US added 217000 jobs

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Fast_Eddie

It used to be Unions protected workers and kept wages reasonable. Now they've been gutted, our manufacturing base is gone, and people laugh when we talk about paying people a decent wage.

What. You think putting windshield wipers on a Chrysler was harder than cooking burgers at McDonalds?

The issue is that "reasonable" is subjective when it comes to wages. Our country has become overrun with cheapskates who always think people are overpaid no matter how little we pay them......

Well, except themselves of course.

Dave

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

The issue is that "reasonable" is subjective when it comes to wages. Our country has become overrun with cheapskates who always think people are overpaid no matter how little we pay them......

Well, except themselves of course.

Dave

Now the AVERAGE CEO get $10,000,000 base salary and that does not include the perks.

[MrPots]

Are those the CEO's that complain that their deadbeat full time employees make so little they must use social services? So they lobby congress to slash social service funding?

[VanishingPoi]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

I know.

I have come to realize that Aljazeera uses some of the best writers and
their articles are more in depth than say the BBC.

That is why I like them.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

I know.

I have come to realize that Aljazeera uses some of the best writers and
their articles are more in depth than say the BBC.

The only news on TV that competes with Al Jazeera and BBC is the PBS Newshour. CNN, MSNBC and Faux are completely worthless with the possible exceptions of Morning Joe & Chuck Todd's morning shows on MSNBC and Fareed Zakaria on CNN on Sundays. Evenings on any of the three big American cable "news" outlets is a total wasteland.

[piece-itpete]

As long as Israel is not on the menu.

I'll put France24 up there. Their slant is much less visible.

Pete

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

As long as Israel is not on the menu.

I'll put France24 up there. Their slant is much less visible.

Pete

I guess that is part of the reason we hit the French bank so hard.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The only news on TV that competes with Al Jazeera and BBC is the PBS Newshour. CNN, MSNBC and Faux are completely worthless with the possible exceptions of Morning Joe & Chuck Todd's morning shows on MSNBC and Fareed Zakaria on CNN on Sundays. Evenings on any of the three big American cable "news" outlets is a total wasteland.

As a sidebar to this BBC's Lyse Doucet just received the OBE among the many other awards she has received over the years. Pretty impressive for a Canadian girl from New Brunswick