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Supermarket Swindle

Submitted by IrnBru001 on Thu, 07/05/2007 - 17:54.


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Atheist in Congress

Submitted by IrnBru001 on Sun, 06/03/2007 - 04:41.

This is old news but I've never written about it.

A few months ago Pete Stark "came out of the closet" as an nontheist. He is a Democratic Representative from California's 13th.

From Wikipedia:

Stark is the first openly nontheistic member of Congress, as announced by the Secular Coalition for America.[1] Stark, who has represented San Francisco's East Bay since 1973, acknowledged his nontheism in response to an SCA questionnaire sent to public officials in January 2007. In a statement, Stark said he is a "Unitarian who does not believe in a supreme being. I look forward to working with the Secular Coalition to stop the promotion of narrow religious beliefs in science, marriage contracts, the military and the provision of social service."

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Deals with the devil

Submitted by IrnBru001 on Sat, 05/26/2007 - 18:42.


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Al is Running!

Submitted by IrnBru001 on Sat, 02/17/2007 - 08:00.


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Minimum Wage Clear Senate

Submitted by IrnBru001 on Mon, 02/05/2007 - 08:00.

Last Thursday a bill increasing the minimum wage passed in the senate. The two bills from the House and Senate are different, and these differences will have to be resolved. Both bills do raise the Federal Minimum Wage to $7.25/hour over 26 months, however the Senate version includes tax breaks for small businesses.

A great step in the right direction. It will be interesting to see if the House will be idealists and reject the added tax cuts. More interesting would be if Bush vetoed it, but with so much support behind the bill (only three wingnuts voted against the Senate bill), its unlikely to get vetoed.

So congrats fellow Americans we're finally getting a raise!

Old Comments:

Liberal Road said...

would be great if the minimum wage was increased. At least there would be less working poor

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Finally!

Submitted by IrnBru001 on Sun, 01/14/2007 - 08:00.

Yesterday was a great day for the American worker and the American economy, as the House passed a long overdue raise in the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour.

Bill Scher

Old Comments:

aroengbinang said...

Congratulations. Just for comparison that the minimum wages in Jakarta is now about $80 per month.

Kurt said...

Isn't it about damn time!

OTTMANN said...

You've got it totally backwards. Raising the mini-wage will do much more harm than good. Layoffs are coming, so instead of making less, they'll be making a trip to the unemployment line.

Of course dems want people to be dependent on government, so they throw out these little hikes knowing full well that it will have a negative effect on the companies and the economy, just like tax and interest rate increases do, usually leading to a recession.

Dems feel they'll be able to blame Bush for it. Fat chance. Unemployment under Bush is 4.4 percent, better than Clinton ever had.

Watch as unemployment rises to well over 9 percent in no time at all. Dems will attemt to blame Bush but every voter will know whos' really at fault.

So as usual, dems get it all backwards, then lie to cover up for their screw-ups, just like after 9/11. How many pages did Sandy Berglar steal?

Dems are dumber than crap... really!

Mike McGann said...

Evidently, the moron above forgot to read Adam Smith growing up, so let me explain why raising the minimum wage is good for the economy. There are two main reasons that the economy continues to be sluggish in many sectors: excessive wealth consolidation and excessive consumer interest rates (although health care costs are an increasing issue, too).

By raising the minimum wage (for the first time in decade) we put more money in the hands of people at the bottom of the economic chain, both those at minimum and those who will see raises to stay above minimum. Those people all spend their money.

While there might be a short-term uptick of unemployment, the long-term impact on the economy will be good.

At this point, the GOP just has to shut up about the economy: they've proven they can't manage it and they spend like drunken teenagers, cut taxes for the rich and then leave a mess for someone else to clean up.

Station Agent said...

Thank you Mike, I read Ottman and nearly choked.

Falling Through Time said...

You may have celebrated a bit early on this one. The Senate shot this out of the water today. Such a shame really. Can you image having to live off of $5.15 an hour? Just image...really think about how impossible that would be.

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"The Great Risk Shift" & Health Care for All

Submitted by IrnBru001 on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 08:00.

The Campain for America's Future recently hosted an event with Professor Jacob S. Hacker touting his new book The Great Risk Shift.

Hacker's new book, The Great Risk Shift, describes the "assault on American jobs, families, health care and retirement" by corporations eager to off-load costly responsibilities. Beyond analysis, Hacker describes new progressive policies to reverse the great risk shift and forge a new social contract for economic security and opportunity.

Here is the highlights video

Short and great to get the gist of it

For those why are really interested (and you should be) here is the full video of the event.

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What is a Progressive?

Submitted by IrnBru001 on Fri, 05/19/2006 - 07:00.


From CAF:

If you had 30 seconds (roughly 100 words) to answer the question, "What is a progressive?", what would you say? Share your answer with us, and you could win a trip for two to Washington DC, for Take Back America 2006 (June 12-14th), the year's largest gathering of progressives. GO »

Old Comments:

Federico said...

Woooow....

Very nice....

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