Nation’s Largest Teachers Union Sees Unprecedented Membership Decline – Heartlander

We can only hope…

The nation’s largest teachers union experienced an unprecedented decline in membership last year, a development with potentially large impacts on classrooms and state politics.

 

The Education Intelligence Agency’s Mike Antonucci, a longtime independent reporter with multiple union sources, reports a net loss for the National Education Association of more than 87,000 active and retired members. This leaves the NEA with nearly 3 percent fewer dues-payers in 2012 than in 2011. The trend is occurring across most of the nation.

With restrictions on the union’s capacity to serve as exclusive bargaining agents and to collect involuntary fees, “many teachers feel they have no incentive to belong to the union anymore,” Moe said.

 

Read more at Heartlander…

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Rand Paul on Obama Attacks on Bain Capital

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Live Free…

God bless all who have sacrificed everything so the we could live free.. Notice that’s not “live FOR free”…

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Rep. Allen West: Where will you be at 3:00 P.M. on Memorial Day?

Amen to this… I wonder how many of us even know what Memorial Day is all about?

The solemn act of honoring those who have fallen in battle is a custom that seems to have faded in importance to our nation over time.

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

Perhaps they do not know how deeply our nation once appreciated those who sacrificed their lives in defense of the principles we hold most dear. Perhaps those very principles of individual sovereignty, freedom and liberty are no longer so important.

It was not always so.

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51.7% of teens in DC unemployed; 36.2% in California – American Thinker

As Summer rolls around, teens in California are going to have a tough time finding that summer job. Only Washington DC has a higher teen unemployment rate than California – 51.7 % vs 36.2. Both places, coincidentally (or not), run by Democrats…

…But as a young man during the Carter years, I can attest to the fact that it was virtually impossible to find a decent job. Even McDonald’s was hiring adults desperate for a paycheck to feed their families.

For teenagers in Washington, D.C. and California, finding a job just got a lot harder:

As summer break approaches and school seasons conclude, teens in California will have a more difficult time finding a job than their demographic counterparts in every other state, according to Census Bureau data released by the Employment Policies Institute.

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UPDATE: SSgt Sal Giunta awarded the Medal of Honor – Family NOT relegated To The Third Row – Behind Congressmen

It has been correctly pointed out to me that the content of this video is false (see comment from Michelle below). I tracked down the video from the actual presentation, and SSGT Guinta’s family are clearly in the front row.

My thanks to Michelle for calling my attention to this error.


“Hubris, arrogance and lack of respect…

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How To Make Obama’s Spending Look Small

From John Scotus at The Tree Of Mamre

How to make Obama’s spending look small

via How To Make Obama’s Spending Look Small.

And if that’s not enough for you, there’s this:

Obama spending, percent increase adjusted for inflation

Go here to see more….

Good comment from The Enterprise Blog

Steve In Tulsasays:

In 2007 when democrats took majorities in both houses unemployment was 4.6%. When Obama was elected unemployment was 6.8%; today it is 8.6% … and there are 6 million fewer work seekers than 2007. If you add those lost workers back to the mix unemployment is 17%. Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it’s $3.39 — that’s a 102% increase in just three years. Electricity bills have also skyrocketed up some $400 a year. Since December 2008, under democrat majorities in both houses, food-stamp use has increased 46%. Nearly 20% of males age 25 to 34 now live with their parents. The budget has jumped to $3.8 trillion under democrats and yet revenue is only $2.1 trillion. America’s total public debt stands at $15.63 trillion; in January 2009, the debt was $10.62 trillion. Obama is on pace to borrow $6.2 trillion in just one term — more debt than was amassed by all presidents from Washington through Bill Clinton combined. The debt is rising by $4.2 billion every day — $175 million per hour, nearly $3 million per minute.
When the Democrats took over Congress in January 2007, unemployment was 4.5 percent. It is now 8.6 percent. The budget deficit created by the outgoing Republican Congress was only $161 billion. It is now $1.7 trillion. The total outstanding debt in January 2007 was $8.7 trillion. It is now $15.8 trillion. Before the Democrats took control of everything, America’s credit rating was AAA. It is now AA+.
The ‘Community Re-Investment Act’ was used by democrats to pressure banks to give home loans to unqualified borrowers. This created so much uncollectable debt that Freddie and Fannie were created to try to cushion the bad debt load on the economy. Although repeatedly warned of impending collapse by McCain, Bush, and many others, Frank and Dodd simply refused to allow any attempts to prevent the recession.
After almost five years of democrat budgets the deficit is 1.7 trillion a year and real unemployment (U6) is at 17%.

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