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BAILING OUT THE UNION’S MULTI-EMPLOYER PENSION PLANS

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AUGUST 15, 2010 The Next Pension Bailout New momentum to dump union retirement burdens on taxpayers. Congress is gone for August—heaven be praised—but that hasn’t stopped unions from quietly mobilizing to push through a big new priority this fall: a pension bailout. Big Labor is going Code Red on the issue, in the face of […]

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MORT ZUCKERMAN – THE END OF AMERICAN OPTIMISM

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AUGUST 16, 2010 The End of American Optimism By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Our brief national encounter with optimism is now well and truly over. We have had the greatest fiscal and monetary stimulus in modern times. We have had a whole series of programs to pay people to buy cars, purchase homes, pay off their mortgages,

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DEMOCRATS TO THE RESCUE!

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AUGUST 11, 2010 Stimulus Pushers EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:   The unions themselves could have prevented some layoffs had they been willing to adjust their rich benefits.  In Milwaukee, for example, nearly all of the 500 teacher layoffs announced earlier this year could have been avoided if the unions had agreed to change health plans that

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WHAT? POST FINDS WASTE IN GOVERNMENT?

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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mona Charen July 23, 2010 The Washington Post Finds Waste — In Government! It’s not at all clear that the Post understands the larger lesson. EXCERPTS FROM THIS ARTICLE:   Nor do federal departments and agencies even know where all of the money goes.   In “National Suicide,” Gross recounts, “In one recent

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PAUL RYAN’S RESPONSE TO PAUL KRUGMAN

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Ryan’s ‘Roadmap’ Krugman’s detour on ‘Roadmap’ to solvency By Paul Ryan Aug. 7, 2010 |(85) Comments Related Coverage Paul Krugman: Ryan’s plan is a fraud; the math doesn’t work Paul Ryan: Krugman’s detour on ‘Roadmap’ to solvency Despite watching European welfare states collapse under the weight of their own debt, those running Washington are leading

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