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Tim Phillips Washington Examiner via Americans for Prosperity 8/11/2011 Last night’s state senate recall elections where the GOP held its majority in the face of a $20 million union and left-wing assault demonstrates that standing for lower taxes, less spending and reform of outrageous public union pensions is a winner with the people. Fed up […] August 11th, 2011 | Tags: Americans for Prosperity (AFP), class warfare, Gov. Scott Walker | Category: Elections, Politics, Progressives, Taxes, unfunded liabilities, Unions, Wisconsin | Comments are closed
David Ariosto CNN 7/31/2011 Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said Sunday during an unannounced visit to Afghanistan that he doesn’t know whether soldiers will continue to receive paychecks if an agreement over the U.S. debt ceiling cannot be reached. “I certainly hope it gets solved,” Mullen told reporters. […] July 31st, 2011 | Tags: Admiral Mike Mullen, blackmail, debt ceilling, House Armed Services Committee, Leon Panetta, Rep. Buck McKeon | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Department of Defense, Economy, Entitlements, Federal spending, Military, unfunded liabilities, Video | Comments are closed
William A. Jacobson Legal Insurrection 3/28/2011 Guess what? The Legislative Reference Bureau published the Wisconsin budget repair bill Friday, and as the law provides, the Governor is taking the position the law is in effect. And he’s stopped withholding union dues as of today, even though there are more court hearings tomorrow. From JSOnline: Gov. […] March 28th, 2011 | Tags: collective-bargaining, Gov. Scott Walker, public employees, public sector pensions | Category: legislation, Politics, unfunded liabilities, Unions, Wisconsin | Comments are closed
Herb Jackson The Record NorthJersey.com 3/14/2011 New Jersey’s beleaguered public worker health insurance fund got a nearly $39 million cash injection last year from a piece of the controversial federal health insurance law that Governor Christie derides as “Obamacare.” Christie’s administration aggressively pursued the funding, a Treasury Department spokesman said, and is seeking payment for […] March 14th, 2011 | Tags: Early Retiree Reinsurance Program, early retirement, Gov. Chris Christie, House Judiciary Committee, Medicare, public sector pensions, Rep. John Conyers, Sen. Bob Menendez, single payer health care | Category: Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care, New Jersey, SCOTUS, States, Taxes, Treasury Department, unfunded liabilities, Unions | Comments are closed
Eric Odom Planes, Trains and Politics 3/10/2011 Ann Coulter’s column this week hits the nail on the head. She lashes out at those who believe we should place public employees on a hero panel of some sort. Fine, we understand that Wisconsin public sector employees like the system that pays them an average of $76,500 […] March 10th, 2011 | Tags: Ann Coulter, Madison | Category: Economy, Entitlements, Politics, Taxes, unfunded liabilities, Unions, Wisconsin | Comments are closed
Meredith Jessup The Blaze 3/9/2011 Whether he meant to or not, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has secured the political high ground and left Democrats and their union supporters shaking their heads in disbelief. I was a little worried about the governor’s fortitude when he offered a collective bargaining compromise earlier this week, but after tonight’s […] March 10th, 2011 | Tags: chaos, civility, Gov. Scott Walker, Madison, Michael Moore, National Guard, public employees, public sector pensions, Sen. Mark Miller, state police | Category: Barack Obama, Economy, Marxism, unfunded liabilities, Unions, Wisconsin | Comments are closed
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