Darrell L Clarke, President of the Philadelphia City Council, wrote:1 POSTED: Monday, May 13, 2013, 3:10 AM The city schools’ financial troubles are not new, yet reactions to the School District’s latest request for aid — $60 million more from the city, $120 million more from the state — were met with surprise. Frankly, after [...]
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It has been said that . . .
. . . if you give a man a fish, he will be fed for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he will be fed for a lifetime. Well, maybe not: in Pennsylvania, if you want to fish, whether for sport or because you need to feed your family, there are [...]
Rick Perry says to firearms manufacturers, “C’mon down!”
Long-time readers of THE FIRST STREET JOURNAL may recall that my support for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination initially went to Governor Rick Perry (R-TX). Governor Perry proved to be a poor candidate, but he has remained a great governor, and would certainly have made a better president than the man who holds that position [...]
Economics 101: The New York Times engages in silver liningism.
Your Editor wrote: The tax increases approved by the voters in November were temporary increases, adding a 0.25% increase to the state sales tax, and creating three new brackets for the most productive Californians, lasting for seven years. For a single Californian earning $500,000 or more, the new 12.3% marginal rate, combined with the new federal top [...]
Taxes and the Pyrite State
From Jerry Brown: California Will Have Surpluses That’s what he says: After years of red ink, Gov. Jerry Brown said on Thursday that California’s $96.7-billion general fund is now poised to end next year with a surplus, thanks to years of deep budget cuts and billions in new taxes approved by voters last year. “We [...]
Economics 101: The Democrats’ economic and taxation policies at work in Illinois
Remember how our friends on the left were so appalled that the Michigan state legislature passed a right-to-work law? How about in just-across-the-lake Illinois, that liberal bastion and home of President Barack Hussein Obama? Unions blast state on plans for underfunded pensions By Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune | 1:26 p.m. CST, December 19, 2012 A [...]
City destroyed by Democrats: Barack, bail us out, ’cause we voted for you!
What’s wrong with America: everyone wants someone else to support them! Detroit councilwoman to Obama: We voted for you, now bail us out By FOX 2 News Staff Fox 2 News Headlines DETROIT (WJBK) — The city of Detroit faces a major financial crisis and one member of city council thinks President Barack Obama should [...]
Oh, the irony!
I noted, last July, the dire fiscal straits in which the northeastern Pennsylvania city of Scranton found itself. Now Wilkes-Barre, a similar city in the region, is finding itself in a similar situation: Leighton: Layoffs may be announced today By Bob Kalinowski (Staff Writer) Published: November 16, 2012 Today could be the day. Wilkes-Barre Mayor [...]
Chicago: the teachers are revolting
From Chicago Teachers Say They Will Strike By Stephanie Banchero Chicago public school teachers were set to go on strike Monday, canceling classes in the nation’s third largest school system, after marathon contract talks with city officials ended Sunday night without a deal. The teachers’ strike is the first in Chicago in a quarter century [...]
On, Wisconsin!
After the recall elections in Wisconsin, which Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) won, our friends on the left took solace in the fact that they took control of the state Senate, 17-16. Well, the Democratic leadership managed to urinate off state Senator Tim Cullen, a moderate Democrat from Janesville, and he has now withdrawn from the [...]
