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Pay Cuts for Congress? & “Big” Governments Republicans Mandating Marriage……
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) introduced a bill last week to slash pay for members of Congress 5% or $8,700 a year — and freeze their automatic cost-of-living increase. With Congress’ approval ratings “spiraling downward,” Kirkpatrick said, “Families across the country are getting by on lower wages…so why shouldn’t senators and representatives have to feel the same pinch?” The [...]
Why are we the only stupid industrialized country in the world?
The postal service this week announced it would be cutting as many as 30,000 jobs through attrition – using hiring freezes as workers retire or quit. According to American Postal Workers Union president William Burrus, cutting the U.S. Postal Service delivery to five days a week would be the beginning of the demise of the [...]
Even Mountaintop Miners can love Cats and Dogs
Appalachian activists are very upset that the U.S. Humane Society has announced that it will give its “2009 Humane Legislator of the Year” to the greatest congressional defender of mountaintop removal — House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV). The Slurry produced by coal mining contains dangerous heavy metals, including: Antimony, Beryllium, Cadmium, Chlorine, Chromium, Cobalt, Lead, [...]
Janitor vs. CEO
Minneapolis janitor Rosalina Gomez said she didn’t get it at first that she was cleaning up the offices of the CEO of the bank that had her foreclose her d home. The CEO is Richard Davis of Minneapolis-based US Bank, the nation’s sixth-largest bank and recipient of $6.6 billion in TARP bailout funds. On Feb. 28, Davis [...]
Green Jobs here?…or China?
A group of Democratic senators is concerned that the Obama administrations efforts to promoting economic stimulus, aimed at financing renewable energy, is creating jobs in foreign countries. The four senators, led by Chuck Schumer of New York, wrote to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday to request a moratorium on the Recovery Act program. They asked [...]
Bullies?
In the current Congress, Senate Republicans are using the filibuster “at a record-setting pace.” Last year, “there were a record 112 cloture votes. In the first two months of 2010, the number already exceeds 40,” and “with 10 months left to run in the 111th Congress, Republicans have turned to the filibuster or threatened its [...]
Apple and Slave Labor?
Apple Inc. has reported that some of its suppliers hired underage Asian workers to help build the iPhone, iPod and Macintosh computer last year. In China, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, the Czech Republic, Philippines and the U.S. Apple also found cases where suppliers “falsified records” to conceal underage hiring, more than 60 facilities [...]
Health Care and IQs…..
Though President Obama was hoping for bipartisan ideas for fixing health care yesterday, he acknowledged that “he might be left with a partisan path forward.” “Is there enough serious effort that in a month’s time, or a few week’s time, or six weeks’ time, we could actually resolve something?” asked Obama. “If we can’t, we’ve [...]
No to Consumer Protection, No to Hummers and No to Nukes….
The Washington Post is reporting the administration is open to putting consumer protection regulation in the hands of the Treasury Department or other already-existing agencies. Also the White House officials are open the to compromise on major financial reform legislation by no longer insisting on a stand-alone consumer protection agency. Translation into English – the Obama [...]
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