Plunder and Deceit (25 page)

32
. Id.

33
. Nicolas Loris and Filip Jolevski, “EPA's Climate Regulations Will Harm American Manufacturing,” Heritage Foundation, Issue Brief, March 4, 2014,
http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2014/pdf/IB4158.pdf
.

34
. Gregory Clark,
A Farewell to Alms, A Brief Economic History of the World
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 1.

35
. Id.

36
. Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, “Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America's Poor,” The Heritage Foundation, September 13, 2011,
http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2011/pdf/bg2607.pdf
.

37
. Id.

38
. Kenneth Pomeranz,
The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 61. Also see Gregory Clark,
A Farewell to Alms, A Brief Economic History of the World
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 260.

39
. Gregory Clark,
A Farewell to Alms, A Brief Economic History of the World
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 260.

40
. Kenneth Pomeranz,
The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 283.

41
. Id., pp. 283–84.

42
. Gregory Clark,
A Farewell to Alms, A Brief Economic History of the World
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 260.

43
. Id.

44
. Id., p. 272.

45
. Id., p. 260.

46
. Id., p. 277.

47
. Mark R. Levin,
Liberty and Tyranny
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), pp. 125–26.

48
. Nicolas Loris, “Man's Contribution to Global Warming”
Daily Signal
, March 27, 2009,
http://dailysignal.com/2009/03/27/man%E2%80%99s-contribution-to-global-warming/
.

49
. 
Statement of Patrick Moore, Ph.D., Before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight,
February 25, 2014,
http://www.epw.senate.gov//files/16/77/39/f167739/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=415b9cde-e664-4628-8fb5-ae3951197d03
.

50
. Diane Bast, “30,000 Scientists Sign Petition on Global Warming,”
Heartlander.org
, July 1, 2008,
http://news.heartland.org/print/23387
.

51
. 
Massachusetts
v
. Environmental Protection Agency
, 549 U.S. 497 (2007).

52
. 
Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units
, 79 Federal Register 1430.

53
. Eileen O'Grady, “Southern Co. delays advanced coal plant to 2015 amid rising costs,” April 29, 2014,
www.Reuters.com
.

54
. 
Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Generating Units
, 79 Fed. Reg. 34,830.

55
. Parker Gallant, “Ontario's Power Trip: Irrational energy planning has tripled power rates under the Liberals' direction,”
Financial Post
, June 2, 2014,
www.financialpost.com
.

56
. Id.

57
. The White House, Office of the Press Secretary. “Administration Takes Steps Forward on Climate Action Plan by Announcing Actions to Cut Methane Emissions,” January 14, 2015,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/14/fact-sheet-administration-takes-steps-forward-climate-action-plan-anno-1
; Coral Davenport, “Obama Is Planning New Rules on Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Emissions,”
New York Times
, January 13, 2015,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/us/politics/obama-administration-to-unveil-plans-to-cut-methane-emissions.html?_r=0
.

58
. 
http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-06/documents/hf_es_erd_jun2015.pdf
.

59
. 
TransitionNetwork.org
, “Energy Descent Action Plans,”
https://www.transitionnetwork.org/
.

60
. 
TransitionNetwork.org
, “Policies for Transition,”
https://www.transitionnetwork.org/
.

61
. 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
(the “Clean Water Act”) 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251–1387.

62
. 33 U.S.C. § 1251(b).

63
. 
Definition of “Waters of the United States” Under the Clean Water Act
, 79 Fed. Reg. 22,188.

64
. Ayn Rand (Peter Schwartz, ed.),
Return of the Primitive—The Anti-Industrial Revolution
(Meridian [Penguin], 1999), pp. 288, 289.

8. On the Minimum Wage

1
. “Employment Situation Summary,” Economic News Release, Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
.

2
. Id.

3
. Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, “Charting the Labor Market: Data from the Current Population Survey,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015,
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cps_charts.pdf
.

4
. “Survey of the Unemployed Shows 47% Say They Have ‘Completely Given Up' Looking for a Job,” Express Employment Professionals (Harris Poll), May 21, 2014,
http://www.expresspros.com
.

5
. “Employment Situation Summary,” Economic News Release, Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
.

6
. Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, “Charting the Labor Market: Data from the Current Population Survey,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015,
http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cps_charts.pdf
.

7
. “How the Government Measures Unemployment,” Bureau of Labor Statistics,
http://www.bls.gov
.

8
. United States Senate, Committee on the Budget, “Nearly 1 in 4 Americans in Prime Working Years Are Not Employed,”
http://www.budget.senate.gov/republican//files/16/77/39/f167739/public/index.cfm/charts
.

9
. “Employment Situation Summary,” Economic News Release, Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
.

10
. Id.

11
. Mary Lorenz, “Millennials vs. Baby Boomers: Who ‘Won' the Recession?” June 9, 2014,
http://thehiringsite.careerbuilder.com/2014/06/09/millennials-vs-baby-boomers-won-recession/
.

12
. Id.

13
. “Employment Situation Summary,” Economic News Release, Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
.

14
. Id.

15
. President Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on Signing of Executive Order,” February 12, 2014,
http://www.whitehouse.gov
.

16
. President Barack Obama, “Obama slams GOP over minimum wage vote,” CNN Political Ticker (posted by Jim Acosta), April 30, 2014,
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
.

17
. President Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on Signing of Executive Order,” February 12, 2014,
http://www.whitehouse.gov
.

18
. American Legislative Exchange Council, “Raising the Minimum Wage: The Effects on Employment, Businesses and Consumers,”
ALEC.org
, March, 2014,
http://www.alec.org/wp-content/uploads/Raising_Minimum_wage.pdf
.

19
. Id.

20
. David Neumark and William L. Wascher
, Minimum Wages
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008), p. 12.

21
. Id.

22
. Id., p. 14.

23
. 
Adkins
v
. Children's Hospital
, 261 U.S. 525, 554-556 (1923).

24
. David Neumark and William L. Wascher,
Minimum Wages
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008), p. 15.

25
. 
West Coast Hotel Co.
v
. Parrish
, 300 U.S. 379.

26
. U.S. Department of Labor,
Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act,
http://www.dol.gov
.

27
. Mark Wilson,
The Negative Effects of Minimum Wage Laws,
Policy Analysis, Cato Institute, June 21, 2012,
www.cato.org
.

28
. Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian,
New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis,
research memo, Department of Economics, UCLA, February 2003.

29
. Id.

30
. U.S. Department of Labor,
Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
,
http://www.dol.gov
.

31
. “Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers,” BLS Reports, 2013, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Report 1048, March 2014,
www.bls.gov
.

32
. Id.

33
. Id.

34
. Id.

35
. President Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on Signing of Executive Order,” February 12, 2014,
http://www.whitehouse.gov
.

36
. Id.

37
. David Neumark and William L. Wascher
, Minimum Wages
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008), p. 39.

38
. Id.

39
. Id., p. 51.

40
. Mark Wilson,
The Negative Effects of Minimum Wage Laws,
Policy Analysis, Cato Institute, June 21, 2012,
www.cato.org
.

41
. Assunta Ng, “Blog: What SeaTac tells us about $15 minimum wage,”
Asian Weekly
, May 22, 2014,
http://wwwnwasianweekly.com
.

42
. David Neumark and William L. Wascher,
Minimum Wages
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008), p. 289.

43
. Id., p. 287.

44
. Id., p. 291.

45
. Id., p. 290.

46
. Id., p. 291.

47
. Congressional Budget Office, “The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income,” February 2014,
http://www.cbo.org
.

48
. Id.

9. On National Security

1
. “National Security Strategy of the United States,” White House, January 1987, p. 6,
nssarchive.us/NSSR/1987.pdf
.

2
. Id.

3
. “National Security Strategy of the United States,” White House, August 1991, p. 1,
http://nssarchive.us/NSSR/1991.pdf
.

4
. Judah Grunstein, “Russia Annexes Georgian Provinces on the Installment Plan,”
World Politics Review
, October 29, 2008,
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/2838/russia-annexes-georgian-provinces-on-the-installment-plan
.

5
. Thomas Frear, Łukasz Kulesa, and Ian Kearns, “Dangerous Brinkmanship: Close Military Encounters Between Russia and the West in 2014,” European Leadership Network, November 2014, p. 1,
http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/medialibrary/2014/11/09/6375e3da/Dangerous%20Brinkmanship.pdf
.

6
. Damien Sharkov, “ ‘Biggest NATO Reinforcement Since Cold War' Sets Frontlines Against Russia,”
Newsweek
, February 5, 2015,
http://www.newsweek.com/biggest-nato-reinforcement-cold-war-sets-frontlines-russian-threat-304722
.

7
. Frear, Kulesa, and Kearns, p. 1.

8
. Id.

9
. Richard Javad Heydarian, “America's Next Big Challenge: Countering China's Diplomatic Blitzkrieg,”
The National Interest
, November 30, 2014,
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/americas-next-big-challenge-countering-china%E2%80%99s-diplomatic-11754?page=2
.

10
. Javier Blas, “China still trumps the competition in Africa Inc.,”
Financial Times
, October 9, 2014,
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/87075f26-4eda-11e4-b205-00144feab7de.html#axzz3OorlYpVg
; Simon Romero and Alexei Barrionuevo, “Deals Help China Expand Sway in Latin America,”
New York Times
, April 15, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/world/16chinaloan.html?_r=0
.

11
. Max Fisher, “Why China still supports North Korea, in six little words,”
New York Times
, February 12, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/02/12/why-china-still-supports-north-korea-in-six-little-words/
.

12
. Michael Peel, “Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad economy,”
Financial Times
, June 27, 2013,
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/79eca81c-df48-11e2-a9f4-00144feab7de.html#axzz3OorlYpVg
.

13
. Merv Mogollon and Chris Kraul, “Venezuela's president hits road to save ailing economy,”
LA Times
, January 5, 2015,
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-venezuela-president-economy-20150105-story.html
.

14
. Eli Lake, “Iran's nuclear program helped by China, Russia,”
Washington Times
, July 5, 2011,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/5/irans-nuclear-program-helped-by-china-russia/?page=all
.

15
. 
http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-island-building-poses-dilemma-for-u-s-1433102116
.