NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally published at Forbes.com . By Bill Wilson — As Frankin Roosevelt observed in 1937, “The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.” He called a strike by public workers “unthinkable and intolerable”. Now we can see why […]
By Bill Wilson — The Chicago Teachers Union is striking to protect the jobs of bad teachers. This is all you need to know about the priorities of the teachers unions. They are the problem in our education system and if we want our nation’s children to […]
By Bill Wilson — 86,000 fewer Americans have a job today than when Obama took office in January 2009. That is the indisputable fact that this Administration cannot deny in any media spin. In August alone, another 580,000 people left the workforce entirely. That’s more than half […]
By Bill Wilson — What a difference seven years can make. In 2005, when then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted to restore order to California’s broken fiscal house via the referendum process, taking on the public sector unions, the Democrat political machine went into overdrive to turn back the […]
By Bill Wilson — In his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney promised if elected the economy would create 12 million jobs in his first four years in office. Considering we are presently in the worst jobs market since the Great Depression, with the longest […]
By Bill Wilson — On September 12, the German constitutional court will be ruling on whether the €700 billion European Stability Mechanism (ESM) violates German sovereignty. The decision could well prove fateful for the future of the entire eurozone — and will likely have ripple effects throughout […]
By Bill Wilson — The left has been in a huff over the Republican National Convention Platform Committee’s decision to include a proposal calling for a gold commission to examine whether the value of the U.S. dollar should be fixed as a weight of gold. New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman called it a “very bad, […]
By Bill Wilson — “If you want to change big things, you pay attention to small things.” That was how former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani described his approach to crimefighting to CSPAN during his tenure in office from 1994 to 2001. Called the broken windows […]
By Bill Wilson — Today’s Congressional Budget Office report warning of a deep recession should Congress and the president not agree on a solution to the massive tax increases that will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013, is true to the extent that the tax increases will kill private sector growth and exacerbate the recession […]
By Bill Wilson — Obama himself is the waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicare debate. He is wasting the American people’s time with fraudulent political claims, and abusing seniors through a campaign of fear. The $500 billion cut out of Medicare in Obamacare was based on […]
