Obama is pulling down the shades on union financial disclosure
By Don Todd
As published by the Washington Examiner.
Should a union officer be able to keep his full compensation from the union treasury secret from the members?
Should a union officer be able to accept personal payments from businesses the union has dealings with and then keep such dealings confidential?
Most would think the answer to these questions is an obvious “no.”
Union management does not agree and they are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars from their members’ dues to prevent any such reporting and disclosure.
The reason I know this is that I spent eight years at the U.S. Department of Labor attempting to get unions to comply with such reporting requirements and they fought us every step on the way.
With the arrival of President Obama, all such requirements are being rolled back or the Labor Department is refusing to enforce them until such a time as they can be rolled back.
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Industry Perspectives on the Summer of Economic Improvement
By Rebekah Rast
President Obama’s Summer Economic Stimulus Recovery plan has failed.
The national unemployment rate increased to 9.6 percent in August. The private sector is fed up with Obama’s big government tactics.
“The private sector has uniformly rejected Obama’s economic policies,” says Bill Wilson, president of Americans for Limited Government (ALG). “Big government policies have done nothing but crush job creation and hurt the free market.”
ALG collected comments from job-producing organizations in the private sector. Here is what some of them have to say about the increased unemployment rate.
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council)
SBE Council is one of the most powerful and effective advocacy organizations dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship. The organization works to protect the interests of small businesses.
Raymond Keating, SBE Council’s chief economist, says that after reviewing the most recent unemployment report it clearly shows that “private firms don’t have incentives to go out there and create more jobs.” He went on to say that the “policy climate makes it very difficult for investors, entrepreneurs, and small businesses to jump into the employment pool. All small businesses see right now are increased costs.”
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The Effects of Recovery Summer and Stimulus: Week in Review
By Adam Bitely
Over the past week at NetRightDaily.com we have reviewed Ohio, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin in our continuing series investigating what effects the Recovery Act and the “Summer of Recovery” have had on the states. These five states alone show a different picture than the Obama administration would lead us to believe.
To see the large discrepancy that continues to develop between the Obama administration’s “recovery” myths and the reality of the high unemployment situations that the states are facing, just look at a state like Illinois — the home state of Obama.
Illinois received nearly $8.5 billion in “stimulus” money according to Recovery.gov. Next door in Missouri, they received nearly $4.3 billion in “stimulus” funding. One would expect that job creation in Illinois would have been nearly twice as much, given that there was twice as much “stimulus” money spent. But the government’s own data shows a different result. With nearly twice the amount of “stimulus” money, Illinois created only 2,000 more jobs than Missouri — a pitiful amount when you consider the amount of money spent.
Unfortunately, the bad news doesn’t end there.
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