“The proposed Bush rules, which the two Republican bills
codify and expand, would:
-- Exclude previously protected workers who were entitled
to overtime by reclassifying them as managers. Companies
are already using this ploy where they can get away with
it. Say you're frying burgers on the night shift at
McDonald's, making overtime, and suddenly --
congratulations -- you're the assistant night manager, with
no raise and no overtime.
-- Eliminate certain middle-income workers from overtime
protections by adding an income limit, above which workers
no longer qualify for overtime. You like that? You make too
much to earn overtime.
-- Remove overtime protection from large numbers of workers
in aerospace, defense, health care, high tech and other
industries. Pay attention, this one is coming right out of
your paycheck.”
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14890&CFID=6823125&CFTOKEN=34857645

“What's emerged full-blown is the military-industrial
complex famously predicted and feared by President
Eisenhower fifty years ago.  It's no longer possible to
tell where the corporate world ends and government begins.”
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/042403D.shtml

“When Congress rushed to pass the Patriot Act after Sept.
11, it made a dangerous gamble: It decided to trade away
certain civil liberties in exchange for what it hoped would
be more security. . . . What we know about the Patriot Act
is not good.  Since Sept. 11, the government has detained
hundreds of people in secret.  It has refused to disclose
even their names and, in many cases, to give them access to
an attorney.  Many immigrants who had lived in the United
States for decades have been rounded up and deported for
minor visa violations, not for any connection to terrorism.
 A secretive court charged with granting foreign
intelligence wiretaps blasted an overzealous FBI for
abusing its power and lying to judges.  The list goes on.”
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/5680912.htm


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~ solvitur ambulando ~
"The problem is solved in the walking." [-- St. Augustine]
 * *
"Not all who wander are lost." [-- J.R.R. Tolkien]
 * *
 . . I'm on an unnamed walkabout
 . . . . with no whither nor whence

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