Does it seem unseemly to you that the President is choosing the unions over the out-of work taxpayers? … increasing the tax burden on the private sector, private sector employees are out of work. … Worse than sucking tax dollars out ofthe system is their sense of entitlement to tax dollars they take.…
“China is building faster trains and newer airports,” the president warned in his StateoftheUnion address. … But of all the reasons to build high-speed rail in the United States, keeping up with the international Joneses may be one ofthe worst … Taiwan have two natural advantages over every region ofthe United States, with the possible exception ofthe Northeast Corridor –…
Jordan, the Chairman ofthe RSC, is pushing for more cuts to the federal budget. … On Tuesday, the House began consideration of a 7-month continuing resolution, which would fund the government for the rest of fiscal … House Republicans are not freezing spending over the next five years like the President promised in his StateoftheUnion. …
(Via @keder) The Wisconsin GOP has put together a quick video ofunion attacks on Governor Scott Walker, which include: signs calling … course a lie, but a lot of these people haven’t internalized yet the notion that it’s harder to lie about this sort of thing these … ’s frankly out-of-control collective bargaining system for public sector union employees has caused a good deal of controversy, and…
It is a battle that, if lost, will likely have catastrophic consequences on the fiscal well being of many ofthe states and, as a result … Hundreds ofunion protesters also packed Ohio’s statehouse on Tuesday to condemn Governor Kasich’s efforts to stem theunion bosses … bosses, or whether some sort of fiscal sanity can be restored before the system collapses due to the weight from years of cronyism…
On Tuesday afternoon, the GOP-led House in New Hampshire voted 221-131 to make the Granite Statethe 23rd state in the nation to outlaw … The bill to make New Hampshire a Right-to-Work state now moves to the New Hampshire Senate where Republicans enjoy a 19-5 majority. … Right To Work bill (“relative to freedom of choice on whether to join a labor union”), will pass the New Hampshire House overwhelmingly…
the end of his term and triples by the end ofthe decade.” … The President’s StateoftheUnion promised that “starting this year, we freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years” rings … In theStateoftheUnion, the President promised “to simplify the individual tax code.” …
Union dues not to be collected by thestate.
Annual Secret ballots to keep unions certified.
UNION DUES TO BECOME VOLUNTARY. … union employees start paying into their own pension and insurance funds like the rest of us; also, Walker’s proposed union bargaining … All of this is to start addressing Wisconsin’s pressing deficit issues; and, given that the Republicans flipped thestate legislature…
I chose the latter and it is because of this that three ofthe best ideas to help conservative union members trapped in liberal unions … A while back, a teacher-friend joined theunion due to the unions’ offering of liability insurance. … ofthe “benefits” that a union does, but without being a union.…
to be $265 million short, reporting $71 million for the closing ofthe 2009-2010 financial year, instead ofthe expected $336 million … thestate back on track. … tenets of Wisconsin’s Civil Service System, one ofthe strongest in the nation.…
“For too long we’ve stayed on the sidelines and watched the rest ofthe world eat our lunch in the high speed passenger train … During last month’s StateoftheUnion address, Obama said he wanted to give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within … not hundreds of millions of additional dollars to the bill and we will all pay for the privelege of letting Joe Biden speed his way…
Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) sat with a round table of bloggers this, the second morning of CPAC. … He said, “We don’t have the luxury of ignoring the world.” … He noted that President Obama spent less than three paragraphs on foreign policy in his StateoftheUnion Speech and believes the…
The first tells the tale of Range Fuels’ foray into cellulosic ethanol, the process of making ethanol fuel, not from foodstuffs but … Bush used a StateoftheUnion address to extol wood chips as a source for cellulosic ethanol that would break America’s “addiction … (Click here to access article w/o subscription)
Compare and contrast…
…with the tale ofthe marketplace.…
I just found out about this from Fox Nation (via Hot Air), as part of a breaking story that possibly the hiding Wisconsin state senators … are starting to crack under the strain of not doing the jobs that they were elected to do:
State Sen. … Julie Lassa (D) is pregnant and “extremely unhappy” about being on the run.…
– in order to produce a volume of motor fuel with the energy equivalent of about 0.6 percent of global oil needs. …
The quantity … Put another way, that’s more corn than the output ofthe European Union, Mexico, Argentina, and India combined. … President Obama, in his StateoftheUnion speech, said “we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels.”…
This supposedly represents the recouping ofthe cost of unions ‘representing’ non-union members in labor disputes – whether or not … the non-union members wanted to be part ofthe labor dispute in the first place – and it’s a common feature in contract negotiations … Maine is currently majority-Republican in both houses ofthestate legislature, but it’s, well, Maine: I found LePage to be pretty…
At the sry age of 79, Fox-Piven is a professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York … ofthe Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty. … By the internal disruption of local bureaucratic practices, by the furor over public welfare poverty, and by the collapse of current…
UPDATED: We now have the audio from Charlie Sykes about Gordon Hintz, who appears to be trying to go from being your run ofthe mill … Now he is in the news again for telling a female Republican state representative that she is “f**king dead”
Hintz made the statement … to State Representative Michelle Litjens for her vote on the Budget Repair Bill that would curtail union powers in thestate.…
ofthe magnitude ofthe power such laws give unions. … Walker’s proposal makes paying union dues voluntary, as opposed to mandatory. This goes to the lifeblood of any union. … Walker’s proposal eliminates’ the employers’ payroll deduction ofunion dues.…
When it became clear how unpopular supporting the public unions had become, Obama slinked away from the Wisconsin union fight. … Obama’s Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked about the “Wisconsin situation,” the calls of Ellison and others for Obama to stand … legislators fleeing thestate to avoid their duty to vote on Governor Walker’s plan to restrict certain bargaining rights of public…
ofthe children. … Please click here for the rest ofthe post.
5. Wisconsin Democrats now owe state $165,000,000. … mattered, a deadline for reducing the debt servicing load ofthestateof Wisconsin by $165,000,000 expires today.…
“I want to urge devotion to the fundamentals of human liberty the principles of voluntarism. … The bill would have decimated the power of unions by banning the policy of requiring union fees as a condition of employment at a workplace … The remarkable thing about each of these cases is union bosses’ underlying admission: Without the threat of being able to have workers…
ofthe children. … Thestate-enforced monopoly provider of education services is using their monopoly position to force the school districts to purchase … Beyond that if school districts had the flexibility to look for health insurance coverage outside of WEA trust or thestate plan, additional…
It’s a Strategy, Not a Conspiracy
I’ve written at length about the destructive energy policies ofthe Left and ofthe Obama Administration … as if it is the latter, and here’s why.Please click here for the rest ofthe post.
2. 67% disapprove of legislators fleeing Wisconsin … Central Florida (UCF) in November of last year.Please click here for the rest ofthe post.
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