Majority of Union Workers are government workers rather than private-sector employees

"For the first time in American history, a majority of union members are government workers rather than private-sector employees" according to a New York Times report.

Andy Stern the president of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union (SIEU) is the most frequent outside visitor to the White House and helped shape health-care legislation. Remember the $60 billion backroom giveaway where the Democrats agreed to extend special exemption from the Cadillac tax to any health plan that is part of a collective-bargaining agreement until 2018. Any of the rest of us that have a higher-end plan will start paying the tax in 2013.

Administration policies are creating more and more government union jobs. Private-sector unions workers are getting special treatment by the Administration and the Democrats. So who will these union voters be indebted too?

Founding Fathers on the issue...
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” Samuel Adams

“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
Benjamin Franklin

Government Pay exceeds Private Sector Pay

According to a USA Today report federal workers earned an average of$67,691 in 2008 compared to $60,046 average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector. According to a Washington Times report there will be 2.15 million federal employees this year. topping the 2 million mark for the first time since President Clinton declared that "the era of big government is over".

So let's break this down. We've got more federal workers than ever and they make a lot more than their private sector counterparts. This at a time when everyone else is tightening their belts and cutting back. Does anyone else see the sad irony of this?

What does Thomas Jefferson have to say on the matter? "Let the general government [federal government] be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our nations affairs be disentangled from those of other nations, except to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left to manage for themselves, and our general government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants" (Bergh, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:168)

Clinton County Republican Women's Club Candidates Night

Thank you to the three Republican Women's Clubs of Clinton County for hosting the Candidates Night this evening. I appreciate the opportunity to share my views with the attendees and hear the other local candidates positions and platforms.

National Debt - Do you see a problem here?

GOP Bans Earmarks

Now this is the type of bold conservative political leadership we have been longing for. Kudos to the House Republicans for deciding to impose a one-year, self imposed ban on earmark funding.

"For millions of Americans the earmark process in Congress has become a symbol of a broken Washington," said John Boehner, R-West Chester. He goes on to say that the ban "shows the American people we're serious about reform".

Contact your Republican Representative and thank them for taking this step and encourage them to continue with conservative reforms and positions.

This is a great first step but don't stop there. Let's get rid of earmarks altogether, both parties forever.