Thursday, March 29, 2012
"...The Democrat Who Took on the Unions" - WSJ.com
So, it CAN be done.
Common sense reform that serves everyone well over the LONG term.
This is quite interesting, and very well written...
Common sense reform that serves everyone well over the LONG term.
This is quite interesting, and very well written...
In the Wall Street Journal, Allysia Finley writes about Rhode Island's Gina Raimondo and what she has accomplished:
"The former venture capitalist is a Democrat, which means that she believes in government as a force for good. But 'a government that doesn't work is in no one's interest,' she says. 'Budgets that don't balance, public programs that aren't funded, pension funds that are running out of money, schools that aren't funded—How does that help anyone? I don't really care if you're a Republican or Democrat or you want to fight about the size of government. How about a government that just works? Put your tax dollar in and get a return out the other end.'
Yes, that would be nice. Unfortunately, public pensions all over the country are gobbling up more and more taxpayer money and producing nothing in return but huge deficits. It's not even certain whether employees in their 20s and 30s will retire with a pension, since many state and municipal pension systems are projected to run dry in the next two to three decades.
That included Rhode Island's system until last year, when Ms. Raimondo drove perhaps the boldest pension reform of the last decade through the state's Democratic-controlled General Assembly"
