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From Robert Reich:
We’re now in the America’s second Gilded Age.
Last week it was reported that in 2017 the average CEO of the 350 largest firms in the U.S. received $18.9 million in compensation. That’s a 17.6 percent increase over 2016.
At the same time, the typical worker’s compensation remained flat, rising merely 0.3 percent.
The first Gilded Age fueled a progressive era that tamed and regulated its excesses, beginning in 1901.
I wrote my Missouri Senators requesting them to vote NO on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. IMHO, Kavanaugh is awful man who would have the power to set this country back 50 years. He absolutely, should not be a Supreme Court Justice.
This is the response from Roy Blunt. It just added to the many reasons I have not voted for this man, and will never vote for this man…for any office.
Dear David:
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judge Kavanaugh is a highly-qualified nominee with an outstanding legal background. In his decade on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Kavanaugh has become known for his intellect, effective writing style, and ability to build consensus.
The Supreme Court is one of the most important legacies a president can leave. I look forward to learning more about Judge Kavanaugh’s judicial record and talking with him about his judicial philosophy as the confirmation process moves forward.
Again, thank you for contacting me. I look forward to continuing our conversation on Facebook (www.facebook.com/SenatorBlunt) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/RoyBlunt) about the important issues facing Missouri and the country. I also encourage you to visit my website (blunt.senate.gov) to learn more about where I stand on the issues and sign-up for my e-newsletter.
Sincere regards,
Roy Blunt
United States Senator
yeah I know you did not ask!
What strange times we live in. Here I am rooting for the porn star Stormy Daniels @StormyDaniels over the so called President of the United States Gospodin Trump @realDonaldTrump I so hopes she takes him down. I so hope she demonstrates beyond any doubt what the whole world already knows. That he is awful human being who should be in prison. #WorstPresidentEver
yeah I know you did not ask!
The flag is dipped to show respect. At sea it is dipped by lowering to half-mast and then raising. I have come to see flags at half-mast after gun massacres as a dip to the NRA. I am tried of seeing flags at half-mast. NRA is not owed respect.
I do not think Obama was a great President, but I do think he was a good President. I do believe that if we had not had a Republican congress hell bent on creating a shit-hole of a banana republic out of this country for their rich sponsors, he might have been a great President. He was a bit of a disappointment to me as a progressive as he listened to the military much too much, and I found him to be somewhat conservative. 20 or 25 years ago, his policies would have been Republican policies. Continue reading “Respect for the Office of POTUS”
Apparently there are not enough poor people in this country to satisfy the Effingham Trumpsters!
The Department of Labor released a proposed rule rescinding portions of its tip regulations, including current restrictions on “tip pooling”—which would mean that, for example, restaurants would be able to pool the tips servers receive and share them with untipped employees such as cooks and dishwashers. But, crucially, the rule doesn’t actually require that employers distribute pooled tips to workers. Under the administration’s proposed rule, as long as the tipped workers earn minimum wage, the employer can legally pocket those tips.
I believe the world has gone absolutely, totally off its Effingham rocker. Today at my workplace which is on the 7th floor of the tallest building in downtown St. Louis we had an active shooter drill. I understand why the company may have felt the need to do this in today’s environment. Plus I believe that since one of our primary activities is public transportation, they felt like we might be especially liable to such incidents. I don’t know maybe.
The way they handled this was to have small meetings before appraising of us of the fact that we were going to have the drill. They then went over what our responses should be. Basically it was a fire drill type of situation. If you can you are supposed to flee. In a non drill situation, if you could not flee then you need to hide. If you cannot hide then, and only then, do you fight with whatever is at hand.
They posted signs at all entrances Monday morning informing us there would the drill this week. For drill they had St. Louis police there, paramedics, and counselors were to be available afterwards if anyone felt the need for one. Continue reading “Active Shooter Drill”
I have no delusions that this will go anywhere, but I do wish it would. I think we need to flood Effingham Trump’s Twitter feed with postings of this sort. Not sure how much good it would do as he is too stupid and too narcissistic to take a nation hating him to heart. But I can hope. Maybe if we overwhelmed his Twitter account, we would not be constantly exposed to his obscene comments.
Add to this “cluster Effingham” the enabling, bought and paid for Republican Congress and this nation has essentially put a gun to its head and pulled the trigger.
I do wonder how long before I am blocked from posting on Effingham Trump’s Twitter feed. This is not the first time I’ve been outraged and done something like the below.
