Issues
September 03, 2011 JEnergy & Environment
Please join Americans for Prosperity's Virginia chapter for a rally to cut spending now as part of the National TEA Party Express tour!
Americans for Prosperity is a proud sponsor of the national tour. You'll hear plenty of good speakers and exchange ideas with people who share your core conservative principles.
What: National TEA Party Express Roanoke Stop
Where: 710 Williamsburg Road
Roanoke, Virginia
When: Thursday, September 8, 2011
12:30 p.m.
August 25, 2011 JBudget & Spending
Virginia Nuclear Plants Safety Protocols Work Perfectly
Much of Virginia trembled this week with the great Earthquake of 2011, including our nuclear power plants in Virginia. As news reports have confirmed, every single safety protocol worked. There was never a threat to the safety, or the electric capacity, of the people of central Virginia.
Wild-eyed environmentalists will fire skyrockets about this incident, which was but a movement of the earth, but the more calm among us will understand it for what it was: it was a seismic event, and had nothing to do with global warming.
In fact, the reaction of the safety personnel in Virginia underscored the validity and value of nuclear power.
We at Americans for Prosperity - Virginia support nuclear energy, and indeed, an increased use of it.
August 08, 2011
S & P Slaps U.S., Moodys Threatens Endangers Virginias Top Rating
Standard and Poors downgraded the United States AAA bond rating for the first time in history late Friday, and now Moodys is threatening similar action if meaningful deficit reduction is not achieved. Meanwhile, since Virginia depends heavily on public sector jobs, particularly in Northern Virginia and Tidewater, its own pristine bond rating is now at risk.
AFP-Virginia state director Trixie Averill today issued the following statement:
This is indeed a sad day for America and by association, Virginia as the world now sees that the reckless fiscal habits that have taken root in Washington have exposed the fallacy of deficit spending as a means to prosperity. As a result, Virginias own valued credit rating is at risk, through no fault of our own.
August 01, 2011
It is a tremendous victory for free market activists that, for the first time in history, the debate over raising the debt limit became a debate over cutting spending. For that, we should be heartened that our efforts are truly making a difference. But we must continue to fight, because this deal is simply inadequate to the size of the fiscal challenge our country faces.
Ratings agencies have consistently called for at least $4 trillion in cuts to avoid a downgrade -- and rated the Boehner and Reid bills on which the final deal was based as inadequate for putting the country on a sound fiscal footing. This deal includes only $0.9 trillion in guaranteed cuts and in a best case scenario envisions an additional $1.5 trillion in cuts. And these are Washington cuts, not real cuts; they merely reduce the expected rate of increase in spending, while the federal government will continue to grow.
July 20, 2011 JBanking & Financial Services
Bill Cuts Spending, Caps Budgets, Initiates Balanced Budget Amendment Process
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed, on a 234-190 vote, the Cut, Cap & Balance proposal, which would reduce spending, limit federal budgets, and begin the process to amend the Constitution to require a balanced budget.
AFP-Virginia state director Trixie Averill today issued the following statement:
Never before has this country been in such dire financial straits. Cut, Cap and Balance is a reasonable, responsible approach to righting the fiscal ship and AFP-Virginia urges Senators Warner and Webb to support it when it arrives in the Senate.
