…are here in the Walmart, Sears, and others, supplier factory fire. It’s stunning that management was ordering the workers back to their stations as the factory was blazing. Absolutely stunning.
Category Archives: NAFTA/free trade
Pay us enough…
…so we can raise our own families….
It’s now too common that workers in stores are paid so little that they can’t even afford to shop in the store they work for…
I’ve had a friend who shopped at Walmart and when I raised concerns about how they treated their employees, she was upset because she couldn’t afford to shop anywhere else. I avoid it like the plague–only going there if no other option is available (i.e., I’m in another town or the item I want is not in what few independent stores are left).
Another person remarked about how a national chain grocery store that paid its employees a decent wage was “gouging them with high prices” when Walmart had so much lower prices…the national chain store eventually went out of business, naturally, so now they’re stuck with only Walmart to shop for groceries in their small town. Wanna take bets on how long that lasts–either they’ll raise prices with no competition or the folks in town will find yet another mega-store in a nearby town that has even lower prices so they’ll shop there, driving miles out of the way…buying more crap made out of China in sweatshops…God, this depresses me even writing it…
When is Congress going to raise the minimum wage to a living wage of $11.00 an hour? Oh, wait, we can’t do that…because that will…what are the excuses again…?
CEO Trojan Horse
…as is the way these days, the CEO’s of powerful corporate tax dodgers are twisting the meaning of words to mean something other than the public perception. Note that one of the founders was Erskine Bowles, former Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, and Senator Alan Simpson, who was supposed to be non-biased in handing a decision on Social Security/Medicare–chosen by President Obama.
What a freaking dog and pony show…
Getting money out of elections
Center for Media and Democracy has joined with others in “Money Out, Voters In” effort. I was a little more heartened after this election, because it would appear that the billionaires spent a lot of $$$ for nothing...
…more here on dark money–up 400%.
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In related news, protests against Romney and the vulture capitalists sending jobs overseas. The story was written pre-election, but still needs to be told. People just want to be able to work–to earn their own pay and take care of themselves and their families.
It’s utter cruelty to send jobs overseas and then complain when those that lost their jobs go on food stamps.
Clinton Fact Check
AP has this up on the Clinton speech.
Yeah, I for one am sick of the “we were prosperous when Clinton was president…” while forgetting that he instituted NAFTA. We, in the midwest, were feeling this before the rest of the country–there were factories closing down left and right in the town I was raised in.
The health care law only makes sense to me when it will help me with preventative care. That includes organic food and attention to diet by the medical profession instead of pushing pills as the solution for health ills.
Of course, I don’t have cable and didn’t watch it, so I can’t comment on that, but from what is being reported–he took an hour to speak? WTH?
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