Congress Strikes Back: Gives Taxpayers a 4% Approval Rating

Washington -- Still stinging from the lowly 10% approval rating it received from the American public, Congress has taken revenge, bestowing a measly four percent approval rating on taxpaying citizens. “Taxpayers...

Worker Rights

Applying to a law firm just today and recalling my experiences at BellSouth/att has impelled me to create this list. The prime motivating factor is corporate greed and diminishing worker rights. We need to strike nationally, perhaps internationally, in order to reestablish...

Jobs focus is for simple minded

Get real If you were to start up a new business, the first thing that I would advise is to 1) identify prospective customer needs, 2) qualify customers as to their means to procure solutions, 3) assess competition...

American economy on slow mend as President Obama predicted

Optimizing return on national resources President Obama knew this would be a slow recovery, and so do to most thinking Americans. However, the systemic flaws in the current economic model and American System of...

Starbucks to create 5,000 new UK jobs

Global coffeehouse chain Starbucks has revealed plans to create up to 5,000 jobs over the next five years as it ramps up its drive-through business in the UK. The 30-year-old coffee giant wants to expand the...

Hilton Hotels To Create 1,500 Jobs In UK

Hilton is to create around 1,500 jobs as part of an expansion plan in the UK, which will see 20 new hotels being built over the next few years. The firm is also expecting to open more than 110 new hotels across...

Toyota create 1,500 jobs at the firm's UK Derbyshire factory.

Toyota said it would be investing more than £100m at Burnaston to make it the sole European centre for making its next hatchback. Prime Minister David Cameron, who visited the factory on Thursday, said it was...

Now Is The Time For A New Direction

"These are the times that try men's souls." When Thomas Paine made that statement little did he visualize what the United States would be like today. How appros for our times The United States is in and has been in a sociological, economical, and physiological...

Get a job: “I did.”

Self-employed This guy dropped out of NYU to make it on the streets of NYC. He applied for a job at FoxNews and they told him, “Get some experience.” He said, “OK.” " “Help Me Make Fun of Fox News...

“If you don’t have a job, you should be here”

“If you don’t have a job, you should be here” Protesting the lack of opportunity is a valid reason. Who can fix that? The President can’t fix it with government make-work jobs that the nation cannot afford...

Minneapolis Best Buy to cut holiday hires in half - Who to blame?

"As is this author’s normal routine a couple days per week, breakfast was enjoyed at the local Monticello MN McDonalds http://bit.ly/qvtHOm . (Their dollar Sweet Tea and dollar sausage burrito being the...

Bachmann’s economic fix: Change nation’s name to ‘Occupant'

Big Bluff, Minnesota - If Michele Bachmann is elected president, “America” would become “Occupant,” and the nation’s economic woes would disappear, according to an announcement issued today by the Republican contender’s campaign. The name change is the key...

The Burger King enters the Republican presidential race

Miami, Florida – Overthrown last month in a corporate food fight, the Burger King has vowed to regain his kingdom — the home of the Whopper — by becoming President of the United States. “I have been deposed by a pack of jackals and knaves,” the king said. “They...

Give’em hell Barry

Republicans are strict obstructionists   Give'em hell Barry, that is the inevitable headline at this point.   Being compared with Harry Truman at this point is a good thing. Obama has a way to go, but...

Sink the nation

Got solutions? If the GOP sinks the nation by sinking the jobs bill, GOP will go down with it. Don’t think that beating up Obama on the ropes is going to win the 2012 election. If Republicans don’t have...

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