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Shedding light on the cost of pay and benefits of public sector employees |
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Monday, 17 May 2010 10:31 |
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Is public sector compensation too high? What are the risks due to current govennment accounting and reporting practices?
88,000 institutions in the United State make up the "public sector". Collectively, these institutions employ approximately over 20 million workers. In 2008, wages and benefits of $1.1 trillion accounted for half of total state and local government spending.
According to a Cato Institute Bulletin, public sector pay averages 45% higher that the private sector average. Public sector workers also have a large advantage in health insurance, pension plans and paid leave.
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American Power Act - bad for America - targets coal industry |
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Monday, 17 May 2010 10:07 |
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 Why you should care? because America uses coal to generate electricity.
"In the US, coal is the major source of affordable, reliable electric power, generating about 50% of US electric power; oil generates about 1%. Contrary to claims, the American Power Act has little to do with reducing oil dependency and everything to do with destroying coal generation of electric power. On May 5, the Congressional Budget Office reported that that coal industry will suffer the greatest job loss from such a bill. Of course, the bill has great allowances for selected industries, called “crony capitalism,” and great subsidies to “alternative energy and green jobs.”
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Freedom of Speech in the Netherlands, a First Amendment Lesson |
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:28 |
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Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician in the Netherlands is charged with discrimination against Muslims. Mr Wilders, has compared the Quran with Mein Kampf, stating that both works are similar in terms of their anti-Semitism and incitement to hatred. An article dated Jan 26, 2010 in the WSJ states that Mr Wilders "insists his focus is on radical Islam and the Quran, which he considers to be not only a religious text but also a political pamphlet encouraging Muslims to discriminate against and, if necessary, kill Jews, Christians, apostates and other unbelievers." We have posted two Video Clips about this trial and the first amendment issues it raises. As America struggles with Political Correctness there should be much to learn as this trial proceeds. If you "google" Geert Wilders...you will find many articles about this trial, please post comments as you find items of interest. Carol K.
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More Lessons from Scott Brown's Win... |
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:01 |
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You might have heard the phrases, the names and all the goofy sounding words like "twitter", "tweeting", "blogging", "friending" or maybe not. Perhaps what Scott Brown's campaign did will cause you to want to learn more about how to leverage the plethora of social marketing tools that are mostly free and only cost you the sweat equity of learning how to master and exploit for your particular cause.
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Lessons Learned from Scott Brown Wiin |
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 13:56 |
From an article by Newt Gingrich dated Jan 21, 2010...here are nine key lessons from the Scott Brown win. Source: Human Events.com
Lesson One: Run Candidates Everywhere
The first lesson Republicans should take from last night's victory is the GOP should run candidates everywhere this year and not worry about whether the district used to vote Republican.
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Why participate in the Caucus? |
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Thursday, 07 January 2010 16:15 |
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Why participate in the Caucus/Primary Election Activities versus support 3rd party candidates?
We need to identify very good principled candidates and help them win in the primaries and we’re going to send them to Washington as Republicans or Democrats ( we don’t care which, because we don’t care what party someone belongs to) where they can actually defend the Constitution and restore the Republic to its founding principles.
We need to participate as Republicans or Democrats...why? Because of Duvergers Law? What is Duvergers Law? Whenever "50% of the vote plus 1 more" wins EVERYTHING", people will eventually coalesce around 2 parties even when they DON'T want to do so.
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 08:39 |
From Tom Tancredo - An Open Letter to Colorado’s 9-12 activists and Tea Party patriots
December 21, 2009
Shortly after 1:00 AM on Monday morning in our nation’s capital, while most Americans were sleeping, the United States Senate voted 60-40 to place another 17% of our nation’s economic activity under the control of federal bureaucrats.
Colorado’s two U.S. Senators, Michael Bennett and Mark Udall, voted for a 2,900-page monstrosity of a bill they had not read. The headline in Monday’s Denver Post said it all: “Party-line vote virtually assures Senate passage.”
I ask you to ponder the meaning of that headline. Not a single Republican voted for this federal takeover, a deceptive, pork-laden proposal that has been mislabeled, “health care reform.” And not a single Democrat voted against it. Some like Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska were bought off by $100 million or $300 million bribes buried deep in the bill, while others simply bought into the despicable lies about the nations’ health insurance industry.
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Letter to Dick Wadhams, the chair of the Colorado GOP |
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Monday, 07 December 2009 23:45 |
My name is Lesley Hollywood. I am the leader of the Northern Colorado Tea Party.
I am writing to express my extreme disgust with what is happening right here in Colorado with the GOP. My disgust lies primarily with Scott McInnis & Jane Norton, the state GOP, and the blatant hijacking of the Tea Party. Myself and my fellow Tea Partiers will not be swayed by a "Platform for Prosperity". This is nothing but a propaganda tool and we are hip to it. Obama is the king of propaganda and it has been overdone. He has proven that propaganda means nothing. Rhetoric means nothing. We are sick and tired of playing "politics as usual" and this is a recipe for disaster in 2010.
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Socialized Medicine is not new... |
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Friday, 16 October 2009 22:50 |
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As we still fight the struggle to keep Obama and his corrupt democrat/communist controlled Congress from destroying the greatest health care system on earth, and totally usurping our Constitution, let me leave you with this from Ronald Reagan. This is from the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against government run health care.
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To Whom Will YOU Pledge? |
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 21:52 |
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Tonight I watched this video and as it started I was thinking to myself, "this isn't so bad -- pledging to volunteer is good." But then as the video progressed and by the time this video came to an end, I was a mix of anger and sadness. I never thought possible that America, the land of the Free and the Brave, could ever be anything else--but this video shows how close we are to losing the greatest gift ever given to any civilization: A Republic.
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