The Greatest Crimes Against Humanity Are Perpetrated by People Just Doing Their Jobs

The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics. They do the little chores that make vast, complicated systems of exploitation and death a reality. They collect and read the personal data gathered on tens of millions of us by the [...]

USAID training foreign workers for English-speaking jobs

ShareThis USAID training foreign workers for English-speaking jobs 20 Apr 2012 While the president has been urging “insourcing,” the government has been sending money to the Philippines to train foreign workers for jobs in English-speaking call centers. According to New York Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop and North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones, this is unacceptable [...]

Unemployment ‘set to rise in 2012′

Unemployment will increase to 2.85 million in 2012, while the number of people in work will fall by 120,000 as jobs continue to be lost in the public sector, a new report has predicted. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) forecast that the jobless total will reach its highest since 1994, adding that [...]

The President’s Tax Proposal Would Cripple Charities

By Kathryn Hickok , Oregoncatalyst.com President Obama proposed once again that Congress reduce the federal itemized tax deduction for charitable contributions. He argues that people don’t give to charity to get a tax deduction and increased revenue could pay for other things (in the latest instance, his Jobs Act). “I’m assuming that that shouldn’t be [...]

Senate blocks votes on jobs bills

ShareThis Senate blocks votes on jobs bills –’Every single Republican in the United States Senate has chosen to obstruct.’ 21 Oct 2011 Democrats and Republicans tried to force versions of a jobs bill through the Senate late Thursday, but both fell short of the 60 votes [due to GOP obstruction on evvery bill] they would [...]

Senate Republican jobs bill urges tax reform and cuts

By Thomas Ferraro | Reuters Senate Republicans, having rejected President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, offered a sweeping and largely repackaged plan of their own on Thursday. Their “Jobs Through Growth Act” features a fresh call for tax reform and cuts as well as a number of components previously proposed, but stalled in the Democratic-led Senate. [...]

Crony Capitalism: $737 Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law

Despite the growing Solyndra scandal, yesterday the Department of Energy approved $1 billion in new loans to green energy companies — including a $737 million loan guarantee to a company known as SolarReserve: SolarReserve LLC, a closely held renewable energy developer, received a $737 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee to build a solar-thermal project [...]

$200K Per Job? Timothy Geithner Says White House Jobs Plan Is Still a Bargain

By BEN FORER, ABCNews.com Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner didn’t dispute a Harvard economist’s estimate that each job in the White House’s jobs plan would cost $ 200,000, but said the pricetag is the wrong way to measure the bill’s worth. And he also pointed out, in an interview today with ABC News’ David Muir, that [...]

Conservative Nabs Naming Rights to ‘American Jobs Act’ After Obama Delay

By Rob Bluey, The Foundry President Obama repeatedly asked members of Congress to pass the American Jobs Act last week. But when no Democrat filed Obama’s bill after he presented it to Congress, a conservative congressman swiped the name for his own legislation. The American Jobs Act introduced in the House of Representatives looks quite [...]

What withdrawal? Obama wants $100 million prison in Afghanistan

(RT)   While President Obama insists that the US will save $ 1 trillion over the next decade by pulling out of the Afghan War, he has devoted little time to discuss his plans to build a new prison in Afghanistan — at a cost of $ 100 million. Whether or not Obama wants to talk [...]