Econ/Tax/Spend/Big Govt

“A news alert for the Debt Paying Generation: President Obama’s budget for Fiscal Year 2012 brings the national debt from $14.1 trillion to nearly $26.4 trillion by 2021.

This will take the amount of debt per working American by the end of this fiscal year – all 153,000,000 of them – from $101,150 to more than $161,631. Young Americans are going to get hammered by this debt if entitlement, welfare, and defense reforms are not under way within the next two to five years.”

“Government collective bargaining gives unions a monopoly on the government’s workforce. The government must employ workers on the terms the union negotiates. It may not hire competing workers.”

“Unlovely as they are, the Greek rioters and the snarling thugs of Madison are the logical end point of the advanced social democratic state: not an oppressed underclass, but a spoiled overclass, rioting in defense of its privileges and insisting on more subsidy, more benefits, more featherbedding, more government.”

“The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic proportions and, remarkably, our muddled, gridlocked, allegedly broken politics has yielded a singular clarity… Democrats [are] desperately defending the status quo; Republicans [are] charging the barricades.”

This letter by Pesident Franklin Delano Roosevelt regarding public sector unions has been getting a lot of attention lately. For the sure fun and irony of it – I’ve included excerpts below. The patron saint of the political left is on our side.

FDR: “[M]eticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government…”

Florida’s Governor Rick Scott has an article in today’s Washington Times titled and sub-titled: Florida ups the Wisconsin ante Cuts government, reforms unions and slashes taxes, aiming for growth Scott explains that he just submitted…

“History lights the path for Mr. Walker and the Wisconsin legislative majority. They should not compromise. They should stay the course on fiscal responsibility. When they do so, the people who elected them – and millions of others around the country – will applaud their integrity and principled leadership.”

“BigGovernment.com has learned that the University of Wisconsin medical school is investigating reports that its physicians handed out fake medical excuses to union teachers who were planning to call out sick this week.”

Prompted by a recent conversation with friends I dug into the off-line archives to find the following article that originally posted September 16, 2002. In light of the events in Madison, Wisconsin, and two years into the tea party phenomenon, the information in it is still relevant.

The following email forward is making the rounds, I couldn’t agree more. GO PACK GO! ~ JB

This column has been exasperated for many years now with the flat-line GOP caucuses in our state house and senate. There have been many voices calling on our elected Illinois Republican legislators to offer up an alternative plan to the Democrats’ tax tax, spend spend, borrow borrow – so far to no avail.

The Democratic Party is the party of the little guy, right? Wrong. If you need proof, read Charles Gasparino’s new book, “Bought and Paid For, The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.”