By Chuck Baldwin

August 24, 2010

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Anyone paying attention knows that John McCain has been a Big-Government Globalist Neocon (BGGN) for virtually his entire
senatorial career. As with many BGGNs hiding out in the Republican Party, McCain likes to talk about smaller government, but his track record is littered with the promotion of one big government program after another. But, what else would one expect from a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?

Lately, however, McCain has outdone himself. He has introduced two bills in the US Senate that are about as Machiavellian as they could be. I am referring to S.3081, a bill that would authorize the federal government to detain American citizens indefinitely without trial, and S.3002, a bill that would authorize the federal government to regulate vitamins, minerals, and virtually all health and natural food products.

According to Examiner.com, “John McCain introduced a bill into the U.S. Senate which, if passed, would actually allow U.S. citizens to be arrested and detained indefinitely, all without Miranda rights or ever being charged with a crime.”

The Examiner report continued by saying “This bill, introduced by McCain, who despite overwhelming evidence, claims to be a
‘conservative,’ would not only take away our right to a trial, but would also allow the federal government to arrest and imprison anyone the current administration deems hostile.

“Of course, that would be the same administration whose Homeland Security Secretary has classified veterans, retired law enforcement, Ron Paul  supporters, and conservatives as ‘terrorists.’”

The Examiner report concluded by saying “If it was not clear before, it should be now that John McCain has as little respect for the Constitution as he does for our borders.”

Amen!

If McCain gets his way, your constitutional right to a speedy trial by jury is gone, as well as your constitutional right to Habeas Corpus. But, of course, they would attempt to justify this by claiming it is being done in the name of national security and the war on terrorism.

See the Examiner report at:

http://tinyurl.com/examiner-mccain-s3081

Regarding McCain’s desire for the federal government to take over the vitamin industry, attorney Jonathan Emord wrote, “If you had any doubt about whether John McCain is a limited government conservative, you may put that doubt to rest–he is not. On February 3, 2010, John McCain introduced to the United States Senate the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010. Reflecting upon this poorly written bill, I am struck by the fact that John McCain apparently sees little difference
between fissile material and dietary supplements. He is intent on regulating supplements as if they were radioactive enriched uranium rather than bioactive vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and botanicals that more often than not help people.

“The Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 enjoys support from the most liberal members of Congress. It is an invitation for the FDA to assume broad new powers and replicate here the system now operating in Europe over dietary supplements where dietary ingredients are presumed adulterated and unlawful to sell unless pre-approved by the government. In short, good bye free enterprise, good bye limited government, and hello more heavy handed, arbitrary and punitive FDA bias against the beleaguered dietary supplement industry.”

See Emord’s column at:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Emord/jonathan118.htm

Please remember, this is the same John McCain who, during the 2008 Presidential campaign, said he would “order the secretary of the treasury to immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America.” Of course, McCain didn’t explain where this authority would come from, because such a proposal has no legal or constitutional authority. And, by the way, this one little sentence, if implemented, would cost taxpayers some $300 billion.

McCain also said he wanted to tap Mr. Climate Change Wacko himself, Al Gore, “to work in his administration on developing a new and much tougher U.N.-sponsored global warming treaty.”

(Source: Cliff Kincaid. See his column at:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff260.htm )

This is the same John McCain who addressed the Hoover Institution on May 1, 2007, and said if he were elected President, he would create a new international organization known as the “League of Democracies” (LD).

In advancing the LD, McCain said, “We should go further and start bringing democratic peoples and nations from around the world into one common organization, a worldwide League of Democracies.” He then added, “The new League of Democracies would form the core of an international order . . .”

See McCain’s speech to the Hoover Institution at:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/13252/

If McCain and his CFR buddies get their way, this new LD would be a United Nations on steroids! As I said all over America on the campaign trail in 2008, “John McCain is a globalist.” Of course, so is Barack Obama. In fact, every President since (and including) George H.W. Bush has been a full-fledged, rotten-to-the-core globalist.

And, yes, this is the same John McCain who was one of the primary movers and shakers (along with Obama, Lindsey Graham, and G.W. Bush) who attempted (and would again) to provide amnesty to illegal aliens and open America’s borders to illegal immigration.

And now McCain wants the federal government to take over the vitamin industry, and he wants to give the federal government the power to jail American citizens indefinitely without trial.

The citizens of Arizona can do the American people–and liberty itself–a great favor this year by giving Senator John McCain his walking papers. Big-Government dinosaurs like McCain are an albatross around the neck of freedom and constitutional government. If we don’t send them packing now, the shackles they put around our throats will become insufferable.

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Making deals with the House Ethics Committee, why is this not a contradiction in terms?

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The White House can find unlimited ways to keep US borders open to Mexico and refuse to allow proper enforcement to keep Americans safe. I guess it’s just easier to keep the illegals flooding in and keep American out of parts of Arizona. Our border control system is sick and American are sick and tired of the White House’s growing propensity to adhere to the U.N. mandate of open borders.

If lack of manpower is the reason we can’t control US borders, I guarantee that’s a problem easily rectified. I propose those ready, willing, and able can commit to a 2-week volunteer program to increase border enforcement manpower. Provide minimal training and you can have an unlimited pool of candidates who are willing to volunteer their time to provide safety at our sovereign countries borders. I’ll guarantee there are millions of available American, like myself, more than willing to step up to protect America’s borders.

I would be the first to volunteer. Try me.

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Well, if you knew what the new Democrat jobs bill contained, it wouldn’t matter how it’s eliminated. The latest and greatest jobs bill introduced by Congressional Democrats, COMPETE Act, went down in flames due to a GOP parliamentary tactic, as noted by The Hill . There was other GOP language which tainted the legislation for Democrats, but it will be back.

…the Republican motion to recommit the bill — a parliamentary tactic that gives the minority one final chance to amend legislation — contained language prohibiting federal funds from going “to salaries to those officially disciplined for violations regarding the viewing, downloading, or exchanging of pornography, including child pornography, on a federal computer or while performing official government duties.”

This COMPETE Act is a re-authorization of the America COMPETES Act passed in 2007 and set to expire in the Fall of 2010. What is this jobs bill really? It has to represent something other than what the bill’s title indicates. That’s right, it merely adds, directly or indirectly, new government jobs, to “help the private sector gain competitiveness in the global market.” I call BS, BS, BS.

Let’s see what the GAO had to say when they conducted a study on effectiveness and needed improvements to The America COMPETES Act of 2007. Here is the document for further reading. NIST Applied Some Safeguards in Obtaining Expert.

Why GAO Did This Study The America COMPETES Act gave the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), within the Department of Commerce, the authority, through 2010, to obtain
the temporary services of up to 200 experts or consultants per year, but did not specify how the agency should acquire these services. NIST has used this authority to award personal services contracts to obtain the services of individuals…

…According to NIST officials, the COMPETES Act authority, despite limitations, has been highly effective in helping NIST meet its need for experts…The officials also stated that the authority allows NIST to respond to the short-term research needs of other agencies that do not merit NIST hiring new staff. Most of these officials value the authority because they interpret it as allowing NIST to award contracts without competition…

…NIST has developed procedures that include safeguards for using the If the Congress extends or makes authority, but it had difficulty determining which specific laws and regulations the COMPETES Act authority to apply because it did not receive clear guidance from Commerce or OPM.

In a nutshell, even though there are conflicting issues regarding authority and clear mandates, it allows for Federal Government agencies to quickly hire experts as needed on a non-competitive bid process. That’s standard protocol for the Federal Government. When the economy is in a hole and our country is in debt hell, let’s take more taxpayer dollars to create taxpayer supported jobs that will help pick winners and losers in the marketplace. Oh, by the way, the projected price tag is estimated at $44.3 billion, up from the $33.6 billion allocated for 2008-2010. It’s painted as this great educational initiative, so you know what that means. That’s right, “if you’re against the bill, then you hate the children”. Anyone, else tired of these traitors in Congress purposefully trying to destroy the American Republic.

Here is what the current bill entails,  as described by one of the bill’s major proponent, Rep. Bart Gordan (D-TN) , Chairman of the Committee on Science and Technology.

Title I
The first title addresses science and technology policy that reaches across multiple agencies. It includes legislative language that passed the house as H.R. 554, the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act, and H.R. 2020, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Act. The title includes a section directing the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to work with agencies to develop a consistent policy regarding the management of scientific collections…

In other words, it’s a policy initiative that that spreads across multiple agencies, as to establish consistent protocol on how to continue to overgrow our already out-of-control bloated Federal bureaucracies.

Title II
The bill keeps NSF on a doubling path. It aims to: help scientists and engineers funded by NSF to serve as more effective leaders and participants in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education; …

In other words, keep doubling down on the size of the National Science Foundation and make sure to keep phrasing the bill in terms of education. (Now, don’t hate the children).

Title III
The third title addresses STEM education across the federal government. It includes legislative language that passed the House as H.R. 1709, the STEM Education Coordination Act, which will coordinate STEM education activities carried out across the federal government. The title also would require the White House to create an advisory committee on STEM education responsible for soliciting input from a variety of stakeholder groups in order to offer guidance to the president on how to better align federal programs with the needs of states and school districts, and to improve connectivity between public and private STEM education efforts.

Finally, the title clarifies the role of the DOE in contributing to STEM education, including energy systems science and engineering education, at all levels.

In other words, create more federal bureaucracy to determine how to benefit state governments and school districts. (That’s a real winner of an idea – the wilfully corrupt leading the blind)

Title IV
The fourth title in the legislation is largely based on the Committee Print reauthorizing the National Institute of Standards and Technology that passed the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation. The bill reorganizes the NIST labs to better reflect the multidisciplinary nature of technology in the 21st century. The legislation maintains the commitment to doubling the funds provided to NIST labs and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program.

It establishes an Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Department of Commerce to foster innovation and the commercialization of new technologies, products, processes, and services. It also creates federal loan guarantees to help small- and medium-sized manufacturers access capital to invest in innovative technologies that will help them become more efficient and competitive. The bill will also establish the creation of regional innovation clusters,…

In other words, parts of another bill were incorporated into this bill that allows for the doubling of funding for NIST and MEPs. It furthers jumbles up already screwed-up bureaucracies that will attempt to lead the private sector to prosperity though government innovation. It also help picks winners and losers with available tax-payer backed loans.

Title V

The fifth title establishes programs to help support innovation broadly. It establishes an Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Department of Commerce to foster innovation and the commercialization of new technologies, products, processes, and services. It also creates federal loan guarantees to help small- and medium-sized manufacturers access capital to invest in innovative technologies that will help them become more efficient and competitive.

In other words, they will offer funding for those the Federal Government deems worthy.  Then they will help make private industry become more efficient and competitive.  Now, that’s funny.

Title VI
The sixth title is largely based on language the was approved by the Energy and Environment Subcommittee…It reauthorizes programs at the DOE, including the Office of Science…The bill also authorizes the creation of Energy Innovation Hubs, which aremultidisciplinary collaborations that support research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of advanced energy technologies, with the activities of each Hub centralized at one location where possible.

In other words, it’s part of another bill’s language incorporated into this one to help increase the size of our Federal Government.

So there you have it, traitors in our midst, who are absolutely dead set on destroying the Constitutional Representative Republic Democracy of America. Oh yea, our Federal Government is all about some Democracy. It’s called a Socialist Democracy.

The Republican can play their games and act like they are appalled by the spending proposed. It’s all a election-cycle gimmick. If you want to no how they really wanted to vote, then go look at the vote on this bill in 2007 and you will see most Senate and House Republican approved this with overwhelming majorities. They all need to go, so please pay attention as these traitors run America in the ground. Do what’s right to keep America free and vote all these Congressional ass-clowns out of office.

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I am still hearing the propaganda being spread by the MSM of Obama’s concession on offshore drilling. Then I am still seeing comments by conservatives on the greatness of such a concession. Personally, I thought it was a gimmick to garner more Rino and Blue Dog support for Cap and Tax legislation. The Progressives are loving this trick, knowing it’s just another Obama deception.

Thanks to the heads-up from USAPatriot1966 on Twitter for pointing us to maps and reports created by the House Natural Resources Committee Republican Press Office, Contact: Jill Strait or Spencer Pederson, (202)­226-­2311. It’s titled Obama Administration Places Vast Majority of OCS Off Limits.

What was the purpose of this announcement by Obama?

• Deflect attention from the socialized health program American are now forced to join

• Get the MSM progaganda machine to start emphasising Obama’s centrist position

• Confuse the non-informed sheep into signing on this disception as to demonize conservatives who oppose it its true intention.

• Buy the vote of Rinos and moderate Democrats who oppose Cap and Tax

• Most importantly, close down most of the drilling area opened up prior to him being elected

As noted in the report:

• Although President Obama today announced what he called the “expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration,” in reality the President LOCKED UP more land to American energy production…

• Under the Presidential and Congressional Moratoria in place from 1981 through October 2008, all of the Atlantic and the majority of the Pacific were off?limits to offshore drilling.

• In 2008, facing record gas prices, Congress and President Bush both announced an end to the decades?long ban on offshore drilling.  This opened 500 million additional acres for new energy production that contain an estimated 14 billion barrels of oil and 55 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

• After the moratoria were lifted, the Bush Administration issued a 2010?2015 OSC leasing plan, and solicited comments on all aspects of the plan.  The proposal included 31 OCS lease sales in all or some portion of the 12 of the 26 planning areas—4 areas off Alaska, 2 areas off the Pacific coast, 3 areas in the Gulf of Mexico, and 3 areas off the Atlantic coast.

• Under President Obama’s new plan, the majority of the areas that were open for drilling once the moratoria were lifted are now once again closed. This includes all of the Pacific Coast, the Northeastern Atlantic and Bristol Bay in Alaska.

• The Administration is delaying plans to drill in the Atlantic off of Virginia’s coast until 2012– discarding a lease sale that was scheduled to take place in 2011.

• The Administration will only consider development of the Mid?Atlantic, Southern Atlantic, Chukchi and Beaufort Sea following Draft Environmental Study work to be conducted over the next year.  It has NOT actually planned lease sales for these areas.

There it is folks. Soon after taking office, Obama closes the offshore drilling area just opened by Bush. Then he comes back with a sliver of a triangle off the coast of Virginia that will be ultimately bogged down in regulatory and legal BS. When Obama or his Communist minions say maybe, you can count on that to be a 100% lie, considering that a “yes” by these clowns means a 99.99% “NO”. Take the bait if you please, but I wouldn’t bite.

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I’d love to know what the two traitors-in-arms, Joe Lieberman and Al Franken in the background on the video, were thinking and talking about while their drunk communist Senator Comrade from Montana talked very plainly about redistributing income to benefit the poor.

First, I just can’t believe residents in the beautiful state of Montana voted for this guy on purpose. Everywhere I visited in Montana was the exact opposite of this commie. Montana, like my state (who elected Lindsey Graham), should be ashamed for allowing these haters to trample on American freedoms and shred our Constitution. .

These Progressives, Socialists, and Communists, in every level of our Federal Government, are a cancer to America and need to be put on trial as traitors for trampling on the constitution. At a minimum, they need to be kicked to the curb.

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Controlling Americans

If you took the time to look at Congressional representation in Detroit, MI, you will find (D-15, 16) were represented by only two people since 1935. That’s correct, only two in 75 years. To compound that issue, the two Congressman came in the form of a father-son combo.

The death of Detroit comes partly at the hands of the socialist relic congressman John Conyers representing the Detroit district (MI-14) for close to 30 years. Detroit’s fate also lies with the Congressional control of (MI-16) by a father-son combo. John Lesinski, Sr. held the seat March 4, 1933–May 27, 1950. He died in office and a special election brought his son into the seat. John Lesinski, Jr. served from January 3, 1951–January 3, 1965.

(MI-15), created in 1933 was represented by John Dingell Sr. March 3, 1933 – September 19, 1955. He was replaced by his son John Dingell Jr., in a special election, after  Dingell Sr. died in office. John Dingle Jr.  represented (MI-15) December 13, 1955 – January 3, 1965.  (MI-16) was merged in 1965 with (MI-15). John Dingell Jr. defeated John Lesinski, Jr. in the 1965 election. Confused yet? Your supposed to be. Michigan has been a subject of Gerrymandering for years and the results were fruitful for Progressives.

This Congressional area was essentially controlled by (2) father-son combos. John Dingell Jr. is the Dean of Congress, being its longest serving member. Ironically enough, John Dingell Jr.’s wife is the daughter of one of the founders of GM (Government Motors).

For a man in this position, I thought one of the most moronic statements he made was in an interview with C-Span in 2007 when discussing taxing Americans for climate change. Excepts below:

ANDREWS:  Yes.  Can you tell us anything more about what combination of bills will actually be in the package that arrives in July?…

DINGELL:  …Everything from clothes washers, dryers, dishwashers, dehumidifiers, residential boilers will be covered, and a lot of other things, including refrigerators and freezers…This will be mandated – something which has been avoided by every administration since we passed the first legislation back in the 1970s.

HITT:  You sketched a bill that does not include production incentives for fossil fuels – coal and oil, natural gas…

DINGELL: I pointed out that we’re going to go into the consideration of a much broader bill with much more controversial questions, including the overall question of global warming…

SWAIN:  …Mr. Chairman, I want to go back to your statement that the American people want action. Does that also correlate with the American people being willing to pay higher prices, because of energy legislation?

DINGELL:  I sincerely doubt that the American people are willing to pay what this is really going to cost them…I will be introducing in the next little bit a carbon tax bill, just to sort of see how people really feel about this.  And it will impose, for example, on gasoline a 50 cent tax. It also will place a very substantial tax on CO2 emissions, amounting to a double-digit tax on tons of CO2 emitted…

You talk about trying to kill his cash cow. Knowing that GM was not in a good position at that time to effectively compete with foreign competitors’ fuel efficiency, why would he even support this notion. Drive more customers away from union-dominated GM is certainly a way to help help kill GM it or drive it into bankruptcy.

I think Dingell has gotten so senile, he forgot to keep his mouth shut about the Progressives’ agenda to communize America.  Yesterday on a radio interview, the twelve minute with John Dingell Jr. provides about ten minutes of DNC (Progressive) talking points. Yep, the same ones. The funny thing is that he couldn’t even follow the script in a straight voice. Below is the interview, and you probably can’t take his rambling talking points diatribe, so go to the 6:23 minute mark.

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” Listen Paul W., we’re not ready to be doing it, but let me remind you. This has been going on for years. We’re bringing it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is, when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 hundred American people in different ways, it takes a long time to, to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people. “

The once great city of Detroit is dead because this Congressman and his Progressive predecessors have turned it into a Union-controlled welfare slum city. It seems Mr. Dingell has done a good job of controlling his constituents, approximately 75% minority. Keep them dumb and happy with welfare and they will always keep you in office.

How do you feel about being controlled by the likes of John Dingell. Let’s fight to remove this Progressive scum from office and find someone who supports the Constitution of America.

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But It's For The Children

Teacher unions and union-represented teachers’ associations control/dominate America’s public school system. You wonder why our public school system is a joke? It’s called socialized schools brought to you by the “defender of worker’s rights”. You know, class struggle and all that.

You can never claim true ownership to your home because you rent it from the government in the form of property taxes. Public school systems in America are largely funded by your property tax dollars. So as the employers of these teachers, why do these taxpayers allow their employees to join unions in order to keep a firewall between their employers?

So here’s what you get for a return on your tax dollars:
Paying union member dues to unions so teachers can strong arm and extort taxpayers.
Paying union dues so unions can lobby elected official to make policy detrimental to you
Paying union member dues to run huge political ad campaigns for politicians who oppose your views.
Having teacher unions sue the taxpayer.
Having unions refuse concessions in times of economic hardships.
Having unions demand more money while school budgets are being cut.
Union strikes.
Current union campaigns for governments to raise property taxes, income taxes, user fees, ad infinitum.

Unions should be banned in all government institutions, especially the public school system. It’s all about the children my ass. It’s about political power and the “class struggle between workers and labor”. Please get these corrupt institution’s tentacles unwrapped from the taxpayer. I urge you support the abolition of teacher unions in public schools in America.

To close, let us look at a sample of benefits the American taxpayer earned from teacher unions in 2009-2010:?

Union money flowing into Oregon tax campaign
As of Dec. 15, the biggest donations in support of the measures have come from the Oregon Education Association ($827,000), and local and national organizations of Service Employees International Union, which represent state employees and health care workers ($742,826 combined) …to prevent possible cuts to schools, social services and public safety, including prisons. ( me – union jobs)

Southern Lehigh teachers contract to get vote Monday
June 20, 2009
The Southern Lehigh School Board will vote Monday on a proposed three-year teachers contract that would allow the district to avoid a strike in September.

Anheuser-Busch, union, politicians join to oppose beer tax hike
March 30, 2009

School budget woes require team solution
February 10, 2010
The preliminary projection shows a tax increase of at least 10 percent. At the same time, I am disappointed and concerned the teachers contract includes an average 4 percent salary increase for next school year.

State Teachers Union Continues Push For Penny Tax
April 6, 2009

Teachers reject renegotiation
January 27, 2010
The Bangor Area teachers union has rejected a request by the administration to renegotiate the union’s contract and consider pay cuts to help

Teachers to strike for 20 days
October 15, 2009

Even the sidewalk is an issue on the first day. Pickets told to get off school land.
Whitehall-Coplay property taxes may soar
Preliminary budget for school district calls for 7.27 percent increase, far over state index

Next school year, teacher salaries are scheduled to rise 3.6 percent, for a spending increase of $888,354. Benefit costs are rising 18.2 percent, roughly $1.49 million. Included in that amount is a 20 percent medical insurance increase and a 72 percent retirement cost increase

Teachers union touts poll support for penny tax
April 07, 2009

Teachers union spends big on 2009 lobbying
Feb. 25, 2010

The Wisconsin Education Association Council spent nearly twice as much as any other organization to lobby lawmakers in 2009, according to the Government Accountability Board.

The state’s largest teachers union reported spending more than $1.5 million and 7,239 hours lobbying,Teachers union spends big on 2009 lobbying

Teachers union blasts Horsford on education
Friday, March 13, 2009

War of words points to fraying of coalition to stanch budget cuts the hotel room tax increase for education funding approved this week…came in the form of an initiative petition, crafted by the teachers union and three major gaming companies.

The OEA was disappointed to learn today that at least two Oklahoma school districts are passing their tax responsibilities onto the National Board Certified teachers (NBCTs) in their districts.

The Arizona Education Association and Gov. Jan Brewer have joined forces in a campaign to convince voters to pass a 1-cent sales tax increase…for the next three years to pay for education and public safety program
Feb. 23,2010

Palm Springs Teachers Association
January 2009
C. T. A. is in favor of a state sales tax increase of 1% that would raise about $2 billion dollars specifically for schools and classrooms in particular.

Tax collections are down for the year and are projected to decrease further, next year. These anticipated revenue declines of $4 million and contractual increases of $6 million have left the town facing a $10 million deficit.
April 15, 2009

The Carpet City Chronicle recently obtained an email sent by Enfield Teachers’ Association President Mary Lombardo to Board of Education Chairman Andre Greco: The Executive Board has already given you the answer that there will be no concessions…We do not plan to make any public statement. Past practice has proved that to be a mistake.

Schools For Fair Funding
A coalition of 74 Kansas school districts made good on a threat today by formally asking the Supreme Court to reopen a key lawsuit that prompted huge increases in school funding.

Sentinel exclusive
February 06, 2009

The state’s teachers union is betting that parents and educators are so fed up with budget cuts that they’ll help pass a penny sales-tax increase to raise money for schools…to avert an “education disaster,” said Mark Pudlow, spokesman for the Florida Education Association, which is proposing the bill.

Kirk Dillard Endorsed by Teachers Who Want Higher Income Tax State Senator Kirk Dillard has been endorsed by the Illinois Education Association.
January 29, 2010

Kingston school district, teachers’ union at impasse
February 3, 2010

The contract between the district and its teachers’ union, whose membership includes the district’s approximately 700 teachers

Harlem Federation of Teachers AFT/IFT local#540
“The IFT still supports an income tax increase this year to prevent layoffs in schools and in state government.

Well, this is just a sample of what unions are doing to our public learning institutions. Not all public school systems are unionized and I do have sympathy for those non-union teachers who are cast in this negative light.

Teachers are not unlike most Americans currently facing economic hardships. Why should unionized government workers be able to hold the taxpayer hostage, over pay, insurance, benefits, pensions, etc.. if their demands are not met, while those of us out here  are paying these  teacher’s salaries. The unions’ unwillingness to concede on issues while pressing the government to hike taxes on those that pay their salaries show what part they should play in our children’s education. None!

Possibly, the non-unionized teachers should push to ban unionization in the public schools instead of swelling the union’s ranks.

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