The Republican establishment believes that the birth and rebirth of candidate Gingrich should have ended in the cradle, that he had no right messing up Romney’s coronation in South Carolina and had better be stopped in Florida. Click here to read this article from Politico.
State of Dysfunction
January 26, 2012 By
Tonight, Americans who tune in to the State of the Union will watch the work of a rhetorical master with a flair for illusion. President Barack Obama will take to the floor of the Capitol in hopes of laying the groundwork for a political debate on his terms–one where he stands on emotional appeals, populism, [...]
Senate Democrats’ 1,000 Days of Debt and Disappointment
January 25, 2012 By
January 24th marks a sad milestone in the history of the United States Senate: the 1,000th day since Senate Democrats last offered a budget plan to the American people. Senate Democrats abandoned their official duty to prioritize Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars and tackle our nation’s most pressing economic challenges — dealing a painful blow to fiscal [...]
LTE calls pension reform “brash”. I disagree.
January 25, 2012 By
Recently a man named Mike Fanella wrote a letter to the Daily Herald newspaper calling Illinois’ proposed pension reform plan “brash” and that public employees were being “victimized” and “steamrolled” by media and politicians. The facts show something else – it is the taxpayers of Illinois that are being “victimized” and “steamrolled,” not the public [...]
It’s Working in Walker’s Wisconsin
January 23, 2012 By
The unions’ battle against Walker’s reforms has rested on the argument that the changes would damage public services beyond repair. The truth, however, is that the reforms not only are saving money already; they’re doing so with little disruption to services. Click here to rad this article from City Journal.
With 75,000 Unemployed Teachers in Illinois, Why Don’t We Just Replace Any That Go On Strike?
January 20, 2012 By
There is perhaps no more frustrating action against the public than teachers’ strikes. While teachers have the advantage of being home with their kids every day after school, school holidays, and summer vacations and even during strikes non-teacher parents have to scramble for kid-coverage during those very same periods. Unfortunately here inIllinoisthe news is replete [...]
The Greece Next Door: IL gets credit downgrade, in contrast to Wisc.
January 20, 2012 By
Run up spending and debt, raise taxes in the name of balancing the budget, but then watch as deficits rise and your credit-rating falls anyway. That’s been the sad pattern in Europe, and now it’s hitting that mecca of tax-and-spend government known as Illinois. Read this article from the Wall Street Journal by clicking here.
A Slashed and Burned Military
The future is not bright for the U.S. military. Last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave America a glimpse of the half-trillion dollars in defense spending cuts requested by the Obama Administration and detailed how the U.S. military’s capabilities would be affected in practical terms. The result is a slashed and burned military that woefully [...]