that America's leadership star has crested.
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Video: Kim Holmescurated content from YouTube"Safeguarding liberty," he writes in the book's introduction, is "our moral claim to global leadership. Freedom-loving nations the world over have followed our leadership because they trusted us. And we in turn were happy to lead because we knew that we could best defend our freedom if we had the help of other nations."
"Unfortunately," he continues, "both this claim to leadership and the idea of safeguarding liberty as America's central purpose have fallen on hard times."
Holmes, Heritage's vice president for foreign and defense policy studies and director of our Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, explains that we must return to the principles of Founding Fathers if we are to get back on track.
When Thomas Jefferson called America "the world's best hope" Holmes argues, "he meant that out government , by its example and by its actions, represents the best hope for liberty flourishing for all mankind."
Liberty's Best Hope: American Leadership for the 21st Century
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Liberty's Best Hope challenges America to reclaim its role as a global leader and purveyor of freedom. Dr. Holmes examines not only threats we face throughout the world, but the ideological battles being waged on the home front - and he offers practical solutions for policymakers. He surveys the perspectives, ambitions and behavior of our allies and our enemies - and who truly belongs in each camp - and outlines a concrete plan for America's next president to strengthen and reshape our role abroad. President Reagan, he notes, understood that America's emergence as a world leader for freedom, peace and democracy presents us with a moral imperative to act - not react. Only by asserting America's leadership on the global stage, Dr. Holmes argues in Liberty's Best Hope, can freedom hope to live on.
Why infrastructure is a bad stimulus
Aiming to create jobs, raise incomes and set the economy on a steady recovery path, President-elect Obama is proposing a massive infrastructure spending programs. His program is backed by left-wing pundits and special interests.
The rub, Heritage Foundation expert Utt explains, is that "past infrastructure spending - especially related to transportation - has little to show in terms of countercyclical stimulus or job creation." In short, massive spending on roads and the like doesn't work as advertised.
From studying other large stimulus programs, we can learn that "much of this lackluster impact stems from the long lag time involved in getting such spending programs up and running, as well as the propensity of the state and local governments to substitute federal money for already-committed state and local money."
In the 1990s, for example, Japan "squandered vast sums of national wealth in a vain attempt at stimulus."
So why do so many in Congress, the media and the business community persist in these arguments? It is a "nostalgic embrace of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal," Utt argues.
There's nothing wrong with infrastructure investment as such. "It is important to recognize that our infrastructure and the continued investment in it are important underpinnings of future economic growth," explains Utt. But since such investment takes so long to bear fruit, "a stimulus scheme based on spending is ill-suited to the short-term stimulus needs that are the concern of policy-makers."1
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Our members' Web site, MyHeritage.org, is a tremendous for Heritage Foundation members-a mighty weapon in the war of ideas. It gives our members access to the same facts and figures Heritage experts compiled for members of Congress, the White House, and the media, plus exclusive updates on events our headquarters and around the nation.
To learn how Heritage is using your gifts to lead the fight for conservative ideals, visit MyHeritage.org for the latest ideas and information fueling today's most important policy debates.Featured Video: Economic Recovery: Free markets vs. big government
Economist Donald Bourdreaux discusses how 'stimulus' spending has failed in the past at a conference co-hosted by The Heritage Foundation and Club for Growth titled "Economic Recovery: Free Markets vs. Big Government." View the video Bailout 2.0
Last week, the Obama administration announced new plans to "rescue" the economy with another round of bailouts.
Heritage economists David John and James Gattuso explain the plan's flaws:- As announced [last] Tuesday by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the plan is a grab bag of policies of doubtful effectiveness and uncertain consequences financed with $2 trillion or more in taxpayer dollars. To make matters worse, key elements of the plan were merely placeholders lacking concrete details about how they would be actually work.
One thing seems certain. These massive new programs will increase Washington's control over the financial system, placing politicians in the role of bank managers and hedge fund investors, to the long-term detriment of consumers and workers.
Open letter: The 'stimulus' is horrible for America
In an open letter to the Congress and the President of the United States, sent before the final vote, Heritage President Ed Feulner called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the so-called 'stimulus' bill the most "far-reaching and revolutionary" Heritage has ever seen. "And never have we seen," Feulner says, "a bill more cloaked in secrecy or more withdrawn from open public exposure and honest debate."
The process by which this law came about marks a serious blow to open, republican government.
Feulner writes:- Both chambers of Congress suspended their budget rules to push it along. And both the President and the leaders of the House and Senate have violated their solemn promises that the bill would be available for several days of public review prior to voting, so that the American people might have a chance to learn what is in the bill and to make their views known to their elected officials.
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- President Obama recently removed a bust of Winston Churchill from the White House. Heritage expert Nile Gardiner from our Thatcher Center for Freedom weighs in on National Review Online's The Corner:
"Obama's surprise decision to send Churchill home is both wrong-headed and crassly insensitive towards America's closest ally, coming at a time when nearly 9,000 British troops are fighting alongside their American counterparts in Afghanistan. " - Heritage expert Andrew Grossman
- The right strategy for the next phase of immigration reform includes safeguarding our southern border, promoting economic development and good governance in Latin America, enhancing the legal workers program, reforming U.S. citizenship and immigration services, and enforcing immigration and workplace laws, say Heritage experts. The current situation in Mexico also poses a major problem in which American involvement can help if it is calculated and modest.
- Heritage experts Ray Walser and James Roberts advise the Obama Administration to take seven steps that are critical to Mexico's political stability and economic health including diminishing incentives for illegal workers, reaffirming a commitment to free enterprise, a stated willingness to fight drug cartels, and to encourage Mexico to open its energy sector to foreign investment.
- Writing in today's Wall Street Journal, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh asks President Obama whether the government will re-impose the so-called Fairness Doctrine on talk radio. "What will it be? Government-imposed censorship disguised as 'fairness' and 'balance'? Or will the arena of ideas remain a free market?" As part of our ten-year Leadership for America campaign to get America back on track, Heritage is collaborating with Limbaugh to help advance conservative ideas to broad audiences.
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"According to both Robert Rector at The Heritage Foundation and Steven Camarota from the Center for Immigration Studies-Mr. Rector was the architect of welfare reform and one of the best minds in the country on these issues-this legislation we are talking about passing today or tomorrow could result in several hundred thousand jobs being given to illegal immigrants-several hundred thousand."
Hillary Clinton goes to Asia
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made her first trip to Asia this week. The trip was "long on signals and short on substance," says Heritage expert Bruce Klinger.
But this "is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when it sends several critically important messages to allies Japan and South Korea," explains Klinger, because "her trip communicates that Asia matters to the United States and that Washington is committed to a predominant role in the region over the long-term."
Klinger says that a major priority for Secretary Clinton should be to "reassure our allies that the U.S. remains committed to the complete and verifiable denuclearization of North Korea and unequivocally state that Washington will not accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state."
Heritage expert Walter Lohman points out that "from a strategic perspective, the trip is an excellent opportunity to tend to America's two most important allies in Asia (Japan and South Korea) and consult with its chief competitor for regional influence (China)."
But Indonesia should not be overlooked.
Lohman writes:- But this "is not necessarily a bad thing, especially when it sends several critically important messages to allies Japan and South Korea," explains Klinger, because "her trip communicates that Asia matters to the United States and that Washington is committed to a predominant role in the region over the long-term."
Klinger says that a major priority for Secretary Clinton should be to "reassure our allies that the U.S. remains committed to the complete and verifiable denuclearization of North Korea and unequivocally state that Washington will not accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state."
Heritage expert Walter Lohman points out that "from a strategic perspective, the trip is an excellent opportunity to tend to America's two most important allies in Asia (Japan and South Korea) and consult with its chief competitor for regional influence (China)."
But Indonesia should not be overlooked. - Lohman writes:
Indonesia is the world's most populous predominantly Muslim country. Its gentle faith, deep spirituality, and respect for pluralism are an inspiration and example to the world. An Indonesian face on Islam has the potential to completely change the way many in the West view Muslims.
Due to both President Obama's connections to Indonesia and the strong diplomatic foundation created by President Bush, U.S.-Indonesia relations are poised for a constructive new era. There are two things, however, that Clinton should keep in mind as she prepares to usher it in: First, Indonesia is much more than a "Muslim country," and second, it is a developing democracy under assault from a determined Islamist minority. - Specifically on the Chinese front, Heritage expert Derek Scissors says that hope is slim for bilateral economic relations between the U.S. and China. The burden is on Washington, he says, "to make better choices than Beijing has. The U.S. cannot simply block Chinese goods, as the mammoth quantity of diverted products would cause the E.U. and the rest of the world to raise trade barriers in response.
> In other news
- Support for reimposition of the Fairness Doctrine is plummeting, according to a new poll.
- President Obama's Transportation Secretary is considering replacing the gasoline tax with a new tax on how many miles motorists drive.
- Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), wants Senate Democrats to go on record with a vote that would ban the Fairness Doctrine. A White House spokesman said the administration won't pursue a revival of the controversial censorship doctrine, though liberals in Congress have suggested their support for such a plan.
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Nathaniel Ward is the Editor of MyHeritage.org-a website for members and supporters of The Heritage Foundation. David Talbot contributed to this report.MyHeritage.org Mythbusters
Myth: Highway spending creates jobs
Liberal Myth
Federal highway spending creates jobs.The Facts
While some jobs are created to build highways, far fewer are created than the millions promised by big-spending liberals.- The debate should be on whether a highway is necessary, not whether its construction will create jobs
- A series of studies by the Congressional Budget Office and others were at best inconclusive about whether highway spending created jobs
- The federal highways are for transportation and mobility, not jobs, and any focus on jobs distorts the purpose of the spending
Possible negative effects
- A recent study suggested that increased highway spending could actually cause unemployment by diverting money from more productive uses
- Any new taxes used to pay for highway spending would undo any positive effects from highway spending
- A proposed five-cent gasoline tax would cost Americans $125 billion over the next six years
A necessary federal program?
- The federal government built the interstate highway system starting in 1956 for transportation and national defense purposes
- The system was completed in the early 1980s, and much of the spending since then has been politicians funding local projects of little or no national importance
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