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Daily Archive for July 6th, 2010

Education is Not About Education

Nor is union representation about representing their members. This on the Milwaukee Teachers Union: The average pay for a Milwaukee school teacher is $56,000, which is hardly excessive. Benefits are another matter. According to a new study by the MacIver Institute, a state think tank, the cost of health and pension benefits now exceeds $40,000 […]

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Tale of Two Economies

Coyote reminds us just who the stimulus stimulated: Remember when the stimulus bill was all about “infrastructure” and “green energy?”  Way back in January of 2009 (sorry I am in I-told-you-so mode) I observed how less than 6% of the first two years spending appeared to be related to infrastructure.  It turns out that this […]

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Who is Whom?

Quote #1 “‘Our message to them is to work with this law, not against it; don’t try and take advantage of it or we will work with state authorities and gather the authority we have to stop rate gouging” Quote #2 “They are not going to stop us in the plan, which is to give […]

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