GA Congressional District 10's Embarrassment

"Tuesday brought the news that yes indeed, Georgia Republican House candidate, tea partier and general crazy person Jody Hice did indeed win his primary and will be headed to the general election and, most probably, into Congress. Ladies and gentlememz, presenting the next Michele Bachmann...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/23/1316080/-Meet-Republican-Jody-Hice-the-likely-new-craziest-member-of-Congress

America's prisons are broken, and puppets are necessary to explain it

America's prisons are broken. Just ask John Oliver and several puppets.
America's prisons are broken

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A Solution In the Middle East

"...there’s enough death on both sides to fill a battlefield with dead children and dead husbands and dead wives and dead mothers and dead fathers and dead bystanders of every stripe...."

http://www.stonekettle.com/2014/07/an-eye-for-eye-in-country-of-blind.html

Supply-Side Zombies

"...tax cuts don’t have magical powers, but we already knew that. The real lesson from Kansas is the enduring power of bad ideas, as long as those ideas serve the interests of the right people...."

Supply-Side Zombies

Republicans: Never Wrong About Anything

"They say that if you live long enough, you’ll see everything. But I’m beginning to doubt I’ll live long enough to hear a Republican say they’ve ever been wrong about anything. Remember that disastrous war in Iraq, the one that put so many young men and women in VA hospitals, the one that was never funded, that ballooned our national debt, all while doing nothing at all good for our nation?
 
That was the war where we were going to be “greeted as liberators,” the one the neo-cons promised “would be a cakewalk.” That was the war we were lied into fighting..."


http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jaime-oneill/56522/republicans-never-wrong-about-anything

Wal-Mart Thanksgiving 2013

"...Yesterday, it was revealed that employees at a Cleveland-area Wal-Mart are holding a holiday food drive for other Wal-Mart employees.

This situation says everything about what's wrong with the U.S. economy right now.

Wal-Mart is one of the richest companies in the world.

Wal-Mart has a market value of $260 billion and made $17 billion in profit last year.

But Wal-Mart does not pay its employees enough to buy food for the holidays..."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmarts-employee-food-drive-reveals-120012647.html

"...A Walmart in northeast Ohio is holding a holiday canned food drive — for its own underpaid employees. “Please Donate Food Items Here, so Associates in Need Can Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner,” a sign reads in the employee lounge of a Canton-area Walmart.

Kory Lundberg, a Walmart spokesman, says the drive is a positive thing. “This is part of the company’s culture to rally around associates and take care of them when they face extreme hardships,” he said. Indeed, Lundberg is correct that it’s commendable to make an effort to help out those who are in need, especially during the holidays.

But the need for a food drive illustrates how difficult it is for Walmart workers to get by on its notoriously low pay. The company has long been plagued by charges that it doesn’t pay its employees a real living wage. ..."

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/18/2960371/walmart-food-drive/

""Please Donate Food Items Here, so Associates in Need Can Enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner," read signs affixed to the tablecloths.

The food drive tables are tucked away in an employees-only area. They are another element in the backdrop of the public debate about salaries for cashiers, stock clerks and other low-wage positions at Walmart, as workers in Cincinnati and Dayton are scheduled to go on strike Monday...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/18/1256461/-Ohio-Walmart-asks-its-workers-to-donate-Thanksgiving-food-for-their-coworkers

Labor Day, Then and Now

from http://www.stonekettle.com/2013/09/labor-day-then-and-now.html

"...Things like Social Security, Medicare, Workman’s Compensation Insurance, The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance, child labor laws, federal minimum wage, occupational health and safety standards, the Environmental Protection Agency, The Centers for Disease Control, The departments of Education and Health, Labor Unions and workers’ rights, and yes, even Welfare, all of these things were created for a reason. For a good reason. For a compelling reason. 

These things were created because when you leave it up to the church and charity to fed the hungry and clothe the poor and heal the sick, a hell of a lot of people go hungry and cold and ill.  It is really just that brutally simple. 

These things were created because when you leave it up to charity and family to take care of old people, a hell of a lot of old people end up stacked like cordwood in institutions. The moldering remnants of such places are all around us.

These things were created because when you leave it up to people to save for their retirement or a rainy day or for accident and infirmity, a hell of a lot of them don’t, or can’t, or won’t.

These things were put in place because when you leave it solely up to the market to weed out poor products and fake medicine and unsafe machines, they don’t, or can’t, or emphatically won’t. 

These things were put in place because when you leave it up to industrialists and share holders to treat their workers with dignity and respect and to pay them a living wage for their hard work, you end up with indentured servitude...

These things were put in place because when you leave it up to the benevolence of industrialists to decide fair pay scales and safety and working hours, you get child labor at a pauper’s wages. When you leave it solely up to bankers and the factory owners and the CEOs, well Sir, then what happens is they end up owning it all and you get to pay them for the privilege of eating out of their garbage can.

And right up until very recently that’s exactly how it was...."