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Today’s Nullification Crisis
by Myron Magnet
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. Want the Big Bucks? Join the Government
A new analysis shows that the public-private sector wage disparity has not improved. In fact, it's worsened. Previously, the CBO, based on 2005-2010 data, calculated that public sector employees were compensated at a roughly 16% better rate than commensurate private sector workers. That disparity is now up to 17%, according to 2011-2015 data.
And check this out, via Government Executive: "Federal employees with bachelor's degrees as their highest level of education earned an average of 5 percent more in wages than their private sector counterparts, 52 percent more in benefits and 21 percent more in total compensation. Federal workers with a high school diploma or less earned a 34 percent more in wages than those in the private sector, 93 percent more in benefits and 53 percent more in total compensation." As nice as it must be to have a higher base pay as a government worker, it seems the primary catalyst for the increasing disparity is the extremely lucrative benefits. Meanwhile, those of us in the private sector are struggling just to pay for health insurance.
An aside and caveat: There are extremely hard workers who earn their pay as public servants. Military personnel are government workers, and many others do admirable work. The problem is we have people like the EPA employee who browse porn all day and IRS employees who steal from taxpayers. When you factor in the total job security that government workers have and then lump in extra pay and benefits, the private sector simply can't compete. Notwithstanding the fact there are public sector people who do their jobs well and work hard, the inherent imbalance is glaring. And as much as Democrats rail against the gender wage gap, don't expect any demands to balance the public-private sector wage disparity. ~The Patriot Post
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Rep Smith Asks DOJ To Prosecute Platte River
Owner Still Hiding liar-Clinton Server Docs
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Accountability is a slow process in Washington DC, and it often never comes, particularly if your last name is liar-Clinton or liar-nObama... For those involved in aiding and facilitating the lawbreaking of those who are generally above the law, the day of reckoning sometimes does come, particularly when the other side wins elections. Texas Rep Lamar Smith, the Republican chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, has issued a referral to the Justice Department for Treve Suazo, the CEO of Platte River Networks, for obstruction of justice and making false statements...http://rickwells.us/rep-smith-asks-doj-prosecute-platte-river-owner-still-hiding-clinton-server-docs/
German Companies Silent on Iran’s Holocaust
Denial Following Call to Cease Business
by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ A cadre of German companies seeking to engage in business with Iran is remaining silent in the face of calls by an international advocacy group to shun working with the Islamic Republic until it disavows... its institutionalized anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel. United Against Nuclear Iran, or UANI, has petitioned more than a dozen major German companies, asking them to sign a declaration promising to not do business with Iran until its leadership stops denying the Holocaust and calling for the destruction of the Jewish state...http://freebeacon.com/national-security/german-companies-silent-irans-holocaust-denial-following-call-cease-business/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=c8c41a0bc9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-c8c41a0bc9-45611665
.Soros Sucked $5 Million US Tax Dollars
For Thursday’s “Berkeley” Attack
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It looks like it could be Berkeley in the midst of one of the attacks from a Soros funded group, perhaps the Antifa radicals... It could be, and there’s really only one difference of any significance, this Soros orchestrated chaos is taking place in Macedonia, a country he’s been five years in the process of destabilizing, with the help of a pilfering pretend US ‘president’ willing to steal our tax dollars. Americans weren’t asked if their money should go to fund liar-nObama and Soros government destabilization efforts in Europe, we’d have undoubtedly told them to stuff it...Why the committee isn't going after liar-nObama, liar-Hillary, hanoi-Kerry and Soros, but rather go after Flynn. http://rickwells.us/soros-sucked-5-million-us-tax-dollars-thursdays-berkeley-attack-macedonia-parliament/
.Rex Tillerson Calls On The UN To
Increase Pressure On North Korea
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday called for a full-scale, global effort to pressure North Korea into scrapping its aggressive plans for a nuclear arsenal... His comments came a day after he said North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un was “not crazy” and President Donald Trump said there was “absolutely” a chance of a major conflict with North Korea. “All options for responding to future provocations must remain on the table,” Tillerson said during a special United Nations session called to discuss the North Korean crisis...http://www.westernjournalism.com/rex-tillerson-calls-on-the-un-to-increase-pressure-on-north-korea/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=WJDailyEmail&utm_content=2017-04-28
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Such is the implication of federal Judge William Orrick’s ruling in California this week that it is unconstitutional for President Donald Trump to attach conditions to federal funding to such sanctuary localities. After all, the president was merely enforcing compliance with the law of the land in a much more straightforward manner than the two functionaries who threatened to withhold federal funding if colleges failed to satisfy every whim of transgendered students.
To be sure, defeated presidential candidate liar-Hillary Clinton, churlishly flouting America’s long tradition of gracious acceptance of electoral results and the seamless transfer of power from one administration to the next, called on her supporters to “resist, insist, persist, enlist” in her opposition to Trump and the GOP-dominated Congress. And few have heeded her call as substantively as leftish federal judges, who all seem to imagine themselves as even more heroic defenders of blue-state orthodoxy than Senate minority leader Chuck clown-Schumer himself.
But the “Resistance,” as the anti-Trump left styles itself, is sailing into very dangerous waters, where earlier negationist movements have foundered. Do these pro-illegal-immigrationists really want to follow the nullification movement of the 1830s, when South Carolina toyed with the idea that it could reject a tariff passed by Congress, because it weighed so heavily on that state’s economy? Nullification advocates, led by John C. Calhoun, who had resigned the vice-presidency so as more effectively to oppose the tariff from the Senate, appealed to the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions written, respectively, by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. The Kentucky Resolution described the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts as being “void and of no force” in that state, though the state legislature didn’t dare use Jefferson’s original language that its resolution constituted a “nullification” of the acts. Madison’s Virginia Resolution was merely hortatory, and he was aghast to hear Jefferson declare explicitly that he was willing to have the two states secede from the Union in response to the acts of John Adams’s Federalist-dominated Congress. But of course Calhoun and other Southerners caught the separatist implication of Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolution and claimed that their nullification had the sanction of the Founding Fathers. President Andrew Jackson caught their drift and rightly predicted that “the tariff was only a pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question,” which a generation later ignited the Civil War...https://www.city-journal.org/html/todays-nullification-crisis-15159.html
Today’s Nullification Crisis
by Myron Magnet
{city-journal.org} ~ Wait: let me get this straight. It’s legally binding for two underlings in the civil rights divisions of the Departments of Education and Justice to send out a “Dear Colleague” letter declaring that, as these bureaucrats interpret Title IX of Congress’s Education Amendments of 1972, colleges and universities can’t get any federal funding if they don’t make special accommodations for transgendered students, however defined; but it is not legal for the president of the United States, pursuant to the Constitution’s injunction that he ensure that the laws “be faithfully executed,” to deny some federal funding to cities that declare themselves “sanctuaries” from federal immigration laws, and that accordingly forbid their officials from cooperating with federal authorities in implementing them, as Congress has demanded?Such is the implication of federal Judge William Orrick’s ruling in California this week that it is unconstitutional for President Donald Trump to attach conditions to federal funding to such sanctuary localities. After all, the president was merely enforcing compliance with the law of the land in a much more straightforward manner than the two functionaries who threatened to withhold federal funding if colleges failed to satisfy every whim of transgendered students.
To be sure, defeated presidential candidate liar-Hillary Clinton, churlishly flouting America’s long tradition of gracious acceptance of electoral results and the seamless transfer of power from one administration to the next, called on her supporters to “resist, insist, persist, enlist” in her opposition to Trump and the GOP-dominated Congress. And few have heeded her call as substantively as leftish federal judges, who all seem to imagine themselves as even more heroic defenders of blue-state orthodoxy than Senate minority leader Chuck clown-Schumer himself.
But the “Resistance,” as the anti-Trump left styles itself, is sailing into very dangerous waters, where earlier negationist movements have foundered. Do these pro-illegal-immigrationists really want to follow the nullification movement of the 1830s, when South Carolina toyed with the idea that it could reject a tariff passed by Congress, because it weighed so heavily on that state’s economy? Nullification advocates, led by John C. Calhoun, who had resigned the vice-presidency so as more effectively to oppose the tariff from the Senate, appealed to the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions written, respectively, by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. The Kentucky Resolution described the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts as being “void and of no force” in that state, though the state legislature didn’t dare use Jefferson’s original language that its resolution constituted a “nullification” of the acts. Madison’s Virginia Resolution was merely hortatory, and he was aghast to hear Jefferson declare explicitly that he was willing to have the two states secede from the Union in response to the acts of John Adams’s Federalist-dominated Congress. But of course Calhoun and other Southerners caught the separatist implication of Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolution and claimed that their nullification had the sanction of the Founding Fathers. President Andrew Jackson caught their drift and rightly predicted that “the tariff was only a pretext, and disunion and southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question,” which a generation later ignited the Civil War...https://www.city-journal.org/html/todays-nullification-crisis-15159.html
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