Category: Bailouts

Illinois School Uses ‘Stimulus’ $$ For Raises and Bonuses While Raising Property Taxes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Arrogance is an ugly thing. But it seems that Grayslake School Board Superintendent Ellen Correll has it in spades. Not only did she and four other board members vote to increase its tax levy on the community, but she also announced that she used federal “stimulus” money to dole out raises and bonuses to teachers […]

 

Democrats: Say, Let’s Change Rules to Push Our Agenda FASTER in Lame Duck Session

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is nothing more dangerous than a party that is about to lose power but still has temporary control of the reins of government. That is, of course, what we call the lame duck session of congress — more like a zombie congress; dead men walking… or sitting as the case may be. It has […]

 

Pensions Troubles Getting Some Attention

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michael Corkery of the Wall Street Journal reports that congressional Republicans are finally paying a bit of attention to the coming pension bomb that is about to explode in nearly every state in the union, causing further damage to our economy and our state budgets. House Republicans are making moves to prevent bailouts of state […]

 

Waste: Feds Gave ACORN Half a Million for ‘Fire Prevention’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Jonathan Strong of the Daily Caller has another sad tale of massive government waste involving the criminal group ACORN. Everybody knows about ACORN, the dead, but not really dead activist group charged with all sorts of improprieties and illegalities, the most significant of which is voter fraud, including registering Mickey Mouse to vote. But how […]

 

UN Climate Summit, Cancun, Mexico: Climate Conmen Sending You Back 100 Years

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As most of you know last week I was down in Cancun, Mexico reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit (officially called COP16/CMP6). It was several days of sun, surf, and U.N. conmen. I am back in the saddle here at home but Friday I went from the warm white sands of Cancun back to […]

 

Lame Duck Threat to Bailout Union Pensions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Connie Hair has an informative piece at Human Events about what Democrats are hoping to do in the next few weeks in this lame duck session by pushing another big union bailout. In October, Sen. Tom Harkin (D, Iowa) heard witnesses advancing the “Guaranteed Retirement Account” (GRA) idea authored by left-wing activist and purported “labor […]

 

USA Bailing Out Bankrupt Europe

Posted on by Dave Blount

If you’ve read Ayn Rand’s prophetic Atlas Shrugged, you probably saw this coming. American taxpayers are being asked to bail out socialist Europe: The United States would be ready to support the extension of the European Financial Stability Facility via an extra commitment of money from the International Monetary Fund, a U.S. official told Reuters […]

 

Teachers Union’s BIG Break: Obama Let’s Them Get Out of Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As the list was revealed of 111 corporations and unions that got a free pass to get out of having to suffer under Obamacare given them by their bought-and-paid-for president, we see that the teachers really got a break. With over 350,000 members, the United Federation of Teachers is one of the largest organizations on […]

 

L.A. Sports Stadium Project More Important Than Libraries, Police, Firemen?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The 2010 elections are now history. If there was any lesson from this Republican tidal wave that swept across the country it is that the vast majority of Americans are furious at the overspending and flawed leadership of our politicians. Voters are no longer so easily fooled by claims that wild spending sprees are beneficial. […]

 

Obamacare Waivers Prove Policy is a Jobs Killer, Unions Benefit Most

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

111 companies and organizations were granted waivers by Obama’s Dept. of Health and Human Services so that they could get out of having to comply with Obamacare and unions were particularly well rewarded by the HHS with these waivers. Interestingly, there was no great announcement of these waivers issued to the press. The HHS buried […]

 

China and Middle Eastern Investors May Own Stake in GM This Week

Posted on by Jane Jamison

Is “America’s” car company going to be sold to the Chinese and Middle Eastern investors?: :  Will the American public and the Congress object?: :  We shall find out this week as General Motors’ long-awaited post-Obama-bailout initial public offering will open Thursday.: : The U.S. government owns 61% of the company.:  : As reported here in early October, China, via […]

 

Obama’s NLRB Appointee Says Unions Need to be Voted in Quicker

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Now that the election is over and we’ve seen in stark light the rebuke that Obama has received, many are wondering if he’ll moderate his far left agenda. But a few movements in the Labor Dept. will disabuse anyone of the notion that Obama intends to drop his left-wing agenda. Leave it to an Obama […]

 

Video: Pelosi’s Last Lame Duck- What Could Go Wrong?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again we get a fly-on-the-wall perspective of what is going on in the office of “our congressman,” hereafter known as our lame duck congressman. So, now that he’s been pitched out on his left-wing, what will “our congressman” be planning for that lame duck session? Let’s peek in and see… Me, I call it […]

 

Obama Said ‘Things Will Get Better,’ For This Woman They Didn’t

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last January, Jennifer Cline sent a letter to President Obama telling him of her woes. She had been diagnosed with two kinds of cancer, she lost her job and was about to lose her home. Surprisingly the president wrote her back and told her that “things will get better.” Apparently they haven’t. Cline has been […]

 

For Democrats, Math Is Hard. So Is The Truth.

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal: The two latest examples of Democrat ineptitude, incompetence and total math fail come to us from none other than Nancy Pelosi (the best speaker of the house EVAH):  and Joe “doll hair” Biden. First up is Nancy Pelosi with both bad math and shameless lies. As Ben Domenech points […]

 

Will The Treasury Dept. Turn the U.S. Into A New Weinmar Republic?

Posted on by Jeff Dunetz

Germany in the 1920’s did not “invent” Hyperinflation, they just made it famous. Hyperinflation was first systematically:  documented in Germany. The currency on the left is a relic:  from the Weinmar Republic. It was originally:  a 1,000 Mark currency note, but:  because of inflation, it was re-stamped to make it 1,000,000 Marks. You see:  inflation […]

 

Restrained No More’s — Big $pender-Like a Kid in a Candy Store

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

We all know who the Big $$pender is … Here’s a little tune to sing on the way to the polls. Just make sure you take your billy clubs (oops! Sorry, wrong audience.) I mean your boas ;) For other episodes of the show, a “backstage pass” and to download songs go to – http://www.restrainednomore.com/

 

George Soros’ Millions Buying ‘Political Reporters’ For NPR

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left loves to go wild claiming that Ruppert Murdock, a famous conservative, owns a few news outlets. The left is also aghast that well-known righty Roger Ailes guides Fox News. Ailes’s ideology makes of his network a compromised product, they claim. It’s all a travesty of “news,” and “proof” that those agencies are contaminated […]

 

Anti-American George Soros and Unions Attempting to Put Power of CA Redistricting in Their Own Hands

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bloomberg News is reporting that Charles Munger, Jr., son of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Charles Munger, has thrown his fortune behind an effort to defeat a campaign funded by unions and the anti-American billionaire George Soros to put redistricting powers back into the hands of politicians bought and paid for by union money. Munger and his […]

 

Ignorance of Dems Now Going Too Far

Posted on by Heather Bachman

:  : : : : : : : : : : :  Ignorance. It is a factor of the liberal leadership and has been pretty much accepted by aspects of society such as the media.:  However, Massachusetts Representative Tierney has given another definition to the word as he consistently states he did not know anything regarding his own wife’s involvement in her brother’s illegal business. […]

 

Video: Media…. TELL THE TRUTH!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Remember that lie the media tried to foist upon us that Tea Party folks “hurled racial epithets” on members of Congress during the healthcare debate? Well here is just a reminder that there never has been any proof to substantiate the claim that the Old Media and the black Congressional Caucus threw out at the […]

 

Video: What We Tea Party Conservatives Believe

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Bill Whittle has a great, great video here helping to explain our conservative views in an intelligent, even soft-spoken, style. This is part one of two, the second to come soon. Progressive ideas have always failed and our ideas are successful every time they are tried. Bill Whittle is the host of PJTVs Afterburner.

 

Oops. Obama’s ‘Saved Job’ Was Just Lost

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Oh, it was a thing to be celebrated when Obama’s payoff to the teachers unions back in August “saved” the job of Ohio school teacher Amanda VanNess. It was such a thing of wonder that the big guy flew the elementary school teacher all the way to D.C. for an Oval Office signing ceremony. (Pictured: […]

 

The Coming Staples Mausoleum/Stadium

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even as supporters claim they won’t need subsidies, it is more likely that L.A. is about to plunge itself forever into debt with a new stadium, the Staples Center. A look at just about any other convention center, or stadium in the country easily shows that these projects seldom pay for themselves as builders insist […]