Register now for free, or sign in with any of these services:
Democracy in action, as painful as it is for the proponents who now stand forlorn in their hopes for a new library.
For those who consider voting an inconvenience...shame, shame shame on you. Your voice could have made the difference.
There is no doubt that women in politics today must deal with an unfair credibility gap when compared to men. Looking out across this country, with it's voracious appetite for conservative "values" - which necessarily means a long-standing and traditional view of women as an inferior caste - women in all facets of society face an uphill battle for respect. Palin and other conservative voices, whether female or male, elicit derision for their poorly-thought-out ideas and simplistic grasp of our very complex world. These people are lazy thinkers, lazy word-smiths and lazy politicians, promoting easy answers to tough questions. It's not their sex that is their albatross: it's their empty-headed rhetoric...
The teachers unions always handle these kinds of pernicious attacks on members. This is 80% of what teachers unions do. Chances are the SEA is already involved. And 9 out of 10 times the unions successfully defend their members from arbitrary and capricious charges brought by administrators for frequently petty reasons. This teacher's chances of surviving professionally this absurd event are probably quite good. Without the Union, she'd be out the door and out of a job immediately.
Being employed for a time in the non-unionized side of the plastics industry, I observed worker safety promoted as a pure after-thought. Convincing my co-workers to take precautions was surprisingly difficult, their attitude being "if this job don't get me, something else will", very fatalistic.
The American Insurance Industry carrying on a fine old tradition: law suits are cheaper than paying out claims. Utica's greed boggles the mind.
A thankless job in a thankless society. As public employees, teachers walk around with a bull's eye on their backs. Easy to criticize, easy to punish, easy to make an example of. Let the witch hunt commence.
Exactly what Krugman and other economists have argued for years: increased public spending during economic slow downs pumps jobs into a shrinking economy and primes the engine of recovery. 5,350 construction jobs may mean nothing to the slash and burn anti-government right, but it means a great deal to the thousands of families and communities where those employed people live and do business.
Since when did a little thing like the law ever stop American business from getting what it wants wherever it wants? With market dominance already attained in Mexico, allegedly via massive bribes, Wal-Mart's public statements are essentially meaningless. Wealth before wisdom, profits before people. Keep on shopping in the free world...
Another attempt to address revenue problems goes predictably down in flames.
It's pretty disappointing to see how this country has developed since Reagan. Income inequality has devolved to roughly the equivalent of the 1920's and promises to go much further. The Democratic party is pseudo-Republican in all but name and pretty thoroughly incompetent. The Republican Party has become pseudo-fascist and vicious. Slander, bombast and disinformation dominate the political debate. The non-wealthy are going to have a rough time of it from now on, and the next generation is very probably seriously screwed. A new Gilded Age is upon us, and if you ain't rich, it ain't going to be pretty.
Higher Education routinely oversells its value to prospective students. Caveat Emptor. Sounds like David Anziska is making his own opportunities with all these law suits: his law degree is indeed paying off...
You guys think that Medicare "fraud" and food stamps are the black hole depriving this country of its resources? Where do you guys lap up this hateful gravy? Try corporate tax fraud, off-shore tax evasion and corporate welfare. This "every man for himself" posturing by social conservatives is a fantasy. You guys are the first in line with your hand out to the government when it suits you: bailouts, tax breaks and loop holes. This is the secret sauce of conservative success in this country. You view the poor and vulnerable as those who are stealing bread from your greedy mouths - until its your turn to ask for help - which you never hesitate to do.
There's no point in trying to take anything from the Oil Companies. It's simply un-American to insist that highly-profitable industries pay their fair share of taxes. It's much more appealing to go after the Middle class and especially the Working class and working poor. Reaganomics wasn't a failed model, it simply needed enough time to work its magic on our economy, say 100-150 years...back to the 19th century.
Don't you worry your little heads about government getting too big or out of control; Wall Street has the U.S. government by the throat and won't let it do anything Wall Street doesn't like...
Published articles about salaries pander to the increasingly vulgar American fetish for peeking into the bank accounts of others as a way to fuel the flames of resentment against a group or justify hostility against the government. Either way, in this current toxic public climate, the main purpose of an article like this is to provoke.
Mindless, disingenuous, fatuous rhetoric. The Republicans offer no solutions, no concrete ideas, no rational dialogue. They accuse, insinuate and invent. And the Democrats bend over and take it. God Bless the Oil Companies.
I love it! Just her presence in the race make the conservatives crazy with rage. You go girl!