Showing posts with label barack obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barack obama. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Monday, November 14, 2011

OBAMACARE DESTROYING THE 40-HOUR WORK WEEK, DESTROYING JOBS, DESTROYING LIVES

Health reform is now causing job turmoil across the country in three key groups that the White House has depended on for support—local government, school workers and unions.

School districts in states like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Utah, Nebraska, and Indiana are dropping to part-time status school workers such as teacher aides, administrators, secretaries, bus drivers, gym teachers, coaches and cafeteria workers. Cities or counties in states like California, Indiana, Kansas, Texas, Michigan and Iowa are dropping to part-time status government workers such as librarians, secretaries, administrators, parks and recreation officials and public works officials.

This growing trend comes as three major unions have written to Democratic Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid warning that, because health reform is helping to push the work week to below 30 hours, it will “destroy the foundation of the 40-hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class.”

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Friday, September 16, 2011

OBAMA'S DRONES AND THE PRICE OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE

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Last year, a Muslim cleric in Yemen preached a sermon at his mosque denouncing al-Qaeda. The imam, whose name was Salem Ahmed bin Ali Jaber, commanded such respect in his town that four militants affiliated with al-Qaeda asked for an audience with him. They were joined by Jaber's cousin, a police officer. No one knows what was said during their meeting because all six men present were vaporized by a missile fired by a U.S. drone.

Two weeks ago, a relative of the slain cleric and the police officer wrote to the presidents of Yemen and the United States, calling for an end to such airstrikes. He noted that the family had not received so much as an apology from either government. ...

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Obama's Drones and Price of Collateral Damage