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To: Neeka who wrote (279819)	11/10/2008 2:23:45 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793891

IF the teachers and Districts are encouraging the kids to identify the party they think they are....that implies the teachers would have to teach about what each party stands for. Let me see. Who is teaching WHAT about WHAT party? Do we really want teachers unions teaching our kids about the Democrat party, since that is the party they hold the banner for... Should we have the kids do "youtubes" in class so we should know what is being taught? Can taxpayers have tape recorders in the classes? Or do taxpayers have to go to the Superintendent of each District and demand the Syllabus for the course work.. Maybe all of the above is appropriate. As far as "The Plan".....will go to that a bit later...have some things to get done first.... Glad to see he is quoting other well thought of blogs too....Looks like there are several who are "on to them".... Well...............what do you expect? Obama, and obviously the overwhelmingly democratic teachers union.....want children involved in all aspects of our nation. Heck.........he even advocates sex education for Kindergartners.

To: Neeka who wrote (279819)	11/10/2008 2:35:58 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793891

The scrubbing of Obama's America Serves: EXCLUSIVE: Agenda disappears from Obama Web site Stephen Dinan (Contact) Tuesday, November 11, 2008 washingtontimes.com Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site. Gone are the promises on how an Obama administration would handle 25 different agenda items - everything from Iraq and immigration to taxes and urban policy - all items laid out on his campaign Web site, www.BarackObama.com. Instead, the official agenda on Change.gov has been boiled down to one vague paragraph proclaiming a plan “to revive the economy, to fix our health care, education, and social security systems, to define a clear path to energy independence, to end the war in Iraq responsibly and finish our mission in Afghanistan, and to work with our allies to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, among many other domestic and foreign policy objectives.” “We are currently retooling the Web site,” said Obama spokesman Nick Shapiro. The site went active on Wednesday and was available to the public Thursday. The agenda items, which were active for at least part of the weekend, appear to have been deleted by late Saturday. The site still contains pages about how to apply for jobs in the Obama administration, biographies of top transition team members and a call for Americans to serve in volunteer jobs and for students to do 50 hours of community service. The site also has press releases and a transition blog. The 25 agenda items are still available on Mr. Obama's campaign site

To: Neeka who wrote (279819)	11/1/2010 11:32:57 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793891

Mark Hemingway: Unions target your private retirement savings By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer washingtonexaminer.com October 31, 2010 Will the government outlaw your 401(k) plan? It seems like an absurd possibility, yet earlier this month two Democratic senators, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., held a hearing on Capitol Hill exploring the possibility of doing exactly that. On Oct. 8, the two senators from the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on "Retirement (In)security in America." Among the proposals discussed was "Guaranteed Retirement Accounts," or GRAs. The purpose of the GRA proposal is simple: To force Americans to stop putting their retirement savings money into private 401(k) accounts and send their money to the government instead. GRAs would "eliminate the favorable tax treatment currently afforded to 401(k) plans, and instead use those dollars to fund government-invested GRAs into which all employees would be required to contribute a portion of their salary," according to a letter signed by House Minority Leader John Boehner and 12 other Republican representatives. The letter urged opposition to the proposal and was sent to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis in May. The Harkin-Sanders HELP committee hearing shows Democrats are ignoring critics of the GRA proposal. Testifying at the hearing in favor of GRAs was Ross Eisbrey, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal economic think tank located in the same building as the liberal Center for American Progress. (Both organizations have been funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros.) In February, President Obama released the "Annual Report of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class." GRAs are among the proposals recommended in the report "for further study." The task force's executive director is Jared Bernstein, EPI's former head. EPI's work on retirement security issues also has some suspect backing. The think tank has teamed up with two of the most powerful unions in the country -- the AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union -- to push a public campaign for a "Retirement USA" initiative (see Retirement-USA.org). One of the proposals being touted on Retirement USA's Web site is, you guessed it, GRAs. At the hearing, Eisbrey noted that Retirement USA had not specifically endorsed GRAs, but did "affirm that it meets all of the 12 principles the coalition set out as essential to deliver retirement income that is universal, secure, and adequate." But why are unions pushing this? The average union pension plan is only 62 percent funded, far below the point at which the government considers a pension plan "endangered." Estimates suggest unions' multi-employer pension plans are underfunded by $165 billion and could be on the verge of collapse. Union leaders see these "retirement security" ideas like GRAs as vehicles to a back-door pension bailout, where union leaders will no longer have to worry about the fact they've underfunded their rank and file members' pension plans. Just let Uncle Sucker take care of it. Labor is the biggest source of campaign cash for Democrats (Retirement USA backers AFL-CIO and SEIU are spending $88 million this election), and Harkin also wants to pass "card check" -- the proposal to do away with secret ballots in workplace representation elections -- during post-election lame duck session. Regardless, forcing everybody into a government retirement system that pays out equally to Americans who have scrimped and saved and to those in organized labor who have grossly mismanaged their pension plans seems almost too crazy to contemplate. But unions are desperate, and Democrats are in hock to Big Labor in a big way. And the lame duck could be their last chance for a very long time. Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com