All Blog Posts Tagged 'unions' (11)

By Alan Caruba

There’s a very entertaining, but terrifying book by Laer Pearce, “Crazifornia: Tales from the Tarnished State—How California is destroying itself and Why It Matters to America.” I recommend everyone read it because it lays out the template for why California will go belly up and why the…

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By Alan Caruba



Norman Thomas, a U.S. Socialist Party candidate for president, once famously said, “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”



Thomas ran for president six consecutive times from 1928. He needn’t have bothered as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and subsequent Democrat… Continue

By Alan Caruba



Growing up in New Jersey and having been a journalist here, my memory of news about unions in the Garden and Empire States is that of headlines concerning the indictment and sentencing of various union chiefs and their underlings.



The alignment between unions and the Mafia is so well known it has been the subject of movies such as “On the Waterfront”, “The Godfather”, “Goodfellas” and “Casino.” To this day the rumor persists that Jimmy Hoffa is buried somewhere… Continue

One of the major advantages Liberals have over Conservatives in any election is the lie. Liberals have made lying an art form. For Liberals, the ends always justify the means; no matter how many lies must be told or how many times a lie is repeated. Liberals, it seems, have no moral values.

Conservatives, on the other hand, do have moral values to contend with. Unlike the Liberals, lying does not come naturally to Conservatives. We use the truth to fight our political battles and the…

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This Reuters story notes that the city of Vallejo, California, declared bankruptcy two years ago, and several other municipalities in the Golden Fool's Gold State are sure to follow — and soon. Former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan wrote in… Continue

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Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his 'confrontational tone'

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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Want-to-get-rich_-Work-for-feds-92316619.html





Oh dear!



This is the real crime:…



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"...except for lifetime job security, guaranteed annual raises, early retirement on generous pensions and full medical coverage with no deductibles, office visit fees or co-payments.”… Continue

Steven Malanga's examination of California's public-employee union-dominated political landscape is essential reading at City Journal's website this week. If you want an excellent primer on how to usurp representative government through legal bribery, coercion, blackmail, and sundry strong-arm tactics, this is it.



Public-employee unions are particularly corrosive of the commonweal because they have… Continue

John Nothdurft posted Friday on the fight for fiscal sanity in New Jersey. It's an emotional situation in the Garden State. A lot of special interests stand to lose if Gov. Christie manages to get even half of what he wants. And the biggest loser would be the New Jersey Education Association. Continue