It is time to stop stealing the pension funds of firemen and teachers and nurses. It is time for real Americans to stand up. It is time to give the 1%, the 3 million people out of 300 million who take home 55%…55%…of all income in this country to start paying back what they and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Labor'
It Is Time to Balance the Budget on the Backs of the Rich
March 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Education, Labor, Politics
Tags: balancing the budget·budget deficits·Neconservative Republican governors·raise taxes on rich·Tax cuts for billionaires·tax the rich·union-busting·Wisconsin demonstrations
Neocon Strategy at Work…From Wisconsin and Ohio to Washington D.C.
March 9th, 2011 · Comments Off · jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
Here is the Neoconservative Republican political strategy in a nutshell: put your people in a good financially position. When in political power, spend as much government money as you possibly can. Take your hands off the economy and let it drive itself into a ditch, while allowing the top financial people to escape with piles [...]
Tags: John Kasich·Mitch Daniels·Neocon union-busting·Republican governors busting unions·Republican legislation to break up unions·Rick Perry·Rick Scott·Scott Walker
Neocon Corporate Moguls Attack Middle Class Workers
February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Education, Labor, Politics, Wall Street
This is a country that has created some of the greatest industries and the greatest fortunes in the history of the world. In 1883 Thomas Edison and many others began the age of electricity, lighting homes and powering the enormous scope of machines, appliances and useful devices. By the turn of the 21st Century we [...]
Tags: Attacking the Middle Class·Corporate America·Koch Industries·Neocon Billionaires·Sendign jobs overseas·workers rights
State Debt Problems: Rich Teachers, Super-wealthy Firemen, Nurses, Cops!
February 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Economics, Labor, Politics
A man of little intellect and loud voice speaks from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. He shouts at the camera from the hectic trading floor, with little knowledge outside of that arena but with monumental opinion. His name is Ric Santelli and while the market was collapsing and leaving us in the [...]
Tags: arbitration·cops·firemen·John Kasich·nurses·public employee unions·Scott Walker·teacher benefits·teacher unions·teachers·union busting governors·Wisconsin teachers' strike·workers rights
Union-busting in Wisconsin
February 18th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Human Rights, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
There is a strong game plan abroad in the land to bust unions. Most unions these days are for government workers. So the new Neocon Republican governors are out to break those unions, in Ohio, and New Jersey and Florida, and most prominently in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker the Governor of Wisconsin only since November [...]
Tags: attacks on public employee unions·Charles Koch·Governor Chris Christie·Governor John Kasich·Governor Rick Scott·Governor Scott Walker·health benefits·Karl Rove·Koch Industries·Neocons·penalizing teachers and government workers.·public employee unions penalized·state deficits·teacher unions·teachers·union-busting
Glenn Beck Attacks Unions
October 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Capitalism, Economics, jobs, Labor, Media, Politics, taxes
Glenn Beck, the supposedly middle class hero, turns out to be a hollowed out Tin Man. Lately, we noticed that this self-style man of the people likes to attack unions, who are merely organizations of people…not hugely wealthy individuals or giant corporations…who assemble together to get good wages for the hard work that they perform. [...]
Tags: Add new tag·Americans for Prosperity·Employee Free Choice Act·Glenn Beck·jobs·Koch family·Neoconservatives·Right-to-Work states·unemployment·unions
A Proven 80-year-old Plan for Recovery
September 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Labor, Media, Politics, Wall Street
The American People, according to polls, have now floundered their way into a strong majority willing to literally destroy their lives and those of their children. The latest polls show many Right Wing Republicans ahead in the polls. This is beyond stupidity. If the Republicans were advocating a return to moderation, one might think that, [...]
Tags: Beck·economic development·FDR·job creation·jobs·Koch·Murdoch·Neocon obstruction·Neocons·Obama reconstruction plan·the Great Bush Recession·the New Deal
Creating Jobs in the United States
August 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, jobs, Labor, Media, Politics
There are several problems with the current jobs situation and those are in addition to the fact that one out of approximately 8 people you see walking down the street is either unemployed or has only a part-time job. Of course, for some people, the idea of a part-time job is difficult to imagine, as [...]
Tags: Bush Free Trade and Employment policies·IT·jobs·Neocon outsourcing policies·outsourcing jobs to foreign workers·outsourcing to India and China in 2010
“Please, Sir, May I Have Another!”
June 11th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, Labor, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes
The Republicans in Congress have their paddles out and are ready, if we let them, to make us walk the line again, while the Neocon frat boys in the Chamber of Commerce, in Congress and on Wall Street deliver a good spanking like the one they handed the country in 2007-2008. Yes, these cartoon characters, [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·Neocons·Neoconservative obstruction·political gamesmanship·Right Wing obstruction·tax cuts·unemployment insurance
The Roberts’ Supreme Court and the End of Democracy
June 6th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Courts and the Law, Labor, Lobbying, Politics
With all the other problems facing this country, one that we should not have to face in 2010 is the validity and honesty of our Supreme Court. Over the long history of the country, through the earliest days when transportation and communication were long and tedious, when modern appliances and inventions made life less complex, [...]
Tags: corporate influence on the Supreme Court·the Bush Supreme Court·the Citizens United decision·the Supreme Court·wrong Supreme Court decisions
The Dangerous Game
May 29th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Culture, Economics, Labor, Media, Politics, Populism, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Anarchy is the absence of government. It could be a placid, pastoral society or it could be the wild, wild West. The fact is, however, that it is dangerous to contemplate anarchy unless you can be certain which it will be. You may call the Soviet Union a state that grew out of a Communist [...]
Tags: anarchy·Communism·Corporatism·media control·media elitism·Right Wing control of media·Socialism
Jobs, Wages and the Urgent Need for Unions
May 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
Where are the jobs? And where is new union legislation? We need both and we need them now. We have a minimum of 15 million people out of work. We have an economy that created 230,000 jobs in March and 290,000 in April and unemployment still went from 9.7% to 9.9%. But what about the [...]
Tags: Employee Free Choice Act·job creation·jobs·Labor·unemployment·union avoidance consultants·union organizing·union-busting·unions·wage restrictions·wages