The fine print
Under KennedyDoddCare, everyone will be Congress’ health benefits. Your results may vary. Last September Sen. Barack Obama promised that under his health-care proposal “you’ll be able to get the same...
View ArticleGetting rich through public service
But of course the insiders are making a bundle off the health-care “reform” debate. Where are all the left-wing loons who screamed about Halliburton way back when? Probably back on the farm with the...
View ArticleFuzzy math
Unemployment is 9.7 percent and rising, but White House Council of Economic Advisers still insist the “stimulus” is saving jobs. Rep. Tom Price, a Georgia congressman who chairs the conservative...
View ArticleBoy, does this sound familiar
Retired public employees in Illinois are collecting millions in pensions. Nearly 4,000 retired government workers have pensions that pay them at least $100,000 a year. They include politicians, judges,...
View ArticleWhy not?
If it’s good enough for rank-and-file Americans, the public option ought to be good enough for President Obama, members of Congress and their families and staffs. And government employees at all...
View ArticleBankrupting America
Time to restore real collective bargaining to public-employee unionism. This piece, from the Washington Examiner, is well done. The breakdown of union membership … : Only 7.3 percent of all private...
View ArticleNot measuring up
Gov. William A. O’Neill’s official state portrait In his Jan. 5, 2011 inaugural and State of the State addresses, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy praised the late former Gov. William A. O’Neill. Mr. O’Neill, who...
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