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Comment on GiN Site Reveals Troubling Attitudes of Too Many

Originally published February 10, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated February 10, 2011. 1 Comment

Comment on GiN Site Reveals Troubling Attitudes of Too Many

“Unions exist to protect workers and ensure that our children receive a quality education and that those who work for the state and educate your children live healthy, decent lives. I am opposed to CIR reform. The CIR is not the source of the problem. CEO salaries are the source of the problem.” The above […]

Filed Under: Featured, State Legislation, Unicameral Tagged With: agriculture subsidies, ceo, cir, cir changes, cir reform, class warfare, federal funding, government budgets, government unions, governor, home schooling, homeschooling, income brackets, income tax, income taxation, industrial relations act, lea, Legislation, legislator, legislature, nanny state, national educaton association, nea, nebraska, nebraska budget, nebraska economy, nebraska state education association, nsea, private schools, progressive income tax, public education, public employee unionization, public schools, redistribution of wealth, state budget, state employee collective bargaining act, teachers unions, Unicameral, unionized public employees, unionized workers, welfare state

Tax Cut Compromise $858 billion Boondoggle – Endangers US Credit Rating

Originally published December 16, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated December 16, 2010. 1 Comment

Tax Cut Compromise $858 billion Boondoggle – Endangers US Credit Rating

By Shelli Dawdy This is a continuation from yesterday’s article about the Tax Cut Compromise. If Democrats’ want to play class warfare, perhaps the debate should include such vivid examples of where this kind of rhetoric can ultimately lead if it is allowed to stand unchallenged. In Soviet Russia, upper-middle class peasants known as kulaks […]

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Obama – GOP Tax Compromise is a $858 billion Compromise of Principle

Originally published December 15, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated December 15, 2010. 1 Comment

Obama – GOP Tax Compromise is a $858 billion Compromise of Principle

By Shelli Dawdy Webster’s online dictionary provides some example phrases for some words. I find one of the

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