AC Week in review: July 6, 2014

It was a short workweek, but I had plenty to say on the pages of my Sausage Grinder blog, and plenty more is already in the pipeline for next week.

So let me begin with a story I’ve been following on those pages, as the fate of the eighty-year old Export-Import Bank of the United States hangs on the Congressional balance. The Senate is promising a vote, but the House might not follow suit.

Congress is also being buttonholed by a group of manufacturers – this was the AC post I alluded to in a piece I wrote here on monoblogue a week ago. In this case, over 500 representatives of American manufacturing converged on Congress in an effort to lobby for change. It was all part of a Manufacturing Summit sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers.

Something else I wrote on in another venue, this time the Patriot Post, was also the subject of a piece for my AC site. However, the angle of the story was different for each piece so you may want to see the differences in style I work with. Illegal immigration is a sore subject with me because I believe in fair play, and those who circumvent the system to gain advantage of those who do things the right way should be made to pay a penalty – personally I think they need to go back and start over again.

As I noted, I have a bunch in the pipeline for next week, including employment data and a commonly used business index. I also noticed one article I wrote wasn’t in the rotation, so I may use it next week if they don’t.