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EPIC FAIL OBAMA; Yet another failure in Econ 101

December 4, 2013

He loves backing an 18-wheeler into a tight spot. He has been patiently training new drivers for more than eight years.

Lately, though, Mr. Hernandez‘s patience has been worn thin by a confusing tangle of rules, efficiency directives, and electronic devices that cap his speed, log his every move, and practically try to autopilot his truck.

Magnifying the stress are more federal rule changes that took effect in July and are now roiling the industry.

Under the revised rule, the average workweek has been shortened to 70 hours from 82. They must take one 30-minute break during the first eight hours of driving. And the required 34-hour break between workweeks now must extend over two nights, including the hours between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m.

Those changes are proving more disruptive because they are added on to existing requirements that limit drivers to driving 11 hours a day and require them to rest a consecutive 10 hours.

The changes are aimed at reducing chronic fatigue and related crashes, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Department of Transportation agency responsible for highway safety. Fatalities in large truck crashes declined 26% from 5,111 to 3,757 in the decade ending in 2011, according to the FMCSA, but it considers that number still unacceptably high.

“This agency is not just mandated but driven to improve the operating environment of trucks,” said Anne Ferro, the agency’s administrator, in an interview.

Full Story HERE

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Great News! Gillette’s Anti-Gun Mayor Tom Murphy has resigned!

December 4, 2013
If there’s one thing I’ve learned — its that when politicians stop feeling the love — and are consistently exposed to their constituents, it causes a strong desire to return to their old job.

Just prior to Mayor Murpy’s resignation, WyGO’s ground game heated up as we worked feverishly to expose Murphy’s ties to yet another anti-gun organization.

You see Tom Murphy was a participant in a National League of Cities steering committee.

Murphy and his pal Speaker of the House Tom Lubnau (Republican) suggest they are involved in these liberal-leaning organizations only to- “sell the energy industry.”

But this is a bald-faced lie! It’s all part of a hidden agenda and progressive politicians have learned to “play the game” all to well.

The League of Cities is well versed in “progressive ideas” such as Environmentalism, Immigration Amnesty and as you guessed by now, Gun Control.

Just take a look for yourself in the National League of Cities 2013 Public Safety & Crime Prevention Policy and Resolutions.

To name a few items on the NLC wish-list:

*** Require registration of all hand guns ***
*** Ban on Black Rifles ***
*** 30-day waiting period ***
*** Sales and transfers only by gun dealers ***
*** Closing the so-called gun show loop hole ***
*** Limit magazines capacity to 10 rounds ***
Of course they want you to believe that, “Mayor Tom Murphy’s involvement with the NLC is just a mere coincidence”.

But the indisputable truth is that the NLC is a progressive think-tank that exists only to train lawmakers in advancing their agendas, including gun control.

WyGO is the ONLY organization in Wyoming working at this level — to expose the anti-gun politicians and their lobbyist pals.

And in order to continue with an aggressive fight — I need your help today.

Please consider becoming a monthly supporter and sign up for monthly donations here.

Remember today we won, but in the coming days a new mayor will be selected. With your help WyGO will be there asking the tough questions again.

 

 

   To Liberty,

 

Anthony Bouchard
   Executive Director
Wyoming Gun Owners

 

P.S. We received an early Christmas gift with the resignation of Gillette’s anti-gun mayor Tom Murphy.

Be proud that your dedicated activism helped expose Murphy for what he really was, helping him make the decision to quit.

“WyGO is the only state level group that legislators take seriously” – Dudley Brown Executive Director National Assoc. for Gun Rights
Edited for clarity in this format
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House Leadership Ignores Gun Owners, this is why you never trust a RINO!

December 4, 2013
Slams through Plastic Gun Ban Reauthorization

The battle continues, and now moves to the Senate

“There is opposition to changing existing law from conservative lawmakers and gun rights groups such as Gun Owners of America.” — USA Today, December 3, 2013

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

Someone once said that the only thing anyone ever learns from history is that no one ever learns anything from history.

Straight from bumbling the shut down, the House leadership yesterday, by a voice vote, slammed through a straight ten-year reauthorization of the poorly drafted 1988 plastic gun ban.

Read GOA’s oped on this subject in this morning’s USA Today.

At least, argue House Republicans, this “straight authorization” of a bad law will prohibit New York Democrat Chuck Schumer from using the reauthorization as a vehicle to enact new, more extensive gun control.

Maybe.

But the House leadership has now handed Schumer a legislative vehicle for passing his gun control.  This means he and Harry Reid could choose to take their ban on 3-D printer guns -– which, by the way, would also ban many metal gun manufacturers -– and send it back to the House.

Just hours after the House reauthorized the anti-gun law, Schumer held a press event in support of expanding the plastic gun ban.

If they do this, then Boehner and his leadership team will once again be swimming in a river of pain –- inflicted by a liberal media that finally sees an opportunity for passing its much-desired gun control agenda.

So the first thing we’re doing is to organize a Senate filibuster of any Schumer effort to pass and/or expand the House bill.

Given that the Senate is currently bogged down in a fight over the defense authorization legislation, we may be able to make it very difficult for Schumer to use the House-passed bill as a vehicle for new gun control.

So please stay tuned.  We thank you for all your activism up to this point.  But just realize that this battle is not over yet.

GOA IN THE MEDIA

Meanwhile, GOA Director of Communications Erich Pratt authored the Opposing View this morning in USA Today.

Among other things, Pratt argued that the plastic gun ban is an unconstitutional infringement of our liberties that is not only ineffective, but could eventually be expanded by an anti-gun administration to ban even more guns.

But what about the issue of smuggling guns onto planes?

Pratt says that renewing a ban on plastic firearms will “not stop criminals from making them or stealing them,” any more than Chicago’s gun restrictions have been effective in stopping shootings there.

Not only that, says Pratt, “smuggling guns onto planes will still be against the law, with or without a plastic gun ban.” And airport X-ray machines will still be able to detect them.

Bottom line, says Pratt, Congress solved the problem of terrorists carrying weapons onto planes after 9/11 — not through additional gun bans, but by “allowing pilots to use guns to defend themselves and their passengers.”

Again, you can read the entire column here.

 

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