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You Won't Believe These Suez Canal Conspiracies
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Jon Stewart on GOP's "job-killing healthcare law" repeal
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
AP-GfK Poll: Opposition to health care overhaul is diminished; 1 in 4 back complete repeal - chicagotribune.com
AP-GfK Poll: Opposition to health care overhaul is diminished; 1 in 4 back complete repeal - chicagotribune.com
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from article:
As for repeal, only about one in four say they want to do away with the law completely. Among Republicans support for repeal has dropped sharply, from 61 percent after the elections to 49 percent now.
Also, 43 percent say they want the law changed so it does more to re-engineer the health care system. Fewer than one in five say it should be left as it is.
"Overall, it didn't go as far as I would have liked," said Joshua Smith, 46, a sales consultant to manufacturers who lives in Herndon, Va. "In a perfect world, I'd like to see them change it to make it more encompassing, but judging by how hard it was to get it passed, they had to take whatever they could get."
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from article:
As for repeal, only about one in four say they want to do away with the law completely. Among Republicans support for repeal has dropped sharply, from 61 percent after the elections to 49 percent now.
Also, 43 percent say they want the law changed so it does more to re-engineer the health care system. Fewer than one in five say it should be left as it is.
"Overall, it didn't go as far as I would have liked," said Joshua Smith, 46, a sales consultant to manufacturers who lives in Herndon, Va. "In a perfect world, I'd like to see them change it to make it more encompassing, but judging by how hard it was to get it passed, they had to take whatever they could get."
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
from Jobs for Justice news--steelworker jobs in metroeast
The Granite City Chapter of Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees announced that hiring for union jobs is taking place at both US Steel and American Steel in Granite City, IL.
US Steel
To apply for jobs at US Steel, go online to www.ussteel.com and click on the "Careers and People" tab. From there you can search the hourly job openings at Granite City and submit your application and resume.
American Steel
To apply for jobs at American Steel, you must go in person to pick up an application at the Guard Shack. The address of the plant is 1700 Walnut St, Granite City, IL 62040 and the Guard Shack is on Neidringhaus Ave.
http://www.ussteel.com/corp/index.asp
US Steel
To apply for jobs at US Steel, go online to www.ussteel.com and click on the "Careers and People" tab. From there you can search the hourly job openings at Granite City and submit your application and resume.
American Steel
To apply for jobs at American Steel, you must go in person to pick up an application at the Guard Shack. The address of the plant is 1700 Walnut St, Granite City, IL 62040 and the Guard Shack is on Neidringhaus Ave.
http://www.ussteel.com/corp/index.asp
Public support for labor unions hits a new low: newyorker.com
Public support for labor unions hits a new low: newyorker.com
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we need address this and quick
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from article:
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they’d never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy. Businesses, of course, saw this as grim news. But the general public applauded labor’s new power, even in the face of union tactics that many Americans frowned on, like sit-down strikes. More than seventy per cent of those surveyed in a 1937 Gallup poll said they favored unions.
Seventy-five years later, in the wake of another economic crisis, things couldn’t be more different. The bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler saved the jobs of tens of thousands of U.A.W. workers, but were enormously unpopular. In the recent midterm elections, voters in several states passed initiatives making it harder for unions to organize. Across the country, governors and mayors wrestling with budget shortfalls are blaming public-sector unions for the problems. And in polls public support for labor has fallen to historic lows.
The hostility to labor is most obvious in the attacks on public-sector workers as what Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota’s former governor, calls “exploiters”—cosseted, overpaid bureaucrats whose gold-plated pension and health plans are busting state budgets. But there’s also been a backlash against labor generally. In 2009, for the first time ever, support for unions in the Gallup poll dipped below fifty per cent. A 2010 Pew Research poll offered even worse numbers, with just forty-one per cent of respondents saying they had a favorable view of unions, the lowest level of support in the history of that poll.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/01/17/110117ta_talk_surowiecki#ixzz1ApF9TacM
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we need address this and quick
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from article:
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they’d never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy. Businesses, of course, saw this as grim news. But the general public applauded labor’s new power, even in the face of union tactics that many Americans frowned on, like sit-down strikes. More than seventy per cent of those surveyed in a 1937 Gallup poll said they favored unions.
Seventy-five years later, in the wake of another economic crisis, things couldn’t be more different. The bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler saved the jobs of tens of thousands of U.A.W. workers, but were enormously unpopular. In the recent midterm elections, voters in several states passed initiatives making it harder for unions to organize. Across the country, governors and mayors wrestling with budget shortfalls are blaming public-sector unions for the problems. And in polls public support for labor has fallen to historic lows.
The hostility to labor is most obvious in the attacks on public-sector workers as what Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota’s former governor, calls “exploiters”—cosseted, overpaid bureaucrats whose gold-plated pension and health plans are busting state budgets. But there’s also been a backlash against labor generally. In 2009, for the first time ever, support for unions in the Gallup poll dipped below fifty per cent. A 2010 Pew Research poll offered even worse numbers, with just forty-one per cent of respondents saying they had a favorable view of unions, the lowest level of support in the history of that poll.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2011/01/17/110117ta_talk_surowiecki#ixzz1ApF9TacM
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Farm Subsidies are welfare
watch Vicky not answer question.
Republican Vicky Hartzler is Missouri's fourth congressional district representative, Ike's old disrict.
Flash for you Vicky Farm subsidies are welfare (although the welfare queens here are large corporations)
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Hartzler and her husband operate a farm in Cass County that has collected nearly $775,000 in USDA subsidies, according to the Environmental Working Group database.
Republican Vicky Hartzler is Missouri's fourth congressional district representative, Ike's old disrict.
Flash for you Vicky Farm subsidies are welfare (although the welfare queens here are large corporations)
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Hartzler and her husband operate a farm in Cass County that has collected nearly $775,000 in USDA subsidies, according to the Environmental Working Group database.
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