Time To Stand Up for America
How can we re-motivate and reactivate the coalition of fiscal, national defense, social, and economic conservatives who gave Ronald Reagan his tremendous victories in 1980 and 1984?
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Advice For Education Secretary Spellings
“The dropout rate for African-American, Hispanic, and Native American students approaches 50 percent. . . . Every year nearly a million kids fail to graduate high school. . . . The United States has the most severe income gap between high school graduates and dropouts in the world.”
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Immigration Sellout, Not Reform
The Kennedy-Kyl (K-K) Amnesty bill should be titled An Act to Destroy the Republican Party because it pits President Bush against the majority of the Party that elected him. When Senator Ted Kennedy appeared as the centerpiece of the photo-op announcing it, that told the grassroots all they needed to know about the politics of the deal trumpeted as bipartisan.
Continue reading →Deep-Six The Law Of The Sea
Borrowing the famous words of General Douglas MacArthur that “old soldiers never die, they just fade away,” we can now see that old treaties never die, they can be resurrected years or even decades after taking what we thought was a knockout punch.
Continue reading →Prepare for the Big Issue in 2008
American workers are not impressed with talk that “globalism” is inevitable, that educated foreigners have better skills than Americans, or that uneducated foreigners do “jobs Americans won’t do” – because that forces us to compete with foreigners working for 30 cents an hour.
Continue reading →Why U.S. Jobs Move Overseas
Why do U.S. companies relocate their plants overseas, thereby abolishing U.S. jobs? (a) they can hire workers at very low wages (such as 30 cents an hour in China), (b) the companies don’t have to pay any employee benefits, (c) they don’t have to comply with safety and environmental regulations, (d) they don’t have to pay foreign taxes when they export their products back to us.
Continue reading →Let’s Get Rid Of Foreigners’ $327 Billion Trading Advantage
U.S. financial generosity to our allies after World War II included giving them special trade advantages to help them speed up their post-war recovery. We agreed that they could rebate to their producers any indirect taxes they paid on goods they exported to us, and they could also impose an equal charge on any U.S. products they imported.
Continue reading →New Awakening About Free Trade
On the first day that H-1B visas became available, the corporations snapped up all that are allowed. Our government received 150,000 applications for the 85,000 slots set aside to bring in foreign skilled workers.
Continue reading →What Colleges Teach — and Don’t Teach
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the Federal Government needs some accountability for the billions of dollars the taxpayers pour into university education.
Continue reading →What Colleges Don’t Teach
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the Federal Government needs some accountability for the billions of dollars the taxpayers pour into university education. That’s right, we do; but her plan, to set up a national database to track students, plus a system of testing like No Child Left Behind, is not the solution.
Continue reading →Bush Opens Our Border To Mexican Trucks
Our federal and state highways and bridges are among America’s great assets; they enable us to drive freely and safely all over our country, and they belong to all of us, paid for by our taxes. But they are expensive assets; they require maintenance, repair, and expansion due to rising population and traffic.
Continue reading →Globalism: Enemy of the Middle Class
The majority of countries in the world (e.g., Mexico) have two classes: the rulers who are very, very rich and the rest of the people who are very, very poor.
Continue reading →Marc Tucker Presents a Warmed-Over Plan
Marc Tucker’s New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has just received national publicity for a verbose report called “Tough Choices or Tough Times.” It’s larded with criticisms about our “expensive elementary and secondary education system” that produces “only mediocre results.”
Continue reading →Bush’s Plan To Bankrupt Social Security
President Bush’s secret plan for Social Security has just been released to the public in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by TREA Senior Citizens League, a million-member seniors advocacy group.
Continue reading →Tech Industry Lies About H-1B Visas
The technology industry has dispatched its wallet-filled lobbyists to demand that the new Congress vastly increase the number of foreign computer software techies and engineers who can be imported on H-1B visas.
Continue reading →Business Week Concedes Globalism Is A Problem
Economists, academicians and financial consultants for years have been preaching that globalism is the wave of the future and that anyone who wants to survive in business must ride its surfboard or drown. All of a sudden, Business Week is having second thoughts.
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