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Tricia Adlington
Tricia Adlington
@ Nancy It's a privlage to drive a car and to have to insure it is being responsible. To force health insurance is to force a tax onme for just the privlage of breathing.It's not something I am choosing to do it's something I have to pay b/c I live...that's the point!You're comparing aplles and oranges.
Sat at 4:14pm
Tricia Adlington
Tricia Adlington
apples sorry
Sat at 4:14pm
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by Brad Peck David Brooks on health care reform: I have been writing for months that the acid test for this effort lies less in the publicized fight over the public option or the issue of abortion coverage than in the plausibility of its claim to be fiscally responsible...
Jo Ann Crouch
Jo Ann Crouch
I trust the government more than the corporations. Nonetheless, to have them compete with each other for insurance sounds like both will be better. Good on the designers of the public option! Now could we just have it for everyone and have it start next year?
Yesterday at 6:52am
Jerret Wright
Jerret Wright
Trust me there is no fear here, there is realization to how limited the government is in its abilities. This bill is an economy killer..and I know smarter ideas have been proposed but simply snubbed because of where the ideas came from. I'm pretty sure the bill will pass though because too many feel they are entitled to it, when in actuality taxes ... Read Morefor healthcare will be through the roof, and the care will lessen in quality(Have you gotten the H1N1 vaccine yet?I haven't and I'm in the military!!). I hope and pray that I am wrong, and that your trust in their abilities isn't blind.
Yesterday at 10:38am
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by Marc Freedman The SEIU’s broadside, clichéd attack on the Chamber’s position regarding legislation creating a new mandate for paid leave related to the H1N1 health crisis is missing just one important element: facts. The U.S. Cha...
Donna
Donna
Well, I don't know, that Gore is a pretty smart guy. He was talking about geothermal energy the other night on Conan O'Brian's show, and he said that we have about 35,000 years worth of energy underground in the US alone. He said that if you drill down a couple of kilometers, you can reach areas of the earth that are millions of degrees hot!
I ... Read Moreguess it don't take much anymore to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Of course, lately the recipients of the award have certainly lowered the level of honor and prestige that the award used to hold. Poor Gandhi. To be put in the same category as the latest bozos to receive it...
Fri at 8:44pm
Deb Erickson
Deb Erickson
he's the manbearpig - i'm serial :)
Sat at 12:25am
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by Brian Gunderson A week ago thirty sophomores and juniors from the Indiana University of PA came to the Chamber to talk about Free Enterprise and what it means to them...
Ken Collins
Ken Collins
Did you guys see this? Teabaggers get punk'd by anti-racists at their own rally! http://tinyurl.com/yj4p56g
Fri at 7:07pm
Richard Rawlings
Richard Rawlings
Exceptionally illuminating!
Fri at 9:38pm
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by Brad Peck The Washington Post opines: This bill does not do enough to reform how health care is delivered and paid for. It also contains some of the fiscal dangers and fictions of its brethren...
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by Gary Litman On November 18, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment Eni FH Faleomavaegaand the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Armed Services Howard P...
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by Tita Freeman There’s a story in today’s SF Chronicle that paints a fairly incomplete picture of our efforts on climate change and job creation, despite my best efforts to provide that information to the reporter, Kelly Zito. We...
Tricia Adlington
Tricia Adlington
yes we all know the earth heats and cools in cycles but the new Climate change intiatives are fear tactics that use skewed data to make us believe we need to pay high taxes to combat the earth heating up due to US progress. The newly hacked emails of leading pro global warming scientists is proof that they are scamming us in the name of profit...check out Mark's link above..the truth is out and Gore is going down!
Fri at 11:53am
Mark Steven Kossow
Mark Steven Kossow
Well put. And none too soon. Gore's hypocracy knows no bounds. "don't eat meat...causes globull warming" but of course he won't become a vegetarian. And his mansion uses more power than a hundred houses. and the jets ...and and and. But hey, he stands to be a billionaire if this cap and tax prevails.
Fri at 12:09pm
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by James Gelfand Chart with the Budget Committee’s estimate of the score of the Reid bill after 10 years of full implementation. Interesting to note that because the bill pushed back implementation of the major provisions until 2014, the true cost of 10 years of implementation—$2.5 trillion. (a...
Lynn Wiley
Lynn Wiley
We're talking about debt that can never be
repaid, and ultimately, lower living standards
for all Americans. Welcome to the wonderful
world of 'change', compliments of Barack Obama!
November 19 at 8:27pm
Nancy Rosenwasser
Nancy Rosenwasser
What "Budget Committee" is the source of this analysis, Mr. Gelfand?
Sat at 11:32am
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Source: www.portlandtribune.com
When the Portland City Council adopted its new economic development strategy in July, some economists questioned the realism of its goal of creating 10,000 jobs in five.
Ken Collins
Ken Collins
The CoC is trying to block a bill that supports workers to take a paid sick day because of the h1n1 virus? http://tinyurl.com/yzlb6zy
No wonder Apple, PG&E and others have left.
November 19 at 11:41pm
Tony Cook
Tony Cook
Congress is working on a bill directly connected to a sick day for one disease? Unreal...as if they have nothing else to do.
Sat at 12:40pm
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Source: news.yahoo.com
The US public debt topped 12 trillion dollars for the first time in history, Treasury officials disclosed Tuesday, moving past a key barrier that raised hackles in Congress.
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November 19 at 1:57pm
Daniel
Daniel
Have you morons never heard of shorteners, like bit.ly or tinyurl?
Fri at 4:45pm
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by Brad Peck Always good to keep up on thehome state, a bit from The Commonwealth Foundation via thetruthaboutplas.com: Equal opportunity has long been a cherished ideal in America. Yet state government is engaging in unequal contracting practices...
Douglas
Douglas
btw, i find it funny that anyone would consider union workers 'better educated'. everyone knows, unions award the lazy people and hold back those that truly excel. after all, if that money wasn't wasted on lazy know nothing employees, it could instead be used to reward the ones that truly deserve it.
November 18 at 5:41pm
Donna
Donna
Douglas, you are so right....
November 18 at 7:07pm
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by Eric Wohlschlegel The U.S. Chamber today made the following comment regarding the president’s executive order to establish a Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force: The Chamber has vigorously supported aggressive enforcement practices to detect, punish, and deter fraud in our capital markets. ...
Insolublog Franklin
Insolublog Franklin
Ken, have you checked the mortgage, commodity and hard currency markets? We are just shy of a run on the dollar. The FED has been throwing our flash paper on their own private bonfire. After that nice and toasty stock feeling wears off, the winter chill is going to settle in with ferocity. The last time I checked, Glass-Steagall was still repealed, so our FDIC insurance tax dollars are still at risk to high stakes gambling. So much for reform.
November 18 at 8:53pm
Damon Schneider
Damon Schneider
No question the tidal wave of cash is artificially inflating the market. China is stockpiling raw materials and sucking much of the gold out of available supply. They are diversifying out of the dollar and with good reason. Thank you Franklin for a real time assessment without the silly name calling that has become Facebook.
November 19 at 5:48pm
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by Tita Freeman Today MoveOn.org released a petition falsely accusing the U.S. Chamber ofstating that it would: "set a dangerous precedent" to allow rape victims into court. This is of course false...
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by Myron Brilliant As the Washington Post recently pointed out "Trade is big in Asia" and trade can play an even bigger role in the U.S. economic recovery;which is why the U.S. Chamber applauds the first ever U.S...
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November 17 at 6:29pm
Don Anderson
Don Anderson

>USCC Your quote:
"Substantively, arbitration is more favorable to employees than litigation and individuals fare at least as well—if not better—in arbitration as they would have in court, while keeping down transaction costs."

Are you serious? To you it comes down to transaction costs? ... Read More

It would seem that "PROTECTING ANYONE EMPLOYED" by these firms you support and lobby for, would be SUBSTANTIALLY MORE FAVORABLE TO THE VICTIMS. We're talking about human beings being attacked here, not the cost of doing business, and the PROTECTION of workers from attacks and abuse comes with the territory. If it is too costly to control that aspect of the business, they have no right being in business or being a government contractor.

You are obviously some kind of "sit on your ass bean counter" that has never experienced a rapist or attack while on the job, or experienced being denied the justice these people are asking for. If you had a clue you would not be so quick to support the business that tolerate this abuse for the sake of your almighty f'ing dollar. It will never heal the wounded, and it's more like hush money than justice. You can't help but know that. How do you stand to look @ yourselves or in the mirror?
November 17 at 7:54pm
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by Mark Esper This week, millions of gamers turned out for the biggest-selling launch in the history of entertainment software, the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2...
Howard Blum
Howard Blum
Nicholas, I find your letter to be replete with double-speak and it smacks of duplicity and self-serving rhetoric, just like your objections to health care reform.
November 17 at 6:42pm
Marty Perkins
Marty Perkins
you say U. S. chamber and health care reform in the same sentence? isnt that an oxymoron? and no its not depravity... obviously your group and i don't see eye to eye... maybe you should remove U. S. from your name and just put republican conservative in its place
November 17 at 7:30pm