These have been driven up by public employee unions, and must be cut and hard.
Governments and public-employee unions agreed to pension and health benefits and stuck future taxpayers with the tab.
Walker's victory on Tuesday will galvanize those battling to curb the excesses of public employee unions.
Public employee unions have traditionally been well-regarded since they started up a half-century ago.
Government employee unions are ultimately reliant on more and more Americans receiving their earnings from the government.
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The democratically elected Congress or state legislature cannot sit down and bargain with government employee unions as equals.
For one, government employee unions represent 37% of all government workers on the city, state, and federal level.
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Clearly, many of the arguments against the public employee unions have great merit.
And they have a bad habit of approving giveaways to public employee unions.
Ohio is next up in the effort to pass legislation that would end collective bargaining by public employee unions.
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Two major state employee unions agreed to contracts without pay increases a precedent Mr. Samuelsen has said he won't follow.
But there is a difference between fixing what is broken in public employee unions and trying to destroy them.
It includes the provision that strips the government-employee unions of the collective-bargaining authority.
All 8 Republicans eligible for recall voted to strip public employee unions of their rights, despite clear public opposition.
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In fact, state and local employee unions around the country have been extremely responsive to the economic realities of their state.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Lhota must answer to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has made winning concessions from public employee unions a priority.
In Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says he wants to end the ability of state employee unions to negotiate anything but their salaries.
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If you doubt this, just ask Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa a Democrat who knows something about the wrath of public employee unions.
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On one side are Democrats who are controlled by public employee unions.
All this matters little to public-employee unions looking to regain their perks.
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Republican Gov. Chris Christie has proposed including public-employee unions under New Jersey's pay-to-play rules, which generally limit political contributions by affected groups and individuals.
Watch for the airline employee unions, whose pensions Congress undermined in 2007, to push Washington to squeeze AMR to give them special treatment in bankruptcy.
Yes, politicians are wastrels, but it seems a major driver of their fiscal incontinence is a growing blob seemingly beyond their control: government employee unions.
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They are paying a disproportionate share of the burden of government and yet the Occupy protestors, public employee unions and even President Obama demonize them.
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And Edmondson figured that using Soviet-style methods to block antispending initiatives would appeal to the state's public employee unions and others who benefit from government largesse.
The recall's ultimate objective is to intimidate any official across the country who's thinking of crossing swords with the empire of teachers and other public-employee unions.
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Helping the state rebuild is a more bipartisan task for a governor known for advancing core conservative policies such as cutting taxes and fighting public-employee unions.
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Since the New Year, Mr. Goldfield and other advisers to the receiver have been negotiating almost daily with the city's debtholders and public-employee unions, seeking concessions.
This would require public-employee unions to have the written consent each year of individual members before any of their dues could be spent on political campaigns.
The reason Wisconsin and its governor are getting national attention is that Scott Walker chose to wrestle with the 800-pound gorilla in the room: public employee unions.
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