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Posted on 06/09/2010 2:28:20 PM PDT by Fudd Fan
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Harry the Body, good review Mark, I had forgotten lots of this.
HI!
Unions Just Flushed $5 Million of Your Tax Dollars Down the Toilet
It is not every day we get to agree with the Obama administration. But after Sen. Blanche Lincoln defeated Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter in the Arkansas Democratic Senate primary runoff election, after the AFL-CIO, SEIU, AFSCME poured millions of dollars into Halter's campaign, a senior White House official told Politico: "Organized labor just flushed $10 million of their members' money down the toilet." But it wasn't just "their members" money that those unions were wasting. This year the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed that for the first time in the history of the United States, a majority of union members work for the government, not the private sector. To be exact, 52% of all union members work for the federal or state and local governments. That means more than half of the $10 million that unions wasted just in Arkansas first came from your tax dollars. And the waste goes well beyond Arkansas.
In his ongoing battle with teachers unions, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) recently told a town hall in Robbinsville: "My argument is not with teachers in New Jersey. My argument is with a union who collects $730 a year from every teacher and school employee in the union in mandatory dues. And if you don't want to join the union here's your option: you can be out. You pay 85% of $730 ... to be out. It's like the Hotel California. You can check in anytime you like but you can never leave. That raises for the teachers union, get ready, $130 million a year. What do they spend that money on? ... $6 million in negative advertising against me since March 16th. Think about that. That's a little over two months they have spent $6 million on New York TV and Radio, Philadelphia TV and radio to attack me. That's dues money that is coming from their teachers, mandatory no choice, and from all of you because those salaries come from your property taxes and your state income taxes."
Christie's fight with government unions is over his constitutional amendment that would limit annual property tax increases to 2.5 percent. Government unions hate this policy because lower taxes mean less government spending which means less dues from government employees. At a meeting with conservative journalists yesterday at The Heritage Foundation, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels called government unions "the new privileged class in America." He told Politico earlier this week: "We used to think of government workers as underpaid public servants. Now they are better paid than the people who pay their salaries."
As Heritage fellow James Sherk has documented this battle between government unions and the people who pay their salaries is playing out across the country. In Maine, the Maine Municipal Association, the SEIU, the Teamsters, and the Maine Education Association collectively spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign against a ballot initiative that would have prevented government spending from growing faster than the combined rate of inflation and population growth. In Illinois, AFSCME Council 31 ran television and radio ads pushing for tax increases in their "Fair Budget Illinois" campaign. In Oregon, government unions provided 90 percent of the $4 million spent advocating two ballot initiatives to raise personal income and business taxes by $733 million.
When a private sector company agrees to an unwise labor contract, it goes out of business (unless it gets bailed out by the government). But government never goes out of business, and in fact, always grows. In 2009 private-sector unions lost 834,000 members while public-sector unions actually gained 64,000 members. This is untenable. Something must change before government unions bankrupt this country.
Christie-Palin 2012!
For the first time in my adult life, my friends are envious of my governor.
Hi CC27.
Which is why she had the super short hair cut a while back. It was only last year.
No worries Tornado, the idea was to get people to do that.
http://governorpalin4president.blogspot.com/2010/06/sarah-palin-on-fox-news-obama.html
link to video of Palin on with Megy Kelly today.
She speaks of executive experience and the lack of with Boma, the oil spill issue, etc.
Was on the road yesterday during your show but my message is about your parting words last Wednesday. You said you had “great sub hosts” to fill in for you. What a crock, the backbenchers have better sub hosts than C-moan. But I haven’t listened to any of your sub hosts for the last couple years.
No skin off my nose but don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
Carly Fiorina has been endorsed by the National Right to Life, the California Pro-Life Council, and the Susan B. Anthony List.
She is pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-military, and pro-strict border security and against amnesty.
She is against Obamacare and will vote to repeal it and prevent the government takeover of private companies and industries.
Carly is also a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Is a member of the NRA, has a 100% NRA rating, and she and her husband are gun owners.
She is pro-energy development and believes as I do in an all-of-the-above approach to energy independence.
She is against cap and tax.
And most importantly, Carly is the only conservative in the race who can beat Barbara Boxer. That’s no RINO. That’s a winner.
She grew up in a modest home with a school teacher dad, worked her way through several colleges, and then entered an arena where few women had tread
Among those who endorsed Fiorina
SARAH PALIN
TOM COBURN, M.D.
U.S. Senator (R-OK)
JAMES INHOFE
U.S. Senator (R-OK)
JON KYL
U.S. Senator (R-AZ
Alvin Greene allegedly showed some obscene photos to a college student and asked to go up to her dorm room or something.
I think he’ll be standing in his own poo.
Good for you!!
I was going to post to you that you need to EDUCATE Markie about Carly.
“If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.”
~~ Ronald Reagan, in his autobiography, An American Life
There have been several candidates which TGO has endorsed which I highly disagreed with, so you are in good company :)
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