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So, who here fell for the latest GOP bull**** on the Jones Act?
"Harry ?" wrote in message m... On 7/2/10 10:31 AM, Canuck57 wrote: On 02/07/2010 5:51 AM, bpuharic wrote: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:24:11 -0400, Harry wrote: Keeping Up With the Jones Act - By Kevin Drum, Mother Jones | Fri Jul. 2, 2010 3:00 AM PDT Have you heard of the Jones Act? Unless you read Newsmax and listen to a lot of right-wing radio, probably not. It's an obscure statute that's been on the books since 1920, and it requires all shipping between U.S. ports or in U.S. coastal waters to be carried in U.S.-flag ships that are owned and crewed by U.S. citizens. So why are conservatives suddenly up in arms about it? Because, they claim, it's a labor-inspired rule that's obstructing aid to a Gulf Coast the right wing loves BP oil as shown by their recent apology. they defend wall street and the banks as shown by their recent meeting with top level hedge fund CEO's they HATE the middle class as shown by their paranoid conspiracy theories. the GOP needs to be destroyed Actually, did you see this months employment numbers... ya sure bet Obama wants to brag about it going down to 9.5%... But 658,000 people gave up looking for work.... 7.9 million fewer people at work in private business since this began. 14.6 million people looking for work. Last months prop up numbers of the 400,000 census workers are again looking for work. Monthly job cuts are up to 125,000 for the month was partially offset by private job hires iof 33,000. More than 525,000 new unemployed started to look for work last month to replace the lost job. How is Obamanonics really working far ya? Great, and it is going to take a long time to recover from the Great Bush Recession. Those of us with intellect knew that. http://www.spotcrime.com/md/calvert+county |
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