Union-Busting Tactics More Pervasive Than Previously Thought: Study

The movement in this country is an accelerate­d crawl towards serfdom.On­ly through the collective organized mass of workers can we fight back against the insatiable greed of big and some small employers. A fair living wage, decent hours, safe working conditions and respect is worth the most productive workers in the world. Aynn Rand was a novelist. Fiction writer. If we all are un or under employed who will buy the goods and services businesses produce? Serfs have no power. Join a union!
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Larry Summers Calls For More Economic Stimulus, Payroll Tax Cuts

The way out is for a second stimulus and a jobs program to happen. We need to focus on retaining present jobs and creating new jobs that do what the WPA did build things like new airports, highways, parks, libraries, college buildings, train stations, trains, clean up the environmen­t, new upgraded infrastruc­ture and things that will make the USA modern and thus competitiv­e with the rest of the developed world. The first stimulus was too small but it did stave off unemployme­nt for a while. What is needed is to reduce the fear factor of looming unemployme­nt and increase personal spending by people being employed. An added benefit that most naysayers do not admit to is the increase in tax revenue that occurs because employed people pay income taxes. Putting people back to work is what at this point only the government can do. Business is flush and sitting on their money watching the economy sink. They have been given everything except the right of indenture servitude and free labor and have provided nothing in return except more layoffs. We need America working and fast. However the Republican­s would rather see failure and misery because the majority of the people are not who they care about too sad they the majority does not seem to get this.
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Obama On Economic Fears: 'Not Concerned About A Double-Dip Recession'

Every single word any US President says that is even remotely about the economy can affect our and the rest of the world's markets. I read the article and Mr. Obama is not saying that he is unconcern about the slowness of the economy but that he was more focused on the slowness of the jobs growth.



What was needed and frankly still is needed is another financial stimulus with a strong WPA like infrastruc­ture program and a jobs training program like the 1970's CETA program. These two programs combined would enable us to upgrade our infrastruc­ture from modernizin­g our sewage systems, airports, roads, government buildings, internet, utilities, rural access to internet and medical serves, libraries, schools, public hospitals, emergency response, train workers for jobs, and the things that will make us better able to compete with other counties who have already done what we need to do like those in Europe, Asia and South America.
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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

I see that I missed another series of worthless teevee talk shows. Thank you Jason!



My political action plan is to vote for the person(s) that offers and/or supports the best jobs producing program so that we can get America back to work. JOBS, is the number one issue for as far as I am concerned. I'm looking for stimulus II or better yet a WPA/CETA jobs program. That gets my vote.
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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

Well, hello fellow avoiders of Sunday Talk teevee. I see nothing much on the shows was going on. Same old blather!An­yway, a shout out to Jason for doing the hardest thing...wa­tching that stuff and reporting it to us. Better YOU than me!



Anyway, here's hoping probably in vain we get sensible folks to realize that most of the workers in this country are scared, tired and very angry making for a pretty volatile mix for an electorate­.



To all who have given the ultimate sacrifice for this country we remember you and honor your service in humble gratitude.
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Large Crowds Protest Rape Charge Acquittal Of NYPD Cops (ORIGINAL VIDEO)

It feels as if we are being thrown back to the 1970's in regard to rape and abortion. Where are we getting these backwards ideas? Rape is not about sex it is about power and control. Abortion is the choice of a woman to control her body. What happened to these ideas why are they being shunted aside by mostly men and some women that in turn make women second class citizens.
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LeBron James Flops, Shows Off Acting Skills In Game 5 Against Bulls (VIDEO)

Alrighty now Huffpost haters. Let go of that haterade and enjoy the magic of...King James! Miami has got it going on and will have it for years...so­mething like Chicago used to when MJ ruled the air.
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Vermont Single-Payer Health Care Law Signed By Governor

I hope that Massachuse­tts has the guts to follow Vermont. Good for you Vermont! Medicare for ALL.
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Jose Guerena Killed: Arizona Cops Shoot Former Marine In Botched Pot Raid

Horrible! Have the police gone mad? The young family is now without a father even if he were guilty of something deserved to be arrested rather than killed in his home in a hail of bullets. Where is the profession­alism on the part of police to remove the innocents from the area? In fact, where in the world did they get their informatio­n as to who were inside the home before they shot the place up?



In 2005, New Orleans police killed innocent people during hurricane Katrina. The police stonewalle­d and said that the killings were justified. In 2010, five years later those police after a FEDERAL investigat­ion were brought to trial and some were convicted. Is this Arizona family going to have to live with aspersions cast against their husband and father until the Feds investigat­e years later? That they have a reporter actually doing his job may help them most.
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Rob Woodall Won't Give Up Government Health Care 'Because It's Free' (VIDEO)

Callous talk from the folks who are all about jobs. What they fail to say is that they are all about THEIR jobs. The reason Republican­s say they want to FIX Medicare is because of its impact on the debt. If we all had Medicare then the cost would be shared and we could focus on creating jobs for people who too will then pay taxes to help support Medicare for all.



The weak kneed Democrats need to take note that caving on Medicare and Social Security is at their peril.
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Chris Christie Rebuked By New Jersey Supreme Court Over Budget For Schools

It's like seeing a wreck, I know that I should just look away but, dang it where are these folks coming from? See the CONSTITUTI­ON at the part where it says: "Promote the GENERAL welfare...­"



Mass education works. Public education does a good job with mass education. What we want and need in this country for our economic and democratic benefit is an citizenry that educated at the highest level in order to compete and produce goods and services that adapts to the expanding marketplac­e.



Under your concept I take it poor homeowners and renters home school? Aynn Rand nonsense.
About Budget Cuts
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Over 50 And Out Of Work: 'My Wife Doesn't Love Me Anymore; My Kids Don't Love Me' (VIDEO)

Republican­s and Democrats where in the hell are the JOBS?
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Santorum: McCain Doesn't Understand Interrogation

And this dimwitted guy wants to be President of the United States? We have tried dumb before and we are still struggling to overcome that legacy. That Republican herd is mighty thin it won't stand much culling.
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The Obituaries for Data-Driven 'Reform' Are Being Written

All I can say to this article is: Amen!
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James Tate Banned From Shelton High School Prom For Romantic Gesture (VIDEO)

This is simply stupid. It is an over reaction from the administra­tion. Sad, this school seems more like jail than a place to learn and yes, even make mistakes.
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Obama Gets Osama: Goodbye Vietnam

Promise kept! Thank you President Obama. You said that you would get him when he was found and get him you did. You said that you would cross into Pakistan if that was where he was and that is exactly where he was. Big Props to the getting the job done NAVY SEALS!



I lost friends in the WTC and I remember the morning of September 11 as clear as if it were yesterday. Finding and removing the man who was behind that cowardly slaughter is a fitting end to our leaving Iraq and I hope Afghanista­n soon. It was a very good thing do by a coordinate­d team congratula­tions.
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Rick Snyder Recall Election Effort Clears First Hurdle In Michigan

Rise up Michigan! Take your state back from the greedy corporatis­ts and return it to the people. Taxation with no representa­tion is why we have a country now. The Declaratio­n of Independen­ce is just as valid now as it was when the Colonists threw off the British. Rise up Michigan!
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...And in Other News

I join you in your dismay Dan Rather. The American public deserves much better from its fourth estate than the nonsense we are getting now.
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Donald Trump Should Receive The Same Scrutiny He Sought For Barack Obama

To my brother Baratunde Thurston I join you in the disgust and shame of this day's event. It is a shame and decent people ought to point it out and name it for exactly what it is...racis­m. No President should be subjected to merciless, relentless call for something that has already been given. The hoards who challenge him not on policy but because they simply cannot accept that a black man is President. He has already been tested with the long drawn out election process. Surely the Press that loves a lurid tale especially one that would be embarrassi­ng would have during that time sniffed out a fake US citizen. While I do not hold the Press in any esteem I would think even THEY would be competent to have exposed this to the world. Now, we have a sitting President challenged as to whether he an American citizen who is black is really a citizen. How sick and shameful is this? My heart is broken but I am also ENRAGED!
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Reid: The Senate Will Vote On Paul Ryan's Budget

Make the Senate stand up on record with what they say they want to do. Then voters can easily vote against their Senator who voted to end Medicare as we know it. I want to see how BRAVE they are.
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