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EDITORIAL: Public-sector unions bankrupting America
Washington Times ^ | 4/23/10 | House editorial

Posted on 04/23/2010 1:40:20 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

Usually it takes a national government to spend itself into a debt measured in the trillions. Yet it comes as little surprise that the same profligacy that pervades the corridors of federal power infects this country's 87,000 state, county and municipal governments and school districts. By 2013, the amount of retirement money promised to employees of these public entities will exceed cash on hand by more than a trillion dollars.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: unions
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To: JohnHuang2

Excellent!!


21 posted on 04/23/2010 12:11:20 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: JohnHuang2
It gets older and older and staler and staler with every passing week. The recovery is real and it is here and simple denial and doom mongering forever will not make it go away. Grok already. Free capitalist economies are very resilient animals and it is utterly normal that the US economy is growing again. That's what it does.
22 posted on 04/23/2010 3:48:17 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Well said in your comment #7. I agree.


23 posted on 04/23/2010 10:23:47 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
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To: JohnHuang2

You...are...a...national...treasure!

U gotz fax..lol!

God love you, JH2!


24 posted on 04/24/2010 12:16:03 AM PDT by dixiechick2000
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