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Seeking more ways to blow the doubled budget under Obama, Sec. Arne Duncan will have the Department team up with teachers unions in a global summit to “consider the future of their profession as equal partners with governments”.

Despite our reluctance to talk about it, there is absolutely no question that lavish public pensions are a crippling problem for our country.

AFL-CIO became a progressive/ socialist organization when John Sweeney, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, took over. Trumka has a violent background and teams with other socialist groups.

Cities have as high as $40,000 per household in unfunded pension liabilities alone. FBN’s Brian Sullivan predicts this will be the year that a major US city files for bankruptcy and that the new fiscal battle will be between old and young.

Claims union snow removal workers were deliberately slowing down work appear substantiated by this video of a truck driving down snowy streets with its plow raised and workers hanging out at a doughnut shop for hours on end.

Americans may have had their first taste of disgruntled public unions hitting back at necessary spending cuts. Is it time to privatize?

Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts.

The state of Illinois elected a Keynesian nutcase of epic magnitude in Governor Quinn. Quinn’s latest brainstorm is to borrow $15 billion to “stabilize things”.

A bill in the Indiana legislature would allow local governments to declare bankruptcy. Best of all, the bill gives an emergency manager the ability to renegotiate labor contracts, and approve or veto contracts, expenses, loans and hiring.

It stopped sending monthly pension checks to its 150 retired workers, breaking a state law requiring it to pay its promised retirement benefits in full.