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Tag Archives: War on Christmas
The Mean Season
Here’s a thought. The worst of times is when you’re told it’s the best of times, and you are told that you’d damned well better get a smile on your face and appreciate what’s going on around you right now, … Continue reading
Posted in Debt-Limit Debate, Fiscal Cliff, Labor Rights, Michigan Right-to-Work Law, Republicans in the Wilderness, Republicans Reject Cooperation, Supply-Side Economics, Union Busting
Tagged American Workers, Anti-Union Laws, by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Christmas Shopping, Convincing Conservatives They Need to be More Reasonable, Debt Ceiling Showdown, Fiscal Cliff Negotiations, Hoffa War on Michigan Law, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa, John Boehner, Koch Brothers, Labor Unions, Mall Shooting in Portland, Meanness, Michigan Christmas Surprise, Michigan Right-to-Work Law, Oregon Mall Shooting, Rick Snyder, Right to Work States, Stripping Workers' Rights, Supply-Side Economics, War on Christmas, Workers Rights
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Embracing the Dismal
Some of us are now willing to join that War on Christmas that Bill O’Reilly keeps talking about – but not because we’re secular humanist abortion-loving dope-smoking gay hippies left over from the counterculture sixties we could never let go. … Continue reading
Posted in Fiscal Cliff, Jobs Crisis, John Boehner, Republican Denial of Reality, Republicans in the Wilderness
Tagged 7.7 Percent Unemployment Rate, At an Impasse, Automation Ends American Jobs, Cutting Entitlements, Cutting Medicare, Cutting Social Security, Eat-Your-Vegetables-and-Shut-Up Party, Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Cliff Negotiations, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, John Boehner, John Podhoretz, Medicare, New Jobs Report, No New Jobs Ever, No Progress on Fiscal Cliff, Party of the Rich, Republican Messaging, Social Security, Surprisingly Good Jobs Report, Unemployment Forever, Upcoming Crash, War on Christmas
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