economy

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There was a time in this country, when unions provided a valuable resourse for the average worker.  Unions helped play an important role in leveling the playing field for workers at a time when their were few workplace safety laws, few restraints on employers, and incredibly exploitive working conditions that ranged from slavery, to share cropping, to [...]

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Barack Obama’s home state and the location of his campaign headquarters should easily go to the incumbant President in the November 2012 election.  Illinois is not considered a swing state by any means; it is seen as solidly blue, and has been for the past two election cycles.  However, a new poll shows that the President Barack [...]

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There is no bigger financial problem facing the American people than Medicare, and its shadow will fall on both seniors and younger taxpayers, because unlike Social Security, some of the astronomical cost of Medicare comes directly out of annual federal revenues.  Medicare’s long term financial deficit is around $85 trillion dollars.  Everyone agrees that the [...]

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Mitt Romney has made the most important decision in his campaign so far by selecting Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan for his running mate.  The questions voters need to be asking themselves are who is this guy and what does he bring to the table.  If you get you news from corporate mainstream media, he doesn’t bring anything for [...]

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A mind numbing collection of 70 facts about the U.S. economy appeared on the blog the economic collapse and is probably not going to hit the mainstream since corperate media is just the propaganda branch of the Democratic party.  Barack Obama needs Americans to be complacent and to blindly believe what they see and hear on television and read in the [...]

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The Democratic party has been unrelenting attacking Mitt Romney’s record with the private equity firm Bain Capital aiming to keep the Republican candidate on the defensive and more importantly to shift the focus from Barack Obama’s economic record.  The President is attacking Romney and his Republican allies for pursuing what he brands as outdated and a policy of discredited economic [...]

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The United States Postal Service endured its first-ever default, failing to submit a required $5.5 billion payment for future retirees’ health benefits.  This unprecedented lapse prompts new questions about the fate of the Postal Service as its financial situation spirals ever out of control, and adds to the list of problems Congress has been so far unable [...]

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I am sure everyone has come across the latest flash mob viral video traversing the web.  It is pretty frightening, and seems to be a growing trend of organized looting and random acts of violence.  In this case, a  group of about 20 teenage hooligans walked into a Wicker Park store and helped themselves to more than [...]

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Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument, built by a culture that left no written records, located in the English county of Wiltshire.  Many aspects of Stonehenge remain subject to debate and the structure remains one of the mystery’s of the ancient world.  What would future archeologists think if they unearthed the giant baby head that was on display [...]

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In case you missed the posts in your inbox, I have been sick as a dog over the past week.  To make matters worse, I WAS ON VACATION!   To bad my workplace is not in Sweden where if a worker becomes sick while on leave, the days of the illness do not count against vacation time.  Some [...]