Posts Tagged jobs
Your Prescription for Cheerios is Ready
AJP President Dan Pero has a featured op/ed in this morning’s Washington Times.
This must read exposes the absurd over-reach of the current FDA. This type of government over-regulation is strangling free enterprise and the job creating businesses that employ our friends and neighbors. Dan does a better job telling the story than we do but here’s a picture that appears with the op/ed that while maybe not worth a thousand words made us chuckle over our morning bowl of Cheerios.
Nice work Dan!
Texas Tort Victories: The plaintiffs-lawyer lobby blows $9 million and gets nowhere.
-The Wall Street Journal
Texas recently finished its legislative session, and the best news is what didn’t pass. Namely, some 900 bills put forward by the tort bar.
The plaintiffs-lawyer lobby spent $9 million in last year’s state legislative elections to help smooth the way for these bills, which were designed to roll back tort reforms passed in recent years, or to create new ways to sue. Yet that money wasn’t enough to convince most Texas legislators to give up two-decades of hard-won legal progress, which ranges from class-action clean-up to medical liability reform.