Archive for Category: "Unions"

August 5, 2010 06:35

Chris Christie: The Scourge of Trenton

“We have not found our footing,” Democratic state senator Loretta Weinberg later said, still reeling from the decisive defeat. “I think a lot of people underestimated Chris Christie.” – NRO

August 4, 2010 06:06

Christie takes on union pensions

If we don’t DRASTICALLY cut spending at the federal and state level our governments will be bankrupt, our money worthless and there will be no benefits for anyone. Our economy WILL collapse. It is mathematically impossible to pay all the debt and promised entitlements. Time to WAKE UP America.

August 3, 2010 07:02

Gov’t Motors’ Electric Edsel

This is a car mandated by environmental elitists and government command-economy bureaucrats at the expense of taxpayers who won’t buy the car but will be taken for a ride anyway. It will not pull us out of the economic ditch we’re in. – IBD

August 2, 2010 07:01

Krauthammer: “The Chevy Volt Is A Disaster”

Charles Krauthammer: “The only people who are going to buy it are going to be very rich people who are going to park it outside their townhouse for ostentatious show of how virtuous they are while they drive around in their Cadillac Escalade.” -video at RealClearPolitics

August 2, 2010 05:25

Public sector unions collapsing East St. Louis

After negotiations with police and firefighter unions broke down, the city will layoff 37 employees, including 19 of its 62 police officers, 11 firefighters, four public works employees, and three administrators. The layoffs take effect on Sunday.

July 30, 2010 07:48

Why Democrats are Pushing the $165 Billion Union Pension Bailout

Likely to surpass the touted $165 billion it is estimated to cost, Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act (S. 3157) was introduced on March 23rd by Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and is designed to bailout unions’ underfunded pension funds by transferring the liability of those funds onto the backs of the taxpayers.

July 28, 2010 07:20

A leftist Obama supporter says Obama is anti-business

The plain and simple truth is that Obama is a Marxist. He told us in the campaign that he wanted to ’spread the wealth around’. He sat at the feet of avowed Marxist Jeremiah Wright for 20 years and claimed him as a mentor. He had a self proclaimed communist revolutionary on his White House staff as a ‘Green Jobs’ czar in Van Jones. In his own book Obama states that he sought out ‘The Marxist Professors’ in college and points out that he ‘went to socialist conferences’. His science czar, Holdren, and his recent appointment to Medicare & Medicaid, Berwick have both espoused beliefs in the ’spread the wealth’ philosophy which is Marxism. Marxism is inherently anti-business.

July 27, 2010 19:15

GOP holds the line against DISCLOSE Act

Finally one for the Gipper. A bill designed to aid incumbent Democrats and give unions an advantage in campaigning went down in a narrow vote today thanks to staunch Republican opposition. The Disclose Act was a reaction to the Supreme Court Citizens United Decision which had Obama chiding the Supreme Court Justices at the State of the Union speech.

July 27, 2010 16:13

SEIU union spends $500,000 in local election, may reach $1,000,000 – a sign of the times?

This SEIU case is a classic example of taxpayer money being recycled via union dues of public paid employees to then be spent to control the government so that more taxpayer money can go to union wages and benefits of public employees so that more dues can go to control the government. This is a microcosm of what is happening all across America.

July 22, 2010 07:47

Cititzens wise up to high union costs

Voters in Chula Vista, California overwhelmingly approve an initiative banning public contracts requiring all workers get union wages. The people of Chula Vista could teach the President a little about union favoritism.