Showing posts with label public employees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label public employees. Show all posts
L. Brent Bozell: The Ministry Of Confusion
Observations on official tail-chasing. I can think of one reason to end the federal shutdown: There are a lot of stupid people now roaming the streets. The Feds, however, do not have a monopoly on idiocy. Bureaucratic bumbling can be found wherever there's large government, even on the state, and yes, on the county level. ... MORE
Over 93% Of EPA Employees Considered 'Non-Essential'
by Tony Lee. More than nine out of every ten employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are considered "non-essential" and have been furloughed in the federal government's shutdown. Reuters obtained an EPA guidance in which the agency said it would "classify 1,069 employees, out of 16,205, as essential," which is about 6.6% ... MOREMichael S. Rozeff: Who Wants Marijuana To Remain Illegal?
In addition to organized crime and the drug cartels: Police unions, private prison corporations, alcohol and beer companies, pharmaceutical companies, and prison guard unions are said to be in the top five in terms of lobbying and paying lawmakers to keep marijuana illegal. Hey, this is DEMOCRACY at work. This is the best system ... MORESteven Greenhut: Detroit’s Long Road To The Bottom
The Motor City’s path to economic ruin. Californians frustrated by the state’s long-term fiscal situation sometimes throw up their hands and declare that things must get worse before they get better. Let the tax-and-spenders have at it, they say, and then voters eventually will wake up and change their ways. Unfortunately, “eventually” can ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: When The Government Goes Bankrupt
What happens when the government goes bankrupt? This question is one that sounds like a hypothetical exercise in a law school classroom from just a few years ago, where it might have been met with some derision. But today, it is a realistic and terrifying inquiry that many who have financial relationships with governments in America ... MORE
Terence P. Jeffrey: Stockton Was Murdered
It was an inside job. Were a rational person given the assignment to search this planet to find the best place for human beings to live and build wealth, he might well settle on San Joaquin County, Calif. That is where Americans built a city called Stockton — the municipality a federal bankruptcy judge just declared dead. How did Stockton die? ... MOREUnion Greed Drives California To Bankrupcy
by Steven Greenhut. Few non-local people pay much attention to the goings-on in Stockton, a hard-pressed Gold-Rush-era industrial city of 300,000 that sits in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley at the eastern edge of the California Delta. But bond-holders, taxpayers and government officials throughout the country will be listening to U.S. ... MOREJohn Stossel: Imperial Washington
Where public servants go to become masters. The Senate did something this past weekend it hasn't done in four years: passed a budget. The law requires the Senate to pass a budget, but Congress often ignores its own laws. For most of Barack Obama's presidency, a series of continuing resolutions kept the money — your money ... MOREScott Shackford: Dead Letters
The U.S. Postal Service's long, hard fall. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) did not fare well in 2012. Costs, losses, and debts rose as the volume of mail continued a decline that began in the middle of the last decade. Now the USPS is warning that without help from Congress, it will run out of money by the end of October. In reason’s May 1991 ... MOREObama Orders Pay Raises For Congress And Fed Employees
Daniel Halper on Obama's latest executive order. President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay
freeze on federal employees, in effect giving some federal workers a
raise. One federal worker now to receive a pay increase is Vice
President Joe Biden. According to disclosure forms, Biden made a cool $225,521 last year. ... MOREBad Forecast For California Taxpayers & Wealth Producers
by Steven Greenhut. California’s Democratic leaders are giddy about the future now that they have gained everything they wanted in the last election—voter-approved tax increases and a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of the Legislature, thus rendering Republicans little more than an annoying irrelevancy that can no longer block tax hikes. ... MORE
Douglas French: Down And Out In California
Golden State is fast losing its luster. Gas in Vegas is a dollar cheaper a gallon than in the Golden State, or so a friend and recent LA transplant tells me. He went on to say the top tax rate in California is over 13%, while, of course, Nevada has no state income tax. Over dinner at Del Frisco’s, he explained how industries are being ruined by ... MOREEd Morrissey: You Have The Right To Not Pay Union Dues
Union dues are not an entitlement. The battle between unions and state governments continued this week — just as it has for the last two years — in territory normally considered friendly for labor organizations. In the winter of 2011, Wisconsin forced an end to mandatory union contributions for state employees — and conservatives ... MOREDoug Doan: Homeland Security - What Next?
What we should do next. So far, none of the presidential candidates have mentioned much about Homeland Security. With so many other problems, issues surrounding how best to organize, manage and lead the vast DHS bureaucracy are just not that important. Too bad. I would have liked to see the candidates talk about what they might do. Here is an agenda ... MOREWhy Government Spending Doesn't Create Jobs
by Robert J. Samuelson. Who creates most jobs? Hint: It's not the government. Almost everyone seems to grasp that the private sector is the true jobs machine. But here's a notable exception to the consensus: the editorial page of The New York Times. The other day, its lead editorial was "The Myth of Job Creation: The government does in fact create ... MOREPoll Indicates California Voters To Reject Brown's Tax Hike
Big government at the saturation point. California Gov. Jerry Brown's $6 billion tax increase initiative is losing steam with state voters as it enters the final stretch of the race, a poll released Thursday shows. Just 46 percent of Californians surveyed plan to vote for the measure Nov. 6, down from 55 percent a month ago, according to a USC Dornsife ... MOREHow Government Workers Profit At Taxpayer Expense
by Steven Greenhut. Stockton, California city workers who attended the unveiling of a new report detailing the trends in public-employee compensation in California on Wednesday night complained about cuts in their compensation packages that are causing hardship for them and their city. But the report, prepared on behalf of the Howard Jarvis ... MOREMike Riggs: Why Firing A Bad Cop Is Damn Near Impossible
It'a law enforcement that has the real protection. Over the summer, a still from a surveillance camera showing a police officer kicking a handcuffed woman in the head went viral on Facebook and email. The text below the picture read, "Rhode Island police officer Edward Krawetz received no jail time for this brutal assault on this seated and ... MOREThe Latest Scam From California's Public-Sector Unions
by Steven Greenhut. If California voters grant the state government the massive income-tax and sales-tax increases that Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats have been demanding via November’s Proposition 30, those same officials will quickly squander the money by shoveling even more benefits to those already well-compensated ... MORE
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