Our Nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers’ wages or stretching workers’ hours.Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences which inevitably react upon the profits of business itself. All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of man power, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor. –FDR, May 1937Continue Reading… … Read More
Rep. McDermott slams GOP for using debt ceiling to push ‘social Darwinism’
At a Ways and Means Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) blasted Republicans for refusing to raising the federal debt ceiling unless Democrats agreed to budget cuts. “I have to tell you, listening to this hearing is like we are living in Alice in Wonderland,”…
Connecticut Democrat Introduces Gun Confiscation Bill To Congress H.R. 226
(Kurt Nimmo) On January 13, 2013, H.R. 226 was introduced in the House of Representatives by Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro. The bill will amend the 1986 IRS code and allow a credit if taxpayers “surrender” their guns to the government. Cited as the “Support Assault Firearms Elimination and Reduction for our Streets Act,” the proposed legislation [...]
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12 congressional Democrats pledge to take up Bangladesh factory conditions
US lawmakers on Thursday urged a quick review of the duty-free access granted to many products from Bangladesh, voicing alarm over labor conditions after a factory fire killed 111 workers. The 12 Democratic lawmakers, many of whom serve on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said that…
Twitter Character Count For Tweets With Links Is Heartlessly Reduced By 2
For Tweeters who need all 140 characters to deliver their insights and witticisms to the world, we have some bad news.Starting in February, the microblogging service explained on its developers blog, Twitter will reduce the number of characters from 120 to 118 in tweets that include a normal link beginning with “http.” For special links that start with “https,” which indicates the link is coming from a secure website, the character count is being brought down from 119 to 117.What this means for you: Every time you tweet out a link to an article or some other website, you will have two fewer characters to add your treasured punditry.Read More…
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Named NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver For 10th Year In A Row, Tying Bill Elliott Record
LAS VEGAS — Dale Earnhardt Jr. tied Bill Elliott’s record of 10 consecutive wins as NASCAR’s most popular driver, and was just as nervous accepting it Thursday as he was when he received his first honor.”It’s real hard to get up there and express your emotions and express to people how much it means to you,” Earnhardt said. “When you win it repeatedly, it gets tougher to show people and tell people how much it means to you because each time you win it, it means a little bit more. Words do an injustice to spelling out what it really means to you.”Read More…
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