FEBRUARY 25, 2011 How can fringe benefits cost nearly as much as a worker’s salary? Answer: collective bargaining. By ROBERT M. COSTRELL The showdown in Wisconsin over fringe benefits for public employees boils down to one number: 74.2. That’s how many cents the public pays Milwaukee public-school teachers and other employees for retirement and health […]
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February 24, 2011 By Victor Davis Hanson President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission — and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and across-the-board spending cuts. His first two budgets led to the largest deficits in U.S. history. The ensuing $3 trillion dollars in red ink prompted the tea party
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February 24, 2011 China and Russia are developing and fielding sophisticated air defenses and advanced stealth fighters. The Raptor is the only plane that can meet these challenges. By MICHAEL AUSLIN As Congress begins to take up the Obama administration’s defense budget, one item not even under discussion needs to be considered. Events of the
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FEBRUARY 23, 2011 Few protesters in the Middle East connect rising food prices to U.S. monetary policy. But central bankers do. By GEORGE MELLOAN In accounts of the political unrest sweeping through the Middle East, one factor, inflation, deserves more attention. Nothing can be more demoralizing to people at the low end of the income
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FEBRUARY 22, 2011 The New York Governor tries to clean up Tammany health care. One under-reported story of 2011 is the revolt of the Governors, who are looking in horror at ObamaCare’s permanent expansion of Medicaid and begging Washington for more flexibility. The White House is telling them to kiss off, though less expected is
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By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN DickMorris.com February 18, 2011 A bi-partisan Senate working group which includes Republican Senators Tom Coburn (Oklahoma), Mike Crapo (Idaho), and Saxby Chambliss (Georgia) is considering back door, automatically triggered tax increases as a way to bring down the budget deficit. The Wall Street Journal reports that the plan which
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This communication was sent to editors of the N&O by me. I have yet to see them print it and I do kindly appreciate your consideration of sharing it with your members and friends. Thank you, John Tedesco —————————————————————————————————- Moving Forward for our children Looking back on this past year presents many successes
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NATIONAL INFLATION ASSOCIATION WWW.INFLATION.US February 18, 2011 NIA Projects Multi-Trillion Dollar U.S. Budget Deficits Earlier this week, President Obama released the White House’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 along with their budget projections for the following 10 years. The White House projects a record budget deficit in 2011 of $1.645 trillion, but for the
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