In 1999, the Democratic legislature ran a reckless gamble that makes Wall Street's bankers look cautious. At the top of a bull market, they assumed their investment returns would grow at a 8.25% rate in perpetuity—equivalent to assuming that the Dow would reach 25,000 by 2009—and enacted a huge pension boon for public-safety and...
Labor Unions
Investors.com – Skewed Priorities
Service Employees International Union boss Andy Stern, who told the Wall Street Journal that if the power of persuasion didn’t work, then the persuasion of power would have to do. The records show Stern had 22 meetings, many face-to-face with the president, more than anyone else known so far. Stern might as well borrow...
Gmail – FW: What Really Happened Last Week in Montana – larryhanson@gmail.com
An email going around… if it’s true, and it wouldn’t be a surprise in the least with this amateur and his crooked cronies in office, then it needs to be published far and wide. What Really Happened Last Week in Montana A good friend who received this email forwarded to me. Unbelievable. This was...
Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?
Identity politics, when viewed in its purest form, is racism. Keynesian economics, when distilled to its basic concepts, flies in the face of common sense. Re-branding political policy doesn’t change its ultimate effectiveness. Hypocrites are hypocrites regardless of the causes they support, or claim to champion. The U.S. should not be about “nuance” when...
Europe Thumps U.S., Again – WSJ.com
On present trends, most of Europe will soon have lower income tax rates than most of America. And now the European Union is stealing another competitive march on Washington, this time on a free trade deal with the world’s 13th largest economy, fast-growing South Korea. Last week Brussels and Seoul finished the outline of...
Card Check – Just Good for Unions
YouTube – Card Check – Just Good for Unions.
Obama’s curiously close labor friendship – Los Angeles Times
No wonder Barry won. With hundreds of groups with thousands on the streets and the conservative side working to feed their families and those of the Barry volunteers, no wonder Barry marketing machine won. Curious thing I always like to point out… He won by The SEIU spent $60 million to help elect Obama,...
Finish his law degree? No, Brian Deese has G.M. to dismantle.
Finish his law degree? No, Brian Deese has G.M. to dismantle.. Obama likes to hire his election cycle political lap dogs with the same real world experience he has. None.
WSJ: Car-Maker Bankruptcy Option Leads White House Plans
Looks like Captain Ignorant Marxist is finally backing into a corner by logic. Car-Maker Bankruptcy Option Leads White House Plans – Auto Industry Tracker – WSJ.
