Great news, even with the sequester, the federal government will spend more money next year than they did this year. So there is no reason to panic that the government is going to fall into the abyss.

By Adam Bitely — The transportation plan that passed through Virginia’s General Assembly this past weekend has a major constitutional problem. The plan, heavily supported by Republican Governor Bob McDonnell, was the largest tax increase in Virginia history . The constitutional problem with the bill results from the way that the […]

By Bill Wilson — Time for a little history lesson. Sequestration may in fact have been Obama’s idea, but it was brought to the floor in the House of Representatives not once , but twice by Republican leaders. There, it was approved not once , but twice . In the Senate it passed easily with bipartisan […]

By Rick Manning — What would you say if a group of employees working the Alzheimer’s ward in a health care facility deliberately switched the name tags on patient’s doors making patient identification difficult and removed dietary instructions from the patient’s room, putting patients at risk? Would […]

By Brad Tidwell- ALG’s FOIA request found two NLRB employees making over $100K for working on nothing but internal union issues. Americans for Limited Government (ALG) has discovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that there are two official time full-time employees of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who make over $100,000 each . These are employees whose […]

Check out this great infographic from Cato that tells the truth about the sequester. For more on the sequester, be sure to check out ALG President Bill Wilson’s column “The non-existent spending cuts wrought by the ‘devastating’ sequester” .

By Bill Wilson — $54.9 billion. That is how much the Federal Reserve holds in capital to back up its $3.1 trillion balance sheet — a ratio of just 1.8 percent. That’s a pretty small margin for error, especially if the central bank were to ever take any losses on its […]

By Adam Bitely — When voters went to the polls in November of 2009 in Virginia to choose the next Governor, they decided by a wide margin that Bob McDonnell (R) was the better candidate over Creigh Deeds (D). McDonnell had successfully painted Deeds as […]

By Rick Manning — Five and a half days worth of government spending is all that would be cut if the sequester goes into effect on March 1. Having to eliminate five and a half days of spending is hardly the calamity that is coming out of […]

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