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More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined. Stephen Moore The Wall Street Journal 4/1/2011 If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly […] April 1st, 2011 | Tags: ambition, industry, producers, public sector employment, public sector pensions, security | Category: Employment, Government | Comments are closed
“If even one of these Democrats had remained in Wisconsin, the state police would have forcibly brought them to the state Capitol and the bill would have passed. So now they are holed up in another state playing a high stakes game of chicken over which side will cave first. That’s why we […] February 22nd, 2011 | Tags: "Dean Dollars", Act Blue, Best Western Clock Tower Resort, Chicago, Democracy for America, fraud, Howard Dean, Jim Dean, Jon Erpenbach, public sector employment, Tilted Kilt, Tim Carpenter, WI State Senate Democratic Committee (SSDC) | Category: corruption, Education, fundraising, Illinois, Media accountability, Politicians, Taxes, Unions, Wisconsin | Comments are closed
“They sent a message to the rest of the city that these particular labor issues are more important…”They were told [by supervisors] to take off routes [and] not do the plowing of some of the major arteries in a timely manner. They were told to make the mayor [Bloomberg] pay for the layoffs, […] December 30th, 2010 | Tags: blizzard 12/26/2010, Dan Halloran, Department of Transportation, John Doherty, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, public safety, public sector employment, Sanitation Department | Category: New York, Taxes, Unions, Video | Comments are closed
Editorial The Trentonian 12/2/2010 From New York to Trenton to Washington and beyond, employees on tax-funded payrolls have gotten the notion they are the public masters, not public servants. And why wouldn’t they? Year after year, craven politicians (especially although not exclusively Democrats) have surrendered to the unions’ unsustainable contract demands without so much as […] December 5th, 2010 | Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Gov. Chris Christie, public sector employment, Trenton | Category: Barack Obama, California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Politicians, Progressives, Taxes, Unions | Comments are closed
Steve McCann American Thinker 11/19/2010 Ireland, a country to which nearly 40 million Americans can trace their ancestry, is on the brink of insolvency and a loss of sovereignty. In the 1990s and the early part of this decade, Ireland’s growth rate had earned it the nickname of “the Celtic Tiger.” Supported by EU budget […] November 19th, 2010 | Tags: Ireland, public sector employment, real estate | Category: Banking and finance, Entitlements, European Union | Comments are closed
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