#1
Just like we knew, they were waiting for the spotlight to dim and then they will move in. May be in a week, may be in a year. But they will take revenge.
#2
"Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Bundy crossed the line when he allowed states' rights supporters, including self-proclaimed militia members, onto his property to aim guns at police."
I'm not an attorney. Can someone out there tell us if some Federal law was broken here? - UP
#3
The article is a sop to the Kossaks who have been screaming for arrests since April. The article is a report of an interview with Clark County sheriff Doug Gillespie, who said a number of things, and the AP reporter got comments from the BLM.
We have our very own Chicago boyz at Rantburg, so their take on this issue should be instructive.
The fireworks won't officially fly until tonight, but yesterday's decision in a key Illinois Supreme Court case has set off a first-class explosion in state and local government, potentially punching tens of billions of dollars in holes in their collective budgets.
Some elements of the court's decision are drawing intense debate. But if the overnight consensus is anywhere near correct, everyone from City Hall and the Capitol to your local village and school board will have little option now but to dig deep, cut services and raise taxes a lot — and labor unions little incentive to compromise.
"The law in Illinois is now crystal clear: Politicians cannot break the promises made to Chicago teachers and other city employees," crowed the Chicago Teachers Union in a statement. "Recently passed laws to cut promised retirement benefits are clearly unconstitutional."
This comes from our 1970 state constitution rewrite which guarantees that state pensions can never be reduced. Back in 1970 the labor unions were powerful enough to have a seat (via their pet Democrats) in the constitutional convention and they made sure this provision found its way in. They then spent the next 40 years boosting politicians (mostly but not always Democrats) who would in turn sweeten state pensions and retiree health care. We now have a pension system that is simply unaffordable, and if anyone says "cut the payments" the unions can go to court. The courts in turn point to the constitution, and the pension cuts go away. The union solution is, of course, to raise taxes as high as necessary -- a bit higher than that would be nice because the "excess" then could be used to sweeten the pensions some more.
As Ace of Spades would say, we're truly boned, perhaps even worse than California.
Cash-strapped government budget makers "cannot write (the Illinois Constitution) to include restrictions and limitations that the drafters did not express and the citizens of Illinois did not approve," said a more restrained but equally decisive Illinois Senate President John Cullerton.
The court ruled that retiree health insurance benefits for state workers mandated by the Legislature deserve the same level of protection as pensions, which according to the constitution "cannot be diminished or impaired."
#1
If you cannot cut the pensions then the only logical choice is to cut the pensioners. Just kidding. Raise taxes, file bankruptcy and wait for a federal bailout.
Posted by: Matt ||
07/06/2014 9:58 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Yeah, I've been thinking about Plan B myself. I wonder how long it will be before Californicate realizes they are about to implode on the state union pension funds.
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
07/06/2014 11:29 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Issue well described, Dr. Steve.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
07/06/2014 15:42 Comments ||
Top||
"Hillary Clinton continued to justify her high-dollar speaking fees on Friday, telling ABC News' Ann Compton that all of the money she's made from colleges over the past year and a half has been donated to her family's foundation." ...heh...
#6
Rambler's got it. It's what any NFL player does -- start a 'charity' "for the children." Who runs the charity? His brother, mother and third cousin. They all get salaries and expenses. Of course, they DO make sure to have a charitable event here and there so they stay within the letter of the law.
Hillary's not even doing the charity part of this. The Clinton Foundation is all about having and building a power machine that looks after the family business, which is all politics, all the time.
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/06/2014 10:57 Comments ||
Top||
#7
nice article on the failure of the Clinton Initiative in Haiti (which had Hillary as Sec of State monitoring a Bill as head of foundation project)
#9
Well, she did set things to right after the fact, didn't she? Well, she did, didn't she? C'mon people, where is the forgiveness, where's the love?
=======================
Hmmm...Lies, no moral compass, enabled by the MSM. How did things go this far, for so long?
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
07/06/2014 14:50 Comments ||
Top||
#10
Gee, AP, that's part of what the money is for...
Posted by: Steve White ||
07/06/2014 18:12 Comments ||
Top||
#2
There is a difference between those that want to come here to become Americans and to make a better life and those that just want to suck off the tit of the well to do without assimilating.
The US is made up of the former, not the latter.
But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you Obama. Overprivlaged prick who never worked a hard day in his spoiled life.
#3
Yet another crisis of his making. No good can come from permitting these children to simply disappear into our country. Any successful immigration effort [new or old] must have as it's foundation, a secure border. Champ is doing precisely the opposite. In spite of his rhetoric, his goal is the destruction of America.
#4
And the natives usually objected---frequently violently. Being less organized than the invaders, they lost---and nowadays are marginalized and reduced to semi-extinction.
#5
Its was also a nation of slavery. We reached a social and economic point of development that made it intolerable and resolved by much blood. Shall, we go back to legalized slavery simply because it once was?
The need of immigration was the development of vast open lands with vast resources and small population. Now we have the bureaucracy harping everyday how we are a burden on the environment and a chatter class of self important nabobs that tell the rest of us will have to do with less.
We have millions of native born who have only basic skills languishing in unemployment. You do not add more to that number while burdening the rest with your redistributionist poison. You are not practicing charity, you are practicing theft.
#6
Slavery is never a good thing. No man should enslave another. If the Constitution were adhered to in a strict sense, such things as slavery never would have been a problem. The modern day version of slavery is that imposed upon its citizens by the Federal government. This form of slavery has been imposed via increased taxes or dictates by a burgeoning bureaucracy that "interprets laws" to their liking, for example, EPA, IRS, the newly minted ACA, BLM, ICE, ATF, and the rest of the alphabet soup of agencies. This growing bureaucracy has resulted in a growing corruption and a weaponization of the Federal government against its people. That has not worked out well for the country.
#8
2K what are your thoughts on what seems to be an old reoccurring problem in this country. Those with a better knowledge of American history could address an interesting bit of history I was really not aware of. We had radicals and conservatives from the very beginning. The radicals doing very much the same things as now. In Philadelphia they wanted to redistribute wealth. The conservatives won the day but it is amazing to see the similarities. The conservative Democrat and now conservative Republican are losing their parties hence the rise of Tea party people. Radicals have hijacked both parties. The cancer within.
#9
The immigrants of today do not wish to assimilate. They flock to DC to secure power for themselves as they have seen the black Americans do. No longer a melting pot. This is now a house divided.
#10
PC term is "salad bowl" to replace 'melting pot'. The latter worked, the former has not - and will not. Sectarianism = 'salad bowl'.
'Salad Bowl' now preached in all Tucson school, and local Ed. Schools. btw - never went to a School of Education at a Univ. I wanted to learn something. Took certification courses for K-12 years later to teach Sp.Ed.
No disrespect meant to Ed.School Rantburgers - you have obviously shed off the vapidity it implies.
#11
I honestly wonder if another two + years of this POS will swamp the ship of state beyond the capacity of the already foundering economic pumps. We are broke, divided, and being subsumed by the ignorant, the venal and the clueless, legal, illegal, native and invader. Can someone offer a bright answer how to close the border and enforce the laws, prevent the creation of new laws by executive tyranny, and preserve the currency? I despair and think the tipping point has passed. My fellow citizens are increasingly outnumbered, apathetic, ignorant, or cowed, and the actions now to right the ship require hard choices and, sadly, hard, stern measures. Are there enough Americans left to nut up and do what needs doing? I don't know, but if there are, they are not in California.....
#12
The Feds are going to be sending in Federal Police in Riot Gear against those who are demanding immigration laws be enforced.
This will be the red line crossed by Obama of Americans vs Americas first ever tyrant. This will get him put out of office. He has said in his book he will stand with immigrants before he will stand with the citizens of the United States of America.
#13
Yes, #12. We have our own Kimmie. He will surely fall. He is a dangerous man living in his own world of make believe. Government is simply his toy to play with. In my opinion he is mentally unstable.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
