Showing posts with label pensions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pensions. Show all posts

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Top 10 Labor Union Outrages

HUMAN EVENTS:
With labor unions seeing a decline in membership, their agenda is becoming ever more desperate. Public-employee unions, with their lavish taxpayer-funded pensions, are driving governments to insolvency. No wonder approval ratings for unions are at an all-time low. Here are the Top 10 Labor Union Outrages.

1. Wisconsin on fire...

2. UAW greed...

3. Campaign dollars...

4. Government pensions...

5. ObamaCare waivers...

6. SEIU thugs...

7. Craig Becker...

8. Card check...

9. New York snow job...

10. Sports unions...

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Public-sector unions' house of cards is about to come tumbling down

You’ve been hearing for quite a while now that public-sector unions are a threat to the economic survival of the United States. With an estimated unfunded liability of up to $3 trillion (and perhaps much more), public-sector pensions are a noose around the neck of America’s taxpayers and it is threatening to strangle the nation.

More specifically, you’ve been hearing that the expensive wage and benefits packages that union-bought Democrats have given to their union benefactors could collapse our economy. The question is, can we stop it before it it too late, or at a minimum, contain the damage?

Well, little by little, signs are showing that, in some cases, the public-sector house of cards is already starting to fall...
…And, So It Begins: The Public-Sector Ponzi Scheme is Collapsing

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Wanted: Book Publisher

I know someone who actually CAN provide the solutions presented below and he has a completed manuscript to prove it (along with a VERY distinguished background). There's no doubt he will find a publisher for this just-completed manuscript, but if you are (or know someone) who is interested in publishing his book, you'll be at the head of the line--just leave a comment below.

  • Make the poor rich

  • Deliver the American Dream to even those that can’t compete

  • Honor the capitalist system by using it to solve these many problems

  • Create Personal Accounts for everyone

  • Provide retirement checks that allow retirees to live affluently

  • Force a 15% Savings on citizens at no new cost to them

  • Create wealth by compounding

  • Reduce the National budget by one-half

  • Eliminate $65 Trillion of potential entitlement liabilities

  • Deliver the biggest tax cut in history

  • Give the disadvantaged a reason to live and care about their life

  • Reduce crime, victimization, and dependence on government

  • Reduce stress caused by crime and financial difficulties

  • Eliminate the need of the private sector to finance retirement

  • Make business more competitive by eliminating costs their competitors don’t have

  • Eliminate the union’s need to bargain for retirement funding

  • Solve State and municipal pension concerns and unfunded obligations

  • Energize the economy with an immense injection of capital

  • Teach 50% of Americans about capitalism and stock investing

  • Infect America with the optimism this plan can effect

  • Reduce ethnic and racial tensions by making everyone wealthy

  • An air-tight way to eventually deliver the American dream to everyone

  • Bring back the market to areas convoluted by government intervention

  • Make America the shining light it once was before this dissonance surfaced

  • Get everyone on the same page pulling in the same direction

  • Infect the population with a desire to win and increase stock values

  • Restore America’s confidence in her politicians