Trump will clean house

[kevin kiernan]

Crooked politicians must be held accountable for the crimes they have done. Trump is the only one who will do it. To elect a POTUS who will not prioritize fixing our criminal political system will not be good enough for me.We will not get another one like Trump ,who will bitch slap the evil out of Washington politics..No one can deny that Trump is crazy enough to do it. But he needs us to want it fixed. He can not stand alone..This is that time in history. The time that many have hoped. Turn your back on this opportunity,and we are done. THAT IS THE TRUTH OF IT.

[kevin kiernan]

Yep the race card is being used hard this year...But hillary is over using it this year. This is the election year the left loses its favorite weapon. Going to the well to often will dry it up....But then greed and selfishness which are tools of the devil, can not match up to God`s tools of truth,love and all good things

[Hankelvis]

Notice the AFL-CIO "Stronger Together" Logo which is also on the new airplane they gave her.

[Virginia Foulk]

Hankelvis - Thought you may have already seen this, but if not.-

WND - http://www.wnd.com -

Taxpayers on hook for union workers' salaries

Posted By Bob Unruh On 09/10/2016 @ 5:21 pm In APP Frontpage,Front Page,Money,Politics,U.S.

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There are a number of people in the city of Austin, Texas, who are paid fulltime salaries by taxpayers to run their private union and handle its business.

That, according to the Goldenwater Institute, is just wrong.

“Under the Texas Constitution, the government is prohibited from spending public money for purely private purposes,” said Jon Riches, director of national litigation for the organization. “With release time, Austin taxpayers are required to foot the bill for the activities of a private union.

“This is an abuse of tax dollars and violates Texas law,” he said.

The conflict arose because the city and the Austin Firefighters Association, Local 875, reached an agreement for the city to pay a number of firefighters full-time salaries while they are on “release time,” also known as “association business leave,” or “union leave.”

It simply allows certain firefighters to draw a full salary from the city but spend their time pursuing union work.

The institute has filed a legal action challenging the practice, arguing it “violate the Texas Constitution ‘gift clause’ provision that prohibits government from giving taxpayer funds to private entities without a public purpose.”

Robert Henneke, the general counsel for the Center for the American Future, said, “Allowing fulltime public employees on the government’s payroll to work for a private union at taxpayer expenses is even more egregious as the city of Austin’s proposed budget would increase taxes on all residents.

“All taxpayer resources should be put into services for citizens not directed to the benefit of private entities.”

The Goldwater Institute originally discovered the illegal use of taxpayer money in 2011 in the city of Phoenix and filed a lawsuit to stop it.

There, police officers were collecting some $4 million a year from taxpayers in such “release time” activities.

The lawsuit was successful and the practice stopped.

“Since that initial discovery, the Goldwater Institute has found the practice is widespread across the country, including in federal government contracts. For example, while some military veterans wait an average of 115 days to get an initial appointment with their primary care provider, the Veterans Administration spends over $40 million a year on release time for VA employees,” the organization reported.

“When release time contract provisions are added up across the country, taxpayers spend over a billion dollars each year to pay government workers to clock in at the union desk, not to do the government work they were hired to do.”

Several states now have introduced bans on the practice.

The Austin deal allows the president of the local union to use up to 2,080 hours of release time per year. At 40 hours of work per week, that’s 52 weeks, meaning that person can essentially be a full-time worker for the union, at taxpayer expenses.

It allows the union to consume up to 6,600 hours a year, for all officials to be paid by taxpayers while doing union work.

“A payment by a political subdivision, including a municipality, of the state of Texas is proper under the Gift Clause only if: first, the expenditure serves a public purpose, and second, the expenditure affords a clear public benefit in return.”

The union, however, is not required to provide “any direct benefits” to the city in return for the subsidy.

In a description the legal team explained: “Imagine if your city council contacted a local Walmart and offered them fulltime city employees to use however Walmart wished – as checkout clerks, greeters, stockers. Walmart makes the decision, and the employees wear Walmart uniforms, report to Walmart management, and work for Walmart’s benefit.

“But the city claims that they’re still city employees, and pays them salaries out of the government’s treasury, including full taxpayer-funded benefits, and fringe benefits including guaranteed pensions.”

That is what the city is doing, the team explained.

The case is pending in Travis County District Court.

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[Hankelvis]

Thanks for the article. The union/mafia symbol among antiglobalists in Italy is an octopus.
Unions bankrupted airlines and workers pensions for decades. They got automatic taxpayer bailouts each time.

[kevin kiernan]

LOOK AT THIS CROWD. HILLARY WILL NEVER WIN. THIS SPEAKS TO THE TRUTH OF WHO WE THE PEOPLE WANT. ...THIS VIDEO IS ONLY 30 SECONDS LONG...BUT TELLS A HUGE HUGE STORY.

[jack ludwig]

It shows that Trump can draw a crowd, Kim Kardasian can draw a crowd also but she doesn't have a chance to be president even if she wanted to be. Trump has been drawing crowds ever since his daddy gave him the keys to his apartment.

[kevin kiernan]

It is about time they took the advice of Donald Trump...Russia and United States unify to create some peace.. What a great idea...........http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/russian-foreign-minister-we-a...

[jack ludwig]

we will strike any kind of deal we can get with Russia to keep the Syrian war from spreading. Russia is happy to work with America as long as they and Asud maintain control of Syria. The rebels will be slaughtered in large numbers during this cease fire.

[charles royer]

In this exclusive report, distinguished research psychologist Robert Epstein explains the new study and reviews evidence that Google's search suggestions are biased in favor of Hillary Clinton. He estimates that biased search suggestions might be able to shift as many as 3 million votes in the upcoming presidential election in the US.

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/us/20160912/1045214398/google-clinton-manip...

[kevin kiernan]

Open this link and scroll down to number 10 on list..Eric Schmidt CEO of Google goes to Bilderberg meetings...His tools are at the disposal of the elite inner circle of the Bilderberg group......https://www.rt.com/usa/346407-clinton-insiders-bilderberg-2016/

[Hankelvis]

Liberal shills at this once respected rag:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion /blogs/world-report
They are lying about everything including saying Trump's policies would endanger Israel.

[kevin kiernan]

Black Bishop Anoints Trump.....Thia is why Trump will win the Black Christian vote....