Comments on: Labor Day http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:50:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: lafrance http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32913 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:00:05 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32913 Another example of Bush's determination to dismantle all Government Programs. To wipe out the New Deal and Great Society and turn the clock back to 1890s. This is a real and active plan by the gop. The likes of Norquist and Rove at the helm. Another example of Bush’s determination to dismantle all Government Programs. To wipe out the New Deal and Great Society and turn the clock back to 1890s.
This is a real and active plan by the gop. The likes of Norquist and Rove at the helm.

]]> by: erinyes http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32901 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:14:22 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32901 When I worked the harbors of the west coast, I heard the "old timers" speak of "Bloody Thursday" and the effect on the unions (longshore, Seamans,Piledrivers,etc) Here's an interesting read for Labor day: http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_west_coast_longshore_strike Commie plot? It made the west coast "Longies" and harborworkers among the best paid in the world. Bush went up against them several years ago and got a bloody nose. (You crack me up Marvel!) When I worked the harbors of the west coast, I heard the “old timers” speak of “Bloody Thursday” and the effect on the unions
(longshore, Seamans,Piledrivers,etc)
Here’s an interesting read for Labor day:
http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_west_coast_longshore_strike
Commie plot? It made the west coast “Longies” and harborworkers among the best paid in the world. Bush went up against them several years ago and got a bloody nose.

(You crack me up Marvel!)

]]> by: Lynne http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32896 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:32:38 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32896 This is OT; I hope you'll forgive me. A few weeks ago, I recall Bush saying America was addicted to oil. Now it seems, he actually said we are addicted to FOREIGN oil. (Like we can tell the difference :)). Oh, oh... This is OT; I hope you’ll forgive me. A few weeks ago, I recall Bush saying America was addicted to oil. Now it seems, he actually said we are addicted to FOREIGN oil. (Like we can tell the difference :) ). Oh, oh…

]]> by: ds http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32895 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:18:45 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32895 Krugman "..[they] fear such an arrangement would be a Trojan horse, setting up an even larger national health-care program and taking more business from the private sector." But that's exactly it. What is the point of providing health care if it isn't a profitable venture for the private sector? Krugman “..[they] fear such an arrangement would be a Trojan horse, setting up an even larger national health-care program and taking more business from the private sector.”

But that’s exactly it. What is the point of providing health care if it isn’t a profitable venture for the private sector?

]]> by: D.R. Marvel http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32889 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:15:11 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32889 "If the Chamber of Commerce had realised..." Yeah...And as my Ol' Daddy used to say: "If we could just get that damn cow to shit butter, we could throw away the churn"... “If the Chamber of Commerce had realised…”

Yeah…And as my Ol’ Daddy used to say:

“If we could just get that damn cow to shit butter, we could throw away the churn”…

]]> by: Madison Guy http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32884 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:44:33 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32884 Judging from what you see in the media, you'd think all of America was carefree and comfortably middle class. Yeah, right. My 1981 photo illustrating the two Americas seems more relevant than ever, in a country more economically divided than it was even during the Reagan recession. <a href="http://letterfromhere.blogspot.com/2006/09/labor-day-thinking-about-two-americas.html" rel="nofollow">Labor Day: Thinking about the two Americas.</a> The media sure aren’t helping. Judging from what you see in the media, you’d think all of America was carefree and comfortably middle class. Yeah, right. My 1981 photo illustrating the two Americas seems more relevant than ever, in a country more economically divided than it was even during the Reagan recession. Labor Day: Thinking about the two Americas. The media sure aren’t helping.

]]> by: oph http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32883 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:10:11 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/09/04/labor-day/#comment-32883 I pay 700 monthly for low option hmo coverage for myself and my 2 children. I am not impressed at all with the coverage. The copays are 25 and 40 every time and if there is an emergency you get to haggle with the bureaucracy for 7 months and 60 phone calls over the simplest and most straight forward claim because they simply do not want to pay what they owe you. I listened to Doctors complaining about their time and low pay on NPR the other day and part of the problem is the HMO's have turned the primary care dr.s into door men. When you need emergency care or specialist care and it is obviously so, you have to go thru a primary care dr who has no time and is impossible to get in to see to get authorization to do what you needed to do anyway. It wastes his time and yours and your money. And I have used it very little as I am very healthy. God only knows how angry I would be if I had a serious health problem. My 86 yr old mother has medicare and a supplemental , $9 copays for rx and gets much better care than I do. It costs her very little( under 100 mo) for the whole package. Now I'm glad she has it, but the working people are screwed in this country and the young people are really screwed. Unless they are in college you can't keep covering them. What are they to do? Employers don't want to be bothered anymore. If they hadnt so short sighted and pig headed in the past and if the chamber of commerce had realized 25 yr ago that it was in their interest and not a commie plot to have national healthcare we wouldn't be in this mess.. I pay 700 monthly for low option hmo coverage for myself and my 2 children. I am not impressed at all with the coverage. The copays are 25 and 40 every time and if there is an emergency you get to haggle with the bureaucracy for 7 months and 60 phone calls over the simplest and most straight forward claim because they simply do not want to pay what they owe you. I listened to Doctors complaining about their time and low pay on NPR the other day and part of the problem is the HMO’s have turned the primary care dr.s into door men. When you need emergency care or specialist care and it is obviously so, you have to go thru a primary care dr who has no time and is impossible to get in to see to get authorization to do what you needed to do anyway. It wastes his time and yours and your money. And I have used it very little as I am very healthy. God only knows how angry I would be if I had a serious health problem. My 86 yr old mother has medicare and a supplemental , $9 copays for rx and gets much better care than I do. It costs her very little( under 100 mo) for the whole package. Now I’m glad she has it, but the working people are screwed in this country and the young people are really screwed. Unless they are in college you can’t keep covering them. What are they to do? Employers don’t want to be bothered anymore. If they hadnt so short sighted and pig headed in the past and if the chamber of commerce had realized 25 yr ago that it was in their interest and not a commie plot to have national healthcare we wouldn’t be in this mess..

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