- Wayne Root.
- Leo W. Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers.
- Conservative Carrie Lukas of the Independent Women's Forum.
- What is it that libertarians and conservatives don't understand about economics?
- Is this the beginning of the end of predatory capitalism in America? Are they trying out the Mondragon model?
- Are Americans overpaid or are they simply ignorant of basic economics?
- Pay for staying away?!" What's wrong with sick pay?
- Geeky science rocks!
- Wild Night, John Mellencamp.
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- Political World, Bob Dylan.
- Take This Job and Shove It, Johnny Paycheck.
- Heavy Fuel, Dire Straits.
- Because I Got High, Afroman.
- Pay Me My Money Down, Bruce Springsteen (video).
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
"The recession isn't over. To the contrary, we are in the start of a long-term depression caused by big government, big spending, onerous taxes and government regulations placed on business, too much deficit and debt."
"U.S. workers are overpaid, relative to equally productive foreigners doing the same work. If the global economy is ever to get back into balance, that gap needs to be closed.
Of course, U.S. workers should earn more than their peers in China, Moldova, or Vietnam. The Americans take advantage of the higher productivity that makes their country rich: better education and infrastructure, abundant capital and a more developed work ethic. But how much higher should U.S. wages be? ...
Global wage convergence is great for the poor but tough on the overpaid rich. It's possible to run the numbers to show that U.S. manufacturing workers should take average real wage cuts of as much as 20% to get into global balance."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.
It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.
It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.
It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This is, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.
This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953 "The Chance for Peace" speech (mp3).
