Another local government in California is contemplating bankruptcy. That’s hardly big news, though, since many California jurisdictions have been bled dry by greedy public sector unions and the city of Vallejo already has thrown in the towel. What is amazing, though, is that the government unions are trying to get the state to pass a [...]
Archive for May 31st, 2010
Taxpayers vs. Bureaucrats, Part XXVII
Posted in Big business, Bureaucracy, Bureaucrats, California, tagged Big Government, Bureaucracy, Bureaucrats, California on May 31, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Get Government Out of the Education Business
Posted in Big Government, Education, National Education Association, Privatization, tagged Big Government, Education, National Education Association, Privatization on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a controversy in Texas because the State Board of Education has mandated the inclusion of certain materials in textbooks. This has elicited howls of protests from the left, which generally has controlled how some issues are portrayed. Since I don’t want leftist propaganda being pushed on kids, I’m mildly sympathetic to the Texas educrats, [...]
Obama Administration Trying to Rig Government Statistics for Ideological Purposes
Posted in Big Government, Dependency, Government Spending, Poverty, tagged Big Government, Dependency, Government Spending, Poverty on May 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The government’s so-called War on Poverty has been a dismal failure, largely because giving people money as a condition of being poor is a very good way of ensuring that some of them will choose to remain poor. But now the White House wants to make a bad situation even worse by concocting a new [...]