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Scott Walker said in 2008 that the government "needs to do more to give people freedom back" by fighting the "poverty pimps in our society," referring to government officials and community-based organizations that, he said, use poverty for political power. ...

Calls for immediate action to fill thousands of vacant health care positions at VAWASHINGTON—American Federation of Government Employees National President J. David Cox Sr. issued the following statement in response to the resignation of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Eric Shinseki:“AFGE strongly agrees with President Obama’s statements on the need to hire more doctors and nurses to fill the ranks of front-line providers delivering care to our nation’s heroes. It is imperative that the hundreds of physician vacancies be filled immediately. This must include clerks and other support personnel who work hand-in-hand with physicians to ensure that top notch...

The union horde is spreading, from Madison to Indianapolis to a state capital near you. And yet the Democratic and union bigwigs engineering the outrage haven't directed their angry multitudes at what is arguably the most "hostile workplace" in the nation: Washington, D.C. It will no doubt surprise you to learn that President Obama, the great patron of the working man, also happens to be the great CEO of one of the least union-friendly shop floors in the nation.

By With an effective rate of unemployment above 16% the Democrat controlled Congress voted to give their federal union pals the option to take 12 weeks leave with 4 of them paid for by you. The very fact that the “board” of the “federal corporation” would do this clearly makes the point that federal employees are generally useless and perform tasks so inconsequential that they can leave their desks for 12 weeks without even causing a ripple in the smooth but empty delivery of the “services” they provide to us. The federal employees bring down an average salary of $79,...