Key stats from date Obama was inaugurated until today.
Yeah, I know … it’s Bush’s fault.
Published on DickMorris.com on February 15, 2011
Archive for February 22nd, 2011
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February 22, 2011Honk if you want your money going to pay for gov’t employees’ pay and benefits …
February 22, 2011Punch line: Gov’t employee unions collect dues from members … then fund political campaigns … and sponsored officials, when elected, increase members pay & benefits … so that the union can collect more dues, etc.
Not exactly a virtuous cysle.
Washington Examiner, In Wisconsin, it’s the unions vs. the people, 02/18/11
Liberals and the White House try to blur the issue by lumping together government unions and labor unions in general.
Obama wrongly calls Walker’s bill “an attack on unions.” It is, at its heart, a measure changing the way the state government procures labor — Walker would end single-source contracts with a politically connected special interests.
Government unions in Wisconsin perfectly match the definition of “special interests”.
Four of the top six Wisconsin contributors to the 2010 elections were labor unions … led by the state’s teachers union and the Wisconsin chapter of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.
Almost all of the money went to Democrats.
Government employees, as a group, matched the union contributions with most of their money going to Democrats, too.
In the romantic liberal vision of this union uprising, determined workers are standing up to the powerful.
For much of the Left, though, this about protecting the power of labor. But there’s no fat-cat owner wanting to pocket more profits here. The unions’ target in Wisconsin is the taxpayer.
At bottom, this is the unions versus the people.
Even Franklin Roosevelt said, “The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”
Campaign contributions by government-sector unions, collected through mandatory dues, help elect the public officials who are then supposed to negotiate with them. “The unions sit, in effect, on both sides of the bargaining table.”
When unions overreach in the private sector, they drive their employers out of business, and so unions only flourish under those employers — governments — that can’t go out of business.
While governments won’t go out of business, they are going broke.
So, many taxpayers see the likes of Gov. Walker as a rare grown-up under attack by opportunistic and utterly politicized unions populated by overpaid government workers.
With state budgets in crisis and the Democratic machinery already in all-out campaign mode, war has already been declared — and if the unions win, the people lose.
Checking in to “The Office?”
February 22, 2011TakeAway: TV check ins give advertisers a new way to get to know their customers even more. Some believe it to be the next big thing in social networking.
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Excerpted from Brandchannel, “Check-In, Tune In, Turn On” by Sheila Shayon, February 2, 2011
TV check-ins, aka social TV, is the newest form of online engagement. …it’s steadily growing and predicted to be a break-out trend of 2011.
Brands include GetGlue, Philo and Miso. So far, according to Clickz, GetGlue is the one to beat. Since launching in 2007, GetGlue has amassed 800,000 users, and 30,000 Twitter followers. …partnered with Discovery and HBO, and parlayed $12 million in financing from investors ….
GetGlue partnered with Fox and Fatburger … offering check-ins to the live premiere with printable Fatburger coupons redeemable for a free burger, …
Philo, … claims “tens of thousands” of users. …called it “Twitter + Foursquare For TV Fanatics.”
“[Social TV platforms are] yet another conduit by which brands, networks and sponsors can reach viewers in a contextually relevant time in a hyper-targeted way,” Levy told Clickz. “The context is relevant. They know what they’re watching, they know the demographic and they know each individual user because in general, they’re connecting [to Facebook and Twitter].”
Miso … has 100,000 users and a partnership with Oprah Winfrey’s new network, OWN.
…”People are already tying what they look at on this second screen with what’s happening on the television. The company does not have to create the habit, they merely have to co-opt it.”
Points and badges have proven their worth as social currency across virtually every cranny of the web, and now consumer proclivity for rewards has migrated back to the original screen – television.
… “Social Media and TV fanatics are ahead of the game right now and bending the rules to their will. …
Google’s Kraus acknowledges the imminent sprint for manifest destiny as advertisers are “very experimentally, viewing the second screen as an interesting tie-in opportunity.”
It’s only a matter of time before the click hits the TV screen big time – and the socialization of television becomes standard fare. It’s an evolutionary juggernaut that’s virtually unstoppable.
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Death by Powerpoint …
February 22, 2011What not to do when you pitch …
Thanks to MM for feeding the lead.
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