Archive for Category: "Unions"

August 22, 2012 10:57

SEIU going all out for Obama

Obama said he will work to make SEIU’s agenda America’s agenda. Obama’s “investment” means taking more from producers and giving it to union thugs to promote their socialist agenda. The president of SEIU promises to mobilize 100,000 union goons to make 13 million phone calls and actively work to reelect Obama.

August 21, 2012 12:42

Don’t be fooled again – what a 2nd term looks like

Radical leftist groups helped write Obama’s legislation such as Obamacare and pushed his amnesty agenda. How far will they go in a second term when there is no worry about reelection? Can we afford four more years of national suicide?

August 17, 2012 07:44

Obama’s “signature achievement” could be heading for bankruptcy again

Not only does Obama portray the GM bailout as a great success, he has actually said, in public, that he wants a lot more “successes” just like it. “I said I believe in American workers, I believe in this American industry, and now the American auto industry has come roaring back,” he told an audience in Colorado last week. “Now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs, not just in the auto industry, but in every industry.” – Human Events

August 6, 2012 07:24

Zombified Cities Roundup: Detroit Becomes Dumping Ground for the Dead; Financial Urgency in Miami; Oakland Pension Time Bomb; How Pensions Crashed Stockton and San Bernardino

[F]our cities in recent news that are among the walking dead. One is even a dumping ground for the dead.

August 6, 2012 05:54

Leftist Teachers’ Union Goes All In for Obama

The NEA convention passed its usual scores of anti-parent, anti-school-choice, pro-feminist, pro-homosexual resolutions that morph into the NEA’s Legislative Program.

August 4, 2012 09:01

Amtrak lost $800M on cheeseburgers and soda

Taxpayers lost $833 million over the last decade on the food and beverages supplied by Amtrak, which managed to spend $1.70 for every dollar that received in revenue. – Washington Examiner

July 19, 2012 04:40

The Union Difference: A Primer On What Unions Do To The Economy

The rest of society pays for public employee benefits through higher sales, income, and property taxes.

July 11, 2012 04:58

Big Labor spends literally billions of dollars on politics

“The unions’ reports to the Labor Department capture an additional $3.3 billion that unions spent over the same period on political activity. … The top political spender … was the Service Employees International Union. … It reported spending $150 million on politics and lobbying in 2009 and 2010, up from $62 million in 2005 and 2006. … [AFSCME spent] $133 million in the 2009 and 2010 election season, nearly twice the $75 million it spent in the 2005 and 2006 cycle.” – WSJ

July 7, 2012 08:45

Tax dollars fund union lobbyists

Obama’s union jobs funds get diverted to pay for union workers to do union work including lobbying for more union pay and benefits from taxpayers. How stupid can we get?

July 7, 2012 08:00

IN Gov. Daniels on jobs boom from being right to work state

Businesses are migrating to right to work states to get away from onerous and costly unions. Shouldn’t you have a right to work without a union? Shouldn’t you have a choice whether or not to support leftist socialist Democrats and their radical agenda through your forced union dues?