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Thursday, July 19, 2007
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Sten, Leonard, Adams demand recount
Something went wrong on the way to livability
It must be the road building ban. Or maybe the City Council. Or perhaps our unique commission form of government that lacks limits that come from separation of powers. Whatever the reason, Money Magazine failed to rate Portland among best places to live in the U.S. of A. The ranking of the country's 100 best places was released today, with Sherwood, Lake Oswego, and Camas making the list.
The ratings were based on Money's assessment of each town's economic opportunity, quality of schools, crime, activities and sense of community. It said Sherwood is growing fast and always has something going on in town.
The Oregonian, July 17, By ERIC MORTENSEN
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Friday, July 13, 2007
State's economic policies widen wealth gap
Oregon governments in "Reverse Robin Hood" scheme
Are you better off than you were 30 years ago?
Thirty years ago, state government signaled a new progressivism by starting a program at the Univ. of Oregon for the benefit of organized labor called the Labor Education and Research Center, or LERC.
In a blistering critique of the so-called "LERC Agenda", a coalition of in-state free-market think tanks this week blasted Oregon's new #1-in-the-nation ranking for government unions.
According to the critics, Oregon's labor rank proves that the new progressivism is a colossal failure. They say the regime has resulted in a widening of the state's wealth gap, via the prosecution of a "reverse Robin Hood" scheme where the government robs from the poor - in the form of regressive taxation and regulation that kills jobs and raises the cost of living - and gives to the rich - in the form of subsidies, legislated monopolies and protections. According to the critics, Oregon's success is in spite of, not on account of, the new progressivism.
They complain that Oregon politics and mostly-meaningless candidate elections amount to advance auctions on stolen goods, and that state and local governments in Oregon are, in effect, a legalized kleptocracy where politically-connected insiders form an apparatchik that reserves the spoils for itself. Here, the spoils that translate directly into votes include an overabundance of government jobs and tax-free state and federal pensions. They point out that by now, Oregon's PERS system is wealthy enough to have recently bought 10% of TPG, the private equity behemoth formerly known as Texas Pacific Group.
Labor government defenders on the progressive blog BlueOregon.com admit that they have no working knowledge of the complex web of federal and state labor laws. That did not prevent them from lashing out at the "self-styled" free-market think-tank coalition with charges of "politics-as-usual." Kari Chilsom, the blog's founder who also manages the state AFL-CIO website, announced that state investigators have launched an inquiry that could result in revoking coalition members' tax-exempt status.
The Oregonian, July 13, By BETSY HAMMOND
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Oregon revives Iraqi national labor unions
Critics: War expenditures are unsustainable
Abdullah Muhsin of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers explains the revival of trade unions in the war-torn nation, thanks in large part to efforts put forward by Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and the tax-funded University of Oregon's Labor Education and Research Center (LERC).
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