2010: A Disastrous Year For Unions

Election Year Was Disastrous For Unions

As the year ends, many people are looking back on 2010 as a historic time of political upheaval. But one of the year’s biggest political developments has been mostly overlooked.

If voters sent one message loudly and consistently, it is this: They do not like unions. The American electorate availed itself of almost every chance to take a whack at organized labor.

Big Labor has been pushing hard in Congress to pass Card Check, which eliminates secret ballots in workplace elections, allowing organizers to identify and bully workers opposed to unionizing. But voters in four states ratified anti-Card Check initiatives requiring secret ballots in workplace elections.

With public-sector union pension plans around the country sinking under trillions of dollars of debt, six states, Alabama, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Wisconsin, elected governors who promised to transfer state employees from costly defined-benefit pension plans to 401(k) contribution plans.

Ohio's incoming Republican Gov. John Kaisch is talking about eliminating laws dictating union-scale wages for public projects and dropping certain bargaining privileges for police and firefighter unions. In Wisconsin, Gov.-elect Scott Walker recently said he is considering abolishing public-sector unions.

California voters also showed they were not pleased with private-sector unions. At 12% unemployment, local unions killed a deal to build a billion-dollar development in Southern California that would have created 12,000 jobs.

In New Jersey, voters approved only 41 percent of the 538 proposed budgets in the state’s annual school election. Governor Chris Christie has introduced a property tax tool kit aimed at reducing property taxes but the Democratically controlled Assembly and Senate have so far failed to act.

Despite the clear messages being sent, unions are more influential than ever with the apparently oblivious Democrats in Washington. Liberal political appointees on the National Labor Relations Board recently issued a decision allowing unions to forgo secret ballots in certain circumstances, and recently published a rule mandating the majority of private employers to post the rights of workers to organize.

President Obama Shows His Affection
For Unions With AFL/CIO
President Richard Trumka

Obama has rolled back transparency requirements for unions and encouraged project labor agreements on $140 billion in stimulus projects. In Congress, the $813 billion stimulus bill and subsequent $26 billion teacher unions bailout kept public-sector unions flush even as the private sector was drowning.

These measures are Obama’s payback to organized labor, which spent more than $200 million trying to protect Democrats in the midterm election. But how many more elections do Democrats and unions have to lose before they start heeding the will of the people?

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Christie Planning To Steal Jobs From Other States While Fixing States Fiscal Woes

Governor Chris Christie and
Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno

Governor Chris Christie is planning help for small business by working to stabilize the States Finances. "The number-one job of this administration is to get the state's fiscal health back in order," explains Christie. Although many other states have a fiscal mess on their hands NJ's is among the worst, right behind California and Indiana. He says, "My hope and my plan is to get our house in order fiscally before all those other states do so we can then be in a position to steal as many of those jobs, create as many of those new jobs as we can."

The Governors plan has been bantered about so it should be no surprise, "It's nothing I haven't been saying for the last year. I mean, we are in an enormous fiscal crisis and it is not over…..New Jersey is now the leader in talking about this issue. We're talking about it and have been talking about it and have been doing something about it for a year."

The Governor who was told he inherited a surplus, quickly found out that Corzine squandered millions in the 11th hour much of it doled out to his cronies.  Enter Christie who immediately faced with an 11 billion dollar deficit and a budget he had to balance.  Christie successfully closed the 11 billion budget gap in Fiscal Year 2011 and the 2012 budget will be as painful, or even worse than the last one.

"I think any budget that a Christie-Guadagno (Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno) puts forward is going to be a pro-business budget," says Christie. "The question is; how do operate within the fiscal constraints that we have and this is going to continue to be a very difficult budget. Fiscal Year 2012 is going to be a very difficult budget."

Governor Christie was asked how next year's Supreme Court hearings on the Abbott v. Burke case regarding school funding will impact the 2012 budget. He doesn't believe State Supreme Court decisions should play any role in the budget process but they do. He says he will be forced to keep a close eye on the Courts rulings on the issue.

The Governor believes there are other concerns in next year's budget. "The closer you get to balancing that structural deficit the tougher the decisions are because you try to save as much as you can on worthwhile programs while you can. This year will be tougher than last year in that respect. The decisions will be even more difficult because of the decisions we made last year."

The state constitution mandates that New Jersey have a signed and balanced budget in place by midnight June 30. The biggest issue to deal with is the unfunded pensions and health care for retired public employees. The total unfunded pension liability for health care for current and future retirees is now $120.7 billion.



Trenton's Top Two Democrats 
Senate President Stephen Sweeney and
Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver

While they are largely responsible for the fiscal mess the state finds itself in, the States Democratic Controlled Assembly and Senate, who are all up for election in November 2011, have shown little cooperation with the Governor in fixing the States fiscal house.

The hope and advice from NJECPAC, is that every Taxpayer in the State of New Jersey enter the voting booth in November 8th 2011 with their tax bill in hand, review it and then pull the lever for the candidate they believe will cooperate with the Governor in achieving what he was elected to do. Get the states fiscal house in order and provide much needed property tax relief.  

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NLRB Proposes Employer Mandate To Alert Employees to Union Rights

National Labor Relations Board Rule Will Require Businesses to Alert Workers to Union Rights

In a move designed to help boost unions, the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday proposed a new rule requiring private-sector employers to post notices telling workers about their right to unionize.

The Proposed Rule is sure to please Unions that are struggling to maintain membership, but will surely result in objections from businesses. Under the rule, businesses would be mandated to notify their employees about their union rights by posting a Department of Labor Appoved Poster regardless of whether a union already exists in the workplace.

Employees would have to be notified about their rights to form or join a union and to bargain collectively with their company for the purposes of improving pay and working conditions.

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was published in the Federal Register on December 22, 2010 and members of the public can submit comments on the proposal for 60 days, until February 22, 2011.

Under the NPRM, employers would face various sanctions for failing to post the notice, including:

• Unfair Labor practice charges
• Time limits for filing other unfair labor practice charges against the employer extended
• The NLRB utilizing the failure to post the notice as evidence of unlawful motive in other unfair labor practice cases To View The DOL Poster, Click Here
  The NLRB, in explaining the idea, wrote in the proposed rule that it was concerned many employees are "unaware" of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act.

Submit Your Comments To The NLRB On The Proposed Rule Here  

The new rule could take effect in as soon as 60 days

View Proposed Rule Here

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Proposed Regulations Published For Independendent Contractors

The head of New Jersey's workers' compensation division will soon begin issuing stop-work orders against contractors for misrepresenting employee headcounts under a bill A3569.

Proposed Regulations for A3569 were published in the New Jersey Register on November 1st 2010. The bill was sponsored by Assemblyman Joseph V. Egan (D-New Brunswick), who is deputy majority leader and chair of the Assembly Labor Committee, and Assemblywoman Annette Quijano (D-Union) and signed into law by former Gov. Jon Corzine.

The change in the law will empower the Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation to issue a stop-work order against contractors that under count their employees or misclassify an employees status as an independent contractor, in order to avoid workers' compensation premiums. The law will apply even if the employers statements and or actions were made in error.
Any stop-work orders issued by the director would affect All Locations And Job Sites For The Contractor, and would be issued no later than three days after the violations were found. Violations of the Act is an indictable Crime of the 4th Degree felony offense. Read More

Read “Construction Industry Independent Contractor Act.” Here

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Construction Employment Up In 13 States

Thirteen states showed year-over-year growth in construction employment, according to data released by the Labor Department.

"It is encouraging that the number of states adding jobs year-over-year was higher in November than at any time since February 2008," said Ken Simonson, the association's chief economist. He added that the gains were "as spotty as they are tenuous." California, New Jersey and New York were among those that posted increases.

Simonson noted, for example, that California had the largest monthly increase in construction employment – adding 7,800 jobs – but also the largest 12-month drop – 36,900 jobs, or 6.4 percent. New Jersey and New York had the next-highest number of construction job gains in November with 4,500. New Jersey also led the nation in monthly percentage gains (3.7 percent), followed by Vermont (3.4 percent, 400 jobs) and Maine (2.5 percent, 600 jobs).

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New Census Report Expected To Complicate Obama's 2012 Relection Bid

The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include lots of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month's devastating elections.

The population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states, a trend the Census Bureau will detail in its once-a-decade report to the president. Political clout shifts, too, because the U.S. must reapportion the 435 House districts to make them roughly equal in population, based on the latest census figures.

The biggest gainer will be Texas, a Republican-dominated state expected to gain up to four new House seats, for a total of 36. The chief losers -- New York and Ohio, each projected by nongovernment analysts to lose two seats -- were carried by Obama in 2008 and are typical of states in the Northeast and Midwest that are declining in political influence.
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The Aura Has Faded, Now Its Either Govern Or Fail.

Now that his aura is faded in the eyes of most Americans, Obama has successfully isolated himself from just about every group that matters in American political circles. How much worse can it get? The fact is many Democrats now consider the Adminstration an inattentive and hapless political operation. Democratic lobbyists feel slighted by his holier-than-thou take on their profession. His own Cabinet, with few exceptions, has been marginalized.

His relations with business leaders could hardly be worse. CEOs friendly with the president walk away feeling he’s indifferent at best to their concerns. Add in his icy relations with Republicans, the media and, most important, most voters, and it’s easy to understand why his own staff leaked word that it wants Obama to shake up his staff and change his political approach.

Obama has failed to engage the customs and institutions of Washington, leaving him estranged from the capital’s permanent power structure. “This guy swept to power on a wave of adulation, and he learned the wrong lessons from that,” said a Democratic official who deals frequently with the White House. “He’s more of a movement leader than a politician. He needs someone to kick his ass on things large and small and teach him to be a politician.”.............Good Luck With That!  Read More

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Under Duress, Obama signs Tax Rate Extention

By Joseph Hovanec Jr

Even though he doesn't like it, President Obama signed the bipartisan tax package that has divided both parties. Meanwhile, the White House says there's no viable alternate plan. That is because the Democrats in control never had one, unless you count raising taxes as a plan.

Despite repeated visits by thousands of business groups and concerned citizens including our NJECPAC, the Democrats who have had control of Congress for 4 years have had no real interest in moving the economy forward. The proof is in their actions. They throw money at the economy and go on to one of their other Liberal agenda items, throw more money at it and go back to their alternate agenda. As long as they can keep throwing money at it in the hopes of increasing their base, the economy in its current state is working for them. That was evident in their insistence that unemployment be again extended, which in itself takes away much of the incentive for many to even look for work.

It seems that everything the Republicans have been pushing for, and Democrats wouldn't consider ultimately became an emergency for them at the last minute such as this tax deal. The Democrat Majority have had 4 years to extend the Bush tax rates and they refused, and then it became an emergency. And they still have not fixed it they merely put a two year band aid on it. The bill that passed will expire in 2012 so they can make it into an election issue.

They should have fixed health care years ago when President Bush was trying to implement real reform that would have resulted in significant premium savings but again the Democrats blocked all efforts to reform health care.  Even Obama voted no to every health care reform bill while in the Senate. Now as President it became an emergency, and in their haste passed a egregious monstrosity of a health care law that is already increasing costs, people are losing their health care, Health care companies are getting out of the business all together and the law was recently found by a federal judge to be unconstitutional. 

Early on in his Presidency The Democrats Passed and Obama signed the so called Lilly Ledbetter Act, which was presented under the guise of equal rights for women. That is of course a noble cause so who can argue with that. The problem is what they passed causes business to rethink even hiring women due to the extension of the statute of limitations on discrimination lawsuits (not just for women) to a virtually perpetual level. The Law that was passed makes it impossible as time goes on for Business to defend themselves against frivolous discrimination lawsuits.  

Luckily for American taxpayers, Harry Reid was forced to pull the Massive Spending bill due to the noble efforts of Republican Senators who stood by their firm stance against wasteful spending. Read Bill Here

The spending bill was packed with over 8 billion in earmarks from both parties, although 90% of them are from Democrats. Click here to see how much the Spending Bill would have cost you.

Unfortunately, virtually every Bill that Congress has passed or wanted to pass since the Democrats have been in control includes the epitome of unintended consequences.  

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Eating Their Own: 600 IBEW Members Picket Carpenters’ Union Hall

A large protest over union recognition attracted about 600 IBEW workers outside of a union hall on Hampton Ave. in south St. Louis.

Nationwide, unemployment reached 9.8% last week and in the construction industry the unemployment rate is nearly 19%. This is causing union bosses to think ‘outside the box’ on how to get work for their unemployed members, even if it includes stepping on another union.

In April, the Carpenters’ union in St. Louis did what, in the union building trades, is the unthinkable, they set up their own electrical union to compete with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).

The IBEW in turn launched a counter-offensive. On Tuesday evening, the IBEW hit the Carpenters’ Union hall with 600 picketers to protest the encroachment.

Could this happen in New Jersey? There is no way to know, but stay tuned.

Hows That For Solidarity.
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UNCONSTITUTIONAL !!!

Obama suffered a major blow when, a federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that a key provision of H.R 3590, the new national health care reform law is unconstitutional.

U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson said that forcing individuals to purchase health insurance was in violation of the Constitution's "commerce clause," The Washington Post reported.

The courts cannot enforce the law's requirement that Americans be fined if they don't have health insurance by 2014, the judge said in a 42-page opinion.

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Unemployment Rate In Construction Rises To 18.8%

Construction Unemployment Rate Remains The Highest For Any Industry

The Unemployment Rate in Construction rose to 18.8 percent in November losing another 5,000 jobs since the end of October. Thats Roughly double the overall rate as federal projects remain the only bright spot for the Industry

The newly released Federal Government figures show the construction sector has experienced a higher rate of unemployment than any other Industry during this economic downturn.

"The unemployment report shows construction still has not broken free of the recession that has gripped the industry since 2006," said Ken Simonson, the AGC Association's chief economist. "Other than the stimulus and other temporary federal programs, it has been a pretty bleak four yours for the industry." Read More

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Smart Grid Will Enable Government To Control Your Electricity

Ever since the concept of electrifying the Nation was realized Thomas Edison, Americans have been allowed to plug anything they want into their electric power outlets

The next development in Green energy savings won’t require Legislation. The U.S Department of Energy recently decided they can regulate the electricity powering your appliances. Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently issued five new energy efficiency standards for large appliances, and is reworking expanding the departments reach into ten new categories. Assistant Energy Secretary Cathy Zoi recently said “we have a mandate. Where we can actually just issue regulations and do market transformation.”

Right now engineers are busy working on “Smart Grid” technology. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act set aside $11 billion dollars to begin construction of that grid.

Smart Grid sounds harmless enough, but it will intrude directly into our lives. Future appliances will come with smart microchips installed; when you plug them in, they will recognizae the smart grid, and someome else will decide if your appliance will run or not.

 

If a bureaucrat in Washington decides that it’s not hot enough for you to put on the air conditioner, your air conditioner will not work. If there is a strain on the grid in a particular neiborhood they can cut back one appliance at a time. They will have the ability to turn off radios, televisions and computers. In the era of electronic information, restricting the freedom of the press is as easy as turning off the light.

The idea is to conserve power, but a Smart Government will be able to use the technology to control every aspect of the electric we use or should I say want to use.

Have an old appliances that still works great? You can forget it. Every appliance that was built before the smart grid will ultimately be denied electricity. In other words, once the “Smart” Grid is fully operational, everything in your house that requires a plug will likely have to be replaced.

There is no question that Air Conditioners in Washington DC and our State and Local Governments will continue to run 24/7 year round. Read More

As for the rest of us...........Can you say Generator?  

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Concession On Tax Cuts Sends Obama Fans To New Level Of Despair

The President announced the framework of a bipartisan agreement to extend a set of tax rates that were set to expire, once again extend unemployment benefits, and pass additional measures that he expects will help middle-class families and hopes will create jobs. 

President Obama's concession to Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy appears to have sent many of his historically most fervent supporters to new levels of despair. The president's refusal to fight harder against the massive giveaway to people who need it the least has disheartened not only activists, former Obama advisers and members of Congress, but his grassroots. Read More

Now, he's recorded a video to speak directly about the tentative agreement to his base, who are all livid by the notion of any agreement with those evil Republicans 

"This agreement, while not perfect, is vital to millions of Americans who are out of work through no fault of their own -- as well as millions of middle-class families, students, parents, and small businesses."

Both Conservatives and Liberals each have their problems with this tentative agreement and only time will tell what is actually passed if anything, and sent to the President for his signature.

We believe that the most important issue to note in this whole debate is that Republicans view money earned by taxpayers belongs to the taxpayers. They also believe that money will have more of an effect on stimulating the economy and is more responsibly spent and by those that have earned it.  Democrats view the money earned by a taxpayer as the governments money and those that earn it can keep only what the government decides to allow them to keep, which is where the major philosophical difference between the parties in this debate lies.

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Congressman, Doctor Agree - ObamaCare Must Go

Mississippi Congressman Alan Nunnelee (R) believes the first thing Congress must do when the new Congressional session begins is get control of spending. He also hopes the Republican-led House will pass a bill in the first week to repeal ObamaCare. "This is a piece of legislation that The Wall Street Journal has said is 'the worst piece of...legislation ever.' In 225 years of American history, to label it as 'the worst piece of legislation ever,' says a lot," Nunnelee said.

The lawmaker said he knows pundits will ask whether the Democratic-led Senate will approve repeal, and they will also wonder whether President Obama would sign it into law. However, the Mississippi congressman does not think that is a reason for inaction.

He believes "the Republican-led House ought to go on record early, I think as early as the first week, and say, 'We want to repeal every bit of ObamaCare.'"

After repeal, Nunnelee says the House could then begin discussing real reform that puts the patient in charge. Read More

Meanwhile, a New York doctor has come up with what he calls the "conservative way forward" on health care. Dr. Richard Amerling, a practicing nephrologist and a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), wrote a report this week in which he argues against revising ObamaCare, opting instead for a complete repeal.

"ObamaCare is so massive and complex that to try to pick through it to find something good in it is just not worthwhile, and there's a real risk of leaving behind awful stuff," he suggests.

So Amerling says Congress should consider "common sense, free market" proposals that include transferring to employees the tax breaks employers get for buying health plans. In addition, he argues that people should be allowed to buy coverage from outside of their state to ensure that they get the plan they want at the price they want. Read More

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Obama Announces 'Framework' for Deal To Extend Current Tax Rates

President Obama unveiled a tentative deal to avoid the expiration of the almost decade old Bush Tax Rates at the end of this year.

Of course the deal is not done yet, so it is very tentative and the final outcome is not yet predictible.

The simple fact that extending these rates can only help the economy is simply incomprehensible to Liberal groups and Liberals in Congress who are all bouncing off the walls at the thought of compromise with Republicans. The very same Republicans that were elected in November to get the economy back in order by stopping the runaway spending and extend or make permanent the current tax rates.

Not everything in the Agreement is good. The "framework" of the deal that Obama outlined Monday evening calls for a two-year extension of the cuts in all income tax brackets. It also would extend long-term unemployment benefits through next year, which is something that is not good but necessary to get an agreement.

The estate (death tax) tax rate will be renewed, up from 0% to 35% but that is 20% lower than it would have been otherwise. And the Obama administration is proposing a one-year payroll tax reduction that sources say would cut the amount contributed to Social Security from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for one year. Another compromise since Social Security is already in financial trouble and cutting funding paid into it can only make it worse. We suspect that was done so the Administration can blame Republicans when congress is forced to increase payroll taxes on Social Security in the future.

"I have no doubt that everyone will find something in this compromise that they don't like," Obama said, but "we cannot play politics at a time when the American people are looking for us to solve problems." A confusing statement since it means he now believes they can no longer do what he and his party have been doing for the last 2 years. It is doubtful that he believes his own words.

House Republican Leader John Boehner said "It’s encouraging that the White House is now willing to stop all of the job-killing tax hikes scheduled for January 1, We look forward to discussing this proposal with House Republican members and the American people."

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Pelosi Could Doom Democrats in 2012

Soon To Be Minority Leader
 Nancy Pelosi

It was the dumbest thing the Democratic members of the U.S. House could have done. "It" was making Nancy Pelosi the minority leader of the House, and thus the head of what is now the most liberal congressional delegation in the history of the country. It is already jeopardizing the chances of President Obama and his party to recover from their recent drubbing.

She not only contributed to the shellacking the Democrats suffered she handed out the rollers. She is adding insult to injury by her strong opposition to extending the current tax rates for so-called "wealthy Americans". Those rates are a part of George W. Bush's  tax cut package that was passed nearly a decade ago. Her grandstanding is placing what few moderates she has from her own party in Congress in the line of fire.

Moreover, it puts her at odds with the president. That's not to say he wants to extend these cuts for those who earn over $200,000. Rather, it's to say that, he knows to survive another election, he desperately needs to do so.

The problem is that Pelosi is becoming the left-wing spokesperson and an obstructionist to compromise. This will only hurt her own party and the president. It was Pelosi who was unapologetic for the beating the Democrat Party took in the elections. Now even major media outlets and newspapers are reporting that she is becoming a huge thorn in the side of a president who desperately needs to at least appear more moderate in order to have a prayer of re-election in 2012.
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Democrats and Taxes: Another Nail in their Coffins

In much the same way Nancy Pelosi pushed through the massively unpopular health care bill despite huge election losses in 2009, she is at it again, this time with a bill to raise taxes on those people who actually create jobs.

The message of the November could not have been clearer: We need to cut spending, reduce the size of government, and return power to the people. On taxes, we certainly should not be raising the rates on anyone when unemployment is still near ten percent. That's a certain job killer, but Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pushing full steam ahead. Read More

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Reid plans weekend votes on Democratic tax plans

Compromise to head off tax increases takes shape

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Lame Duck Dems Applaud Pelosi After Vote To Raise Taxes

One Week Closer to a Massive Tax Increase

Speaker Pelosi and her “lame-duck” Congressional Majority are showing “no signs of relenting” on their plan to impose a massive, job-killing tax hike on small businesses.  In an effort to impose these tax increases, they staged a symbolic vote on Thursday in the House.

In the meantime, uncertainty continues to grip families and small businesses which are hesitant to make critical investment and hiring decisions.  Many cash-strapped states are “in budget limbo.” 

Economists, including the authors of the so-called economic ‘stimulus’ bill, agree on the need to stop all the tax hikes:

The House voted 234-188 to pass legislation that would extend only some of the expiring Bush-era tax rates, sending the bill to the Senate. Twenty Democrats broke with their party and voted against the bill. 

Pelosi gaveled the vote to a close herself, "receiving applause" from Democratic members.

The bill extends only the cuts for the middle-class, letting tax breaks end for families earning more than $250,000 per year and individuals making more than $200,000. The higher rate includes millions indivudual business owners that file their tax returns as Chapter S and LLC Small Businesses. 

Every New Jersey Democrat Congressmen voted for the small business tax increase and both New Jerseys Democrat Senators are expected to vote for the measure.

At this point the proposal has virtually no chance to pass the Senate. It is sad that NJ small businesses have to rely on the heroic efforts of Senators from other States to save them and their businesses from the largest tax increase in US History while our own senators remain belligerent.    

Even after their sound defeat in last months election, the Democrats in the House and Senate continue to play politics with our economy. Read More

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New Jersey to Confiscate Unused Value Of Gift Cards

New Jersey recently amended its laws regarding unclaimed property to including stored value gift cards and gift certificates. Under the amended law, stored value cards issued on and after July 1, 2010 and those that were issued prior to July 1, 2010 and remain outstanding as of July 1, 2010 will be presumed abandoned after two years of inactivity.

Upon abandonment, the value remaining on the stored value card will escheat to the state.     

The amended law applies to “stored value cards,” which are pre-funded records evidencing a promise, made for monetary or other consideration, by the issuer that the owner of the card will be provided merchandise, services, or cash in the value of the card upon presentation and where the value of the card is reduced upon each redemption. The law expressly includes paper gift certificates, gift cards, electronic gift cards, store cards, other records that contain a means of storage of information (e.g., a magnetic strip or micro-chip), and other similar instruments.

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Union Member Advocates for End of Capitalism, Private Property Rights

Calling for civil unrest and the end to private property rights, Sharon Black of the Baltimore All-Peoples Congress, tried desperately to rouse communists and socialists everywhere at the Workers World Party’s annual conference on November 13th and 14th in New York City.

Black — whose name is a fitting one for her dark agenda — wants an end to capitalism and the United States of America and yearns for a return to the glory days of the Soviet Union. “Socialist ideology which reflects the highest level of working class of solidarity” Black said, “which points in the direction of eliminating all exploitation and emancipating humankind has been in retreat since the collapse of the Soviet Union.”



Remember this woman whenever you think about unions.
These anti-American types infest unions from top to bottom.
And they wonder why no one wants them.
Make No Mistake This Is What We Are Up Against
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Paycheck Fairness Act Fails In The Senate

On November 17, 2010, the Paycheck Fairness Act died in the U.S. Senate after failing the cloture vote to begin debate on the bill. The bill proposed amendments to the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA) to require equal pay for women doing the same job as men. The first problem will the bill is who decides what is equal?

The Measure would have exposed companies to crippling employment litigation without adding significant benefit to workers. The first law signed by Obama "The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act" was billed as equal pay for women, so why do they need another law for the same thing. There are already various Laws covering the discrimination issue.

Moreover, the large majority of Business owners are proponents of "free market" principles.
The Paycheck Fairness Act is an unnecessary interference into free enterprise that adds to the cost of doing business.

There are a growing number of women that earn more than their spouses, and laws like the Paycheck Fairness Act are no longer necessary. There are also the unintended consequenses of such a regulation, that could result in a step backwards for women by adversely affecting a Businesses hiring practices.  

After the measure failed in the Senate, President Obama expressed disappointment, saying he was "deeply disappointed" that the bill did not pass. "This bill would ensure that American women and their families aren't bringing home smaller paychecks because of discrimination."  That is code for, I really wanted the Government to have the ability to act as a union. That is exactly what the bill would have resulted in, mandading wages regardless of performance or merit, ie: union.

Several advocates of the bill already have vowed to continue to pursue similar legislation in the near future.
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Food Safety Modernization Act Would Outlaw Gardening And Saving Seeds

Senate Bill S510, Food Safety Modernization Act Vote Imminent: Would Outlaw Gardening And Saving Seeds

Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America."  Now I don't think I would go that far with all that comes out of Washington these days. It would however grant the U.S. government new authority over the public's right to grow, trade and transport any foods.

This would give Big brother the power to regulate the tomato plants in your backyard. It would grant them the power to arrest and imprison people selling cucumbers at farmer's markets. It would criminalize the transporting of organic produce if you don't comply with the authoritarian rules of the federal government.

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By
Joseph
Hovanec

This bill is a perfect example of good intentions gone awry. We have seen a myriad of examples of this over the years.  Most Legislation intended to fix a particular problem or issue that actually should be fixed gos to far. Lawmakers are never satisfied to simply write Legislation to solve a particular problem, they add other provisions that create more problems than they fix, and sometimes the original purpose of the law is never realized.  As is the case with the Health Care Law and the Employee Free Choice Act, this bill easily falls into that category of Legislation gone to far.

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