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Comment on You Cannot Dismiss Health Care Objections as a ‘Lot of Noise’ by ED PIPIK

ED PIPIK — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:50:43 +0000

BEGGING ALL TO VOTE NO ON THE HEALTH BILL

Comment on Workplace Safety Improves; Let’s Not Abandon Successful Approach by New OSHA Legislation Should Focus on Making Workplace Safer – Working for Safety

New OSHA Legislation Should Focus on Making Workplace Safer – Working for Safety — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:36:41 +0000

[...] several years we’ve seen continued improvement in workplace injury and illness rates. This improvement is largely the result of a new approach to [...]

Comment on Embracing Bicycles at Expense of Freight, Jobs, Reality by Cold Fury » Government Bikers: Let A Thousand Pedals Bloom

Cold Fury » Government Bikers: Let A Thousand Pedals Bloom — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:32:26 +0000

[...] Shopfloor, the blog of those evil businessmen who want to impose jobs on all of us the National Association of Manufacturers: Treating bicycles and other non-motorized transportation as equal to motorized transportation [...]

Comment on Embracing Bicycles at Expense of Freight, Jobs, Reality by Unit

Unit — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:52:07 +0000

Perhaps you need to re-read the statement. It speaks and implies nothing of ignoring freight concerns. If you cared enough to actually research the issue, you’d learn that the creation of safe and adequate bicycle facilities actually lessen interference to traffic (including freight) by cyclists, while simultaneously giving cyclists a safe place to ride. You’d also learn that many American lives would be saved by improved pedestrian and bicycle design practices (see results pertaining to safety of pedestrians, bicyclists, and motor vehicle occupants in practically every other first-world nation on earth). And you’d learn that this can be done without creating new freight bottlenecks.

So, you can focus on your apparently narrow worldview and not be disappointed, while others with other perspectives are actually reasonably accomodated too. But perhaps you think that it’s preferrable for us to have the most dangerous transportation system in the first world? If we follow your logic, we will certainly remain that way.

Comment on CPSIA Update: House Energy and Commerce Offers Fix by Does the Fix Need a Fix? « Conversations with Consumers

Does the Fix Need a Fix? « Conversations with Consumers — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:31:55 +0000

[...] Does the Fix Need a Fix? Published March 15, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a Comment On February 5, I wrote here that the Congress was considering making changes to the CPSIA. That’s moved to the next step: the five CPSC Commissioners have now been asked to comment on draft legislation to address the unintended consequences of the CPSIA. Because it has not yet been introduced, it is not officially available but you can read the draft bill analyzed in several blogs including Learning Resources and Shopfloor. [...]

Comment on Rockin’ the Bakken: The Grand Success of Domestic Energy by CEA

CEA — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:21:37 +0000

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Comment on A Spirited Debate on the Value of Four-Year College Educations by Karl

Karl — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:55:57 +0000

The safe statement that “depending on the student, offer more rewarding education and career opportunities….” may be true but there is tons of evidence that proves a college education gives you a better chance at continual employment.

As Judge Smails said “Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.”

Still, a college education is a proven benefit. I just wish I had gone.

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm

Comment on Hatch: President Should Not Recess Appoint Becker to NLRB by Sen. Hatch Says Down the Hatch with NLRB Nominee Craig Becker | thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:14:23 +0000

[...] answer? Nope. No. Nein. The Senator said: The man is off the wall. He’s very smart, I mean, I don’t mean to demean him. He’s a smart [...]

Comment on Workplace Safety Improves; Let’s Not Abandon Successful Approach by OSHA Listens, Manufacturers Speak – Working for Safety

OSHA Listens, Manufacturers Speak – Working for Safety — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:47:20 +0000

[...] for how OSHA can assist employers to make workplaces safer. First, it’s important to realize that our workplaces have continued to become safer. Second, policymakers need to understand what efforts have helped [...]

Comment on President Releases Trade Agenda by Karl

Karl — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:32:54 +0000

Overwhelmingly, Americans think your version of free trade is bad for America. NAM and the Non-US Chamber of Commerce insist we are all wrong. Honestly, we aren’t all sheep feeding at the corporate trough blindly nodding when you tell us your so called free trade agreements are good for us. We see the factories close, we see the lines of unemployed, we have friends who work at Wally World now instead of Whirlpool. I’ve seen molds pulled out of presses two days after NAFTA was implemented so they could be shipped 2 blocks over the border to take advantage of slave labor. I’ve seen your version of free trade and want nothing to do with it.

http://www.pollingreport.com/trade.htm