Controversial Wisconsin Union Law Set to Take Effect After High Court Ruling
Wisconsin’s contentious union rights law is set to go in effect following a sharply divided ruling by the state Supreme Court.
The decision is a major victor for Republican Gov. Scott Walker after a long and dramatic battle that was met with heavy protests in the state’s capitol and across the country.
The high court upheld Walker’s law in a 4-3 vote Tuesday evening, determining that a judge overstepped her authority when she voided the governor’s plan to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights.
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The Tides are a changing in America and Conservatives are on the Rise!
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Study: Housing Collapse Steeper Than During Great Depression
The author of a study claiming the U.S. housing collapse is now worse than during the Great Depression warned Wednesday that the market likely will continue to fall for the rest of the year before going stagnant.
Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist for Capital Economics, predicted home prices would fall another 3 percent over the rest of 2011 before potentially hitting bottom.
“Even when that happens, I don’t think we’re going to see any significant or sustained rises,” he told FoxNews.com Wednesday, predicting “a couple years of pretty much no recovery whatsoever.”
The bleak prediction comes after he released a report estimating that since the collapse began from the pricing peak of 2006, prices have fallen 33 percent — more than the 31 percent dive recorded between the 1920s and 1930s.
The data, from Capital Economics, underscores the trouble the U.S. economy is having emerging from what is described as the worst recession since the Great Depression. “The sharp fall in house prices in the first quarter provided further confirmation that this housing crash has been larger and faster than the one during the Great Depression,” the analysis said.
Dales said the collapse has eclipsed that of the Great Depression because the boom that preceded it was much bigger. Unlike during the 1920s, access to the housing market was far more open leading up to 2006.
“This boom was characterized by homeownership becoming the norm for pretty much anyone,” Dales said, noting that the boom has effectively been thrown in reverse.
While the financial markets have partially bounced back since the 2008 Wall Street collapse and the economy as a whole has been growing, the employment picture is bleak and housing continues to suffer.
The national jobless rate ticked up to 9.1 percent in May — that was after the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index issued a report showing home prices in a dozen metropolitan regions hit their lowest level in March since the collapse began. Nationally, prices hit a new post-collapse low in the first quarter, and have returned to roughly 2002 levels.
David Blitzer, chairman of the Index Committee, declared the numbers confirmed a “double-dip in home prices.” He and other analysts suggested the U.S. housing market has not yet hit bottom.
The dismal housing market news was compounded Wednesday by the National Association of Home Builders’ release of its monthly Housing Market Index. The index, which measures builder sentiment on the market, fell to a level of 13 on its 100-point scale. That’s three points below the previous month and the lowest level since September 2010. Any reading below 50 indicates negative sentiment about the market.
With fewer homes being built, fewer jobs are available and less revenue is generated for local, state and federal governments. Each new home built creates an average of three jobs for a year and generates about $90,000 in taxes, according to the group.
On the bright side, the NAHB noted that a poll it took of 2,000 2012 voters found that housing is still considered by the largest plurality of homeowners as their biggest investment.
Amid the troubling developments in housing, labor and elsewhere, the Obama administration has tried to push several new economic proposals, ranging from new training programs to tax relief.
President Obama is pleading for patience on the economy while at the same time urging the public to stay positive.
“The sky is not falling,” the president said during a stop in North Carolina two days ago.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/15/housing-collapse-steeper-than-during-great-depression-analyst-says/#ixzz1PMTOsSZF
Report: Nearly 200 of Obama‘s Biggest Donors Land ’Plum‘ Gov’t Jobs, Contracts
If a story contains the following sentence about the administration, would you be concerned?
More than two years after Obama took office vowing to banish “special interests” from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, an investigation by iWatch News has found.
That’s the major point of a new Politico article out today, which focuses on an expose by iWatch News. And it has the examples to back up the claim. For example, meet Donald H. Gips:
Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama’s run for the presidency.
Gips, a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, delivered more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two other company executives collected at least $150,000 more.
After the election, Gips was put in charge of hiring in the Obama White House, helping to place loyalists and fundraisers in many key positions. Then, in mid-2009, Obama named him ambassador to South Africa. Meanwhile, Level 3 Communications, in which Gips retained stock, received millions of dollars of government stimulus contracts for broadband projects in six states — though Gips said he had been “completely unaware” that the company had received the contracts.
The term iWatch has given such people is “bundlers,” since they bundle together cash for the campaign. Here’s what the investigation found about these donors:
Overall, 184 of 556, or about one-third of Obama bundlers or their spouses joined the administration in some role. But the percentages are much higher for the big-dollar bundlers. Nearly 80 percent of those who collected more than $500,000 for Obama took “key administration posts,” as defined by the White House. More than half the 24 ambassador nominees who were bundlers raised $500,000.
The big bundlers had broad access to the White House for meetings with top administration officials and glitzy social events. In all, campaign bundlers and their family members account for more than 3,000 White House meetings and visits. Half of them raised $200,000 or more.
Some Obama bundlers have ties to companies that stand to gain financially from the president’s policy agenda, particularly in clean energy and telecommunications, and some already have done so. Level 3 Communications, for instance, snared $13.8 million in stimulus money.
It should be noted that George W. Bush appointed bundlers, too. But according to iWatch, in just two years Obama has appointed as many bundlers as Bush did during his eight years in office.
The group offers a couple more examples:
Harvey S. Wineberg, a certified public accountant from Chicago who raised at least $100,000 and is Obama’s personal accountant, said his fundraising had “nothing to do” with his appointment to the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability in December 2010. Wineberg said he called a White House staffer, whom he declined to name, to ask about serving. “I thought I’d be good,” he said. He has since resigned.
Michael Caplin, a Virginia consultant who assists nonprofit businesses, raised $200,000 for Obama and was appointed to the Commission on Presidential Scholars, a board that selects and honors promising high school students. He said he was contacted by a White House staffer asking him if he wanted to serve, though he saw plenty of other big donors angling for jobs and positions.
The appointment of George Washington University law professor Spencer Overton illustrates how the administration has rewarded many top fundraisers.
Overton wrote in 2003 that the influence big donors wield in elections means that an “overwhelming majority of citizens are effectively excluded from an important stage of the political process.” Yet Overton bundled at least $500,000 for Obama. He was named to the Obama transition team and in February 2009 was appointed principal deputy attorney general in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy. Overton visited the White House more than 80 times from January 2009 through the end of 2010 for events ranging from small meetings with high-level staffers to social and entertainment events, sometimes with his wife, records show. Overton resigned the $180,000-a-year job in July 2010. He declined to comment for this story.
That sure doesn’t sound like the transparent and transformative administration that Obama promised. But then again, this is the same administration that was given a transparency award in secret.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-nearly-200-of-obamas-biggest-donors-land-plum-govt-jobs-contracts/
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Good Morning your time afternoon mine, lol…….. Good to see you melady and love what your doing on Twitter and your blog. I am like you holding out for Sarah Palin. She is my Rocky Balboa for 2012
It’s nice to have a little good news these days. Thanks Sami.
Hello Otis……… finally get some good news for our side
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