Posted on 11/10/2010 9:24:09 PM PST by Reagan is King
One of the first orders of business to come up in the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives will be the demand for bailouts of states where expenditures have been especially profligate — California, New York, Michigan, Illinois, and Connecticut.
Throughout 2009 and 2010, these state governments have stayed above water by repeated infusions of federal cash. These one-shot stimulus payments must be repeated each year. They are all non-recurring expenditures requiring separate annual appropriations.
The Republican House must say no and hold the line, stopping this raid on the federal Treasury. The cry in the caucus must ring loud: "No more bailouts!"
But, as the Republicans demand fiscal discipline and refuse to make the citizens of the other, more responsible states subsidize the wayward finances of California and New York, we need to focus on the union power that has forced states, localities, and school boards to raise taxes, borrow money, and — ultimately — to depend on federal bailouts.
These unions have forced contracts on their states, localities, and...
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The new state bankruptcy procedure should offer all states — and through them, their localities, counties, and school boards — the ability to reorganize their finances free of the demands and constraints of their union agreements.
I love this idea. It should be a PRIORITY for the new conservative House members. The bankrupt liberal states will be coming very soon for their handout to bail them out from their ridiculous union contracts. Force them to file bankruptcy instead and break all their union contracts. It saves the states and helps defund the socialist thug unions. It's what should have been done with GM and Chrysler.
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If anyone but Dick Morris had said this, I'd be inclined to say "amen!" But he is a toe-sucker, so ....
Let’s not forget Hawaii in that mix. Hawaii has the third highest state debt per capita at $3,650 and went completely against the recent national election trend. Hawaii is now the most Democrat state. It cannot survive without the huge infusion of federal dollars secured by Senator Inouye. The public sector unions have binding arbitration and Hawaii unions in general have bought enough politicians and judges to secure their existence into the near future.
Curbing corporate influence would be nice too. Now if only they would make those equal priorities....
Going against the crowd here... I say let all of them have there say! If America is so stupid to believe them, we are lost anyway. More money, more ideas, more speech - let it be!
Most Americans will see through the bull and elect the proper people ‘eventually’...sometimes it takes years to understand the differences. It does all even out after time.
Now some say that even a 4 years is enough time to cause havoc but I have faith in America and it would be corrected even without an election (public pressure is always a great problem for politicians)...
No limits to free speech is the best antidote to all comers.
Don’t forget that Obamacare calls for a unionized public health complex, which must be strangled in the crib.
Go after public sector unions, and defund the Left — root and branch, wherever they feed.
Why should responsible people in say Florida have to pay for the stupidity of say Californians? No more bailouts! The people that elected people with moronic policies should pay.
No other State should pay for the indebtedness of any other State! If any government official - State or Federal - tries to do that, there will be a revolt.
Several States continue to expect Federal bailouts for their over-spending. This Congress has declared that bailouts will NOT happen. If that changes, expect a revolution!
Almost every poll, for example, had Sharron Angle defeating Harry Reid, usually by three or four points. Her six-point defeat on Election Day can be attributed only to the union-based Democratic effort.
Union-based Democratic vote fraud.
It’s basically redistributing wealth from red states to blue states.
Much like the drug cartels, unions are becoming a shadow government - a law unto themselves, passing laws to benefit themselves and ignoring those that are inconvenient.
Yes, seems to be that way - doesn’t it! :^) Red good, Blue bad (economically at the least)...
The easiest way to break the unions is through anti-monopoly laws.
Unions... more truthfully, though, for each industry there is *A* union. One single, solitary union. One union for federal workers, one union for automakers, and so on.
Therefore, each union hold complete control over the supply of skilled labor in certain states and industries (like Michegan’s auto industry). And that is a complete monopoly.
We can then argue that each union needs to be broken up like Standard Oil was; into multiple, smaller, competing unions.
Which would then no longer have control over the supply of labor in those states/industries. If one union’s demands became unreasonable... the company could seek out another. And that other union would see an opportunity to expand itself into a new business.
And then, eventually, unions would morph into the long-term version of a temp agency (ie: a ‘permanent’ agency).
The Constitution grants no power to the Federal government to give any funds whatsoever to the States.
The Federal Reserve is not regulated & their operations are secret. Why couldn’t the Fed bail out states via quantitative easing (printing money)?
The Constitution does not grant the Federal government the power to make anything legal tender. It does grant Congress the power to coin money, but by 18th century definition, Federal Reserve Notes are debt instruments, and therefore are not money—since, by 18th century definition, money cannot be be someone else's debt. In our current fiat "money" system, money and debt are indistinguishable (Federal Reserve Notes can only be redeemed for US Treasury debt instruments, and vice versa.)
The Constitution also grants Congress the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States—but again, Federal Reserve Notes are not Constitutionally "money", because they are debt instruments ("notes") and because they are not Constitutionally legal tender. To be "money" as that term was understood when the Constitution was written and adopted, it must both be legal tender and not a debt instrument.
The Taft-Hartley Act should be amended to strengthen private sector unions and weaken public sector ones.
States should be given the option of imposing right to work provisions on public unions in exchanging for guaranteeing the right of private sector workers to union representation.
You’re onto something. What are the prospects?
“Curbing corporate influence would be nice too. Now if only they would make those equal priorities....”
If this was about private sector unions, I would agree, but at this point almost all references to “unions” are in regards to public sector unions, funded (involuntarily) by the taxpayers to agitate for a heavier burden on the same taxpayers. Private sector unions are quickly going the way of the dodo.
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