Two Libyan officers request asylum after refusing to bomb protestors. Without the military and police backing him, Gaddafi will be joining Mubarak. The last six days of the Libyan protests. “Civil War” is being used more and more to describe this. Labor faces a moment of truth in Wisconsin So far Walker isn’t flinching....
Here’s a sure-fire way for the Union protestors in Wisconsin to lose; implement these demands; • No concessions • For a $15 national minimum wage or $5 an hour wage increase whichever is greater • For a massive program of infrastructure spending to create jobs • A 30- hour workweek with no cut in...
This is why the protests in Wisconsin are significant: To an astonishing extent, the unions are the government in many locales. They elect officials and then sit down to bargain with them over their salaries and benefits. Since they are essentially bargaining with themselves, they generally make out quite nicely. It’s a corrupt and...
While UK is working to end their welfare state… We have a system where people too often are rewarded for doing the wrong thing, and those who strive to do the best by their families are penalised. It is a system so out of control that it houses unemployed people in some of the...
This article on the recent purchase of the New York Stock Exchange is depressing.