Archive for September, 2009
Unions Threatened by New House Healthcare Provision?
September 28, 2009 – By Warner Todd Huston The Democrat leadership of the House of Representatives now wants to pay for H.R.3200 — the House healthcare bill — by charging a tax on the so-called Cadillac healthcare plans. This surtax is something that has been talked about in the Senate and forms an integral [...]
Full Story‘Too Big to Fail?’
With Leftist Democrats in control of the House and with a veto-proof majority in the Senate (and an occasionally traitorous Republican), Democrats are ramming through legislation unwanted by the American public (Card Check, Cap-and-Tax, government-run health care).
Full StoryGeorge F. Will: Unions led to the China tire embargo
September 24, 2009 published; Pocono Record WASHINGTON — While in Pittsburgh, a sense of seemliness should prevent President Barack Obama from again exhorting the G-20, as he did April 2 in London, to be strong in resisting domestic pressures for protectionism. This month, invertebrate as he invariably is when organized labor barks, he imposed 35 [...]
Full StoryWith a Receptive White House, Labor Begins to Line Up Battles
Some critics called Mr. Obama’s move payback to a union that helped to elect him — the steelworkers are a powerhouse in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and other pivotal states.
Full StoryCongress’ Insidious Discrimination
Jewish World Review March 12, 2003 / 8 Adar II, 5763 Walter Williams There’s a little known law called the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931. It remains on the books today. Before saying what the law is and its effects, let me run by you some of the language used, in the early 1930s, to [...]
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