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Senate Helps Clear the Way for VEBA Looting
By Robert Farago
October 24, 2007
The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Senate voted yesterday to cut $2m from the Office of Labor Management Standards' (OLMS) budget. That's the federal agency in charge of collecting and checking LM-2 forms, which force unions to disclose their income and expenditures. Amongst the revelations contained therein: the Food and Commercial Workers Local Union 1 spent $26k on golf, another (unnamed) union forked-out $3m on hotel bills and Don Hunsucker, President of Local 1288 of The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, pocketed a $679,949 annual paycheck. The OLMS also flags corruption; with their help, the Labor Department announced 13 indictments and seven convictions last month (raising their yearly total to 97 indictments and 115 convictions). With over $30b heading for a United Auto Workers-controlled VEBA health care superfund– that's GM alone– you'd think that our representatives would want to beef-up enforcement, rather than pull the rug from under the watchdog's feet. The Senate's 47 to 46 vote to trim the OLMS' budget was almost entirely along party lines; 45 Democrats voted to cut the funding. Make of that what you will. |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:09 pm |
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last time here
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well hell....they might as well cut it. their not funding anything else
enough to do any good. homeland security no, illegal immigration no,
food safety no, imports of safe foriegn goods no, etc.
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:07 pm |
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Ah yes illegal immigration the Democrats plan for lifetime jobs . |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:12 pm |
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