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Athens burns as Greece struggles to implement spartan budget

Feb 15, 2012 Comments Off by

Athens, reputed to be the origin of democracy, is in the 21st century a pariah of the worst extremes of what government by the welfare state can do for an economy.  Civilization has ground to a halt as as the irate, impoverished population spasms in …

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Daily Caller: The coming Arizona public employee union apocalypse

Feb 03, 2012 Comments Off by

Thomas Grier writes for The Daily Caller about Arizona’s “far-reaching” public employee union reforms.

It was just last February that the nation was fixated on Madison, Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker’s budget and public employee union reforms made the Midwestern city ground zero for progressive and …

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