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Michael Barone The Washington Examiner 10/30/2013 Where are Americans moving, and why? Timothy Noah, writing in the Washington Monthly, professes to be puzzled. He points out that people have been moving out of states with high cheapest viagra to buy online in uk per capita incomes — Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland — to states […] November 3rd, 2013 | Tags: housing market, land use, public sector pensions, zoning | Category: Unions | Comments are closed
Mike Stenhouse CEO, RI Center for Freedom and Prosperity via The Daily Caller 7/30/2013 You have to wonder if state and local officials managing the city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island — already under state oversight for their dire financial straits — are living in the real world or in the land of make believe. After […] July 30th, 2013 | Tags: Christopher Celeste, poverty, property taxes, public sector pensions, Thomas Bruce, Woonsocket | Category: corruption, Entitlements, Politicians, Progressives, Rhode Island, Socialism, Taxes, Unions | Comments are closed
It took only six decades of “progressive” policies to bring a great city to its knees.
Mark Steyn National Review Online 7/19/2013 By the time Detroit declared bankruptcy, Americans were so inured to the throbbing dirge of Motown’s Greatest Hits — 40 percent of its streetlamps don’t work; 210 of its […] July 20th, 2013 | Tags: bankruptcy, Detroit, Judge Rosemarie E. Aquilina, public sector pensions | Category: corruption, Michigan, Politics, Progressives | Comments are closed
Bryan Preston PJ Tatler PJ Media 7/19/2013 Where’s the “thou shalt not offend Obama” clause in the Michigan state constitution? I’m unable to find it. Ruling that the governor and Detroit’s emergency manager violated the state constitution, an Ingham County Circuit judge ordered Friday that Detroit’s federal bankruptcy filing be withdrawn. “It’s absolutely […] July 19th, 2013 | Tags: bailout, bankruptcy, Chapter 9, Detroit, Gov. Rick Snyder, Judge Rosemarie E. Aquilina, Kevyn Orr, Michael Moore, public sector pensions, Sen. Rand Paul | Category: Barack Obama, Michigan, Politics, Unions | Comments are closed
Mary Williams Walsh The New York Times 12/4/2012 Can a judge rule impartially on pension cuts when her mother, her son, her uncle and even she herself all have a stake in preserving the status quo? In Rhode Island, the site of a sweeping pension overhaul last year, a prominent New York lawyer is seeking […] December 7th, 2012 | Tags: Christmas tree, culture, David Boies, Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo, Judge Sarah Taft-Carter, Lincoln Chafee, public sector pensions, State pension funds | Category: corruption, Economy, Federal Judges, Politics, Progressives, Rhode Island, Taxes, unfunded liabilities, Unions | Comments are closed
Becket Adams The Blaze 12/29/2011 Philadelphia is known as the city of brotherly love and, apparently, paying out massive pensions to public employees who will continue working for the city. Marion B. Tasco, who has been described as being “politically savvy,” will retire from her sixth term as councilwoman, collect $478,057, and then be sworn […] December 30th, 2011 | Tags: Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP), Marion B. Tasco, Mayor Michael A. Nutter, Philadelphia, public sector pensions | Category: corruption, Ethics, Pennsylvania, Politicians, Taxes, unfunded liabilities | Comments are closed
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