Category: Economy

Politico: War Obama Launched Gets In The Way Of Obama’s Economy Talking Points

Posted on by William Teach

Truly one of the funniest, or, is that “most absurd?”, headlines of the day, via the Politico’s Glenn Thrush: Now Libya steps on President Obama’s message President Barack Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya has presented him with a whole new set of political problems with members of both parties. But its most worrisome effect […]

 

Wisconsin Union’s Boycott Likely Illegal

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Government union members of AFSCME Council 24 are circulating letters to local businesses in southeast Wisconsin threatening them that if they don’t come to immediate and vocal support of government unions the businesses will be targeted for attack. The union says it won’t be satisfied with statements of neutrality, either. An AFSCME spokesman told the […]

 

Compromised Wisc. Judge Rewrites Stop Order For Union Law… Again

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi has gone back to her order to stop Gov. Scott Walker’s union bill and rewritten it in an effort to assist unions and Democrats (including her Democratic Operative son) continue to ride the gravy train at the expense of the taxpayers. Sumi, whose entire family seems to be up […]

 

ADA to Be Used as Tire Iron to Smash Business’s Kneecaps

Posted on by Dave Blount

Let’s see, what else could our government do to make it difficult to run a profitable business in this country? I know — expand the insane Americans With Disabilities Act so that it covers more than half the population: Millions of Americans may be disabled and not even know it, according to some legal experts. […]

 

Chicago’s City Worker Union Members Get Free Chauffeur Perks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Let’s say your job is as a traveling salesman or a construction worker and you work at different locations throughout the year. Wouldn’t it be nice to get your own free chauffeur service to get back and forth to work? That way you could just drive yourself to one location a day and then have […]

 

Obama Lackeys Running GM Now Want US to Pay Out for Rebates

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few days ago I wrote about how the Obama administration has stuffed the upper echelons of management at General Motors with government lackeys who have no experience in the auto industry and how Obama’s government will lead GM to ultimate failure. Today, as Van Helsing mentioned, we see yet one more step toward GMs […]

 

Wisconsin Stops Removing Union Dues From Employees Checks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pursuant to Governor Scott Walker’s new rules, as of Monday the State of Wisconsin is no longer taking union dues out of the paychecks of government workers. The state is also charging more for these employee’s healthcare and pensions. Even though there is still a question open of a compromised judge’s ruling to set aside […]

 

Michigan: Teachers Trying to Hide Union Activism in School Email Accounts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michigan’s union thugs have found a new way to hide their on-the-job union activism from the prying eyes of public transparency — or at least they think they have. Activist school teachers are using their state-sponsored email accounts to discuss their strike ideas, their union work slow down ideas and other illegal activities but are […]

 

Mayor Daley: Failed Mayor of Failing City?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As his last year in office winds down, Mayor Richard Daley is hailed as one of the country’s most successful big city mayors. Yet the 2010 census reveals that the city lost 200,000 citizens, the city’s budget is millions in the red, and businesses are abandoning the city with alarming frequency. How this equates to […]

 

Government Motors: The Coming General Motors Failure Will Be At Taxpayer’s Expense

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Obama Administration has proclaimed TARP and the subsequent bailout for General Motors a great success. US Treasury Deputy Timothy Massad recently said, “Where we are today shows that the program, by any reasonably objective measure, was a success.” But is GM, now much derided as “Government Motors” the success that Obama says it is? […]

 

John Boehner Adamant About Not ‘Shutting Down Government’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

RedCounty.com recently re-launched with an enhanced platform and as part of the relaunch, Chip Hanlon has been featuring a multipart interview with Speaker of the House John Boehner (R, OH). Today’s part two segment features the Speaker adamantly refusing to allow any government shut down and saying he will work hard to keep government open. […]

 

A Union Member’s Plan to Cause Financial Panic in the USA

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A former union executive attended an extremist conference in New York last weekend and there he laid out the sort of plan that every union member dreams of, one that will destroy the American system and replace it with a socialist fantasy run by unions and anti-capitalists. Steve Lerner was a member of one of […]

 

Just Can’t Win Dept: Unions Honor Traitor Republicans, Dems Call Unions Traitors

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Traitors to the right of them, traitors to the left of them, traitors in front of them… behind them, around them within them… in the they-just-can’t-win department, unions held a soiree for the traitor Republicans that voted in favor of some of the pro-union provisions in last week’s temporary budget and their pals in the […]

 

VIDEO: Leftists/Union Wisc. Thugs: An Orgy of Death Threats and Warnings of Violence

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Democrats and their handmaidens in the Old Media have been decrying the evils of the “violent rhetoric” of the Tea Party and Republicans for the better part of two years, now. Yet all the violence and threats of same continue to come mostly from those left of center. The video below shows just a […]

 

VIDEO: Interview With Chief Dep. Whip, Congressman Peter Roskam

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Illinois Congressman Peter Roskam (R, 6th District) has really climbed the ladder of leadership since the 2010 elections. He went from Congressman in the minority party in DC to the Chief Deputy Whip of the majority Republican Party riding the GOP wave that overtook the Hill last November. Roskam is the go-to man for the […]

 

In Face of Death Threats, Wisc. GOP Passes Curb on Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last night we reported that the Wisconsin State Senate separated from the budget bill the curbs on government unions that Governor Scott Walker campaigned on achieving and passed it out of committee for a vote by the full Senate. Today, in a smashing success for Wisconsin Republicans, the senate voted on the union curb bill […]

 

Ind. Republicans Spoof on Fleebagging Democrats in Satire Song

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

At least the GOP has been civil during this whole debate. This is not something that the wild-eyed, hatemongers on the left of the union thugs can say. Well, here are some elected GOP officials in Indiana trying to lighten the mood a bit with a spoof on the old John Denver song “Take Me […]

 

Republicans In Wisc. Pass Curbs on Gov’t Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After all the huffing and puffing, we find that Wisconsin’s Republicans have a spine after all. They have taken a step that they have many times threatened and divvied up the budget bill with the provisions to scale back some of the collective bargaining “rights” once had by the state’s government employees and gone ahead […]

 

Wisc. Democrat Tells Workers Pay Union Dues or Lose Your Job

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

You can only serve one master and Democrats have chosen unions over the people. Proof of this is once again seen in the post by Bryan Preston of Pajamas Media where we find a Democrat lawmaker from Wisconsin who has announced that if you don’t want to pay dues to his union masters, why, then […]

 

Loud Mouthed, Hatemongering, Violent Teachers Shut Down Townhall Meeting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Is this the distempered, hatemongering that our “teachers” are teaching our children? The video below is the last seven minutes of a townhall meeting that was held on March 7 in Wisconsin. It was hosted by Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R, WI) and State Senator Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa). The video shows that the pols quietly listened […]

 

Obama’s Chicago Machine Helping Wisconsin Fleebaggers?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Newsradio 620 in Milwaukee has a shocking story about the dirty underground efforts by the Chicago political machine loyal to Rahm Emanuel and President Obama that is apparently applying its dark arts again, this time assisting the leftist, fleebagging Wisconsin State Senators in their efforts to thwart the democratic process in the Badger State. WTMJ […]

 

Why Did Rep. Paul Ryan Vote for Destructive Union Giveaway?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Wisconsin’s Republican Representative Paul Ryan is one of the most well known budget hawks in Congress today. Yet seeming to defy that reputation last week Ryan voted against putting a halt to a budget bloating union giveaway. So what happened? The amendment was an effort to end project labor agreements on federal construction projects in […]

 

VIDEO: NPR Execs Love Radical Islamists, Hate Conservatives/Tea Party

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Undercover video maker James O’Keefe has struck again. This time he had his crew pose as members of a radical Islamic group that wanted to donate $5 million to National Public Radio (NPR) and during the lunch NPR execs said that they loved the radical Muslim group and hated American conservatives and Tea Partiers. Remember, […]

 

Did Progressives Engineer 2008 Crash?

Posted on by Dave Blount

America would not have gone completely off the rails to elect a mysterious but obviously unqualified ultra-left community organizer President of the United States if it weren’t for the panic surrounding the 2008 economic meltdown, combined with John “More of the Same” McCain’s admitted incompetence on economic matters. But the excellent timing of the financial […]

 

For Crying Out Loud: Taxpayers Forced To Pay for Union Workers’ Coffee

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is absolutely impossible any more to come up with parody about how much government unions are ripping off the taxpayer. Witness the fact that a city in Connecticut is being forced to pay for the coffee and related refreshment supplies of its government union members. Todd Starnes of Fox News reports that the town […]

 

Michael Moore: Big Fat Union Hypocrite

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

With the spotlight on Wisconsin’s union thugs rampaging across the state, one wonders why it took propaganda filmmaker Michael Moore so long to put himself in front of the news cameras to take some of their publicity for himself. But this weekend, Moore finally glommed onto the cameras making himself out to be a great […]

 

Who is Footing Wisconsin Fleebagger’s Bills?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The expenses for the Fleebagging Wisconsin Democratic Senators are mounting. It’s been about a week’s worth of expenses since they’ve gone on the lamb. So, who is paying for all this? There has been rampant speculation that third party donors and union lobbyists have been slipping these Wisc. State Senators some money to pay their […]

 

VIDEO: Government Union Collective Bargaining 101

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Are you a bit hazy on why government employee unions are a problem? If so the Heritage Foundation has made a great video to help you understand the deal. It’s a sort of Government Unions 101. The Heritage Foundation also has a great fact sheet to help you learn more. Here are some of the […]