Hijacking the Private Sector, the SEIU and Blago Way

The current state of the economy has placed a large burden on private business, especially on small businesses and the self-employed. Subscribing to a Keynesian tenet of financing debt and increasing government spending to boost output, lawmakers are repeatedly giving themselves cover for splurging.  After the first bailouts came the massive $787 billion stimulus bill, an urgent remedy that Congress and the White House insisted was all about “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs.”

And as spending has increased, so has the size of the public employment sector. Meanwhile, the private sector will soon be close to earning a coveted placement on the endangered species list.

As the union leaders’ plundering of the private sector has continued, this doesn’t mean that they have abandoned unionizing private sector workers altogether.  In fact, while the number of private sector jobs overall is down, the number of unionized private sector jobs is trending upward, right alongside the public sector growth.

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Tags: ACORN, AFSCME, Andy Stern, Anna Burger, Blagojevich
Posted Jan 2nd 2010 at 6:07 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Economics, Featured Story, News, Politics | 54326157 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2010/01/02/hijacking-the-private-sector-the-blago-way/Hijacking+the+Private+Sector%2C+the+SEIU+and+Blago+Way2010-01-02+14%3A07%3A12Liberty+Chick

ACORN Still Owes $2.3 Million in Overdue Taxes

ACORN and its affiliates are content to impose crippling big-government laws, regulations, and taxes on Americans, but when called upon to obey those same rules, ACORN’s network of scofflaws and deadbeats simply refuses to comply.

ACORN and its affiliates currently owe more than $2.3 million in long overdue back taxes to all levels of government.

It's deathly quiet at the former funeral home at 1024 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans. (photo: Kevin Kane)

As of Nov. 11 the exact figure was $2,328,596.95.

ACORN owes money to the IRS, Arkansas, California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, and to the cities of New York and Philadelphia.

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Tags: ACORN, Arkansas, Barack Obama, Buddy Caldwell, California
Posted Nov 16th 2009 at 1:03 pm in ACORN, Obama | 3160655 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2009/11/16/acorn-still-owes-2-3-million-in-overdue-taxes/ACORN+Still+Owes+%242.3+Million+in+Overdue+Taxes2009-11-16+20%3A03%3A59Matthew+Vadum

Maryland Shouldn’t Prosecute ACORN Filmmakers

It recently came to light that individuals employed by ACORN have been apparent accomplices with regard to the conduct of alleged criminal activities.  Surprisingly, it was the investigative ingenuity of ordinary citizens who brought this information to the attention of the public.  As a Member of Congress, these revelations are of interest to me in that ACORN is the beneficiary of substantial federal funding.  As the former Attorney General of my state of California, this story is of great concern to me for an entirely different reason.  Ironically, it is those who revealed the alleged illegal acts, rather than the perpetrators of those acts, who find themselves under threat of criminal prosecution.  To anyone with a modicum of common sense, this would seem to turn justice on its head.

How could this happen?  Certain states, such as Maryland, have statutes prohibiting the recording of conversations without the consent of the other party.  Unfortunately for the young investigative entrepreneurs, their disclosure of alleged illegal activities carried out by the ACORN employees took place in these so-called “two party consent states” which prohibit the recording of confidential communications without the permission of all parties.

There have been comments released by the State’s Attorneys Office for Baltimore that:

If it is determined that the audio portion now being heard on YouTube was illegally obtained, it is also illegal under Maryland Law to willfully use or willfully disclose the content of said audio.  The penalty for the unlawful interception, disclosure or use of it is a felony punishable up to 5 years.

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, acorn video, Attorney General, Hannah Giles
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 at 6:00 am in ACORN, Featured Story, Justice/Legal, News, Politics, State Politics | 1992274 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dlungren/2009/10/23/maryland-shouldnt-prosecute-acorn-filmmakers/Maryland+Shouldn%27t+Prosecute+ACORN+Filmmakers2009-10-23+13%3A00%3A40Rep.+Dan+Lungren+%28R-CA%29

Pork Report: October 2, 2009

Money intended for soldiers fighting war is instead being spent on senators’ home-state pet projects

Defense spending bill contains an earmark that has nothing to do with national defense, $20 million for an institute honoring late Senator Ted Kennedy

Maryland Senator earmarks tens of millions of dollars in a defense spending bill for her top campaign donors

New Jersey receives $4.8 million earmark to increase the size of Long Beach Island beaches and dunes

National Science Foundation hands out taxpayer cash in experiment to determine if birth order affects willingness to make risky economic decisions

Federal grant pays to design and build an exhibit about the significance of lacrosse

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Tags: birth order, campaign donors, Defense spending, Earmarks, lacrosse
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Left Employing Sexist Tactics to Discredit Giles, O’Keefe?

Word on the street is that the Left, the “equal pay, pro-women” left is desperately searching for lewd photos of Hannah Giles.

Savor that bit of irony for a moment.

The Left is seeking to employ sexism as a way to take down yet another young woman. A rationale after Ike Turner’s own heart! Leftist ideology replaces “barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen” as the modern-day female prison; step out of line and you will be virtually and emotionally abused by the burdensome patriarchal undercurrent that powers this political rationale. They’re only for choice if that “choice” is the genocide of the female sex; they’re only for female empowerment if it doesn’t disrupt the fragile liberal status quo – and Giles is the most recent example.

As a young woman, I can say that sexist behavior so often perpetrated by the left is a major reason why I and many other women left the Democratic party. It’s gross to know that a bunch of crusty, old, pee-paw Democratic operatives are, at this second, scouring the web for nudie Giles shots as a way to discredit her and O’Keefe’s work.

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Tags: ACORN, Baltimore, Hannah Giles, James O'Keefe, Little Miss Attila
Posted Sep 25th 2009 at 6:31 pm in ACORN, Culture, Media Criticism | 9026193 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloesch/2009/09/25/left-employing-sexist-tactics-to-discredit-giles-okeefe/Left+Employing+Sexist+Tactics+to+Discredit+Giles%2C+O%27Keefe%3F2009-09-26+01%3A31%3A34Dana+Loesch