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ATC Sleeping Blame President Reagan

Falling asleep on the job? Drug tests? What is going on in those towers?

That's what the Federal Aviation Administration certainly wants to know. They've been conducting an investigation into the air traffic supervisor who reportedly fell asleep on the job at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, forcing two planes to land without assistance from the tower. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt told the Associated Pressthat, "As a former airline pilot, I am personally outraged that this controller did not meet his responsibility to help land these two airplanes."

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/25/faa-suspends-sleeping-supervisor-is-air-traffic-control-out-of-control/#ixzz1HfT60k67

 

  Let me say first if you are an employee working the graveyard (midnight) shift and you fall asleep then you have no excuse.  It may not be your normal shift, you may be working over time, they may have called you in at the last minute or it could be anything.  You might have been up all day and not able to sleep because of a family emergency.  You company may have had to come in in the middle of the day for meeting at work and then expect you to work the midnight shift.  But if you fall asleep at work you have no excuse and you are guilty.
  I have never counted up how many years I worked the midnight shift.  I worked the midnight shift at a number of different hospitals.  I worked at one hospital for 11 years on the midnight shift.  I am an expert on working the graveyard shift.
  Working midnights is hard.  In fact it is a killer.  If you work midnights you have all sorts of medical conditions that you are may get.  You will be sicker more often and sicker when you are and you will have more family problems.  You can expect to die sooner.  The midnight shift is truly a killer.
  
  During my years as a hospital security officer I found a lot of employees asleep on the job.  We are talking ICU nurses, ER nurses and lots of other employees.
  I also have seen police officer sleeping on duty.  At one hospital and that was during the day shift two police officers fell asleep in their car in our parking lot.  They were “watching” a bank that they expected to be held up.  They were a special unit.  Their car ran out of gas while they were sleeping. 
  At one hospital, a Jewish hospital, we received a threat, phone call, and the hospital had security go on 12 hour shifts.  Plus they had the local police supply us with an off duty police officer for each shift as extra help.  The police officer that worked the midnight shift came to work with his own red pillow.  He took his car into the parking garage and parked up on a level that had no cars and he went to sleep and would sleep all night. 

  I also have worked security on the midnight shift at two different ATC control towers.

  Now I have said that the employee was at fault.  Who else is at fault and who is responsible for the ATC mess and problems like this one?
  Two Presidents of the United States;  President Ronald Reagan and President George W. Bush.  I have talked about them and the problems they have caused with our ATC system here in this blog.  Plus I just recently said that we would be having more problems because of the actions of those two. 
  I am not going to repeat it all here and now.  I am going today or tomorrow create a YouTube video on the subject and I will tell you what they did to cause this problem and other major problems that put you and your family and our nation at risk.

Judge blocks anti-union Wi Law!

“MADISON (WKOW) -- In a stirring, swift decision,  Dane County judge Maryann Sumi stopped Governor Walker's controversial budget repair bill in its tracks, issuing a temporary restraining order and stating Wisconsin's open meetings law was probably violated when a legislative conference committee rushed the bill through to the state Senate.

"We own our government,"  Sumi told a crowded courtroom, as she likened the people's stake in what happens in the legislature to the stake individual stockholders have in the operation and fortunes of the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers.

Sumi said the law providing access to government meetings is "...not a minor detail," in rejecting arguments by assistant attorneys general that fines were sufficient penalties against lawmakers, if an open meetings law violation occurred…”

 

  Well well…  What do you think of that? 
It sounds like the state knew they broke the law and wanted just some fines so they could put the anti-worker, anti-union, anti-teacher, anti-public employee law into effect and the judge sent them a message. 

Union

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Fire the worker or tax the rich

  Banks, Wall Street, big Corporations and Republicans fucked us.  They caused the current economic problems.  
  The banks, Wall Street, the insurance corporations and others caused the  economic problems.  We, the workers, bailed them out of the mess they caused.  They were about to go down the toilet and we, the workers and tax payers, reached down into the toilet and pulled them out of it.

  Because of President Bush and  big business times are hard and our nation has money problems.

  Why is it that we decide to fire workers, bust unions and take away benefits from the American people AND give big tax breaks to the rich?
  Why do we decide to punish the little guy and reward the fat cat?

  It seems to me that our first response should be tax the rich.  Or in this case first not give them our money.  Not give the rich tax breaks.
  Would that fix the problem.  I do not know.  If taxing the rich does not fix the problem then we would have to look for other ways to fix the problem.
  Oh when I say tax the rich I am saying put taxes on banks, insurance corporations, Wall Street and the other fat cats that been fucking us for years.

  I think doing the above would fix the problem.
  If it does not fix the problem then we have to decide what to do next.
  Do we cut benefits of the people. Do we fire workers.   (Busting unions for me would never be a option. They are not the problem.)
  If taxing the rich and corporations does not fix the problem I would not go as the next step to cutting food, heath care and benefits of the poor.
  My next step would be to look at who is hurting us.  Were is the pain coming from?  Is it health care cost and health care insurance costs?  If that is the case then we we have to take them over and make them government owned. 
  I am not saying that we go into the local hospital with guns and force out the owners.  We would take them over and the owners would sit on a board with us and we would see that they got back their investment and some profits.  We would just own the hospital. 
  We would start, of course, with for profit heath care insurance corporations.

  Why is it OK to fire teachers, police officers, fire fighters and others first but it is not OK to go after the bankers and others that cause the pain and suffering?

Gov. Scott Walker makes threats

“(CNN) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday warned 14 absent lawmakers trying to stall his controversial budget bill to return to the state Capitol immediately to vote on the measure, or layoff notices will be sent to 1,500 public employees before the weekend.

"Unfortunately if we don't have action by tomorrow we have a legal and moral obligation to start forewarning people," Walker said a Thursday night press conference.

The layoffs would take effect April 1, the governor said…”

 

  Pretty fucking cold, heartless and cruel if you ask me.  Gov. Walker in that hoax phone call made it clear that he did not care about people at all.  He even said in the phone call that he was going to use the layoffs to punish workers and unions.
  He showed what a low life he is…I am surprised that after that phone call came out that he has the never to go ahead and fire those workers.
  Those are 1500 people that are going to be without jobs.  No money coming in and I am sure most of them have children.
  
  If I was the Gov. of the state I would be trying to create jobs and save jobs. 

  The polls out in the last day or two show that if the election were held now he would lose the election.  He is losing more and more support each day.
  I do not think his firing 1500 people is going to get him more support.

Fort Worth student brings …

Fort Worth student brings sackful of change to school so teachers can keep their jobs
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03/02/2891670/fort-worth-student-brings-sackful.html#ixzz1FXHfdit8

 

“BY EVA-MARIE AYALA

[email protected]

FORT WORTH -- Second-grader Maria Meneses is afraid of losing her teachers.

She considers those at Diamond Hill Elementary School her friends, and if the Fort Worth school district has to lay off any of them, the 8-year-old would be sad.

So she walked into the school Wednesday morning with a sackful of change and handed it to her principal.

"I thought I would bring some of my money from my college fund to my school so more teachers wouldn't get fired because I don't want anyone to go away," Maria said.

"I had to do something to try and help them because they help me. Every single teacher I've had has helped me."

Maria said her classmates have been talking about how teachers might lose their jobs. When she saw more stories about school budgets on the news Tuesday night -- Fort Worth is facing up to $80 million in state funding cuts over the next two years -- she decided to help.

Principal Ellen Verreault and many office staffers cried at the girl's gesture, surprised that students are so aware of the financial struggles…”

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03/02/2891670/fort-worth-student-brings-sackful.html#ixzz1FXHqp110

 

  I wonder if Fox “news” and other right wing blogs will be reporting this story.  My guess is they will not.  Or they will report that teachers and union thugs held a gun to the head of the little girl and made her do it.
  Or Fox “news”  and RedState blog will report that it is some sort of Communist plot.
  This story so much shows how important teachers are to children.  It also shows the heart and soul of real America.

Fox Lies - Cenk Busts Fox News On MSNBC

Cenk Uygur gives examples of lies told on Fox News (with Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Megyn Kelly and others) in light of Wisconsin protesters calling out the network for lying.

Workers Defend Their Rights in Wisconsin & Ohio

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Over the last two weeks, tens of thousands of workers and their supporters have flooded the Wisconsin and Ohio state capitols, pushing back on their newly-elected Republican Governors' attempts to revoke collective bargaining rights for public workers.
Other than the flashes of anger Ohio crowds showed when they were curiously shut out of their statehouse, the protests have been entirely peaceful, even jovial, with the Wisconsin capitol having an atmosphere similar to a pep rally.
WI Gov. Scott Walker and OH Gov. John Kasich have claimed budget crisis as the impetus for their efforts, but their accounting is spurious, and unions have already agreed to reductions in pay and benefits. Wisconsin public workers have yielded to all of Walker's fiscal requests, making Gov. Walker's insistence that he must cut collective bargaining rights to cut the deficit even more dubious.
Many of those we interviewed, including union leaders, did not believe that the revocation of their rights was necessary to balance budgets, but was rather part of a coordinated effort to dismantle unions and reduce their large financial and organizational contributions to progressive politics.
As Governors Walker and Kasich hold staunch, refusing even to negotiate, the protests in Wisconsin and Ohio continue, joined by thousands of others from states across the nation.
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Wisconsin Protesters Need To Leave the Building

“(CNN) -- Union workers and activists celebrated in the Wisconsin Capitol early Monday, as police relented and let them spend another night on the marble floors of the building's rotunda.

"This is a huge, huge moment and that's why you are seeing dancing and hearing drumming," protester David Wasserman told CNN affiliate WISN. "It's a party."

Authorities had given demonstrators until late Sunday afternoon to leave the building, saying it needed to be cleaned after roughly two weeks of protests…”

 

  Most of the protesters have now left and others say they will leave.  They should all leave. They did their protest. 
  Some protesters say they are not going to leave and will be arrested.  That is OK if they want to do that form of protest.  They should NOT however force the police to carry them out.  The police support them and their cause but carrying dead weight out of the building is going to be hard.  It will be hard on the offices backs for one thing.  So if they want to be arrested they should tell the police they refuse to leave but if they are arrested they will walk without resisting to the police cars.
 
  Gov. Scott Walker left the police and fire unions out of his union busting plans for this first go around.  That was smart of him but the police and firemen all know that when he is done with these unions he is going to bust their unions next.  They can bet their lives on that fact.

  What the workers of Wisconsin need to do now is make sure that in one year that Gov. Walker is removed from office by a re-call election.  They need to send a message nation wide to the Republican corporate shills that they will pay a heavy price for worker bashing and union busting.
  Labor unions more than anything else made America great for people.  (The other thing that made America great for people was the WWII GI bill of rights.)

  It looks like, for right now, Gov. Scott Walker is going to win his battle.  He has the power and he has the votes.  There are also a lot of stupid Americans that do not know history and also that are jealous of the benefits that union workers got over the years by membership in a union.

  My father was a union man his entire life.  When I was in grade school I think the rate of pay for workers was about 50 cents an hour.  My father made $4.40 an hour.  My father was a boilermaker.  (Local 83 of The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers.)

  There are dark days ahead for all of Americans except for the rich fat corporation cats.  The Republican Party, at last, is going to have their way and turn back history.  Workers are going to end up being slaves of rich men again.  There will not be a union to stand and fight for us.  We will be alone naked standing against the powerful corporations. 

People of WI in their own words

We Are Wisconsin from Finn Ryan on Vimeo.