On Sunday, the Hill reported that public sector unions including the Service Employees International Union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the AFL-CIO will all be helping to reelect congressional Democrats. It’s no wonder. They’re explicitly thankful for a $26 billion bailout of bankrupt […]

By Rebekah Rast – What do Representatives Betsy Markey (CO), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Spratt (SC) and Rick Boucher (VA) all have in common? They all support bailouts, and are all at risk of losing their Congressional seats in the upcoming election — with the […]

On today’s episode of Your World With Neil Cavuto , he discussed Tea Party protests that had developed in South Carolina’s 5th district (home of Rep. John Spratt)  protesting the $26.1 States Bailout. Not only is this bailout a way for the Teachers’ Unions to take more money from taxpayers , it is a continuation of the failed “stimulus” from 2009 . Here is a video of […]

The Obama administration is in more trouble with news that the unemployment situation in the United States has not improved. On Friday morning, the Department of Labor announced that the unemployment rate had remained unchanged in July at 9.5 percent. On top of that, another […]

The unemployment figure remains unchanged at 9.5%. Also, 131,000 jobs were lost. The high number of job losses were due to nearly 143,000 temporary census jobs ending. As many predicted, these census jobs would only temporarily pad the employment figures put out by the administration. […]

Some 15 million of the approximate 55.95 million mortgages nationwide are said to be “underwater” or in negative equity, i.e. the market value of the home is less than the total value of the mortgage. That’s about 26.8 percent of all mortgages. And according to […]

Nancy Pelosi is excitedly hustling back to D.C. with her congressional cohorts to pass a $26.1 billion state and teacher union bailout bill. With teacher unions alone garnering around $40 million in dues money from their $10 billion chunk of the bill, it is easy to understand how the big […]

Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson today urged the House of Representatives to “either reject the $26.1 billion bailout to balance bankrupt state budgets like New York and California or stay home.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pulling members of Congress away from the August recess for a special session to vote on legislation that includes $16.1 billion for state Medicaid spending and […]

By Kevin Mooney — While addressing the executive council of the AFL-CIO at the Washington Convention Center in D.C. earlier this week, President Obama told labor leaders that he would push congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which includes the anti- secret […]

By Kevin Mooney — Big government activists knew they were going to lose this one going into it. On Tuesday, Missouri became the first of at least three states to vote on a ballot measure aimed against a key component of President Obama’s healthcare overhaul. […]