Unions, mandates at root of states’ budget stress

The high-stakes battle to determine whether the people will serve government or government will serve the people is unfolding in state capitols.

Wisconsin is the tip of the iceberg.  Though not as fiscally imperiled as California or Illinois, Wisconsin is symbolic — the birthplace of government employee unions, once considered illegitimate even by liberal icons like FDR and the AFL-CIO.

“All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining . . . cannot be transplanted into public service,” Roosevelt said. (more…)

Are we serious about debt? We will soon find out

The next two years will almost certainly determine whether Americans possess the resolve and courage necessary to save our country from fiscal disaster.

If we do not, then the Americans will likely succumb to the European mindset that work is not a source of accomplishment or satisfaction but merely a way to bide time between vacations and weekends while relying on government for health care and retirement.

Most European young people recognize that their opportunity to pursue happiness is lost – squandered by unsustainable entitlements to which their parents and grandparents have become addicted. (more…)