My employeer, albertsons, recently shut down my store. While business was going great, the company decided to re-0pen as a subsidiary that specializes in high end gourmet food and catering services. While owned by albertsons, Bristol Farms is not under union contract; they operate under their own employment regulations. My union has decided to fight this change. They proclaim that the company is going to change all their stores to bristol farms, and that all the current employees will lose their jobs to this non-union store. They even made a website just to stop Albertsons! While this struggle between...
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The dangers of many perilous jobs in capitalism became apparent today when 13 miners became trapped in a coalmine in W. Virginia. The miners became trapped after a lighting strike caused an explosion. While the needs of capitalism such as profit and expansion are met on a daily basis, the needs of the people who work to create the profit are not always a priority. While cave-ins of coalmines are part of the job of coalminers, putting people in situation where they could die to create profit should not be part of our society. The alternatives that socialism would...
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Is this issue of “Happy Holiday” vs. “Merry Christmas” really an issue? I mean, it wasn’t last year, or the year before that, and while new issues spring up all the time, I don’t think anything has changed that would somehow make “Merry Christmas” an issue. While many Christians, and right wing media pundits, are calling for boycotts of companies that advertise “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”, I think these people are a little confused. First off, nowhere in the Bible does it say to celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ. While I am no Biblical scholar, I...
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On Tuesday night, the numbers for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot, which is played in 12 U.S. states, where picked for the $315 million jackpot. The winners, who where 7 hospital employees from Orange County (a.k.a. The OC), will each be getting $45 million. Despite their newfound riches, they all showed up to work on Wednesday, and bought their staff lunch. While none of these 7 will ever have to work again, they have the option of choosing to do so if they wish. They could spend their money on numerous expensive items, take a trip around the world,...
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While not as big as the presidential election we see every four years, many states have important votes that will determine how capitalism will continue to be administered by the politicians, some of whom are being voted for today as well. Cities such as New York and my own San Diego have mayor elections, while the states of Maine and Texas have gay-rights measures. The workers Virginia and New Jersey vote for new governors, and perhaps the most famous state governor, The Govenator, is pushing for a set of measures that will give him the power to fix Caleeforneeya....
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Saturday in Argentina marked the end of the two-day FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) summit. The summit ended with the leaders of 34 nations unable to agree on when to restart talks that will create a trade zone from Alaska to Chile. While supporters for the “free” trade zone think it will create more jobs for Latin Americans and open up new markets in the US, the proponents of the FTAA think that it will only serve enslave Latin Americans. While the leaders of the 38 countries sat at their summit and argued over the pros and...
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Presidents Bush’s satisfaction numbers are dwindling across the US, with the war on terror, Iraq, the lack of preparedness for bad weather, and Karl Rove leading the way as the causes. To save his legacy as the man who freed Iraq and ended the world wide terrorist threat, Bush finds himself making decisions that will not reinforce his legacy but save it. On Tuesday (Nov. 1st), President Bush announced plans for spending 7.1 billion dollars to prepare the US for bird flu out break on US soil. The money will be split between stock piling and producing different vaccines...
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Our Ship is Finally Coming In!
If capitalism was a circus, the current hype created by the UAE Company buying six US ports is a sideshow. The Bush administration accepts the move as capitalism as usual, while congress and media pundits run around like the sky is falling, trying to whip the citizens into a fury. I don’t understand what the big deal is. These ports are already owned by a foreign company, based in London, and even after 9/11, only 5% of all cargo containers brought in on the huge cargo ships are searched. It seems to me that the chance for terrorists to...
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