Heartland Institute’s Jim Lakely: Urges Tax Cuts so Government Stops Punishing Companies
Heartland Institute’s Jim Lakely Urges Greater Corporate Tax Cuts so Government Stops Punishing Companies for Making Money Joining “Neal Asbury’s Truth for America” for a repeat visit was James G Lakely, Communications Director for The Heartland Institute. Heartland’s mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Lakely weighed in on the Tucson shootings and reminded listeners... Read More
Former Secret Service Agent Jeff Stover: Tucson Shooting Underscores Lax Security
Former Secret Service Agent Jeff Stover Reveals that Tucson Shooting Underscores the Lax Security in Place When Congressional Members Travel Neal Asbury opened the show by reflecting on the shootings in Tucson and wondering whether this will interfere with the open access U.S. citizens have with their Senators and Representatives. He also is apprehensive about a “culture war” that has erupted over the Tucson shootings. “We can’t let sick... Read More
Where There Are Jobs, There Are Votes
While the Republican presidential candidate field has yet to gel, CNN’s Republican debate this week drew 3.162 million total viewers including a wide audience of younger voters, according to Nielsen Fast National data. There is building momentum for the Republican Party, even if some of this interest is coming from voters who subscribe to the “Anybody But Obama” doctrine. So why isn’t the Republican Party seizing this golden opportunity? It... Read More
Neal Asbury: China Is Master of Deceptive Shell Game
China has become a master at slight-of- hand tricks, diverting our attention one way while they do something else to their benefit and our detriment. For example, they recently put teeth behind an internal anti-monopoly policy that seeks to stem price collusion and predatory pricing among Chinese manufacturers. In fact a law recently enacted attempts to stop manufacturers from setting “unfairly low prices” in the Chinese marketplace. While... Read More
Reviving Small Business is Obama’s Biggest Challenge
The two things to understand about our economy are American entrepreneurs and small-business owners create wealth where wealth doesn’t exist. They expand the wealth pool of all Americans, not just themselves. By expanding America’s wealth pool, they increase America’s tax base. By creating policies that get our best-producing businesses feeling confident about the future, we solve all sorts of problems, especially job creation and the containment... Read More
US Chamber’s Bruce Josten: 112th Congress Will be Reacting to Previous Congress
US Chamber’s Bruce Josten Predicts 112th Congress will be Reacting to Legislation Passed by Previous Congress Neal Asbury opened the show by praising the reading of the US Constitution during the swearing-in ceremony of the 112th Congress. “It was a great idea and a breath of fresh air. They should repeat this during every swearing-in ceremony.” This notwithstanding, the new Congress has their work cut out for them. Asbury noted that while... Read More
Former Chicago Politician Jim Laski: Daley Appointment Designed to Fool the Public
Former Chicago Politician and Radio Host Jim Laski Maintains that Daley Appointment as Obama Chief Of Staff is Designed to Fool the Public that Obama is Moving Toward the Center Joining the show as a returning guest was Jim Laski, a former Chicago politician and radio personality. Laski spent a total of 28 years in the political arena, partly in Washington, DC, and 16 years as an elected official serving as an alderman and Chicago City Clerk. Laski... Read More
Hillary Clinton Has Caught Obama Apologitis
Looking at photos of Hillary Clinton laughing it up with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez last week, I think it’s clear she is showing signs of “Obama Apologitis.” This is a disease that first manifested itself in 2009 when President Obama embarked on his world apology tour going out of his way to apologize to our enemies for America’s policies, while largely snubbing our allies. To help jog your memory, the Heritage Foundation listed his top 10... Read More
Will 2011 be the Year of Compromise or the Year of Paralysis?
The year 2010 was like a film that flickered before us with the usual events playing out on the screen – politician’s posturing for ultimate domination. Then in November, someone spliced in a surprise ending. We knew that the GOP would take back the House, but then suddenly President Obama began supporting the Bush tax cuts, the same tax cuts he campaigned so vigorously against. We didn’t see that coming. But here are five predictions... Read More
Truth for America Panel: Tea Party Movement will Expand Influence
Truth for America Panel Predicts that in 2011 Tea Party Movement will Expand Influence on Republican Policy Decisions Neal Asbury opened the show by expressing profound disappointment that during the lame duck session Republicans failed to make the extension of the Bush tax cuts permanent. As this failure sends a message to small business and entrepreneurs that it’s still not time to invest. The upshot will be that unemployment will continue... Read More
