It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s an overpaid fatcat public servant! No wait! It’s an anchor baby!
The other day the AZ Republic ran a USA Today story on the front page about how federal and state government employees are much more highly compensated than private sector workers. Like much, much more. It’s soooo unfair to you, private sector worker. Because the problem is that those Gubmint workers make too much and [...]
Tuesday Energy Blogging: The hippie girl cooties have thoroughly infected the DOD.
It’s a lost cause, I’m afraid, Alan. August 10, 2010 San Jose, CA, USA: SunPower to Build Solar Power System at Luke Air Force Base SunPower Corporation has signed an agreement with Arizona Public Service (APS) to design and construct a 15-megawatt (AC) solar photovoltaic power system at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona. [...]
How to make that regressive cigarette tax even more regressive?
Pass Prop 302, that’s how. It’s the Legislature’s referendum to redirect the revenue collected from the First Things First cigarette tax to the general fund. The money will go directly to the coffers of the Chamber of Commerce in the form of more tax cuts to fat cats as God and John Kavanaugh intended. First [...]
Oh, so the Goldwater Institute was waiting for Frank Luntz to tell them what to say
Of course, the announcement it links from the GI website doesn’t mention immigration. At all. “Effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.” –Frank Luntz Best-selling author of Words that Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear [...]
Jan Brewer gets $250K to counteract her own rhetoric.
Nice pile of cash, if you can get it, for being an accidental Governor with a crack PR staff. And she did. Ironically, Brewer’s own high-profile statements with respect to immigration may be exacerbating the problems Arizona’s tourism industry has faced in the wake of the debate over its law, a hotel spokesperson reportedly suggested. [...]
CYA, AZCoC
Wow The front page of the Republic featured a story about 19 business groups, led by the AZ Chamber, taking a brave stance on immigration reform. In the case of the AZ Chamber of Commerce in particular, by “brave” I mean, “realizing their craven silence and capitulation weren’t going unnoticed”. But that wasn’t enough. Nor [...]
Do SB1070 backers have a different kind of guest worker program in mind?
Yesterday’s Republic Valley section reported that “cash-strapped” cities are using 50 cent an hour prison labor as a cost savings measure. Douglas sits on the Mexican border, about 50 miles west of New Mexico. Its economy struggled after the smelter closed in the late 1980s. City leaders had less revenue to work with. Michael Ortega [...]