I was searching for my business and found your article. I think we share a common philosophy And your article was a real inspiration to me. I have not had too many jobs but have half killed myself in the past running my own businesses.

This obsession with money and work has to be bad for us.

Cheers

Pete

When a corporation exercises privileges, it must do so in such a way that it does not risk the revocation of those privileges. When it is deemed to have “inalienable rights,” it is able to corrupt democracy through the exercise of its “freedom of speech” in bestowing bri–er, “campaign contributions”–unto elected officials and in not being required to reveal certain negative or potentially negative aspects of its products or services (e.g., BSH in dairy cattle).

The pre-Reagan Democrats had their faults, such as LBJ’s obsession with the Domino Fallacy, but they had no illusions about the “goodness” of unregulated capitalism or Smith’s invisible hand picking our pockets or Friedman’s voodoo economics. The “New” Democrat is too much like an old Republican to offer much of a respite from the global kleptocracy that accompanies global capitalism.

To have heard Elaine Chao (U.S. Sec’y of Labor) talk to me so warmly those couple of times we spoke while in grad school, you would never have sensed the socioeconomic chasm between us. But the issues facing labor in the U.S., which have been amply documented in recent years in the media and in these UP blogs, call for strong leadership, vision and the guts and drive to push the right initiatives forward; a nice personality simply does not suffice. That George Bush would appoint someone from Elaine’s social class in this role so critical to working people itself makes the wrong kind of statement. Among the goals for UP should be replacing Elaine Chao with someone who will champion the working people who are the heart of America.

OUT CHAO!!!! OUT NOW!!!!!