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Article by John on October 16th, 2009 at 9:24 am Bail out the rich. Fail to regulate corporations. Allow unconstrained corporate compensation agreements. Do not facilitate unionization of workers. Allow big corporations to control the media. Make free trade more important than our manufacturing industries. Ignore environmental priorities. Keep taxes low. Deficit spend on the military. Constrain health care and infrastructure expenditures. And expect things to get better. Related articles by Zemanta Les Leopold: Why Our [...]
Article by me on August 15th, 2009 at 9:53 am It’s easy to give whole foods a miss because they are terribly overpriced and snooty. Their level of annoying rich hypocritical yuppiehood just reached new heights when their CEO, Mackey, wrote this op-ed which says our health problems are our own fault and by golly tort reform is the real path to health care for all. Even though I’ve only bought a total of one [...]
Article by missy on August 5th, 2009 at 3:29 pm And may ENDA soon make cases like hers a thing of the past: The US Department of Justice has decided not to appeal a federal district court ruling awarding transgender veteran Diane Schroer a total of $491,190 for the discrimination she suffered because of her sex after being refused a job with the Library of Congress… Schroer had applied for a terrorism specialist position at the Library [...]
Article by John on June 1st, 2009 at 5:48 pm Michael Moore has penned a letter (below) concerning the ramifications of the bankruptcy and government takeover of GM. He has some lofty goals with regard to the company including building long distance high-speed rail, more light rail for the cities, electric buses for the rural areas and of course electric cars for all of us. Sometimes when something catastrophic happens, like the bankruptcy of a [...]
Article by missy on April 14th, 2009 at 10:40 am At least I’m lucky enough to still have my Oregon job: Oregon’s jobless rate has taken a dramatic jump, to 12.1 percent in March — a rate seen only once before since the years after World War II. The increase could put Oregon on a pace to have the highest unemployment rate in the nation when those figures are released on Friday, state labor economist Art Ayre [...]
Article by John on April 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 am Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us. Regulations did not just magically appear one day. They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past. Reagan [...]
Article by John on March 25th, 2009 at 10:30 am WASHINGTON – MARCH 09: A man carries a props money bag during a rally at the Lafayette Square March 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. The rally was held to support the "Employee Free Choice Act" which petitions corporate CEOs to stop preventing an economy which functions for everyone. Fedex is threatening to cancel a 15 Boeing jet order if Congress passes the Employee Free [...]
Article by missy on March 18th, 2009 at 9:20 am On Hank Paulson’s bald head. When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater – if [...] | |
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