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    i guess i should stop complaining about my pay cut now

    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 [...]



    New Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson

    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 [...]



    Sound Familiar? Hannan Tears Brown a New One

    Sounds like the EU is struggling with very similar problems as we have in this country.  Here is a great speech given yesterday by Daniel Hannan, Conservative MEP for South East England:

    Even if you don’t agree with the content, you have to admire the presentation.  We need more people in our media and more politicians to stand up and really say [...]



    merit pay ain’t the way

    There is no question that Barack Obama will be a better president for the state of education in this country than George “is our children learning” Bush could ever hope to be, and almost anything would be better than Bush’s odious, expensive, top-heavy and radically stupid No Child Left Behind.

    That being said, merit pay is just another Republican red herring and should be round-filed along [...]



    Buyer Beware – CNBC and All of the MSM

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    Cenk Uygur has a post over at Huffpo that nails down the real issue with CNBC that Jon Stewart so skillfully mocks in the video contained in the post immediately below this one:

    I have a close friend who works at a business news station — and here is the worst kept secret in show business — it’s all about the access. If [...]



    Why Isn’t Simon Johnson the Treasury Secretary?

    This is the most succinct explanation I have come across of where we are at and of what to do with regard to the financial crisis affecting our country.  I hope Obama and Congress are listening.  From Bill Moyers Journal (you can watch the video here):

    February 13, 2009

    BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal.

    The battle is joined as they say — and here’s the [...]



    What’s YOUR American Dream?

    The economy is in trouble. I know they’ve been saying this for a while, but I actually believe it now.

    A friend’s husband is getting laid off.

    Another friend’s husband has lost a third of his business contracts, and she is scrambling to make sure that the family can still get needed medical and dental services.

    Others are afraid of losing their jobs, driving unreliable cars, [...]



    who’s getting thrown in the briar patch?

    I’m hoping it’s Obama – but he’s already given away the store in the form of tax cuts and striking family planning and the National Mall renewal from the bill. Maybe he just wanted to give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves.

    I certainly hope so, because even if this stimulus bill works perfectly and creates/saves 4 million jobs, it won’t get rid of [...]

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