[Yesterday], Obama took a now-familiar path in adopting a program — this time a jobs and infrastructure effort--that can happen entirely within his domain. Obama directed several federal agencies to identify "high-impact, job-creating infrastructure projects" that can be expedited now, without congressional approval.Do your work or we'll do it for you.... Is that the tone Obama actually wants to take?
One week before he will make a major address to Congress on jobs, Obama is making sure they know he plans to move forward without them. The president has also directed the Education Department to come up with a "Plan B" updating the 2001 No Child Left Behind law in the absence of congressional action. The message to Congress is clear: Do your work or we'll do it for you....
September 1, 2011
"Obama Rolls Out a Jobs Plan That Doesn't Need Congress."
According to The Atlantic:
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 208 of 208DBQ, I'm not a labor lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that your statement would get me into trouble with the NLRB.
I'm not allowed to go out and tell my employees "If you unionize, we will shut down the business." I don't think explaining that it's a matter of economics, or that the owner will choose to retire, would make it legal.
Me either ( a lawyer)
However, I think it is probably unconstitutional to FORCE someone to stay in a business that is losing money.
If you can't retire from your business and are forced to become a slave to the union......I guess you just have to burn it down then.
I kid....sort of.
Actually, no I don't kid. I'm serious. I would rather burn my business to the ground in order to put those ungrateful sumbitches out of work than to be forced to struggle on dragging their sorry butts behind me like a giant anchor on my own success.
Jobs?
I have an idea.
Obama sets up a black board ... and draws some circles and dollar bills ... and says "oops. I thought this one was going to be about constitutional law."
"There's no place that discusses constitutional law and presidents." Thank you for coming.
Feather dusters.
A business in Brooklyn.
There weren't all that many employees. Maybe 7? The business had been in business for years and years. The man that owned it inherited it when his dad died.
And, he said to his employees that if they'd vote in a union, he close it.
Well, they voted for the union.
And, this business was closed in Brooklyn. Re-opened in Florida. And, this man's business grew.
The story was about "changing a business's location." And, in Florida his backyard is the waterway, where he parks his yacht.
Not that the people who worked for him weren't warned.
The Wacky World of Carol Herman.
Trooper has a magic touch. He's managed to humanize other obnoxious, near troll-ish commenters in the past, but J? Amazing. Troop, you're like some kind of wizard. It's actually a heartwarming (and amusing) phenomenon to witness.
LOL at picturing J as Ellroy. You know, I can see it.
I kinda think, beneath the truculent persona & Tourettian idiolect, J must actually feel some affection for the unholy gang of teabagger dreck, putos & jotos here. More than for Raul, anyway. Weird-- that little dust-up between them seems indicative of something (e.g. their identities?), but hell if I know what.
That J is a real person and Raul is just part of the Borg. Just sayn'
You have to enjoy and talk to a real person even if you can never agree. J can comment with me anytime.
He is different and different is good.
At least in my book.
That's true, Trooper. J may be obnoxious, but he's an original. The insults he comes up with make me laugh. There's some fun & exuberance to his bebop (even if it's just a string of ad hominems)-- unlike the predictable dreary bitterness & vitriol from other commenters (e.g. Alpha, Jeremy).
If you ("you" in general) can talk about something other than politics & address your political antagonists like human beings while doing so, without contempt, you take on the character of a "real person" in my eyes. That buys you a lot of good will from me-- even when you go on to act like an obnoxious jerk again when talking politics. That good will isn't inexhaustible, but it lasts a while (cf. Garage-- supply is running low).
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