Working Life

Expert economist and seasoned diplomat* Jon Voight isn’t the only one on to the "fellow who’s bringing us to chaos and socialism." All you have to do is look at Obama’s trip to the Middle East to see his darker, more Muslimer, elitister, and inexperienceder side. Obama is such an elitist, he makes his staff […]

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   I always thought pay cap rules coming from Washington were more show than real. Earlier this year, I pointed out the weaknesses in the initial CEO pay cap rules. And, in fact, the new twist on this will cover a relatively few in the high-flying world of obscene CEO pay: The Obama administration’s sweeping […]

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   After many months of internal debate, members of the Screen Actors Guild said "yes" to a new contract with the big studios: Members of the Screen Actors Guild have voted overwhelmingly to approve a new contract with the major Hollywood studios, ending a nearly year-long standoff. The delay resulted in the union’s missing out […]

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   Yesterday, I highlighted the harsh wages cuts being demanded by The Boston Globe–and, yesterday, the workers voted narrowly to reject the cuts, after which management, in typical bully behavior, said it would now unilaterally impose the 23 percent cut. Before I move on to a bigger point–I wonder if Arthur Schulzberger, the publishers and […]

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   This will be a bit of a tough week to blog (in theory, I’m on vacation…ha!!!) but you will get what I can sneak in here. Today, my heart goes out to the journalists at The Boston Globe: Months of labor acrimony at The Boston Globe will come to a head on Monday, when […]

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   The debate I took part in yesterday–well, it’s hard to call it a debate when your opponent is not operating with a full deck of cards…meaning facts–on CNBC really illustrates, in the most starkest terms, the two visions of America. One vision sees unionized jobs, like those that many people have had in the […]

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   For at least three years, I’ve been arguing that one of the problems we have, in the larger economic scheme, is that the value of the dollar is too high. Yup–a high dollar basically helps American tourists traveling abroad (and I am sympathetic to that) and Wal-Mart (because a high dollar means, basically, that […]

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   As I noted yesterday in connection with the bankruptcy of General Motors, I am in favor of spending money on trying to save peoples’ jobs–we are talking about the survival of communities and the lives of thousands of people. But, having now spent the morning reading various media reports about the GM bankruptcy, it’s […]

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   I suppose some of us may be on the wrong side of this or perhaps weird…or maybe un-American…because we think that, hey, it isn’t a bad thing to spend taxpayer money on saving jobs and communities. If you gave me the choice, I’d be pretty damn proud to know that my money is going […]

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  Meticulously anal pundits, like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh, intellectual heavy weights Tom Tancredo, and ex-convict/current actor/ radio personality G. Gordon Liddy have exposed Judge Sotomayor for what she really is: a KKK-supporting, racist, menstruator/pre-menstruator who hates white people and speaks to aliens. Sotomayors’ own beliefs confirm she is a Racist, Sexist, Elitist, Class-Warfare-Inciting […]

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