Save The Nation - Feb 2021

"The elimination of China's normal trade status, rather than advancing human rights and the rule of law, would actually harm those in society most dedicated to their promotion." -- Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright The Washington Post June 10, 1997 The U.S.-China Relationship

In May 1996, Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation released a study entitled, Customer Choice, Consumer Value: An Analysis of Retail Competition in America's Electric Industry. The study was conducted by Professors Michael Maloney and Robert McCormick with Raymond Sauer, all of whom are from Clemson University. Their findings suggest that opening the market for electricity will save consumers billions of dollars while providing a substantial stimulus for the economy as a whole.

Citizens for a Sound Economy, a consumer watchdog organization, was "saddened" to be singled out for attack Thursday by the Environmental Working Group, a close Environmental Protection Agency ally. "It's clear that the EPA is losing the debate because they didn't do their homework," said Paul Beckner, president of CSE. "The EPA has dodged answering questions about the serious lack of science behind the proposed new air quality standards."

At a Capitol Hill news conference today, Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation released a study by Kay Jones, a top environmental advisor to President Jimmy Carter, contradicting Environmental Protection Agency claims that 15,000 Americans die prematurely every year from exposure to fine particulate matter. Particulate matter is very fine material emitted into the atmosphere. The size of particulate matter discussed by the EPA -- 2.5 microns -- is roughly 28 times smaller than the width of a single human hair.

Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA) have proposed legislation to establish a new federal program to buy health coverage for five million children. Sen. Hatch has characterized their proposal as the "free market approach" to insuring children. Unfortunately, neither the bill (S. 525) nor its funding mechanism (S. 526) have been fairly represented. 1. "This is not an entitlement."1

On November 27, 1996, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Carol Browner announced a plan to impose new national air quality standards. Specifically, the proposal to alter the current National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) calls for more severe restrictions on ground-level ozone and microscopic dust particles, called particulate matter (PM). The EPA must decide by July 19 of this year whether or not to alter the current standards. If implemented, the new standards would put into place the most massive, far-reaching environmental mandates of the decade. But because the proposed standards are backed by weak science, there is an enormous degree of uncertainty as to whether the measures would produce the promised results.

In 1994, the American people rejected the Clinton health care plan and others like it that would have substituted the judgment of politicians and bureaucrats for that of patients and their doctors. Yet, that victory has proved short-lived. Today, lawmakers who fought government-run health care three years ago, some of whom even rode into office on the issue, are now its biggest supporters.