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Can the Middle Class be Saved
Real wages for the American worker started on a steady decline with Reaganomics (no “trickle down” here folks), a short uptick last years of Clinton’s administration, then a precipitous decline to the present.
Interesting oservation in Newsweek
http://politicalticker.blogs.c…
You’re a dismal, tedious hack.
You love to hate rasmussen and you know it’s the source. http://www.rasmussenreports.com
still has a long, long way to go.
I always thought Libertad was just a republican talking point machine, but he may actually just be a machine, throwing up words in a near-logical order when some keywords register on the automated search.
still has a long, long way to go.
Read more: http://moneywatch.bnet.com/sav…
I wonder why we’re not addressing it…
We only call out Republicans for doing this.
It’s hype driven and meant only to inflame social tensions.
We need federal and state tax reform.
Depressing read. Love the offshore havens they’ve all set up to avoid paying taxes. I need to talk to my accountant and get moving on that, I guess.
http://wizbangblog.com/2011/09…
Someday a producer will make a movie out of this …. Its beyond unbelievable.
I can really see how you leftist liberal backers of the new energy economy, Obama stimulus failures, more spending and tax hikes can have no response to this story.
No wonder. The foodstamp business is seeing such growth.
Last here is a ditty of history ….
source NBC Nightly News
Clearly the failure of a particular solar company shows, conclusively, that the new energy economy is a fiction! Just like the demise of Studebaker proved once and for all that there is was no future for the horseless carriage.
Shit the Chinese proved that when they competed with Solyndra and took their business.
Now go back and read the four (4) key principles for running a government in America.
The problem for Obama here is that he made upto $787 billion in risky politicaly motivated handouts, then tried to call it a stimulus and jobs plan.
Rolling the dice with the national treasury, Obama style.
buy it today
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is taking an Arkansas based trucking company to court over the removal of a self admitted alcohol abuser from a driving position.
Link here
Apparently since substance abuse is now considered a disability, employers cannot prevent abusers from operating company vehicles, including 18 wheelers! Of course the trucking company will still be liable for any damages/injuries/and deaths caused by such employees. Is this really what the ADA was meant for?
If you actually, you know, READ the article, you will see that the trucking company can suspend the driver while he pursues a treatment program. However, the trucking company said it wouldn’t return him to a driving position even if he successfully completes the treatment program.
The EEOC has always said that an active drunk or drug abuser can be fired. If a current employee enters into treatment and successfully completes the treatment, then firing the employee for being a (former) drunk or junkie violates the ADA.
At least as a long haul trucker. He would have no regular schedule in order to attend treatments/meetings. There would be no way moniter his activities to ensure he stayed on the wagon. A major trucking firm like Old Dominion does not have “routes”, they have “loads”. For example, you carry a load from Denver to Dallas, where there is a load waiting to go to Miami, and then you have to run to Nashville to pick up a load going to Boston. Next week will have a completely different set of destinations determined by who has what where, going in which direction. That makes it very hard to keep an eye on the driver to ensure his sobriety.
And then there is the matter of insurance. Most insurance providers are very reluctant to give coverage to substance abusers for commercial vehicles. It’s entirely possible that Old Dominions provider won’t cover this guy. And if they will you can bet it’s with a hefty increase to the premiums.
The bottom line is, that this man is at risk of falling back into bad drinking habits, and if driving long haul, can do so when well beyond the eyes of those who would be held responsible for his actions should they lead to tragedy. Old Dominion Freight Line is doing the responsible thing by not allowing this person to drive a big rig, the EEOC could care less about the safety of people on the road.
So yes one can read the article, or one can read the article while having a clue about the industry involved.
If the trucking company can’t get insurance on him, then they have a legitimate non-discriminatory business reason for their decision not to return him to the road. If he doesn’t complete a treatment program or if he relapses, the trucking company can fire him. The trucking company can require him to submit to UAs.
I know a little bit about the industry. I know, for example, that there are strict requirements about how long a trucker has to refrain from drinking before he can get on the road. I know that there are rules allowing the employer to conduct tests randomly, or when there is reasonable suspicion that the employee is in violation of the restrictions, or for 5 years after a driver who has had an alcohol violation returns to work. If the driver tests positive and that violates the employer’s rules, the company can fire the employee.
If the trucking company says the trucker can’t continue employment because he isn’t safe, based solely upon his history of alcoholism, then the company has to prove that continuing the trucker’s employment would pose a direct threat (a significant risk of substantial harm) to the health or safety of the trucker or others, and that risk cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation.
In this case, the trucking company didn’t even try to prove that the trucker posed a direct threat. If a trucker disclosed that he abused alcohol, then the company said it would never allow him to drive a truck again. Period. The trucking company didn’t provide any evidence that this trucker or the others it had fired under the same circumstances posed any direct threat. I’m not saying they didn’t, and I’m not saying they did; I’m saying that the trucking company didn’t produce any evidence that they did. No evidence that they had ever driven after drinking, no evidence that they wouldn’t respond to treatment, no evidence that the performance of their duties had ever or would ever interfere with their performance of their duties. And that violates the ADA.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
Owens was once the flavor of the month, too.
And look what’s happened to him!
Don’t some of you Democrats sit back and say shoot, where’d we be if we’d not traded Hillary?
I can’t think of anything those two have in common that would lead you to that association.
If two people are black, they must both be coke heads? Is that it?
I have a hard time accepting that you and I both have to breathe the same air.
Yes your point is to racebait.
Ps Obama is white. Just ask any of those black friends you count each night. White mama = he ain’t real black.
Again back to my question … don’t you ever just sit back and think, holyshit, maybe we shouldnt have abandoned Hillary?
The way you have chosen to frame it negates any obligation on anyone’s part to dignify the questioner by deigning to answer.
not even slightly ambiguous, are you? You don’t want to leave a shadow of a doubt. You’re just a good old fashioned racist and proud of it. Well OK then. It’s no surprise but it’s obliging of you to put it out there so clearly. Thanks.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo…
on CNN. He noted that the gun didn’t kill those people, Jared Loughner did. He said that it could have happened with ‘any weapon.’ A sharpened toothbrush perhaps? A single shot .22?
Seriously. What. The. Fuck.
I’m extremely pro-gun, and will be buying one as soon as I get someone to teach me how to safely use it. The gun isn’t the issue. The fact that it’s a slap in the face to grieving families IN THEIR COUNTY is.
If his wife or daughter died in a motorcycle wreck, would he want anything do do with a motorcycle raffle? If a member of his party fell off a horse and broke their neck, would it be appropriate for the opposing party to auction off “Horseback riding lessons, take your favorite Republican?” Jesus, Mary, and Joseph on a pogo stick, this is fucking ridiculous.
Just thought some of you might enjoy a respite from the machinations of politicians to consider the beguiling machinations of the botanical world. h/t EnvironmentalGraffiti
![](https://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sites/default/files/images/450px-Coryanthes_alborosea_Orchi_04.jpg)
Those of you who question the relevance of this post, I would argue that it is of equal relevance (but far superior intellectually and aesthetically) to the Saturday morning videos that appear on this site.
I always thought that the orchids were intended to show the psychological effects of Nero Wolfe’s abstinence in a manner delicate enough for the era.
but I am a big fan of Caroli Linnæi.
Here’s a passage translated from his Praeludia sponsaliorum plantarum:
If you were a young man in the 1730’s, wouldn’t a racy passage like this inspire some interest in botanical studies for a career (or at least avocation)?
🙂
Oh sorry, wrong Congress…
But coins? Yes!
And this…lalalala I can’t hear you!
But at least one bill sets out to address a real issue:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/w…