Daily Topics - Wednesday May 25th, 2011
By shawnt56
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Hour One: Getting divorced? New bill says "No Sex for You" - Robert LeClair, Selectman Wrentham, MA
Hour Two: Will tougher trade regulations bring our jobs back? Clint Bolick, "Death Grip: Loosening the Law's Stranglehold Over Economic Liberty" / Plus, Everything You Know is Wrong - Need a change? Take a break! Nancy Bearg, Sabbatical Sisters
Hour Three: Should the U.S. mandate vacations? Dan Gainor, Business and Media Institute
Comments
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Dan -- Take a Day Off!
Dan, Hi. You are way too uptight! Take a day off -- a month off and chill.
If most workers ever dared try to "negotiate" a contract with their employers in which the worker could take a month off or six weeks off they would be given the year off permanently. As a matter of fact, the way most big corps structure things now, you can't even be told which days off you will get, or what hours you will working next month, as the corp retains the right to schedule you as they see fit, week to week. Some even keep you "ON CALL" ---UNPAID---!
Take a vacation Dan.
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
Images of Thom
With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"In an age rife with media-inspired confusion and political cowardice, we yearn for a decent, caring, deeply human soul whose grasp of the problems confronting us provides a light by which we can make our way through the quagmire of lies, distortions, pandering, and hollow self-puffery that strips the American Dream of its promise. How lucky we are, then, to have access to the wit, wisdom, and willingness of Thom Hartmann, who shares with us here that very light, grown out of his own life experience."
From Screwed:
"If we are going to live in a Democracy, we need to have a healthy middle class. Thom Hartmann shows us how the ‘cons’ have wronged this country, and tells us what needs to be done to reclaim what it is to be American."
From Cracking the Code:
"No one communicates more thoughtfully or effectively on the radio airwaves than Thom Hartmann. He gets inside the arguments and helps people to think them through—to understand how to respond when they’re talking about public issues with coworkers, neighbors, and friends. This book explores some of the key perspectives behind his approach, teaching us not just how to find the facts, but to talk about what they mean in a way that people will hear."
Stand up for Elizabeth Warren:
Earlier this month, 44 Republican Senators pledged to filibuster the nomination of anyone to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unless the agency itself is significantly weakened.
This threat makes it much more likely that President Obama will have to use his constitutional authority to make a recess appointment to fill the top slot at the agency. A number of great progressive groups and leading academics have signed a letter to President Obama supporting a recess appointment. And now I've signed it too.
I hope you join me in co-signing the letter. You can read it and add your name to it at the link below.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/franken_warren/?r_by=21494-3291640-LahnPrx&rc=confemail