The Socialist State of California is between a rock and a bigger rock. The temporary tax hikes rammed down upon us in California by the crooked lawyers that run our state expired yesterday. In order to pass a budget this… Read More ›
Gov't Workers & Unions
U.S. Post Office Requires $238 Billion Taxpayer Bailout – Postal Worker Labor Union Will Not Permit Saturday Cutback – You Must Pay More Instead
The U.S. Post Service just announced they can no longer afford to pay into their employee pension plans because they are out of money. They are currently running a $238 billion deficit over the next decade, with an $8.5 billion… Read More ›
A Nation of Takers – Paying People to Avoid Working – Producers On The Decline, Parasites On The Rise
“We face two dangers,” warns Rep. Paul Ryan (D, WI) in his budget proposal, “long-term economic decline as the number of makers diminishes and the number of takers grows and, worse, gradual moral-political decline as dependency and passivity weaken the… Read More ›
One Year’s Worth. Is how long the Government could pay all its debt if we took every single penny from the wealthy.
If we agree to destroy all the producers, and take all of their income, all of their assets and wipe out the wealthy class in its entirety we could pay off just one year of what our government spends. ONE…. Read More ›
Atlas Shrugged Part I – When a frightening movie becomes reality…or when a frightening reality becomes a movie.
Following is a brief premise of the movie and a revelation between a frightening prediction the movie made, and that prediction becoming reality just four days ago as reported by the New York Times. The movie Atlas Shrugged Part I… Read More ›
Japan fixes a road in 6 days while Americans sit in traffic for years…why?
Japan fixes a road completely destroyed by the earthquake in just six days. Americans wait years for repairs. The repair of the 10 freeway in California after the Northridge earthquake took three months and they made a big deal out… Read More ›
How Public Unions enslave people…even non-members
Mish had a great post today on the problem with collective bargaining, that thing which the Unions in Wisconsin are throwing toddler-style temper tantrums about… Collective Bargaining neither a Privilege nor a Right The battle cry from Wisconsin is a… Read More ›
FIRST: Democrats Give Unions All Your Money SECOND: Unions Support Democrats With $$$$ During Election THIRD: And Repeat
You have just witnessed the life cycle of a Union. When it comes time for the Labor Unions to negotiate, they meet with the politicians. The Democrats happily give them everything they ask for; higher salaries, free health care, robust… Read More ›
Union Teacher Sings, “Where’s the cash, we need it fast!”
Union worker entitlement knows no bounds. This video should put it in clear perspective for you. These are the kinds of Union thugs Wisconsin is currently dealing with. In the following 38 second video, watch how teachers in the Union… Read More ›
Chris Christie tells the Democrats to shutdown the state government, he’s gonna go watch the Mets
Like a Unicorn sighting, spotting a Democrat lowering taxes is a rare sight indeed. In New Jersey, where there’s a shortage of Unicorns, the Democrats demanded that Chris Christie allow them to raise taxes. Apparently the Union pension obligations, early… Read More ›
Democrats flee the state to avoid vote on reducing Labor Union power…it’s time to CRUSH THE UNIONS
In my last post this morning, the Democrats had fled the Capitol. Now they’ve fled the state (click here for story). What a bunch of clowns. Rather than show up with pride and honor and respect and vote against the… Read More ›
Californians Approve Huge Increases in their Income Taxes – What the HELL were you thinking?
What was it about Prop 25 that was so hard to understand? I live in California and I understood it just fine. Talk about a PERFECT STORM. Californians voted for the union-loving politician Jerry Brown and put him in charge,… Read More ›
Bell City Manager Resigns in Disgrace From $800,000 Government Job – Will Now Receive $650,000 Pension Every Year For Life
That’s for life. He’s only 56…quick math means his disgraceful departure will earn him about $13,000,000. Nice job, if you can lose it. As reported by ABC News… Three municipal officials whose outsize salaries sparked a firestorm of outrage in… Read More ›
$800,000 Salary for City Manager of Bell – A Tiny Town in Los Angeles County
Bell, a tiny town in the County of Los Angeles of about 39,000 people, mostly Latino, who average between $9,000 and $12,000 a year in annual income are paying $787,637 a year in salary for their Chief Administrative Officer Robert… Read More ›
Obama Limits Aid On BP Oil Spill – Only Labor Union Help Allowed
Never one to let an opportunity to help labor unions go to waste, Obama is not allowing non-union skimmer ships that could assist in cleaning up the BP oil spill to join the cleanup effort. As a result, many oil… Read More ›
431,000 Jobs Added in May But 411,000 Were Temporary Government Workers
In a country where it takes 200,000 new jobs a month just to break-even as young people enter the workforce and newly arrived legal immigrants seek employment, only adding an estimated 20,000 private sector jobs is a massive net loss… Read More ›
Dow Jones Hits 25,000?
California government workers asked the politicians in Sacramento to approve billions of dollars in retroactive pay increases, a retirement age of 50 and lifetime pensions of up to 90% of their final salary. CalPers, the union representing the state workers… Read More ›
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