A message from Fred L. Smith Jr., President and Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute:

Friends & Supporters of CEI,

As we close out 2008 and get ready for an even more challenging year, I wanted to take a minute to thank you for your support of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. It is only with your generosity this year that we were able to:

• Prevent costly global warming policies from being enacted (See www.globalwarming.org for regular updates of our work on this front).
• Prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing a finding to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act.
• Help defeat the initial financial bailout bill and keep more onerous provisions out of the bill that did finally (and unfortunately) pass. To make sure that the free-market point of view isn’t lost, we’ve co-launched a bailout-watch website at www.beyondbailouts.org.
• Highlight attempts by governments to act as “nannies” and tax or ban bottled water, which many municipalities and states now consider a pariah (For more on our bottled water project, visit www.enjoybottledwater.com. I hope you will sign our petition in support of consumer choice and against “nanny” state regulations.)
• Launch Social.Bureaucrash.com to help our youth activist network members better connect with each other and to introduce younger generations to the idea of liberty.

We also hosted Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus at our 2008 annual dinner and published the English translation of his book Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What is Endangered—Climate or Freedom? Since May we’ve distributed over 30,000 copies!  

Of course none of this would be possible without you. This coming year CEI will celebrate 25 years of fighting for economic liberty.

I hope that you can again support CEI in the coming year—and if you are still considering year-end charitable contributions, I hope you will remember CEI. We expect to face many more challenges in the coming year and can use all the support we can muster.

All of us at CEI wish you happiness and prosperity in the New Year.

Sincerely,

Fred L. Smith, Jr.
President
Competitive Enterprise Institute

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