WorldTraveler said:
don't know where that came from but it the connection doesn't come close to logically fitting.
and, btw, AA is opposed to the ME3 as well.
surprise!
Of course they are. Hypocrites!! Complaining about how ME3 is subsidized while they accept billions in direct and indirect subsidies from the US. Ironically, after 9-11 the Government made direct cash subsidies conditional upon the airlines using policies (indirect subsidies) of the same government to pry concessions from their workers.
The way we are treated by this government I would never take up arms, or have my kids take up arms to defend "our way of life". Because "our way of life" has become "winner take all" 'Reward the rich for being rich and punish the poor and everyone else for not". All I hear is both parties saying "more (crappy) jobs", more people are employed now than ever before, we don't need more jobs, we need better paying jobs so we don't have to work as much. But both parties do all they can to make sure that those of us who have jobs have to work 80 hours a week to get by. They do nothing as we lose wages, benefits, force us to buy health insurance from "for profit" insurance companies, and allow our pensions to be taken away.
Want to eliminate unemployment? Its simple, declare that we have a 32 hour workweek and anything over that must be paid at double time.
That would remove 20% of the straight time low wage labor supply and increase demand for such labor, instead of having fewer employees working more hours they would hire more workers and have them work fewer hours. The number of people unemployed would not be enough to cover the 20% loss of straight time hours available so many workers would still end up working 40 so they would suffer no loss of income. Net result would be full employment, very little loss of income for those who are already working and
lower profits for the corporations* that don't pay their fair share of taxes anyway. But instead we have the Republicans saying that we need to make jobs that are pretty much slave jobs (anti-minimum wage) where people make nothing and need to spend every waking hour working just to get by and the Democrats supporting trade agreements with counties that have even lower labor and enviormental standards than we do then saying we need to support entitlement programs for people who work but aren't paid enough to survive(indirect subsidies for their employers) . We do all this so those at the top can earn more in a year than all our wages over a lifetime.
Its been over 100 years since the 40 hour work week movement began, none of the dire predictions came true, in fact the opposite happened. Despite huge increases in productivity we are going in the opposite direction, we are working more hours for less pay. Its time that us slaves get together to make more progress on the concept of shorter work weeks so we can share in the output and abundant wealth our labor, and the technology that our tax dollars funded, produced.
*Thats why it will never even be proposed. Because Corporations pretty much own both parties. 
