Draining The VA Swamp

An estimated 346 employees in the Department of Veterans Affairs do no actual work for taxpayers. Instead, they spend all of their time doing work on behalf of their union while drawing a federal salary, a practice known as "official time."

That's according to a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. But exactly what those VA workers are doing and why so many are doing it is not clear. The VA doesn't track that, and the GAO report offers no clue.

And the number may actually be much higher. I'd love to see how much community organizing these slobs do.

Many federal agencies have workers who do nothing but take care of union affairs but the VA employs almost half of them. And typically, no one knows what they are doing.

At least 700 federal workers do nothing but work on official time, according to the GAO and data obtained from various Freedom of Information Act requests. The VA uses official time far more than any other agency.

"Employees spent approximately 1,057,00 hours on official time for union representation activities … In addition, the data show that 346 employees spent 100 percent of their time on official time," the GAO found in a January report.

It is possible that even those figures are conservative. The GAO said the said the VA's poor monitoring meant the data was "inconsistent and not reliable."

Indictments hopefully to follow.

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Listen To Your Dad

It may very well be a tempest in a small to middling-sized teapot, but it is getting interesting.

Quentin Tarantino's father, actor Tony Tarantino, became a member of the NYPD PBA in protest at his son's actions.

Add another bellow from the police unions condemning director Quentin Tarantino and his movies, plus a slap from his own father, amidst continuing deafening silence from the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

"I love my son and have great respect for him as an artist but he is dead wrong in calling police officers, particularly in New York City where I grew up, murderers," said actor Tony Tarantino in a statement released Friday by the New York Police Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

"He is a passionate man and that comes out in his art but sometimes he lets his passion blind him to the facts and to reality."

Police unions in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles have already called for a boycott of Tarantino films — his latest, The Hateful Eight, lands on Christmas Day — and now the New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association has joined the shame-on-Tarantino chorus.

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Police Boycott Tarantino

Three large police unions are manifesting their displeasure with the actions of movie producer Quentin Tarantino by calling for a boycott of his latest movie.

A third major police union has added its voice to calls for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, after the Oscar-winning film-maker spoke at a rally against police brutality in New York.

NYPD union boss urges Tarantino film boycott over director's comments

John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5, said the organisation had voted unanimously to join the protest. Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association in New York, first mooted the boycott on Monday and has since also received backing from the Los Angeles Police Protective League.

“Tarantino has shown through his actions that he is anti-police,” McNesby said in a statement. “Mr Tarantino has made a good living through his films, projecting into society at large violence and respect for criminals; it turns out he also hates cops.”

Tarantino joined three days of protests in New York last week organised by Rise Up October, a group opposing police violence and what organisers call a “genocidal assault on black and Latino people in this country”. Police unions have criticised the film-maker for appearing at the rally and labelling killings by police as “murder” a week after NYPD officer Randolph Holder was fatally shot in the city.

Tarantino has also received criticism from conservative commentators such as Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, who said the film-maker had “ruined his career” following the remarks. The Pulp Fiction director, whose new film The Hateful Eight debuts in the US on Christmas Day, has not responded to talk of a boycott.

Historically, boycotts of popular movies generally do not work. [As this movie will not be released until Christmas, the author of the article cannot know if it will be popular or not ~sig94]

As they say; bad publicity is better  than no publicity. I wonder if he spoke as he did hoping to provoke this reaction?

It's The Schools, Stupid

We have had generations of idiots stumble out of our nation's public education system with nary a thought for the future. Far too many of our high school seniors do not know our nation's history or it's geography and they read on a fifth grade level, but they can slap a condom on a cucumber and tell you the advantages of French, ribbed, latex or lamb.

The US Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) was signed into law by President Eisenhower on March 12, 1953. Twenty-six years later it was reorganized and the Department of Education was established in October of 1979 under the Carter Administration. The dumbing down of America has been in the works for over half a century. Why is this? It is not an accident. American schools are designed to fail.

Education is a very powerful, inter-generational tool. For example, Turkey is moving away from an education system based on secular studies and forcing students to learn the Koran and Islamic teachings.

"Education is an ideological tool," said Sakine Esen Yilmaz, secretary-general of the left-leaning Education and Science Laborers' Union. "It is (now) being used to raise an obedient generation that will serve the government."

The Education and Science Laborers' Union is Turkey's largest trade union. They know what they're doing - creating good like Muslims who will not question the government no matter what it does.

Sound familiar? Just like America's National Education Association. For the record the NEA is the largest union in America. The American Federation of Teachers is smaller, but just as radical, perhaps even more so. Both unions are major supporters for the corrupt ACORN organization and spend $millions of its members' dues supporting left wing politicians and liberal causes. Both unions are rife with corruption and have had local leaders arrested for embezzlement.

Teachers unions are opposed to charter schools, teacher accountability and, most of all, any legislation that would eliminate mandatory payroll deductions for dues. Whenever payroll deductions are eliminated, teachers unions take an incredible financial hit. They want the bucks for obvious reasons. Money is political power.

Consider this:

Fortune magazine has consistently ranked the National Education Association in the top 15 of its Washington Power 25 list for influence in the nation’s capital.

Over the last 20 years, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has given more than $28 million in campaign contributions; the National Education Association (NEA) has given almost $31 million. That's almost $60 million, more than any other organization — but that's just the tip of the iceberg. At the state level, the AFT and NEA combined to spend an additional $61.8 million on candidates and expenditures for ballot initiatives in 2008 alone. Plus, teachers unions spend millions more on uncoordinated expenditures and get-out-the-vote efforts.

According to The Heritage Foundation, through July 2010, unions spent almost three times as much money on campaign ads as all corporations combined.

And that's just the ads. It doesn't touch actual cash contributions.

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SEIU Violence

Google "SEIU violence" and settle down with some popcorn.

Savage
Evil
Incompetent
Unlawful

Surprise, Surrise. The first arrest in the beating of two NYPD Lieutenants is a big shot for the SEIU. Of course he is a union (community) organizer.

 I imagine I am channeling every cop in the country when I say, "I'd love to see how tough this guy is when there isn't a mob backing him up. Just give me a minute alone with him, that's all I ask."

One “alleged” cop-beater down, six to go.

An organizer at the city’s largest union surrendered to cops Thursday and was charged with busting an NYPD lieutenant’s nose during a videotaped mob attack on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Crown Heights resident Rob Murray, 43 — who makes more than $105,000 a year with the Service Employees International Union — turned himself in at the 5th Precinct station house in Chinatown with his lawyer around 8 a.m.

Five individuals are still wanted in this assault.

Scratch the surface of SEIU and you'll have to scrape the thug from underneath your fingernails.

Public Sector Unions Slapped by Supremes

The legislators who passed these laws should aso be forced to pay restitution and interest for the dues forcibly removed from these health care workers paychecks.

From the Washington Free Beacon:

The Supreme Court ruling that struck down coercive union membership among Illinois home health workers could cost unions tens of millions of dollars, according to labor observers.

The court ruled 5-4 that Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D.) violated the First Amendment when he forced home health care workers, many of whom were caring for sick family members, to pay union dues. The ruling will impact the SEIU and AFSCME, the two unions that earned millions from the scheme, according to Paul Kersey of the Illinois Policy Institute.

“There’s $20 million a year they are used to getting from home care people and [home] daycare people and they won’t be receiving that soon,” he said. “This should bring an end to that.”

[...]The decision could strike a devastating blow to national labor groups, despite the fact that home health care workers in Illinois paid as little as $30 a month to the unions, according to Semmens.

“We’ve estimated that there are as many as half a million people who aren’t state employees being called state employees for the purpose of paying dues,” he said.

The National Right to Work Committee said that the Harris fight was the beginning, rather than the end of its push to end coercive public sector unionism.

Happy Labor Day

And indeed, Labor is in the news:

In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation.

In an August 29 letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, ILWU President Robert McEllrath cited quite a list of grievances as reasons for the disillusion of their affiliation, but prominent among them was the AFL-CIO's support of Obamare.

"We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along," McEllrath wrote in the letter to Trumka.

This is huge. Might we see more exceptions from Obama-Care àla Congressional type subsidies? And what will the administration's reaction to the ILWU's stance on immigration reform? Will there be a Chicago Solution? For the most part, longshoremen do not react graciously to strong arm tactics. This could get interesting.

No One Wants To Work Anymore

The wife and I were at her uncle's 90th birthday yesterday and had a great time. He looks really well for 90 and, except for a few senior moments, he's pretty much all there. A nice man. Always liked him.

Now,I married into an Italian union family - all construction trades. Every blessed one of them. They're great people, kind people. I try not to talk politics with them though. Except with one of my wife's cousin's husbands. He's worse than I am. I truly believe Obama is gonna disappear this guy.

Anyway, about half way through the affair, one of my wife's cousins comes over to visit and sits next to me. This cousin could have been Luca Brazi in the Godfather. He's only about 5'9 but that's up, down, sideways and back and forth. It's also his neck. He's the biggest non six footer I've ever seen and he's gentle as a lamb, a real sweetheart of a guy who, if he wasn't disabled, could tear you apart. A good while back he got very sick from heavy metal fumes on a job - it almost killed him and it is still messing with him. Nasty, nasty stuff.

Any how, we're talking about family and our kids and yada yada the weather's perfect, how Nickie looks so great (half of them are called Nickie or Tony) and he talks about the union. They just put out two weeks of ads looking for new members to train. The job starts at $32/hour and they pay you to go to school for two days a week - again, $32 an hour is the starting pay. Star-ting Pay.

Not one applicant.

Zip. Zilch. Nada.

I'm dumbfounded. That's almost sixty grand a year for a high school diploma or GED. Good, steady work, but the work is hard. And you have to have some smarts.
No one signed up.

A generation ago guys would kill to get into this union, you had to know someone and then get a step ladder to climb over the bodies. In 1973, while I was waiting for the police exam results, someone offers me a shot at this - I'm gone like a scalded cat and living on easy street today. In Florida, not crappy NYS where I'm still a working stiff.

It's too easy to get government benefits, stay home, smoke weed and screw like rabbits 'cause your girlfriend is on welfare.

We're done. Stick a fork in America.

Garden Tools Not Included

In my previous post we discussed the actions of the current Massachusetts Attorney General and Democratic candidate for Senator, Martha Coakley, in neglecting to prosecute a vicious child molestation case in a timely fashion. In my rush to judgement, I labelled Ms. Coakley as an incompetent person.

Gentle Reader, I was wrong, tragically mistaken, in my hasty assessment of her character. I crave your indulgence as I present to you my new appraisal. Martha Coakley is a corrupt, political ass kissing, child molester protecting, miserable excuse for a human being. Her ovaries should be removed with a rusty garden trowel because, until now, I never thought that any woman could sink to her level in order to accommodate political ambition. Whatever motherly instincts this woman ever possessed have been completely suborned to her need for self promotion at the expense of society's most vulnerable and defenseless asset, our children.

In Part Two of Big Government's continuing evisceration of Coakley's political career, we now find out why she refused to prosecute Somerset Police Officer Keith Winfield who sexually molested his 23 month old niece with a hot curling iron.
Hot.
Curling.
Iron.

Debauched Curling Iron Sadist/Rapist Keith Winfield

Hair Dresser From Hell

Now serving a life sentence in MA Prison System

But that's just the start of this sordid tale, the rape did not end there - the physical rape perhaps - but the rape of the Massachusetts penal code began as soon as Coakley found out that the suspect (I'll omit the invective trembling to burst forth from my lips) was the son of a major political donor to her campaign for MA Attorney General.

Big Government cites an email from the brother of the lawyer (Larry Frisoli - now deceased) who represented the family of the victim. In this email, Frank J. Frisoli states that:

Coakley refused to prosecute Winfield because his father, a former union representative to the Regional Council of Carpenters Union, was actively assisting her campaign for Attorney General. To my knowledge Coakley has never denied that Winfield's father was helping her campaign.

In fact, Larry Frisoli was so incensed by Coakley's inaction that he ran against her for the Office of Attorney General.

As I was quoted in the Globe article, the reason my brother ran against Martha Coakley for Attorney General of Massachusetts in 2006 was because he believed that her office was refusing to prosecute a Somerville police officer who raped and brutalized his 2-year-old niece. My brother believed that Martha Coakley was delaying action against the rapist because the father of the rapist was a union representative who was getting union endorsements and donations to the Coakley for Attorney General campaign. My brother, as attorney for the mother of the victim, was frustrated by the fact that Coakley, the Middlesex County District Attorney, was refusing to indict the rapist despite the fact that the evidence ultimately used to convict him had been supplied by Larry to her office months ago. By December 1, 2005, the district attorney's office had received all critical documentation ultimately used to indict and convict this rapist but it appeared no action was being taken to prosecute.

Coakley is in the same league as Ted Kennedy. Ted's depravity was based between his legs and fueled by his addiction to alcohol. Coakley's depravity is based between her ears and fueled by naked ambition. A pox on them both.

UPDATE: Her own internal polls are showing that Coakley is down by 5 points. Pray that the SEIU thugs are rendered harmless and support Scott Brown's campaign.

If I catch anybody chewing gum, their parents will be audited!

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