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Businesses may be losing money. Workers may be losing jobs. Families may be losing homes. Schools may be losing teachers. Taxes are about to go up. Roger Clemens was indicted.
Everybody in the American economy is hurtling. Only the unions have a smile on their face.
President Obama GAVE them money ownership shares in General (Government) Motors and Chrysler. BO is about to bailout the union pension plans while still pushing to force workers to join unions via the end of secret ballots.
The SEIU had a hand in the creation of Obamacare, the stimulus program and pay outs (use stimulus money and you have to hire union only).
"Many state governments are facing serious budget shortfalls as tax revenues have dwindled during the current economic slowdown. But some of these shortfalls, at least in part, could have been avoided if public-sector employee unions didn’t play such a dominant role in state fiscal issues, as a March 2010 Cato Institute report explained.
New York, California, New Jersey are all states facing Greek-Style deficits, as a June 25 Bloomberg.com story described them, referring to that nations debt crisis. But as a report by Chris Edwards, the director of Tax Policy Studies at Cato Institute pointed out, these states all have high percentages of unionized state and local government employees (New York 73 percent, New Jersey 66 percent and California 58 percent). "
There is a solution. "Instead of sweating these bureaucratic procedures, the Cato Institutes Edwards prescribes following the models of North Carolina and Virginia, which have been proven to be successful and limit union activity in state government.
State governments should ban collective bargaining in the public sector, following the successful policies of Virginia and North Carolina, Edwards wrote. With the many large fiscal challenges facing governments such as huge pension funding gaps policymakers need flexibility to make tough budget decisions.
BTW, it was Gov. Jerry Brown in 1977, in California, who turned over workers to the union through a collective bargaining bill. What will he do for them this time, if elected?
November 2 is a chance to put a smile on the face of families and workers--this is done by demanding regime change in your State Capitol and Washington on November 2. Anything less and you can expect the bribes workers pay to be allowed to work as teachers, janitors and other government workers will increase.
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Everybody in the American economy is hurtling. Only the unions have a smile on their face.
President Obama GAVE them money ownership shares in General (Government) Motors and Chrysler. BO is about to bailout the union pension plans while still pushing to force workers to join unions via the end of secret ballots.
The SEIU had a hand in the creation of Obamacare, the stimulus program and pay outs (use stimulus money and you have to hire union only).
"Many state governments are facing serious budget shortfalls as tax revenues have dwindled during the current economic slowdown. But some of these shortfalls, at least in part, could have been avoided if public-sector employee unions didn’t play such a dominant role in state fiscal issues, as a March 2010 Cato Institute report explained.
New York, California, New Jersey are all states facing Greek-Style deficits, as a June 25 Bloomberg.com story described them, referring to that nations debt crisis. But as a report by Chris Edwards, the director of Tax Policy Studies at Cato Institute pointed out, these states all have high percentages of unionized state and local government employees (New York 73 percent, New Jersey 66 percent and California 58 percent). "
There is a solution. "Instead of sweating these bureaucratic procedures, the Cato Institutes Edwards prescribes following the models of North Carolina and Virginia, which have been proven to be successful and limit union activity in state government.
State governments should ban collective bargaining in the public sector, following the successful policies of Virginia and North Carolina, Edwards wrote. With the many large fiscal challenges facing governments such as huge pension funding gaps policymakers need flexibility to make tough budget decisions.
BTW, it was Gov. Jerry Brown in 1977, in California, who turned over workers to the union through a collective bargaining bill. What will he do for them this time, if elected?
November 2 is a chance to put a smile on the face of families and workers--this is done by demanding regime change in your State Capitol and Washington on November 2. Anything less and you can expect the bribes workers pay to be allowed to work as teachers, janitors and other government workers will increase.
More...