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Coming to us by way of Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com…watch this:
When something doesn’t work, and you are a democrat, well you just keep doing it. These graphs come to us courtesy of Andrew J. Coulson at Big Government.
Graph one Public education employees vs. student enrollment numbers.
Graph number two–on the jump–is the inflation adjusted cost of public K-12 education (that’s taxpayer dollars spent) compared to achievement levels. (I hope you are ready for this.)
So far this year, $24.7 million in independent spending has been reported to the Federal Election Commission, campaign filings show. Unions have spent 9.7 million (or 39 percent of the total), compared with $6.4 million (26 percent) spent by individuals and 3.4 million spent by corporations.
This may go without saying but would anyone be surprised if the democrat House passed the “Union paychecks To Union Dues To Democrat Campaign Contributions Bailout Bill” they went back to DC to vote on? Lord knows those fat cat liberal incumbents need every penny they can get, and since they’ve gotten so use to … Read more
Fergus Cullen get’s the Hat Tip for spotting this first and posting it over at Red Hampshire, but he didn’t go the extra mile and get a copy of the actual invitation. Here we have a campaign fundrasing breakfast for Carol "Look for the Union Label" SEIU-Porter; remember to make checks payable to Carol SEIU-Porter for … Read more
Carol Shea-Porter would like you to believe that she represent New Hampshire. But if you are one of the 88% of those employed in New Hampshire who are not in a union or represented by one, (and that does not mean you want or like being in the union if you are) then odds are … Read more
Carol Shea Porter has been accused of using the oil spill and related disasters as a way to get campaign contributions. In response her campaign manager, Angela Ruslander, said this in her defense. “Carol Shea-Porter is standing up to BP and other big corporations who are irresponsibly hurting our environment and our economy.” Wait it gets better. … Read more
Ray has apparently been asking the local democrat population to cast their votes for Paul and Carol and I say knock yourself out, as long as you are OK with taking more out of state money from major unions that use intimidation to stifle free speech (wow that sounds familiar), and beat up innocnet black men who disagree with them. I think that makes the SEIU a bunch of hate mongering racists, but I’ll have to check my Race Pimps and Grievance-Mongers to American English Dictionary (Fifth Column….I mean edition) to be certain.
Skip has done a great job piling on this Hassan HB1459-political speech issue, and I’m not sure how much more we can add today, but this quote caught my eye, Skip didn’t take it in the direction I expected. (So I will) Maggie Hassan is quoted as saying… “Millions of Americans invest retirement money in … Read more
Are the people running the unions stupid? Not the rank and file, but the leadership. These people are selling salt as flour to the due payers while pushing the cities and states into a corner. What do I mean? Look at the pension problem. In New Jersey Chris Cristie has to fight tooth and nail … Read more
NEA New Hampshire is a-gush over the anniversary of the Stimu-less bill and they are not afraid to show it. According to NEA-NH Insider the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)… …represents a huge win for education thanks to unprecedented funding increases targeted to local districts. ARRA also included increases for Title I, stabilization funding, … Read more
Government employee unionization should be outlawed. Unlike all other employers, government at every level is a monopoly. Accordingly, people have no choice on whether to patronize the "business" of local, state, or federal government. There is no competition. Government employee unions can thus directly attack the public interest with impunity: Their employer cannot go out … Read more
I know more than one person forced to work as a member of a union that feels as though the weekly union dues are somewhat akin to having their pockets picked. Here is a story that shows that when it comes to some members of some labor unions, they’re picking your pockets coming and going. … Read more
As we have been warning for some time here on the ‘Grok, this US Senate session will include a fight over what we have long refered to as the "deceptively named" Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) or, as it is more commonly known– "card check." Noted in several prior posts and discussed on our Saturday … Read more
Here is an ad rightly denouncing the badly named "Employee Free Choice Act" (EFCA), otherwise known as "card check." I cannot imagine how bad things could get in many businesses accross America should this stinker pass… [H/T The Other McCain]
As we have been warning for some time here on the ‘Grok, the upcoming US Senate session will include a fight over what we have long refered to as the "deceptively named" Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) or, as it is more commonly known– "card check." Noted in several prior posts and discussed on our … Read more
. Last week we finally caught up with Gov Jeanne Shaheen as she made a campaign stop at BAE Systems of Nashua (4,700 employees in NH and another 1,000 in their MA operations). As reported in this prior post, during the event, she got taken to task for her silence on her party’s characterization of … Read more
You know why. After all, we’re talking about labor unions here. Why do you suppose they so badly want the deceptively named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) or, as it is more commonly known– "card check"– to pass in the US Senate? Noted in several prior posts and discussed on our Saturday radio program, this … Read more
For some time now, we have been closely following the progress of the deceptively named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) or, as it is more commonly known– "card check"– as it wends its way through Congress. Noted in several prior posts and discussed on our Saturday radio program, this legislation eliminates the secret ballot presently available to workers when it comes to the question of unionization. As you might suspect, Democrats are mostly in favor of its passage, given their long-time relationship with labor unions in general, and it has been up to the Republicans to stand in the way of passage of this onerous legislation. While certainly overshadowed by the present fiscal chaos dominating the news cycle, this issue has turned out to be one of the major topics of discussion in some of this year’s most closely contested Senate races.
Certainly the subject has found its way into the Sununu/Shaheen race, with our friends at Granite Staters for Employee Freedom pushing the issue every chance they get at various campaign events and meetings throughout the state.
What you might not have known (like me) is that, in addition to Senator Sununu being on the right side of this important issue, another New England Republican in a close re-election race is right there too: Susan Collins. That’s right– while you’re probably like me in thinking that the Maine Republican Senator is not nearly conservative enough when it comes to certain matters, it turns out she is absolutely right when it comes to her position regarding EFCA. In fact, during a recent debate against her Democratic challenger she literally knocked it out of the park when questioned on "card check". Said Senator Collins, in response to a question as to where she stands:
I am strongly opposed to taking away the guarantee of a secret ballot when workers are deciding whether or not to organize.
She then provided some details that clearly demonstrates her grasp of what is at stake:
Our friends at Granite Staters for Employee Freedom (GSEF) — a group seeking to educate people on the dangers of passing the so-call "card check" legislation, the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) doing away with secret ballot voting on the question whether or not to unionize– have discovered a few interesting facts as they go … Read more