Stalled Out
Public employees are working without contracts in cities and counties across New York State, as labor negotiations stall because local governments say they cannot afford to raise wages.
But many union members are still taking home larger paychecks, thanks to a state law that allows workers to continue receiving longevity-based salary increases after their contracts expire. (NYT, 4/10/2012)
Still think the public sector employee game is NOT rigged? For this, we can thank feckless politicians, largely Democrats, who buy labor votes with our tax dollars.
Sunburned
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee was finishing up a bill barring youths from using tanning beds Tuesday morning when the panel took a surprise detour.
With barely a word said about it, the panel voted 3-2 to attach a physician-assisted death bill to the tanning bed bill, a maneuver that sets up a possible Senate floor vote on the controversial end-of-life issue that had failed to make it out of another committee. (Burlington Free Press, 4/11/2012)
Liberals want to snuff out life at conception and at old age. They respect the sanctity of life only when defending someone on death row.
Battle of Britain
Loyal readers know that RedStateVT is studying the life of the great Winston Churchill whose steadfastness in the face of Nazi aggression was awe-inspiring. So why did President Obama - as one of his initial presidential acts - return the bust of Churchill lent to the U.S. by the British? Now we may have our answer. It seems that after the defeat of Hitler, Churchill's biggest fear was the spread of socialism. He railed against it in speech after speech seeing it as an enormous threat in post-war Europe.
Obama keeps telling us he is not a socialist, but his actions speak volumes.
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