One More Reason Why Illinois Needs A “Fairness In Compensation Act.” I recently received, via a Freedom of Information Act request, a copy of the most recent teachers’ contract with High School District 214 inArlington Heights,IL. What I found was 67 pages of gifts for the teachers at the direct expense of the taxpayers. This document [...]
Republican Establishment intent on steamrolling Tea Party conservatives
February 29, 2012 By
Much has happened since I last expressed my distaste over the unseemly playbook being employed in the ongoing Republican presidential race: Newt won big in Georgia and Romney romped to a big victory in Florida and the Nevada Caucus is taking place as I write this article. Not encouraging was a posting I read by [...]
NEA Sends Older Employees Heading for the Exit
February 23, 2012 By
It is a measure of how serious the NEA’s financial situation is that its executives see severe staff reductions as their only remaining option. NEA employees have been presented with an “exit program,” which is essentially an early retirement incentive. About 124 NEA staffers (out of about 580) are eligible to retire. The union is [...]
Obama’s 2009 Stimulus Package gets an “F” from CBO
February 20, 2012 By
It’s a good, solid F- for the stimulus and the President who wasted $800 billion on it, three years after insisting that his gimmicky approach to economics would create a modern economy that would generate prosperity for all. Click here to read this post from Hot Air. [...]
Obama’s Friends Win Big in Budget
February 16, 2012 By
You don’t need to log on to President Barack Obama’s Facebook page to find out who his friends are, and you don’t need to read tea leaves, gaze into a crystal ball, or consult a psychic to learn where his priorities lie. No, you only have to take a look at his 2013 budget, just [...]
Dependence on Government Highest in History
February 13, 2012 By
When John F. Kennedy was President, just over a quarter of federal spending went to fund programs paying for some 21.7 million Americans to be dependent on Uncle Sam. But as high as that spending and dependence on the federal government was then, it has exploded today, with one in five Americans — more than [...]
Rick, Newt, Mitt: How Did Their CPAC Speeches Stack Up?
This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) comes only months prior to a presidential election, one where the GOP is in hopes of retaking the White House. That being true, three of the four main presidential candidates — Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney — took to the podium in an attempt to convince the conservative faithful [...]