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I submit for consideration and debate, the description of events that transpired in my personal experience as an injured worker.

Unethical Business Practice @ Tech Ridge Office Park
NAI Petrous Commercial Real Estate Services, Worldwide

Management at Tech Ridge Office Park is guilty of unethical treatment of employees. In November of 2012, Tech Ridge ended the employment of their lead engineer, (David Louton) while he was on workers comp. Tech Ridge property manager; Joy MacCracken did not inform Mr. Louton that his employment had ended until March 2013, when the doctor released him to work. In fact, she continued to act as the employer in Dec, Jan, Feb, and even in March by handling the doctor/patient reports that were sent to the workers comp. insurance company. When David returned with a release from the doctor,(March 4,2013) he was informed that the company changed receivership in Nov. 2012. Because of this change David lost his job. Joy also said that technically David was never an employee for Tech Ridge. In addition to this despicable behavior, the property manager and NAI Petrous are now acting in ways that prevent Mr. Louton from obtaining new employment. McCracken says that, because of the workers comp. claim, they are refusing to sign a reference letter for Mr. Louton, and will not provide prospective employers with employment information over the phone. To add insult to injury, on Dec.20, 2012 (one month after Davids employment ended) Ms. MacCracken sent a fax to verify that David was a full time employee at Tech Ridge, to the apartment manager where he signed a one year lease. David had to skip out on lease, jeopardizing his credit. Tech Ridge management could have prevented this by telling the truth. Tools were stolen, while David was on workers comp. They refuse to replace these personal tools.

David Louton is the engineer who possibly saved lives and property at Tech Ridge back in 2011. In Dec. of that year, there were cranes in the parking lots, replacing heat and air units on the roof tops. David was hired in Oct. 2011. During his first month on the job, he discovered the heating systems were in a dangerous state of disrepair, caused by years of neglect, under the management of Joy MacCracken at Tech Ridge. Because of Davids leadership on this project, 40 roof top HVAC units were replaced on the Blain and Cherokee buildings. While working seven days per week, 12 – 16 hours each day on this project, David was injured, and was unable to complete the inspection of systems on all buildings. So, it is still unknown if the other eleven office buildings at Tech Ridge are safe. But, because most of the HVAC systems on all buildings at Tech Ridge are 40 years old, like those replaced on Blain and Cherokee, and proper maintenance has been left undone for years, there is reason for great concern. The old units that were replaced were discharging carbon monoxide in to the occupied spaces. Any one of these units could have exploded, causing a chain reaction, destroying property and causing death. David also discovered that many building exhaust fans did not work and were still not working when he became injured and left Tech Ridge.

WARNING: If you have headaches, dizziness, or unexplained illnesses, you may wish to be tested for carbon monoxide poisoning, mold related illness, or some other illness caused by poor indoor air quality. Sick building syndrome can be the cause of serious health problems, including legionnaire disease.

When corporations are allowed to treat injured workers in this manner, workers comp. laws need change.]]>
I submit for consideration and debate, the description of events that transpired in my personal experience as an injured worker.

Unethical Business Practice @ Tech Ridge Office Park
NAI Petrous Commercial Real Estate Services, Worldwide

Management at Tech Ridge Office Park is guilty of unethical treatment of employees. In November of 2012, Tech Ridge ended the employment of their lead engineer, (David Louton) while he was on workers comp. Tech Ridge property manager; Joy MacCracken did not inform Mr. Louton that his employment had ended until March 2013, when the doctor released him to work. In fact, she continued to act as the employer in Dec, Jan, Feb, and even in March by handling the doctor/patient reports that were sent to the workers comp. insurance company. When David returned with a release from the doctor,(March 4,2013) he was informed that the company changed receivership in Nov. 2012. Because of this change David lost his job. Joy also said that technically David was never an employee for Tech Ridge. In addition to this despicable behavior, the property manager and NAI Petrous are now acting in ways that prevent Mr. Louton from obtaining new employment. McCracken says that, because of the workers comp. claim, they are refusing to sign a reference letter for Mr. Louton, and will not provide prospective employers with employment information over the phone. To add insult to injury, on Dec.20, 2012 (one month after Davids employment ended) Ms. MacCracken sent a fax to verify that David was a full time employee at Tech Ridge, to the apartment manager where he signed a one year lease. David had to skip out on lease, jeopardizing his credit. Tech Ridge management could have prevented this by telling the truth. Tools were stolen, while David was on workers comp. They refuse to replace these personal tools.

David Louton is the engineer who possibly saved lives and property at Tech Ridge back in 2011. In Dec. of that year, there were cranes in the parking lots, replacing heat and air units on the roof tops. David was hired in Oct. 2011. During his first month on the job, he discovered the heating systems were in a dangerous state of disrepair, caused by years of neglect, under the management of Joy MacCracken at Tech Ridge. Because of Davids leadership on this project, 40 roof top HVAC units were replaced on the Blain and Cherokee buildings. While working seven days per week, 12 – 16 hours each day on this project, David was injured, and was unable to complete the inspection of systems on all buildings. So, it is still unknown if the other eleven office buildings at Tech Ridge are safe. But, because most of the HVAC systems on all buildings at Tech Ridge are 40 years old, like those replaced on Blain and Cherokee, and proper maintenance has been left undone for years, there is reason for great concern. The old units that were replaced were discharging carbon monoxide in to the occupied spaces. Any one of these units could have exploded, causing a chain reaction, destroying property and causing death. David also discovered that many building exhaust fans did not work and were still not working when he became injured and left Tech Ridge.

WARNING: If you have headaches, dizziness, or unexplained illnesses, you may wish to be tested for carbon monoxide poisoning, mold related illness, or some other illness caused by poor indoor air quality. Sick building syndrome can be the cause of serious health problems, including legionnaire disease.

When corporations are allowed to treat injured workers in this manner, workers comp. laws need change.]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6443 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:58:39 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6443 This is not just a dream, it should be a way of life. a way of freedom.
What do you guys think would be corporations thriving for if they announce "american dream" in their advertising campaigns.

you can read the full article at
http://www.superbious.com/Political/arti...cracy.html]]> This is not just a dream, it should be a way of life. a way of freedom.
What do you guys think would be corporations thriving for if they announce "american dream" in their advertising campaigns.

you can read the full article at
http://www.superbious.com/Political/arti...cracy.html]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6442 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:27:19 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6442 "Electronic devices ... have gone mad. It is not just your TV or your camera or your twenty-seven-button cell phone with its twenty-one different screen menus and its 124-page instruction manual. ... The act of buying nearly any electronic product has gone from the straightforward plug-and-play experience it used to be to a laborious, joy-killing experience in unpacking, reading, puzzling out, configuring, testing, cursing, reconfiguring, stopping altogether to call the customer support line, then calling again an hour or two later, until you finally get whatever it is you've bought operating in some tentative configuration that more or less does all the things you want it to do--at least until some error message causes the whole precarious assembly to crash and you have to start it all over again. ... "

After elaborating on this topic (for several pages), the author concludes that "there's necessarily complex and then there's absurdly complex."

What he does not analyze, at least in the chapter I am reading, is the effect all this may have on the minds of our push-button youngsters. Push-button experience is very different from building radios, repairing grandfather clocks, tractors, cars, etc. Will the overall effect be positive or negative? What do you think?

Ludwik Kowalski,
http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html]]> "Electronic devices ... have gone mad. It is not just your TV or your camera or your twenty-seven-button cell phone with its twenty-one different screen menus and its 124-page instruction manual. ... The act of buying nearly any electronic product has gone from the straightforward plug-and-play experience it used to be to a laborious, joy-killing experience in unpacking, reading, puzzling out, configuring, testing, cursing, reconfiguring, stopping altogether to call the customer support line, then calling again an hour or two later, until you finally get whatever it is you've bought operating in some tentative configuration that more or less does all the things you want it to do--at least until some error message causes the whole precarious assembly to crash and you have to start it all over again. ... "

After elaborating on this topic (for several pages), the author concludes that "there's necessarily complex and then there's absurdly complex."

What he does not analyze, at least in the chapter I am reading, is the effect all this may have on the minds of our push-button youngsters. Push-button experience is very different from building radios, repairing grandfather clocks, tractors, cars, etc. Will the overall effect be positive or negative? What do you think?

Ludwik Kowalski,
http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6441 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:03:03 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6441 http://youtu.be/lZD4ezDbbu4]]> http://youtu.be/lZD4ezDbbu4]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6440 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:25:48 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6440
Ludwik Kowalski, author of "Diary of a Former Communist"

http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html

=================================

” March 7 2013

To the Editor:

Istvan Deak’s review “Could Stalin Have Been Stopped?” (NYRB March 13 2013 - http://www.nybooks.c...…topped/?page=1) is filled with statements about Soviet history that are factually false. Here is a partial list:

* There was no “intentional killing by starvation of millions of Ukrainians” by Stalin. Every Western expert rejects the “Holodomor” myth, which originated with pro-Nazi Ukrainian nationalists in the 1950s.

* Stalin did not “shoot hundreds of thousands of imaginary political enemies in the later 1930s.” NKVD chief Nikolai Ezhov did so, as a part of his conspiracy against the Soviet government. In 1939-40 he and over a hundred of his top NKVD men were tried and executed for these horrific crimes.

* Stalin did not “attempt” to “eliminate much of the Polish leadership”. It was the Nazis who did so, in their “AB-Aktion.”

* There exists an important dispute over who shot the Poles in the murders known as the Katyn Massacre and good evidence that the Soviets shot some Polish POWs and the Germans later shot the rest.

* Stalin was not a “dictator.” He worked collaboratively with other Politburo members and was sometimes defeated. Stephen G. Wheatcroft has termed Stalin’s prewar method of rule “Team Stalin.”

* There were no “combined Nazi and Soviet invasions.” The Red Army did not “invade Poland” on September 17 1939. Abandoned by its government the Soviets had to prevent the German army from marching up to the existing Soviet border, something no country would have permitted. Winston Churchill said that the Soviets were right to do so.

* Though armed and equipped by the Soviet Union in 1941-42 the “anti-Nazi army formed by General Władysław Anders” refused to fight the Nazis until 1944.

* The Polish Home Army”, riddled with anti-Semitism, shot Jews escaping from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 and collaborated with the German army against the Red Army.

* American and British pilots were not “routinely denied landing rights” when “trying to help the Home Army.” They were denied such rights for a few weeks in August-September 1944 because, like General Władysław Anders, Stalin considered the Warsaw Uprising to be a crime against the Polish people.

* There is no evidence that the Soviets “massacred thousands of innocent” Poles.

A Hungarian, Deak fails to mention that Hungary invaded the Soviet Union side by side with Nazi Germany, and Hungarian forces murdered at least hundreds of thousands of innocent Soviet citizens, including many Jews.

Grover Furr, Montclair State University “]]>
Ludwik Kowalski, author of "Diary of a Former Communist"

http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html

=================================

” March 7 2013

To the Editor:

Istvan Deak’s review “Could Stalin Have Been Stopped?” (NYRB March 13 2013 - http://www.nybooks.c...…topped/?page=1) is filled with statements about Soviet history that are factually false. Here is a partial list:

* There was no “intentional killing by starvation of millions of Ukrainians” by Stalin. Every Western expert rejects the “Holodomor” myth, which originated with pro-Nazi Ukrainian nationalists in the 1950s.

* Stalin did not “shoot hundreds of thousands of imaginary political enemies in the later 1930s.” NKVD chief Nikolai Ezhov did so, as a part of his conspiracy against the Soviet government. In 1939-40 he and over a hundred of his top NKVD men were tried and executed for these horrific crimes.

* Stalin did not “attempt” to “eliminate much of the Polish leadership”. It was the Nazis who did so, in their “AB-Aktion.”

* There exists an important dispute over who shot the Poles in the murders known as the Katyn Massacre and good evidence that the Soviets shot some Polish POWs and the Germans later shot the rest.

* Stalin was not a “dictator.” He worked collaboratively with other Politburo members and was sometimes defeated. Stephen G. Wheatcroft has termed Stalin’s prewar method of rule “Team Stalin.”

* There were no “combined Nazi and Soviet invasions.” The Red Army did not “invade Poland” on September 17 1939. Abandoned by its government the Soviets had to prevent the German army from marching up to the existing Soviet border, something no country would have permitted. Winston Churchill said that the Soviets were right to do so.

* Though armed and equipped by the Soviet Union in 1941-42 the “anti-Nazi army formed by General Władysław Anders” refused to fight the Nazis until 1944.

* The Polish Home Army”, riddled with anti-Semitism, shot Jews escaping from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 and collaborated with the German army against the Red Army.

* American and British pilots were not “routinely denied landing rights” when “trying to help the Home Army.” They were denied such rights for a few weeks in August-September 1944 because, like General Władysław Anders, Stalin considered the Warsaw Uprising to be a crime against the Polish people.

* There is no evidence that the Soviets “massacred thousands of innocent” Poles.

A Hungarian, Deak fails to mention that Hungary invaded the Soviet Union side by side with Nazi Germany, and Hungarian forces murdered at least hundreds of thousands of innocent Soviet citizens, including many Jews.

Grover Furr, Montclair State University “]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6439 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 03:19:02 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6439 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6438 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:00:31 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6438 sermon, he asked the children if they knew what the resurrection was.
Now, asking questions during children's sermons is crucial, but at the
same time, asking children questions in front of a congregation can
also be very dangerous.

Having asked the children if they knew the meaning of the
resurrection, a little boy raised his hand........

The pastor called on him and the little boy said,
"I know that if you have a resurrection that lasts more than four hours you are supposed to call the doctor."

It took over ten minutes for the congregation to settle down enough for the service to continue.]]> sermon, he asked the children if they knew what the resurrection was.
Now, asking questions during children's sermons is crucial, but at the
same time, asking children questions in front of a congregation can
also be very dangerous.

Having asked the children if they knew the meaning of the
resurrection, a little boy raised his hand........

The pastor called on him and the little boy said,
"I know that if you have a resurrection that lasts more than four hours you are supposed to call the doctor."

It took over ten minutes for the congregation to settle down enough for the service to continue.]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6437 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:40:28 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6437 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6436 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:19:44 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6436
This is really a question for the UK but probably counts towards any country, is it worth voting for a particular party?

They all come out with their promises for the next 5 years and then none of them fulfil the promises made. With the coalition in the UK each side of the coalition blames the other for the pledges being made not being put in to practice. The same could be said for the US as well.

What is the point of the Lib/Lab/Cons making promises at the next election? The chances are that they can promise us the earth and we will end up with none of the pledges even reaching the light of day. I don't expect any of them to get an overall majority next time out so they can say what they want, make a deal and then screw us in to the ground again!!

At the end of the day they all have very similar views, all are out to screw us over and all are looking after their own party interests above the people they represent.

I for one will never vote for ANY of the big three again!

Your MP is supposed to convey the view of their local constituency, not be follow the views of some millionaire Etonian that went to Oxbridge as things stand. Why do people act like sheep and assume that they have to make one of 2 or 3 choices? There are other options that can make a difference for you locally, chose them instead of voting in a headless puppet in future!!]]>
This is really a question for the UK but probably counts towards any country, is it worth voting for a particular party?

They all come out with their promises for the next 5 years and then none of them fulfil the promises made. With the coalition in the UK each side of the coalition blames the other for the pledges being made not being put in to practice. The same could be said for the US as well.

What is the point of the Lib/Lab/Cons making promises at the next election? The chances are that they can promise us the earth and we will end up with none of the pledges even reaching the light of day. I don't expect any of them to get an overall majority next time out so they can say what they want, make a deal and then screw us in to the ground again!!

At the end of the day they all have very similar views, all are out to screw us over and all are looking after their own party interests above the people they represent.

I for one will never vote for ANY of the big three again!

Your MP is supposed to convey the view of their local constituency, not be follow the views of some millionaire Etonian that went to Oxbridge as things stand. Why do people act like sheep and assume that they have to make one of 2 or 3 choices? There are other options that can make a difference for you locally, chose them instead of voting in a headless puppet in future!!]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6435 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:52:18 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6435
"Pray as if everything depended upon God, act as if everything depended on you."

I think that this is consistent with the idea of NOMA, formulated by the biologist Stephen Gould. We exist in the material world; God exists in the spiritual world.

The context in which the idea of NOMA was formulated is summarized in my article about futile conflicts between theists and atheists:

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalsk...heist.html]]>
"Pray as if everything depended upon God, act as if everything depended on you."

I think that this is consistent with the idea of NOMA, formulated by the biologist Stephen Gould. We exist in the material world; God exists in the spiritual world.

The context in which the idea of NOMA was formulated is summarized in my article about futile conflicts between theists and atheists:

http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalsk...heist.html]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6434 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:49:57 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6434
This PBS video, broadcasted yesterday, is worth watching and thinking about.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2315729403

It is full of topics worth debating, either here or elsewhere. Please share the link with those who might also be interested.

Best wishes to all,

Ludwik Kowalski
http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html]]>
This PBS video, broadcasted yesterday, is worth watching and thinking about.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2315729403

It is full of topics worth debating, either here or elsewhere. Please share the link with those who might also be interested.

Best wishes to all,

Ludwik Kowalski
http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6429 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:46:08 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6429

Two recessions during the Bush years started about the same time,
one in Jan. of 2001 and the second in Feb. of 2008.

Lets compare the two recovery's by job creation During the recovery!


January 20, 2012
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2...etter.html
Romney the Dork
"The president's policies have made the recession deeper and have made the recovery
more tepid and more difficult on the American people. This is the worst recovery
that we have seen from a recession since Hoover.


Romney claims that he can read a balance sheet?
How often does 500,000 jobs come up on the federal Gov. balance sheet?

Romney
“We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month,”
Romney said during an interview on Fox News. “This is way, way, way off from
what should happen in a normal recovery.”

The first 40 months of the two recessions are in these graphs.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ce
Total Private Employment - CES0500000001

http://tiptank.freeservers.com/images/jo...ines_1.jpg

http://tiptank.freeservers.com/images/jo...ines_2.jpg


2001...............2008
Private ..........Private
sector-----------sector

1.....-46.....1.....41
2......-8.....2...-136
3.....-67.....3...-112
4....-329.....4...-215
5.....-81.....5...-216
6....-236.....6...-231
7....-173.....7...-259
8....-188.....8...-294
9....-267.....9...-425
10...-364....10...-480
11...-346....11...-797
12...-207....12...-658
13...-151....13...-839
14...-159....14...-725
15....-65....15...-787
16....-96....16...-802
17....-80....17...-312
18.....12....18...-426
19....-95....19...-296
20....-56....20...-219
21....-12....21...-184
22...-108....22...-232
23....-14....23....-42
24...-170....24...-120
25.....57....25....-40
26...-157....26....-27
27...-199....27....141
28....-34....28....193
29.....19....29.....84
30....-39....30.....92
31.....-2....31.....92
32.....32....32....128
33....161....33....115
34....143....34....196
35.....37....35....134
36....108....36....140
37....170....37....119
38.....32....38....257
39....299....39....261
40....223....40....264

-----1,205 -------2,216

Later months.

------------------------1,205 -----------------------------2,216
May-2004-41 ---310 ---1,515 ------May-2011-41 ---108 ---2,324
Jun-2004-42 -----94 ---1,609 ------Jun-2011-42 ----102 ---2,426
Jul-2004-43 ------41 ---1,650 ------Jul-2011-43 -----175 --2,601
Aug-2004-44 ----102 ---1,752 ------Aug-2011-44 ----52 ---2,653
Sep-2004-45 ----152 ---1,904 ------Sep-2011-45 ---216 ---2,869
Oct-2004-46 ----327 ---2,231 ------Oct-2011-46 ---139 ---3,008
Nov-2004-47 -----27 ---2,258 ------Nov-2011-47 ---178 ---3,186
Dec-2004-48 ----133 ---2,391 ------Dec-2011-48 ---234 ---3,420
Jan-2005-49 -----95 ---2,486 ------Jan-2012-49 ----277 ---3,697
Feb-2005-50 ----231 ---2,717 ------Feb-2012-50 ---254 ---3,951
Mar-2005-51 ----145 ---2,862 ------Mar-2012-51 ---147 ---4,098
Apr-2005-52 ----346 ---3,208 ------Apr-2012-52 -----87 ---4,185
May-2005-53 ---143 ---3,351 ------May-2012-53 -----82 ---4,267
Jun-2005-54 ----261 ---3,612 ------Jun-2012-54 -----84 ---4,351


54 months after the job losses started Keynesian economics is
739 thousand jobs ahead of supply side economics.


From Jan 2001 to Jan 2009, the economy lost 646,000 private sector jobs.
This is a failed policy. Supply side failed. Period.

Jan --2001 ---------111,631
Jan --2009 ---------110 985 ---------Minus 646,000 ---Minus 0.06%

From Jan 2001 to Feb 2010, the full length of the supply-side experiment
the economy LOST almost five million jobs.
This is a failed policy. Supply side failed. Period.

Jan --2001 --------111,631
Feb --2010 --------106,773 ----Minus-------4,858,000 ---Minus 4.4%

In the 24 months of job losses during the Bush recession the economy lost
almost nine million private sector jobs.
This is a failed policy. Supply side failed. Period.

Jan 2008 --115,647
Feb 2010 --106,773 --minus 8,874,000 private sector jobs.
This is a failed policy. Supply side failed. Period.

From Jan 2001 to Feb 2010, the full length of the supply-side experiment
the Manufacturing sector lost five million 650 thousand jobs.

Jan --2001 ---17,112
Feb --2010 ---11,462 ---Minus 5,650
This is a failed policy. Supply side failed. Period.

The Bush supply side recession lost 8,874,000 private sector jobs then they
say Obama is not getting them back quick enough.


-----Bluecoller, the grumpy old kraut-----]]>

Two recessions during the Bush years started about the same time,
one in Jan. of 2001 and the second in Feb. of 2008.

Lets compare the two recovery's by job creation During the recovery!


January 20, 2012
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2...etter.html
Romney the Dork
"The president's policies have made the recession deeper and have made the recovery
more tepid and more difficult on the American people. This is the worst recovery
that we have seen from a recession since Hoover.


Romney claims that he can read a balance sheet?
How often does 500,000 jobs come up on the federal Gov. balance sheet?

Romney
“We should be seeing numbers in the 500,000 jobs created per month,”
Romney said during an interview on Fox News. “This is way, way, way off from
what should happen in a normal recovery.”

The first 40 months of the two recessions are in these graphs.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ce
Total Private Employment - CES0500000001

http://tiptank.freeservers.com/images/jo...ines_1.jpg

http://tiptank.freeservers.com/images/jo...ines_2.jpg


2001...............2008
Private ..........Private
sector-----------sector

1.....-46.....1.....41
2......-8.....2...-136
3.....-67.....3...-112
4....-329.....4...-215
5.....-81.....5...-216
6....-236.....6...-231
7....-173.....7...-259
8....-188.....8...-294
9....-267.....9...-425
10...-364....10...-480
11...-346....11...-797
12...-207....12...-658
13...-151....13...-839
14...-159....14...-725
15....-65....15...-787
16....-96....16...-802
17....-80....17...-312
18.....12....18...-426
19....-95....19...-296
20....-56....20...-219
21....-12....21...-184
22...-108....22...-232
23....-14....23....-42
24...-170....24...-120
25.....57....25....-40
26...-157....26....-27
27...-199....27....141
28....-34....28....193
29.....19....29.....84
30....-39....30.....92
31.....-2....31.....92
32.....32....32....128
33....161....33....115
34....143....34....196
35.....37....35....134
36....108....36....140
37....170....37....119
38.....32....38....257
39....299....39....261
40....223....40....264

-----1,205 -------2,216

Later months.

------------------------1,205 -----------------------------2,216
May-2004-41 ---310 ---1,515 ------May-2011-41 ---108 ---2,324
Jun-2004-42 -----94 ---1,609 ------Jun-2011-42 ----102 ---2,426
Jul-2004-43 ------41 ---1,650 ------Jul-2011-43 -----175 --2,601
Aug-2004-44 ----102 ---1,752 ------Aug-2011-44 ----52 ---2,653
Sep-2004-45 ----152 ---1,904 ------Sep-2011-45 ---216 ---2,869
Oct-2004-46 ----327 ---2,231 ------Oct-2011-46 ---139 ---3,008
Nov-2004-47 -----27 ---2,258 ------Nov-2011-47 ---178 ---3,186
Dec-2004-48 ----133 ---2,391 ------Dec-2011-48 ---234 ---3,420
Jan-2005-49 -----95 ---2,486 ------Jan-2012-49 ----277 ---3,697
Feb-2005-50 ----231 ---2,717 ------Feb-2012-50 ---254 ---3,951
Mar-2005-51 ----145 ---2,862 ------Mar-2012-51 ---147 ---4,098
Apr-2005-52 ----346 ---3,208 ------Apr-2012-52 -----87 ---4,185
May-2005-53 ---143 ---3,351 ------May-2012-53 -----82 ---4,267
Jun-2005-54 ----261 ---3,612 ------Jun-2012-54 -----84 ---4,351


54 months after the job losses started Keynesian economics is
739 thousand jobs ahead of supply side economics.


From Jan 2001 to Jan 2009, the economy lost 646,000 private sector jobs.
This is a failed policy. Supply side failed. Period.

Jan --2001 ---------111,631
Jan --2009 ---------110 985 ---------Minus 646,000 ---Minus 0.06%

From Jan 2001 to Feb 2010, the full length of the supply-side experiment
the economy LOST almost five million jobs.
This is a failed policy. Supply side failed. Period.

Jan --2001 --------111,631
Feb --2010 --------106,773 ----Minus-------4,858,000 ---Minus 4.4%

In the 24 months of job losses during the Bush recession the economy lost
almost nine million private sector jobs.
This is a failed policy. Supply side failed. Period.

Jan 2008 --115,647
Feb 2010 --106,773 --minus 8,874,000 private sector jobs.
This is a failed policy. Supply side failed. Period.

From Jan 2001 to Feb 2010, the full length of the supply-side experiment
the Manufacturing sector lost five million 650 thousand jobs.

Jan --2001 ---17,112
Feb --2010 ---11,462 ---Minus 5,650
This is a failed policy. Supply side failed. Period.

The Bush supply side recession lost 8,874,000 private sector jobs then they
say Obama is not getting them back quick enough.


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http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/theo/atheist.html

Please share this link with other potential readers. Thank you in advance,

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Please share this link with other potential readers. Thank you in advance,

Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia) ]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6420 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:52:12 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6420
If there were no minimum wage many additional lower wage jobs would be created.
The vast majority of those newly induced jobs would be what we now describe as sub-minimal wage paying jobs that do not justify the current $7.25/Hr. federal minimum wage rate.

It’s not inconceivable that the market price for such “sub-minimum” tasks may be as low as a half dollar per hour. How much can we pay for someone to straighten salvaged carpenter nails for reuse? We could reduce the price of transportation by replacing many NY City cabs and drivers with young men operating rickshaws.

[U.S. railroads have been in disrepair for over a quarter of a century. Our trains run at 50MPH but in Asia and Europe they’re running trains at 200 to 300 MPH. They have much fewer automobiles and consume less petroleum per capita but their public transportation is generally more wide spread and effective].

Do you think enabling rickshaws to be financially viable by eliminating our minimum wage regulations would decrease our transportation, energy and pollution problems?]

There are many job tasks that do not justify the minimum rate but they now exist because their performance is necessary to our public or private enterprises. Those jobs will continue to exist but their wage levels will plunge down to sub-minimum rates.

Sub-minimum jobs will be the vast majority of additional jobs created and (because many of those qualified to perform sub-minimum tasks were previously not qualified for employment at minimum wage rates), we’ll have a pool of eligible labor that will far exceed the number of those additional jobs.

The affect of those extremely poor paying jobs will ripple throughout our entire labor market. All labor compensation will be somewhat affected but the general extent of the effect upon a task’s wage rate will be inversely related to the difference between the purchasing power of the eliminated minimum wage rate and the job’s rate; (i.e. the more you’re earning, the less you’re hurting. That’s the meaning of minimum wage rate’s inverse affect upon all jobs’ rates).

Lower wage earners will all then be paid in wages of extremely poor purchasing power. Prior to the elimination of the minimum wage rate, many of those now earning the lesser purchasing powered wages will have been unemployed or not worked steadily but they will be joined by those who already had been the working poor and some who were previously getting by slightly better. There’ll be net increased needs for public assistance and our states can’t now handle the present needs.
That’s a scenario of increased national poverty.

I ‘m a proponent of an annually cost of living adjusted minimum wage rate similar to the annually COLA’d Social Security benefits.

Respectfully, Supposn]]>
If there were no minimum wage many additional lower wage jobs would be created.
The vast majority of those newly induced jobs would be what we now describe as sub-minimal wage paying jobs that do not justify the current $7.25/Hr. federal minimum wage rate.

It’s not inconceivable that the market price for such “sub-minimum” tasks may be as low as a half dollar per hour. How much can we pay for someone to straighten salvaged carpenter nails for reuse? We could reduce the price of transportation by replacing many NY City cabs and drivers with young men operating rickshaws.

[U.S. railroads have been in disrepair for over a quarter of a century. Our trains run at 50MPH but in Asia and Europe they’re running trains at 200 to 300 MPH. They have much fewer automobiles and consume less petroleum per capita but their public transportation is generally more wide spread and effective].

Do you think enabling rickshaws to be financially viable by eliminating our minimum wage regulations would decrease our transportation, energy and pollution problems?]

There are many job tasks that do not justify the minimum rate but they now exist because their performance is necessary to our public or private enterprises. Those jobs will continue to exist but their wage levels will plunge down to sub-minimum rates.

Sub-minimum jobs will be the vast majority of additional jobs created and (because many of those qualified to perform sub-minimum tasks were previously not qualified for employment at minimum wage rates), we’ll have a pool of eligible labor that will far exceed the number of those additional jobs.

The affect of those extremely poor paying jobs will ripple throughout our entire labor market. All labor compensation will be somewhat affected but the general extent of the effect upon a task’s wage rate will be inversely related to the difference between the purchasing power of the eliminated minimum wage rate and the job’s rate; (i.e. the more you’re earning, the less you’re hurting. That’s the meaning of minimum wage rate’s inverse affect upon all jobs’ rates).

Lower wage earners will all then be paid in wages of extremely poor purchasing power. Prior to the elimination of the minimum wage rate, many of those now earning the lesser purchasing powered wages will have been unemployed or not worked steadily but they will be joined by those who already had been the working poor and some who were previously getting by slightly better. There’ll be net increased needs for public assistance and our states can’t now handle the present needs.
That’s a scenario of increased national poverty.

I ‘m a proponent of an annually cost of living adjusted minimum wage rate similar to the annually COLA’d Social Security benefits.

Respectfully, Supposn]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6412 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:01:57 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6412 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6398 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:28:17 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6398 http://therebirth.webs.com/
It was linked on a video, which was about this… An Anonymous video.
I agree with most of what’s on the site.]]> http://therebirth.webs.com/
It was linked on a video, which was about this… An Anonymous video.
I agree with most of what’s on the site.]]> http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6392 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:10:45 +0000 http://www.letpoliticstalk.com/showthread.php?tid=6392
Newt's got the weight, but I think his lack of mobility might hinder him
Ron Paul would get thrown and crushed in seconds
It's close between Mitt and Santorum, however. Mitt looks like a stronger guy but Santorum might have some tricks up his sleeve

What do YOU think???
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Newt's got the weight, but I think his lack of mobility might hinder him
Ron Paul would get thrown and crushed in seconds
It's close between Mitt and Santorum, however. Mitt looks like a stronger guy but Santorum might have some tricks up his sleeve

What do YOU think???
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Nations’ entire production of goods and service products contribute to their GDPs but prices of individual products do not always reflect the entire goods and services that supported the production of those products.
Also individual product prices certainly do not reflect their productions’ inducement of additional goods or services productions.

All production contributes to producing nations’ gross domestic product, (GDP). The production is not statistically lost; but to the extent that production costs of globally traded goods are understated, nations’ global trade imbalances’ affects upon their GDPs are not fully attributed to global trade.

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For example governments often induce producers to establish their factories within their jurisdictions by granting them favorable tax considerations or providing infrastructure that’s particularly favorable to targeted enterprises. Governments and other non–profits often co-operate by favoring enterprises with research, loans of equipment, or access to their expertise. These production supports are of lesser or no cost to the favored enterprises and thus those enterprises products are lesser priced.

All of a nation’s production, (including production support that’s not reflected within produced products prices), are included within the producing nations’ GDPs.

But domestic production support not included within the supported export products are not to that extent attributed as exports’ contributions to the producing nation’s GDP.

Production of products can support or induce the production of other unrelated products.
For example increasing the production rate of export goods can increase the factory’s payroll and induce increasing revenues for local beauty parlor service products.
This is an additional example of exports additionally increasing the nation’s GDP but the addition is not attributed to the nation’s global trade.

[We cannot spend the same money twice. That’s why the GDP calculation formulas are reduced by the amount of the nation’s imports.
When U.S. purchasers perceiving their own individual benefits chose to purchase imported products their transaction reduces their nations’ GDPs. Trade surpluses increase their nations’ GDPs.]

Trade surpluses ALWAYS contribute and trade deficits are ALWAYS detrimental to their nations’ GDPs.
This is baked into the formula defining and calculating GDP; it is not matters of opinion.

Respectfully, Supposn]]>
Nations’ entire production of goods and service products contribute to their GDPs but prices of individual products do not always reflect the entire goods and services that supported the production of those products.
Also individual product prices certainly do not reflect their productions’ inducement of additional goods or services productions.

All production contributes to producing nations’ gross domestic product, (GDP). The production is not statistically lost; but to the extent that production costs of globally traded goods are understated, nations’ global trade imbalances’ affects upon their GDPs are not fully attributed to global trade.

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For example governments often induce producers to establish their factories within their jurisdictions by granting them favorable tax considerations or providing infrastructure that’s particularly favorable to targeted enterprises. Governments and other non–profits often co-operate by favoring enterprises with research, loans of equipment, or access to their expertise. These production supports are of lesser or no cost to the favored enterprises and thus those enterprises products are lesser priced.

All of a nation’s production, (including production support that’s not reflected within produced products prices), are included within the producing nations’ GDPs.

But domestic production support not included within the supported export products are not to that extent attributed as exports’ contributions to the producing nation’s GDP.

Production of products can support or induce the production of other unrelated products.
For example increasing the production rate of export goods can increase the factory’s payroll and induce increasing revenues for local beauty parlor service products.
This is an additional example of exports additionally increasing the nation’s GDP but the addition is not attributed to the nation’s global trade.

[We cannot spend the same money twice. That’s why the GDP calculation formulas are reduced by the amount of the nation’s imports.
When U.S. purchasers perceiving their own individual benefits chose to purchase imported products their transaction reduces their nations’ GDPs. Trade surpluses increase their nations’ GDPs.]

Trade surpluses ALWAYS contribute and trade deficits are ALWAYS detrimental to their nations’ GDPs.
This is baked into the formula defining and calculating GDP; it is not matters of opinion.

Respectfully, Supposn]]>