This is what a trend to socialism looks like. Today The Heritage Foundation released their 2012 Index of Dependence of Government. Below we'll highlight the abstract of the study and then link to the full article. This must be stopped.

This is what a trend to socialism looks like. Today The Heritage Foundation released their 2012 Index of Dependence of Government. Below we'll highlight the abstract of the study and then link to the full article. This must be stopped.

The article comes from AFP's VP for Policy Phil Kerpen. You may follow Phil on twitter by clicking @kerpen. The article in its entirety may be found here.

On January 4, President Obama took the unprecedented step of declaring the Senate to be in recess — although the Senate considered itself to be in session — so that he could install several appointees in key positions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). While a lot of attention has been focused on the procedural defect of these appointments (correctly, as I’ve explained), there has been far too little attention paid to the most radical of these appointees: Richard Griffin.

The article comes from AFP's VP for Policy Phil Kerpen. You may follow Phil on twitter by clicking @kerpen. The article in its entirety may be found here.

On January 4, President Obama took the unprecedented step of declaring the Senate to be in recess — although the Senate considered itself to be in session — so that he could install several appointees in key positions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). While a lot of attention has been focused on the procedural defect of these appointments (correctly, as I’ve explained), there has been far too little attention paid to the most radical of these appointees: Richard Griffin.

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