For union leaders, that is. In New York State a health care union has to start charging 35,000 members a fee of $1,560 per year or else their health care plan will go broke. Here’s a snippet:

The FHP Employer Buy-in program was launched in 2008 under New York’s Partnership for Coverage initiative, the state’s road map for providing health coverage to 2.6 million uninsured residents . . . At the time, it was considered a model for other unions or employers. The state Department of Health opened the FHP Employer Buy-in program to all employers and unions in late 2009.

When will everyone realize that [essentially] unlimited demand and limited supply guarantees failure?

If asked at a dinner party in front of strangers, many Canadians would likely think twice before saying they disagree with Official Multiculturalism in Canada. Failure to answer that question “correctly” might very well cause a bullseye to be drawn on one’s forehead, followed by a series of “Racist” barbs soon after.
Stepping back a moment though, when someone says they support “multiculturalism”, what exactly are they actually stating they believe in? Many undoubtedly think they’re affirming “support for multiple ethnicities in Canada”. But that’s not what multiculturalism means whatsoever!
Official Multiculturalism proponents in our country firmly believe that all cultures around the world are exactly the same; no better or worse than Canadian culture. Furthermore, anyone who does not believe this baseline premise is tarred & feathered with any number of pejoratives such as: Racist, Bigot, Xenophobe, etc.
I, for one, think such Multicultural views are absolute nonsense. Turns out that some immigrants do too. In fact, some moving to our country don’t appreciate our federal government trying to guide them into the sub-culture of their homeland and much prefer being an unhyphenated Canadian.
This past weekend I had the great honour of being a guest on Roy Green’s radio program, along with two ladies, Carmen & Sara, who left Egypt to move here, plus a regular guest on the show, William Gairdner. You can listen to the entire segment here.

It appears that an NDP candidate in Quebec is doing her campaigning from Las Vegas. This peculiar story about a candidate who works in a bar in Ottawa is but one of many in what’s turning out to be a very strange election campaign.
There are no reports, as of yet, about how NDP volunteers in Ruth Ellen Brosseau’s riding of Berthier-Maskinongé feel about her absence from the campaign.

Related – “I’m Not Condoning Violence, But…”

Much more here

Or would that be Two Shills:

Related: Juan Williams speaks out about NPR.

This recent commentary by Bill O’Reilly is most fascinating. Listen very carefully to what the liberal pundits are espousing.
Isn’t it absolutely amazing how a group of individuals can invent a complete delusion about threats from “far right Christians”? No evidence, no facts, no nothing. In the old days one would say that such individuals had mental delusions and needed to be under the care of a psychiatrist. Does it now just suffice to say, “Oh don’t mind him, he’s just a liberal” ?

Remember what NPR CEO & President, Vivian Schiller, said a few days ago about her organization being very middle of the road politically?
Now, courtesy of a hidden camera, the real truth is being revealed:

The full two hour video can be seen here. Pamela Geller has much more.
Defund NPR. Defund PBS. And Defund CBC!!!

Looks like Paul Krugman has competition in the area of hairbrain “progressive” ideas. Bangladeshi economist, Muhammad Yunus, is insisting that guaranteed credit for everyone should be a “human right”. Hmmm, what could possibly go wrong with this idea, if implemented?!
Turns out we don’t need to look very far into history to find out. This article and this one too are well worth a read. Here’s an excerpt from the former:

The story of Boiana and of Palivelupa is that of a good idea gone dras­tically wrong, dev­astating the lives of millions of des­perately poor people, threat­ening a bank­ing cri­sis and re­vealing the dark side of India’s eco­nom­ic growth. Pio­neered in Bangladesh in the late 1970s, micro­finance in­volves grant­ing small loans that no conventional bank would give to the very poor, al­lowing them to launch small-scale eco­nom­ic ven­tures. Around 30 million house­holds in India have received £4bn in such loans over the past 15 years.
In re­cent months, howev­er, the indus­try has been thrown into cri­sis as it has become clear that a signif­icant number of borrowers – be­tween a tenth and a third, depending on the es­ti­mate – cannot afford to repay their loans.

Perhaps the CBC can hire her as a consultant!