ALG to House on $26.1 Billion Special Session States Bailout:“Vote No or Don’t Go!”

August 5th, 2010, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson today urged the House of Representatives to “either reject the $26.1 billion bailout to balance bankrupt state budgets like New York and California or stay home.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pulling members of Congress away from the August recess for a special session to vote on legislation that includes $16.1 billion for state Medicaid spending and $10 billion for public teachers funding. “The American people are sick of these endless bailouts. The message to House members is to vote ‘no’ for another $26.1 billion for the states, or don’t go. The states already got $145 billion in the $862 billion ‘stimulus,” Wilson said, adding, “This is just the latest example of the theft of taxpayers by Nancy Pelosi’s House to pay off teachers union bosses in states that refuse to balance their own budgets.” “While Americans are struggling to balance their family budgets, politicians in state capitals and in Washington refuse to balance theirs. Instead, government’s solution is to borrow and print more money, and to raise taxes to pay for the unsustainable obligations government has created,” Wilson explained. Get full story here.