Huffingtonpost: Less than a week after Costco CEO Craig Jelinek spoke out in favor of raising the minimum wage, the big-box retailer’s earnings showed that paying workers a living wage doesn’t always hurt business.
Costco reported a profit of $537 million last quarter, up from $394 million during the same period last year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The healthy earnings report comes just six days after Jelinik urged lawmakers to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
We here at GT know people who work at Costco. By all accounts it's a pretty good place to work. One reason is they pay significantly better than their competitors. They employ a lot of people, most of whom live in the community. It's no surprise paying a living wage increases demand in the local economy. Henry Ford would have been proud.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Because They Don't Represent This Country
Raw Story: A Fox News guest who took on Sean Hannity for blasting President Barack Obama even as employment dropped to the lowest level in more than four years reaveled on Tuesday that the conservative host and others at Fox News are “so upset” that the economy is recovering.
They are of course upset. From a political perspective it's a blow that yet again history has demonstrated Democratic public policy to be far better for the country than Republican public policy. We're always cleaning up their mess.
It's not so much they want the country to fail, but more that the transnational and super rich interests they represent don't give a rip when it does. So from the Republican perspective the most important thing is to gain power to serve those narrow interests. In order to do that, they must destroy the president, his party, and his policies. And since it's the Presidents Democratic policies that have turned around the Republican meltdown of 2009/2009, a power transfer from the Democrats to the Republicans will again put us in grave economic danger. Obviously.
They are of course upset. From a political perspective it's a blow that yet again history has demonstrated Democratic public policy to be far better for the country than Republican public policy. We're always cleaning up their mess.
It's not so much they want the country to fail, but more that the transnational and super rich interests they represent don't give a rip when it does. So from the Republican perspective the most important thing is to gain power to serve those narrow interests. In order to do that, they must destroy the president, his party, and his policies. And since it's the Presidents Democratic policies that have turned around the Republican meltdown of 2009/2009, a power transfer from the Democrats to the Republicans will again put us in grave economic danger. Obviously.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Who's Side Are They On?
CNN on the Ryan budget: The plan, which contains many of the same provisions he offered last year, hits all the GOP high notes: less spending, lower tax rates and a rejection of most of President Obama's health reforms.
We can summarize his plan in one sentence: We're going to steal the money you've paid into Medicare and throw the poor, the middle class, and future competitiveness of the country under the bus so we can pay for tax cuts for the very rich and the transnational corporation.
We can summarize his plan in one sentence: We're going to steal the money you've paid into Medicare and throw the poor, the middle class, and future competitiveness of the country under the bus so we can pay for tax cuts for the very rich and the transnational corporation.
Drone Truths
Washington Post: One of the oldest and most storied traditions of the Senate made a sudden return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday when a junior senator seized control of the chamber with an hours-long filibuster involving rambling speeches aimed at blocking a vote on President Obama’s choice to lead the CIA.
Led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) with help from other junior senators, the filibuster stretched nearly 13 hours — with the Senate adjourning at about 12:40 a.m. Thursday — and was aimed at drawing attention to deep concern on both sides of the aisle about the administration’s use of unmanned aerial drones in its fight against terrorists and whether the government would ever use them in the United States.
We're not a fan of drone war here or there, but it's interesting to note a couple things, 1) Republicans went from saying they're hunting to terrorists to trying to make Obama a villain for hunting the same terrorists, and 2) now that conservatives have flip flopped back onto the civil liberties bandwagon, there are no Democrats accusing them of being soft on terrorists or national security or any of that other fascist garbage the GOP hurled our way the entire Cheney presidency.
Led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) with help from other junior senators, the filibuster stretched nearly 13 hours — with the Senate adjourning at about 12:40 a.m. Thursday — and was aimed at drawing attention to deep concern on both sides of the aisle about the administration’s use of unmanned aerial drones in its fight against terrorists and whether the government would ever use them in the United States.
We're not a fan of drone war here or there, but it's interesting to note a couple things, 1) Republicans went from saying they're hunting to terrorists to trying to make Obama a villain for hunting the same terrorists, and 2) now that conservatives have flip flopped back onto the civil liberties bandwagon, there are no Democrats accusing them of being soft on terrorists or national security or any of that other fascist garbage the GOP hurled our way the entire Cheney presidency.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Right-Wing Blood Money
A Republican state lawmaker in Georgia on Thursday introduced a bill that would relax gun restrictions on people who have been treated for mental illness.
Here's the bottom line, the Republican party has made a decision to trade the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year for the ill-gotten gains of their pimps in the NRA and the gun industry. Everything they do regarding guns make this more than clear. As a matter of fact, pretty much everything they do, be it with particulate air pollution, heathcare reform, war, whatever, starts with the same motivation and ends with the same results.
Here's the bottom line, the Republican party has made a decision to trade the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year for the ill-gotten gains of their pimps in the NRA and the gun industry. Everything they do regarding guns make this more than clear. As a matter of fact, pretty much everything they do, be it with particulate air pollution, heathcare reform, war, whatever, starts with the same motivation and ends with the same results.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Bush III
Raw Story: After years of building a reputation as the “good” Republican on immigration, Jeb Bush shocked the reform community on Monday by ruling out a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, a position solidly to the right of prominent GOPers like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
Looks like we're going to have another Bush running for president. This is for the GOP primary voters and nobody else. And it's going to work. They will pick Jeb Bush over Marco Rubio. The Latino community also should take note: the base of the Republican party doesn't want you here and the establishment GOP will throw you under the bus to get elected. Best you make sure they don't.
Looks like we're going to have another Bush running for president. This is for the GOP primary voters and nobody else. And it's going to work. They will pick Jeb Bush over Marco Rubio. The Latino community also should take note: the base of the Republican party doesn't want you here and the establishment GOP will throw you under the bus to get elected. Best you make sure they don't.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
King Scalia
Scalia on the Voting Rights Act: "I think it attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement."
“They (congress) are going to lose votes if they do not reenact the Voting Rights Act. Even the name of it is wonderful — the Voting Rights Act. Who is going to vote against that in the future?”
“This is not the kind of question you can leave to Congress,”
Yep, how dare those negroes feel their entitled to vote. Just add this to the rest of the conservative efforts to keep them from doing so. As for his view he should be appropriating the role of the democratically elected legislature and executive branches of government, that should disqualify him from being on the court. He should be impeached immediately. It's a dangerous thing to have a judge who thinks he's a king.
“They (congress) are going to lose votes if they do not reenact the Voting Rights Act. Even the name of it is wonderful — the Voting Rights Act. Who is going to vote against that in the future?”
“This is not the kind of question you can leave to Congress,”
Yep, how dare those negroes feel their entitled to vote. Just add this to the rest of the conservative efforts to keep them from doing so. As for his view he should be appropriating the role of the democratically elected legislature and executive branches of government, that should disqualify him from being on the court. He should be impeached immediately. It's a dangerous thing to have a judge who thinks he's a king.
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