Tag Archives: labor unions
Blame the Unions
Blame the majority Democrats in the state legislature who have done unions’ bidding for the past decade — spiking public employees’ pay and benefits, expanding government programs to offer ever more taxpayer-subsidized services, using borrowing and other gimmicks when revenue was weak and spending every last dime when it was strong, and constantly adding new burdens to business that hurt tax collections and drove employers (and jobs) elsewhere. Continue reading
Support American Workers
The truth the Democrats and their lapdogs in the media refuse to trumpet is that the United Auto Workers, their political puppets in the Democratic Party and decades of politically timid corporate managers actively destroyed the American automobile industry and squandered the personal retirement assets of millions of Americans in the process. The only sensible response a consumer can offer to such monumentally pathological conduct is to boycott union made automobiles. Continue reading
California Agonistes
California’s problems stem from a dysfunctional, Democratic-dominated state legislature that has increased spending steadily while lacking the two-thirds majority necessary to pass commensurate tax increases. But California voters themselves also bear responsibility for the spending. Continue reading
Blinding Arbitration
Big Labor’s top legislative priority, “card check,” might be stalled in the Senate, but that doesn’t mean the unions are rolling over. While talk of compromise is in the air, we hope business leaders and Senators stay alert. Continue reading
Car Crazy
At the end of his Rose Garden explanation Tuesday of the new U.S. fuel-efficiency standards, President Obama remarked on the good that can be accomplished when we are “working together.” The President may be getting ahead of himself. Watching the unlikely coalition arrayed behind him as Mr. Obama committed the U.S. to an astonishing passenger-car mileage average of 39 miles per gallon by 2016, it looks truer to say we are merely standing together in this adventure, for better or worse. Continue reading
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Tagged auto industry, economics, fascism, labor unions, uaw
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California Reckoning
Californians head to the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of six ballot initiatives, all of which are ostensibly designed to combat the Golden State’s budget crisis. If the polls are right, all but one of these measures will crash and burn — and by wide margins. A reckoning for liberal tax and spend governance may finally be arriving. Continue reading
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Tagged california, deficit spending, democrats, labor unions, taxes
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