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Posted in Education, Regional Politics, Unions on Apr 4th, 2010
The executive director of the New Jersey Education Association earned 550K in compensation and benefits. The average teacher in New Jersey earns 60K in salary. Interesting.
Posted in Unions on Feb 24th, 2010
Labor Unions are no longer viewed favorably by most Americans according to a Pew Report. It appears that card check and other agenda items are playing poorly. Generations of good will seems to have been squandered in 3 short years by poor leadership. 6 in 10 Americans now believe that unions have too much power.
Posted in Regional Politics, Unions on Jan 31st, 2010
You are a bad boy. I am suspending you for two years with pay ($11,000 a month). Your punishment is to be shunned for two years, but don’t get too upset with $132,000 being deposited into your bank account over that time. No wonder Governor Christie wants reform, yet the Democrats do not want Governor [...]
In a payoff to his Union buddies Obama has slapped a 35% tariff on Tires imported from China. Not in the market for tires? Then you will just get to pay the next time you buy a car. Cars come with four each and you will get to pay a couple of hundred dollars so [...]
Posted in Change, Delaware GOP, Election 2009, Ethics, Liberalism, Manufactured Homes, Obama, Regional Politics, Schwartzkopf, Sock Puppeteering, Taxes, Tort Reform, Unions on Sep 11th, 2009
37th District candidate Rob Robinson was on WGMD yesterday afternoon and I took the time to tune in a check it out. Bill Colley came right out of the gate with questions about the candidate’s relationship to “Working Families For Delaware’s Future.” a group that was canvassing the 37th with “hit” literature about Robinson’s opponent, [...]
Posted in Healthcare, Unions on Aug 29th, 2009
One reason the public so distrusts the health care plan being considered by Congress is that so many troublesome details keep bubbling out of the massive legislation. The latest example is the $10 billion taxpayers will be asked to shell out to prop up the United Auto Workers’ retiree health insurance program. The helping hand [...]
Posted in Action File, Liberal Media, National Dems, Obama, Unions on Aug 7th, 2009
A town hall meeting turned nasty leaving one person with minor injuries in Tampa, FL. What you hardly notice in the story is that the SEIU organizers injured the opponent of the President’s reform. The President called for his people to show up to the meetings to counter the opponents. In St. Louis and Tampa [...]
Posted in Budget, Business, Change, Election 2008-President, Stuff, US Congress, Unions, economy, unemployment on Jun 1st, 2009
Former Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader chimes in on the GM bankruptcy: Today’s bankruptcy declaration in federal court by General Motors is an avoidable, crude weapon of mass devastation for workers, dealers, auto suppliers, small businesses and their depleted communities. For GM’s voiceless owners — the common shareholders — it is a wipeout. The proximate cause [...]
Kevin Spence at The Cape Gazette is reporting that Susex County is going to get some omnibus spending money for the 3rd try at a new Indian River Inlet Bridge: Indian River Inlet Bridge $1,900,000 to design and construct a new bridge along Route 1 over the Indian River Inlet. The new structure will completely [...]
Posted in Liberalism, Unions on Jul 28th, 2008
I am not anti-union. I am for local autonomy and free political choice. Please understand my motivation for this post. The Service Employees International Union has decided to spend 150 million dollars in this fall’s election. That is their right and I don’t question it. The problem is that they apparently don’t have 150 million [...]
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