Check the website, WelcometoUSA.gov, and you’ll be enlightened, I submit.
Click on any of the site’s headers, and you’ll see that the priority of those links is to provide more of what I term Free Cheese to those — if they are illegal and not involved in the process of lawful immigration –who wish to dip into the entitlement well with gleeful abandon.
Once again, your federal government encouraging law-breakers for one reason only: votes. Which = power.
Free Cheese.
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As people who read me already know, I am a member of an “association” which is, of course, essentially a union. They negotiate for our contracts. Our contract expires in 2014 and I shall, with much luck, be retired before its expiration. And no, upon retirement, I don’t get “medical for life.” As a matter of fact, my medical coverage stops completely when I retire.
I don’t, however, get to throttle the county into bankruptcy if everyone in my department were to engage in a strike (which won’t occur for a myriad of reasons, lawfully).
Precisely as a number of unions did against Hostess Brands, Inc. And with that, the company shut down its plants, laid off 18,000+ workers and stopped baking.
From back in April of 2012:
A union official representing workers at Hostess Brands Inc. said Monday that he isn’t optimistic the two sides will come to an agreement over workers’ contracts before the dispute lands in bankruptcy court.
Hostess has said it will ask the court this week to toss out its existing union contracts if its workers don’t accept cost-cutting proposals in its “final” offer. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in January, citing rising competition and pension and medical costs.
Ken Hall, general secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters union, says his union’s members will walk off the job if the court throws out the contracts. CEO Greg Rayburn says a strike will force the company to shut down and liquidate.
The court threw out the contracts. The unions struck. And the company shut down
Hostess is going through a liquidation hearing today, as a matter of fact, regarding its 33 nationwide plants, one of which is in Sacramento where I work. There were 300 workers laid off in Sacramento, and about 1,850 in the state of Fornicalia.
A bit of a final notation: how can one company function competently and efficiently under the 12 unions and 327 separate contracts formerly operating at Hostess Brands?
Apparently: it cannot.
BZ
Perhaps some of you have noticed my blog has had its “ups and downs” in the past three or four days.
This is a server/host issue, not a WordPress or BZ issue.
Trust me when I tell you there have been many, many hours of hate, discontent, dirty words, sweat, mud, keyboard tapping and strenuous phone calls made in order to ameliorate this problem. Bushwack has been laboring mightily behind the scenes because Yours Truly is a complete HTML Idiot.
I would ask kindly: if BZ doesn’t load immediately, please don’t give up. Please come back. The problem is temporary and may in fact be fixed.
Final question: have any of you experienced problems with the BZ site within the past few days, and what were the results?
Thanks for reading and thanks for your support!
BZ
From a glorious article at ABCNews.com:
In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference.He publicly CC’d the names of everyone on his mailing list.
The names were disclosed in an email by Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, an official Taliban spokesperson, on Saturday. The email was a press release he received from the account of Zabihullah Mujahid, another Taliban spokesperson. Ahmedi then forwarded Mujahid’s email to the full Taliban mailing list, but rather than using the BCC function, or blind carbon copy which keeps email addresses private, Ahmedi made the addresses public.
“Taliban have included all 4 of my email addresses on the leaked distribution list,” tweeted journalist Mustafa Kazemi, a prolific Kabul-based tweeter with more than 9,500 followers. “Quite reassuring to my safety.”
Overall, there were some 400 persons involved.
Ooopsie!
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