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Robert Reich: Walmart,
McDonalds and Every Hospital
in America Should Unionize
NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/29/2013 10:46:06 AM
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| Former Clinton labor secretary turned MSNBC contributor Robert Reich has a truly nutty solution for America´s current economic woes. Writing at the perilously liberal Huffington Post Tuesday, Reich called for some of the top employers in the nation to unionize. "Almost a quarter of all jobs in America now pay wages below the poverty line for a family of four," wrote Reich. "The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates 7 out of 10 growth occupations over the next decade will be low-wage -- like serving customers at big-box retailers and fast-food chains." "Wealthy Americans," he continued,
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Comments:
What a fabulous idea! s/o It´s a perfect prescription to hasten the complete economic collapse in our country. I´ve run out of negative superlatives to describe traitors like him. Would he have a place in Hillary´s administration?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
rabbit, 1/29/2013 10:48:05 AM (No. 9146251)
Single twentysomethings do not need to support a family of four. Single twentysomethings need starter jobs so they can get experience and get on their feet. They can´t do that even in the current economy. They sure don´t need unions moving the wages higher and creating fewer jobs in the process.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
metalman2, 1/29/2013 10:52:07 AM (No. 9146258)
Unionization is what Obamacare is really about, it´s not about medicine. Can you imagine the money that will head to the democrat party after the healthcare industry is entirely unionized?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
horacer, 1/29/2013 10:56:04 AM (No. 9146269)
I go into WalMart once or twice a week. I always see the same people. Oh it must be a horrible place. Reich has never been in the real world. Low skill workers need the WalMarts and McDonalds of the world to develop the habits and traits that make them valuable employees worth more than minimum wage. They also offer great opportunity to advance.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
pdmccas, 1/29/2013 11:09:51 AM (No. 9146300)
Small man complex. Wants to tell everyone else what to do. He is so short he coul stand flat footed and milk a chihuaua
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 1/29/2013 12:08:47 PM (No. 9146442)
Man, just push through that "living wage" mumbo jumbo. Let´s say $37.50 an hours. That will work. Of course a burger and fries will now cost $23.75 but that´s the price we will just have to pay. dumbass.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/29/2013 12:20:26 PM (No. 9146479)
They are already part of the "Right to Work´ Union!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/29/2013 12:53:35 PM (No. 9146561)
America should put Robert Reich in jail or deport him to Cuba.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bluehouse, 1/29/2013 12:58:50 PM (No. 9146574)
Gas stations used to have employees that filled your tank, cleaned your windows, and checked your tire and fluid levels. The more something costs, the less we need of it. Look at Detroit.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/29/2013 1:08:27 PM (No. 9146592)
Wait -- so, every American with a job is the head of a household of four?
If that´s so, I demand that the deposit on soda cans be $100 each. Otherwise, soda-can scavengers won´t be able to send their kids to college.
"Union" is simply convenient shorthand for "laundering other people´s money into campaign contributions for Democrats."
Oh, and remember, when it comes to Reich, "speak up" can mean two things.
#8: Yep, apparently "elasticity of demand" is beyond Shorty´s reach. [Yeah, I meant to say it that way....]
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/29/2013 3:43:55 PM (No. 9146939)
Does this mean we will be forever haunted by Zippy´s associates and former czars ?
BTW How about seniors on SS, will they get a real union instead of turncoat AARP ?
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The most glaring fact about our president is that he is an empty suit. The people around him are also empty suits. They believe in nothing, really, but unearned luxury, unmerited adulation, and unaccountable power. Those whom we have come to call "leftists" are in fact nothing but nihilists, and we flatter them when we presume that they value anything beyond their vanities, their avarice, and their selfishness. When tragedy strikes, like in the Boston bombing, these empty suits can look and
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In a statement marking Earth Day, Secretary of State John Kerry pledges to deal "responsibly with the clear and present danger of climate change." The former presidential candidate also notes the "fragile planet we share with the rest of humanity and which we must protect for future generations.""The United States joins countries around the world today in commemorating Earth Day. Ever since I was involved in the first Earth Day in Massachusetts, way back in 1970, this has always been a day to reflect on our environmental challenges and our responsibility to safeguard our God-given natural resources
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REP. KEITH ELLISON (D-MINN.): Well, you know, it is too early for me to second-guess the FBI. I think we need to know more about what they knew. The fact of the matter is that it is good that they contacted him. That wasn´t enough to deter him, obviously. But the fact is that before I’m going to say the FBI should have done something different, what I, I’m not prepared to say that yet. There is just not enough information. What I will say is this: We don´t know what their motivation was yet.
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The Pressure to Be the TV News
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New York Times, by David Carr
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/22/2013 11:19:02 AM
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Like a lot of Americans, when I woke up on Friday morning and found out there was a manhunt in the Boston area for the remaining suspect in Monday’s bombing at the marathon, I turned on CNN. It’s a common impulse, although less common than it used to be. The news audience has been chopped up into ideological camps, and CNN’s middle way has been clobbered in the ratings. The legacy networks’ news divisions can still flex powerful muscles on big stories, and Twitter and other real-time social media sites (Snip) But the biggest damage to CNN has been self-inflicted
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Franken: The Senate needs to
talk more about climate change
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Ramsey Cox
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/23/2013 10:26:58 AM
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Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) suggested on Earth Day that the Senate should spend more time talking about climate change issues. “I’m here to suggest we talk more about climate change so that we can agree on taking action to address it,” Franken said Monday. “The Senate cannot afford to ignore climate change, we need to talk about it.” Franken pointed out that 98 out of 100 scientist say climate change is real and needs to be dealt with. He said people outside Washington, D.C., understand this. “Many of my other colleagues I suspect don’t talk about
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I´ll Say
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National Review Online The Corner, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/23/2013 6:55:51 AM
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Apparently the latest craze in NYC is to let your babies’ freak flags fly by letting them go commando: When Jada Shapiro decided to raise her daughter from birth without diapers, for the most part, not everyone was amused. Ms. Shapiro scattered little bowls around the house to catch her daughter’s offerings, and her sister insisted that she use a big, dark marker to mark the bowls so that they could never find their way back to the kitchen. But “elimination communication,” as the diaper-free method of child-rearing is called,
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