Post Tagged with: "lobbying"

April 17, 2010 06:02

After deducting the cost of millions of dollars in lobbying GE pays $0 tax

The company lobbying for the light bulb ban, the carbon tax and forcing you to buy new appliances managed to pay zero tax to the federal government. How many politicians had to get paid to get that done?

April 15, 2010 06:45

Unions Making Postal Service Unsustainable, GAO Says

“Limitations on the workforce mix of full-time and part-time postal employees and workforce flexibility rules contained in contracts with USPS’s unions are key detriments of how postal work is organized and, thus, of its cost,” the GAO report said.

April 15, 2010 05:54

Labor unions put heat on Democrats – Seek passing of ‘ card check’ and other political payoffs

Labor officials told the Wall Street Journal last month they planned to exceed the record $53 million spent in the 2008 election season in the 2010 campaigns.

April 15, 2010 04:19

Obama payoff to unions now official – only unions get government contracts

This is blatant bribery at the highest level of government. Unions spent almost half a TRILLION dollars electing Obama and Democrats and now taxpayers must pay 30% more for everything contracted by the government to pay back the unions. These people should go to jail!

April 13, 2010 06:19

Hedge fund managers feed snakes nest of lawmakers – US treasury looted as result

Many hedge funds (including George Soros) enjoyed an enormously profitable year in 2009, in part because of good bets that federal dollars would be used to rescue “too-big-to-fail” financial institutions. Sounds like bribery to me.

April 13, 2010 03:30

Mocking prayer, A New Jersey teacher’s union prays for Gov. Chris Christie’s death.

Hell hath no fury like a teacher’s union scorned. To close a $10.7 billion budget deficit, New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie last month proposed slashing education by $820 million, an equivalent to a 5% cut for each school district. That follows on the heels of an across-the-board pay freeze.

April 12, 2010 14:32

Obama’s Secret Power Grabs

President Obama seems to believe that most of his sweeping agenda to transform the country can be accomplished without even a vote of Congress.

April 12, 2010 12:41

And you thought the Green Police ad was just funny – new Obama Dept of Energy regulations will force you to replace appliances and light bulbs to sell your home

In yet more green lunacy from the Obama administration, the DOE will be inspecting your home for green appliance compliance.

April 12, 2010 12:04

Kerry, Graham and Lieberman keep heads in climate sand

Have these Senators been living in a cave? Why do they continue to push legislation that will have ZERO impact on the climate to promote a proven hoax and punish the American people with crippling taxes?

April 6, 2010 04:12

Unions want to dump pensions on taxpayers

Legislation introduced last week could shift costs of union pension plans to taxpayers in an attempt to stave off organized labor’s pension funding crisis.