Just becasue a workplace is non Union, that does not mean that OSHA rules do not apply there. If an employer is not obeying the law, bust them, union or non union!

But as far as setting wages, that is negotiated between the employee and employer. The more the employee asks for, the less likely he/she is to get it. And the less an employer pays, the less likely they are to be able to hire and retain good people. Those are the checks and balances on wages and benefits in capitalism, and that is the way it should be.

Quote mauiman58:since when is the workplace a democracy?

You don't just trust in a lawful nation -- you wanna protect and control. Because abuse is really everywhere. Why would anybody be such a sucker and just trust? "Homo homini lupus est" -- humans are predators and you wanna be careful!

That's why we need checks and balances in a lawful nation. In the workplace as well.

PROFITS, PROFITS, PROFITS!!!!!!

Coup d'etat in America? Wake up everyone, this was carried out about 30 years ago! Made officially official when the SCOTUS gave the Presidency to an unelected candidate in 2000.

Obama has shown himself to be one of a few different things:

1. Total sell out

2. A political coward

3. A right - winger who campaigned as a progressive.

The GOP is a circus, no doubt but since Obama has out - Bushed Bush in MANY different areas can anyone really beleive that things would be different under Romney? Perhaps, perhaps the so -called progressives that have turned a blind eye to the assults, especially against privacy and civil rights, would emerge from Obama - fog and speak out.

He got my vote in 08, he will not get it again in 12.

At what point do we cross the line of human decency and descend down the dirty road to cruelty? This race to the bottom reminds me of a happening in South Korea sometime back in the 1970’s where one of our Congresspersons visited a manufacturing plant in that country. During his tour of the plant along with the Plant Manager, the Congressman looked at the workers on the floor assembling parts, shivering, and turned to the Plant Manger saying: “my God it’s cold in here! When do you turn on the heat?” The Plant Manger replied, “When the oil in the machinery starts to coagulate.” Obviously, the competing plant manufacturing the same parts would be at a disadvantage where they heated the plant for the benefits of the workers. Because of these externalized costs, there must be regulations where all business operates according to rules set by government and enforced by government.

I find it difficult to understand the reasons for the pursuit by some people for the reduction in regulations. Everyone benefits from a level playing field, and there is enough room for even the greedy on this field of play. Of course, the greedy would have to work, and let them work within the confines of nature: there are only 24 hours in a day and not to be confused with the cold temperature of coagulated oil.

The genesis of this problem of de-regulation are the channeling of wealth upwards to the hands of few through tax breaks, and the theory of Reaganomics, i.e., give wealth to the upper few and the effects will trickle down to the rest of us through increased jobs. We need to reverse this movement and return to sanity.

Before I could graduate from Business College, I was required to take a course in Ethics and Morality. There are happenings in business and government that just can’t be legislated; everything that could possibly happen in the functions of life would be impossible to legislate. Over the thousands of years of society, I think that most of us could agree on some conditions for human existence. The Ten Commandments would be a good example of Ethics and Morality and a part of the harmony of human existence, and does exist within the scope of most religions. I’m reminded of the Bible and Matthew 25:40 ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

We don't need any revolution/ respective another civil war. We need voters who act like adults.

As long as this doesn't happen, we have something to change about ourselves. In other countries presidents, or chancellors, have time to work something out. Because voters know, you can't change your mind about politics like your socks and panties. Consistency is very essential.

Of course it will happen to other states. I'm from Indiana, and we have been subjected to pro Right to Work TV ads for 6 weeks, paid for by an "Indiana Opportunity Fund", and the repuglicans won't reveal who is behind all this money for these ads. I'm sure it's out of state pac money from some corporate ceo buddies of Indiana's Repug. Governor Daniels. The A.L.E.C. and National Right to Work have very deep pockets. Hard for working people to compete with that. We have to get rid of this "Citizen$ United" and impeach the supreme court 5 who forced this on us.

What about building solar roadways?

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How is flying on an airplane now become a right? Seems to me that the airlines should have the right to exclude riders who are on the list. However, a citizen must have an enforceable right to challenge the govt for inappropriatel list management.

Junkitatiously ugly? I doubt that's really a word.

Instead of calling voter fraud fears a "Republican Fantasy", I think it should be called the "Republican Delusion", its more accurate sounding, to me. A fantasy sounds like something desirable, where a Delusion sounds like mental disability.

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Hydrogen has 3 forms, all with 1 proton
+ zero neutrons = Protium
+ one neutron = Deuterium
+ two neutrons = Tritium