Obama proposes union slush fund
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No industry has spent more on this election cycle than unions.
Obama announces $50+ billion 2012 campaign funding push
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Recent paybacks to unions by Obama include overturning a 76 year old rule to make it easier to unionize airlines and more importantly a new executive order requiring all government contracts be to union companies. Both of these union payoffs were done without needing or even asking for congressional approval.
Paralysis By Taxation
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The Democrats’ politicized housing and mortgage policies pushed our economy into its worst downturn since the Great Depression. So, of course, it’s a perfect time for the biggest tax increase in history.
Obama to Push Tax Break
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Look for this to be the bait to Republicans on his $50 billion stimulus union campaign fund bill.
Obama Attacks GOP, Promotes New Jobs Program in Speech to Cheering Union Members
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A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans’ hard economic times.
French Unions to Strike as Sarkozy Pension Bill Debate Starts
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French unions are striking nationwide as lawmakers begin debating President Nicolas Sarkozy’s bill to raise the retirement age.
Obama’s 6 year plan tops Lenin’s at 5 years
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Charles Krauthammer responded to President Obama’s latest announcement of a six year stimulus plan.. “Even Lenin stopped at five.”
Union boss says not enough $timulu$ went to union jobs
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President of the AFL-CIO claims not enough of the stimulus went to ‘infrastructure’ which would all be union jobs. Trumka has also made bizarre claims that Obama has created more jobs than Bush and that the US does not have a deficit problem.
Union cartels
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Labor unions cannot prosper in a competitive environment. Like other successful cartels, they depend on government patronage and protection. Worker cartels grew in surges during the two world wars and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Federal laws—the Railway Act of 1926 (amended in 1934), the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932, the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the Walsh-Healy Act of 1936, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, various war labor boards, and the Kennedy administration’s encouragement of public-sector unionism in 1962—all added to unions’ monopoly power.
Nazi Dreams were Green Dreams
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“Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition.” – Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University.
Government Efficiency
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I recently criticized the idea that policymakers should focus their attention on making government more “efficient.” Instead, I argued that policymakers should focus their reform efforts on reducing government’s size.
Fmr. Obama Economic Adviser: “This Is Not A Usual Recovery’
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Christina Romer who left her position on Friday as the chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers told Jake Tapper in a lengthy interview that this is not a usual recession and not a usual recovery. This is just one small part of the interview.
191 layers of red tape waiting
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Thousands of new regulations are coming without congressional oversight. Unemployment has been over 9% for 16 months and endless rolls of red tape will not help.
The tweet wars – Gibbs vs Hayes
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Gibbs better keep his day job. WEEKLY STANDARD writer Steve Hayes got plenty of attention from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today, who used his Twitter account to carry on a long back-and-forth with Hayes over the small business bill the White House has been touting this week, but which stalled in the Senate earlier this summer.
Unemployment jumps to 9.6% in wreckovery summer
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Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (-54,000) in August, and the unemployment rate was about unchanged at 9.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Government employment fell, as 114,000 temporary workers hired for the decennial census completed their work. Private-sector payroll employment continued to trend up modestly (+67,000).


