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Obama proposes union slush fund

Editor — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:10:52 +0000

No industry has spent more on this election cycle than unions. Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner breaks down the real benefactors of the government’s newly proposed infrastructure spending plan.

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Editor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:10:46 +0000

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Obama announces $50+ billion 2012 campaign funding push

Editor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:22:44 +0000

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.

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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.

Close to half of Obama’s first $820 billion stimulus bill went ‘to entities that sponsor or employ or both members of the Service Employees International Union, federal, state, and municipal employee unions, or other Democrat-controlled unions‘ according to Ben Stein in an article last year in The American Spectator about the stimulus. More recently, congress passed the $30 billion ‘teacher bailout’ bill which funneled approximately $16 billion to union teacher and other public employee union jobs.

According to RiShawn Biddle in a Capital Research Center report:

‘The NEA [teachers union] took in an estimated $569 million that it spent on local, state and national political campaigns during the 2007-2008 election cycle, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics. This made the NEA the nation’s single-biggest campaign contributor for the 2009-2010 election period, the NEA has raised another $15 million to date – double the amount raised at the same time two years ago. This fund raising prowess is why Harvard University education scholar Paul Peterson declares that the NEA is “in a position to tell state legislatures what to do.”’

In a recent local election SEIU (Service Employees International Union) spent $500,000 and may end up as high as a $1 million. Why so much? To prevent cuts to exorbitant union wages and benefits that are bankrupting the county.

According to an article by Kevin Bogardus and Sean J. Miller at The Hill, just two unions plan to spend close to $100 million to save Democrat jobs in the 2010 elections. Even though unions have already gotten taxpayer bailouts of benefits ($20 BILLION in GM fiasco alone), preferential treatment in federally funded work, the overturning of 76 year rules on unionization, ownership in Chrysler and GM to the detriment of shareholders, creditors and taxpayers, and the lions share of stimulus money directed to public work projects which will have to be union, they will be expecting more like taxpayer funding of a trillion dollars of under funded union pension liabilities.

Kevin Bogardus and Sean J. Miller say:

‘The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) plans to spend in excess of $50 million during the 2010 campaign, part of which will fund “a massive incumbent protection program,” according to Gerry McEntee, president of the union.’

And:

‘The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) plans to spend $44 million in total on its 2010 election program. The union spent $85 million on its 2008 campaign, according to union officials.’

An August 25 article in the Wall Street Journal by Melanie Trottman points out that the AFL-CIO is adding over $44 million to the kitty for Dems:

‘Mr. Trumka says the AFL-CIO will spend more than the $44 million it did in 2006 but hasn’t determined a specific amount.’

That is a total of $138 million from just those three unions for just 2010 and its all for Democrats.

And its not just money. Unions put boots on the ground for campaigns. Melanie Trottman at WSJ notes:

‘To counter any possible apathy, Mr. Trumka said the unions planned to put more campaign workers in the field than in 2006 and 2008, knocking on doors of union households and handing out leaflets at work sites. The federation also will coordinate phone banks and mailings, tracking progress through weekly polls.

In the last midterm elections, union households represented 23% of the electorate, according to exit poll data.’

In a recent editorial titled ‘The best government money can buy -top 20 public sector union paid politicians‘, we listed the top twenty recipients of union campaign money from public sector unions, industrial unions and trade unions. They are all Democrats.

Now it brings focus to Obama’s new old plan to stimulate or create or save jobs. $50 billion as a start for jobs that won’t begin to materialize until late next year about the time the 2012 campaign really gets started. The guy is brilliant. Roads, runways and railroads are all union jobs which will funnel campaign money to the Democrats and particularly to Obama just in time for the 2012 election cycle. And he wants there to be a permanent ‘infrastructure bank’ as his and the Democrats slush fund to keep the unions working at the expense of the private sector. They will probably seek allowance for this ‘bank’ to fund without congressional approval just like the finance bill did with the takeover of banks and other ‘financial’ institutions.

All the while he can angrily chide the Republicans (or anyone else who disagrees) as blocking his magical job creation.

In reality, even if we are stupid enough to fall for this, the make work jobs will only prolong the recession or turn it into a full blown depression as it robs the private sector of capital and increases our already unsustainable debt.

Don’t be fooled again.

-Editor

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Nevada Race Tests Democratic Pros

Editor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:21:10 +0000

Sharron Angle is benefiting from a wave of voter anger in this year’s midterm elections. Her Democratic opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, believes he has a tool to weather the storm: a get-out-the-vote operation.

By PETER WALLSTEN at WSJ

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Editor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:16:07 +0000

“It’s blatant propaganda on the part of the Obama administration to take credit for the spending of public dollars,” Rep. Aaron Schock, an Illinois Republican, told CNSNews.com. “It’s propaganda that will be worthless in a matter of years.”

By Fred Lucas at American Spectator

EXCERPTS:

‘Issa, the ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has set up an e-mail address, stimulussigns@gmail.com, asking folks to send pictures of the signs with information. The California Republican also asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to explore whether the signs promoting the recovery act, and other actions he considers propaganda, are legal.’

‘By far, the Department of Transportation has the strictest guidelines, regarding size and visibility of the signs and making no bones that the point of the signs was to “publicize” the recovery act.’

‘The Federal Railroad Administration guidance states, “Grantees may elect to have a secondary project sign which identifies other project partners.” But it says, “Such secondary signs should be smaller and less prominent than ARRA Project Sign.”‘

‘For the federal government to tell a grant recipient it “strongly encourages” something is sort of like the mafia telling someone it would be in their best interest to do something.’

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McCain: Obama is Ignoring Border Violence Threat to U.S.

Editor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:04:38 +0000

McCain said President Obama needs to walk the Arizona-Mexico border and see for himself the destruction caused by an explosion in drug and human trafficking.

FOXNews.com

EXCERPTS:

‘The 2008 Republican presidential candidate noted that 28,000 Mexican citizens have been murdered in the drug war in Mexico, with 72 individuals, including 14 women, killed in one attack just last week. That violence is a threat to U.S. security, McCain said.

“The people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, ‘Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area,’” McCain “Fox News Sunday.”

“The police chief of Nogales, Arizona, has been told that his police officers will be murdered if they interfere with the drug cartels. And that funnel is coming up through the state of Arizona,” he said.’

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White House Doesn’t Know if There’s Target Date for Sealing Border From Influx of Drugs

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Arizona Governor Signs Tough Immigration Enforcement Bill

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Why the Right Fears Transforming America

Editor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:55:03 +0000

The giveaway regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama’s plans for America was his repeated use of the words “fundamentally transform.”

Dennis Prager at NRO

EXCERPTS:

‘Those on the Left imagine an ideal society that has never existed, and therefore seek to “fundamentally transform” America. When liberals imagine an America fundamentally transformed, they envision it becoming a nearly utopian society in which there is no greed, no racism, no sexism, no inequality, no poverty, and ultimately no unhappiness.’

‘Conservatives believe that America is an aberration in human history; that, with all the problems that a society made up of flawed human beings will inevitably have, America has been and remains a uniquely decent society. Therefore, conservatives worry that fundamentally transforming America — making America less exceptional — will mean that America gets much worse.’

‘We conservatives look at America and ask, How did something so decent, so different from other societies, ever get created and last over 200 years?’

‘Lennon’s utopia is our dystopia. A world without God to give people some certitude that all their suffering is not meaningless is a nightmare. A world without religion means a world without any systematic way of ennobling people. A world without countries is a world without the United States of America; a world governed by the ruthless tyrannies and by the morally imbecilic United Nations, where mass murderers sit on its “human rights” councils. A world without heaven or hell is a world without any ultimate justice, where torturers and their victims have identical fates — oblivion. A world without possessions is a world in which some enormous state possesses everything and the individual is reduced to the status of a serf.’

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Paralysis By Taxation

Editor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:45:02 +0000

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.

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The Anti-Parent Agenda of Colleges

Editor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:34:36 +0000

Over the next four years, your child will sit under the influence of a few professors who enjoy tearing down the moral and religious views of their students. For such profs, teaching is a game and the intellectual seduction of their students is the conquest that makes their teaching challenging. Their agenda is to separate students from their parents, thereby, they hope, removing the influence of traditional Judeo-Christian values.

by Janice Shaw Crouse at Human Events

EXCERPTS:

‘My judgment is that far too many parents assume that their parenting role ends when college for their child begins. I do not agree that parents are superfluous. Nor do I think kids should be abandoned to flounder in a totally new environment where they are deluged with new worldviews and ideologies.’

‘As I talked to the parents of incoming freshmen, I wanted them to be particularly alert to three things:

1. Your child is beginning one of the most significant and challenging stages of his or her life. Perhaps for the first time, that child is on his or her own and it is a proverbial “make-or-break” situation. (Hopefully, you have spent the previous 18 years preparing them for this day—emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, and spiritually.) They need to know that you will continue to be there as a parent to provide support and/or guidance as they request it.

2. Over the four years of college or university life, students will make many of the most important decisions of their lives. Wise parents will anticipate the challenges and temptations and prepare their children with the character and arguments that they need to avoid risky and destructive behavior; loving communication and wise counsel can help your child resist temptation and make good decisions.

3. Over the next four years, your child will sit under the influence of a few professors who enjoy tearing down the moral and religious views of their students. For such profs, teaching is a game and the intellectual seduction of their students is the conquest that makes their teaching challenging. Their agenda is to separate students from their parents, thereby, they hope, removing the influence of traditional Judeo-Christian values. Wise parents will listen carefully and be ready to help counter such pernicious nonsense.’

FULL STORY

Obama to Push Tax Break

Editor — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:19:02 +0000

Look for this to be the bait to Republicans on his $50 billion stimulus union campaign fund bill.

By JONATHAN WEISMAN And JOHN D. MCKINNON at WSJ

EXCERPTS:

‘President Barack Obama, in one of his most dramatic gestures to business, will propose that companies be allowed to more quickly write off 100% of their new investment in plants and equipment through 2011.’

‘”The White House is missing the big picture. These aren’t necessarily bad proposals, but they don’t address the two big problems that are hurting our economy—excessive government spending, and the uncertainty that Washington Democrats’ policies, especially their massive tax hike, are creating for small businesses,” said House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R, Ohio).’

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Obama proposes union slush fund

No industry has spent more on this election cycle than unions. Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner breaks down the real benefactors of the government’s newly proposed infrastructure spending plan.

Anger and intensity headed for the ballot box

Karl Rove says the grassroots are ready to satiate their anger by sending a message to Washington in November. Democrats are desperate. Stay focused.

Obama announces $50+ billion 2012 campaign funding push

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