She has made her entire campaign about experience being the main factor of qualification, if she goes up against McCain, exactly how will she argue that her 6 years as an elected offical trumps his 30?

Go Hillary I know you can win

So HRC has a new slogan now. About the 57th one I'd guess.

Guess what she's really saying is that the voters should choose SLOGANs over Speaches.

And while she's at it why doesn't she just make a Pledge that she won't make any decision as president without asking for Bill42's permission first. That ought bring the Dems around.

I have ONE question for Cindy Mc Cain; are you proud of your country TODAY? LOL. No really, the fact that this man may or may not have had an affair IS NOT THE ISSUE. THE ISSUE is if HE DID FAVORS FOR LOBBYIST’S. The answer is "my friends" you will find out in the days to come the answer is "YES". The fact that he is the "conservative nommiee" is a big joke. Happy hunting guys.

Has either Clinton ever been on time to a campaign event? Seems we hear that a lot, about them arriving late.

For all the continuing talk about Senator Obama's alleged lack of experience, I think a larger point goes missed.

Have Senators Clinton and (especially) McCain "been around" Washington longer than Obama? Yes. Does that necessarily make them wiser, smarter or particularly any more "accomplished" than Obama, or magically confer upon them any sort of greater ability? No, and no.

In fact, I've been having a tremendously difficult time getting any of my Clinton- and McCain-supporting friends to tell me much of *anything* their chosen candidates have accomplished in their political careers! (That said, please keep in mind that, heroic though it was, Senator McCain's survival of the horrors of the Hanoi Hilton for certain make him for a strong individual, but not necessarily a gifted or wise leader....)

Employment Laws

Health and Safety Legislation:
Workers Compensation laws represent a compromise between the employer and employees interests. The employee gives up the right to sue, and the employer in exchange for high probability or recovering without the cost of a lawsuit. The employee gives the right to use
negligent defenses in exchange for limited payments to the employee. Punitive damages and emotional damages such as pain and suffering cannot be received. The statutes require employer to furnish employee with medical treatment and a fixed level of income during disability. Scheduled amounts are awarded for death or loss of limb including rehabilitation services, Disability income payments will be low although statutes state a rate of two thirds of wages. The payments are employer contributions funded to a state compensation fund through insurances by employers. Workers compensation is administered by a state agency. There are no federal laws for injury compensation however railroad and mining are covered by such federal legislation. Congress has prepared mandatory federal standards to workers compensation statutes because of differences in coverage benefits.

OSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 applies to businesses in interstate commerce and it protects the safety and health of employees through duties imposed on the employer through employment by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The act imposes a general duty on covered employers to prevent workplace hazards that may cause death or serious physical harm. Employers are required to report on-the-job facilities and injuries that require hospitalization to the Secretary of Labor within 48 hours. Employers with more than 10 employees are required to keep a log of all work related deaths, injuries or illnesses. The act delegates to the Secretary of Labor authority to establish a detailed health and safety standards compiled by employers. Under the authority the Secretary has set maximum levels of exposure for certain hazardous substances such as asbestos or lead. Regulations require that manufacturing workers be informed of hazardous chemicals in the workplace. Regulations protect workers from retaliation if they refuse to do work that they reasonably believe might cause their deaths or serious injury and if they reasonably believe no drastic alternative is available. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is a division of the Department of Labor enforces the act. OSHA inspectors may enter the workplace at any reasonable time and without advance notices. If a employer objects to the inspection a search warrant must be obtained. Inspectors usually check workplaces after fatalities have occurred often in response to complaints of workers and occasionally on a just basis. Violations of the act result in citations, fines and even criminally penalties for willing violations that result in death. The statute permits states to develop and enforce their own health and safety programs.

Workers Compensation (State Legislation)
Compensates employees for when work related injury arises:
1.) out of employment
2.) cause of employment
Compensable injuries include
1.) Accidental injuries
2.) Occupational diseases
3.) Emotional illness (most)
4.) Stress related injury or illness (most)
Benefits include
1.) Medical expenses
2.) Percentage of income
3.) Death benefits
4.) Rehabilitation
5.) Schedule payments for loss of bodily parts

Special Issue: in some states employees are allowed to sue for additional compensation
1.) The employer reckless or intentional caused injury or
2.) The employer was acting in another capacity (such as manufacturer of employee injuring product

Occupational Safety and Health Act (Federal Legislation)
Many states have an equivalent act
Employer duties
1.) Provided workplace free from hazards likely to cause serious injury or death
2.) Comply with against rules and regulations
3.) Keep records and make them available to employees and agency
4.) Notify and instruct employee regarding hazardous chemicals in the workplace
Employee rights
1.) Can refuse to work if reasonably fears for safety
2.) Can initiate safety complaints with agency
Agency duties
1.) Set health and safety standards
2.) Investigate complaints and inspect for compliance
3.) Bring enforcement actions and levy fines and penalties

Special Issue: Cutbacks and lack of enforcement in 1980 led to increase injuries and criminal prosecutions

Public Law 99-272 (Federal Legislation)
Continues health insurance coverage undo group rates for terminated employee and/or family
People covered include
1.) Terminated or reduces hours employee (unless terminated for gross misconduct)
2.) Divorced or separated spouse or employee
3.) Spouse of deceased terminated or Medicare eligible employee
4.) Dependent child or deceased, terminated, divorce, separated, or Medicare eligible employees u nder group plan

Coverage is
1.) Same coverage as that provides employees under group plan.
2.) At 102 percent of the cost
3.) Up to 18 months for terminated or reduced hours employee (and spouse/family)up to 36 monthsfor other causes

Coverage cease when
1.) No group plan available for employees
2.) Coverage is obtained under another plan
3.) Person becomes eligible for Medicare
4.) Person fails to pay premium

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (Federal Legislature)
(Every State has its own wage and hour law; must regulate garnishment)

Regulates Wages and Hours

1.) Establishes minimum wage for covered employees
2.) Minimum overtime rate for 1.5 percent of regular wages
3.) Regulates employment of miners

Some coverage times:
1.) When of call
2.) Brief rest periods
3.) Required briefing
4.) Staying to fill out reports
5.) Incidental, integral preparatory activity

Employer not covered
1.) Executives , administrators and professionals
2.) Outisde salespeople
3.) Many agricultural workers
4.) Self employed and unpaid family workers
5.) Members of Armed forces

Some employees not covered
1.) Employers with less than 500,000 annual sales affecting interstate commerce
2.) Railroads and carriers
3.) Some fishery and forestry businesses

Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Regulates pension plans voluntarily provided by employer
Participation and vestng rules
1.) Participation is the plan must begin within one year of employment (unless immediate full vesting)
2.) Voting rights must follow one of three plans implemented by the 1986 ERISA amendments

Employer must
1.) Manage the fund as a fiduciary and the managers must fulfill fiduciary duties
2.) Provide required information about the plan to employees and the Secretary of Labor
3.) Keep records
4.) Provide sufficient funding for employees credited service

The Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation created by the act and funded by employer contributions insures pension fund participants against loss of pension funds.

Unemployment Compensation (State Legislation under federal supervision)
Provides Replacement Income through experience based tax on employers.
Eligible recipients unemployed due to lack of suitable employment who
1.) Are making reasonable effort to find suitable employment
2.) Were not discharged for misconduct or did not voluntarily quit without good caus

Covered termination example
Terminations due to incompetence generally covered termination examples:
1.) Terminations due to incompetence generally covered
2.) Quit to follow thransfered psouse
3.) Quit due to harassment

Social Security (FICA) (Mainly financed by the Federal Insurance Contribution Act)
1.) Provides old age survivors and disability benefits and Medicare.
2.) A flat percentage tax in imposed on all income below a certain base figure: the employer is required to pay matching amount

Wage or Pensions
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Requires covered employers to pay their employees a minimum hourly wage and to pay time and one halh for hours worked in excess of 40 hours in one week. Under the act employees must be paid for time om call: Employees must be paid for time for short time rest period when they cannot use time effectively for their own purpose. Either the Department of Labor the act under its wage and hourly division and aggrieved employee can bring for violations. The FLSA prohibits oppressive child labor.

(ERISA) Employment Retirement Security Act 1974

Abuses and injustices under these plans were common. The act is designed to prevent problemsuch as under funding, dishonest or careless management of funds, whose employers go out of business. The act does not require employers to establish pension plans or to meet specific benefits levels. The Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service share in enforcing the act violations are subject to criminal and civil penalties. In addition, plan participants and beneficiaries may enforce their rights under the act.

National Labor Relations Act (Warner Act) of 1935.
Act prohibits certain actions by employers that were thought to deter union organizing and bargaining. These were declared to be unfair labor practices. The NLRBs major functions are to conduct elections for employees to decide whether represented by a union and to hear charges of be represented by a union and to hear charges of unfair labor practice. It established the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) to administer the act.

Examples of Unfair Labor Practices under the Labor Management Relations Act.

Employer
1.) Interfering with the right of employees to form join a labor union or to engage in concerted activities for their mutual aid or protection
2.) Establishing or dominating a labor union
3.) Decriminalization against employees in hiring or any other terms of employment because of their union membership
4.) Discriminating against employees who have filed charges with the NLRB
5.) Refusing to bargain collectively with a union that represents the employee

Union
1.) Coercing an employee to join a union and coercing an employer in the selection of representatives for collective bargaining
2.) Coercing an employer to discriminate against employee who is not a union member except for failure to pay union dues under a union shop agreement
3.) Refusing to bargain collectively with the employer
4.) Picketing or conducting a secondary boycott or strike (that is against someone other than the employer with whom the union has a dispute) for illegal purpose
5.) Settling excessive initiative fee under an illegal purpose
6.) Forcing an employer to pay for work not performed (featherbedding)
7.) Picketing to require an employer to recognized or bargain with a union that has not been certified as the bargaining deal

The Labor Management Relations Act
In 1947 congress amended the Warner Act by the Taft-Hartley presently known as Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA). The purpose of this act is to prohibit actions by employers thought to deter union organizing and bargaining which are declared unfair labor practices and limit excess power of the unions. Out of state purchases or sales of goods and services need equal on $50K however federal, state and local government employees as well as agricultural laborers and household employees are excluded, under the NLRB jurisdiction, a Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service skill people to help union and employers so as to prevent strikes or lockouts.

Next Issues: Discrimination in Employment

The Equal Pay Act of 1963
Title VII The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1991
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Americans with Disabilities Act

The First Woman President Should Handle our Federal Reserve To Balance Our International Monetary Contributions!

International Politics #160

Journal #9

Money and Business

The most important currencies are the US Dollar, the Euro and the Japanese Yen. Money is a token or object that works as a medium of exchange and it is socially or legally accepted in payment of goods and services for settling debt. Money includes both currencies circulating with legal tender. Commodity money has an ability to function as a store of value is limited in the states by its legal nature. Gold and silver are soft metals that can lose weight in scratches and abrasions .Gold and silver were once used as world currencies but now currencies are valued against each other through exchange rates. States maintain reserves of hard currency and gold. The reserves back a national currency and the money is the essential study to economics and forms a link to finance in various forms of financial deposit accounts such as demand deposits, savings accounts and certificates of deposits. This is a formal discipline that industrial states turn over to monetary policy and autonomous central banks like the US Federal Reserve.

In capitalist economies most business are privately owned and are formed to earn profit. Multinational Corporations (MNCs) do business in more than one state and states depend on MNC to create new business and wealth, as MNC depends on states to maintain international stability doing business globally.

A Multinational Corporation or sometimes referd to as a transnational corporation (MNC/TNC) is a corporation or enterprise that manages production establishments and has delivering services in at least two countries. Very large multinationals have budgets that exceed those of many countries. Multinational corporations can have a powerful influence in international relations and local economies. Multinational corporations play an important role in globalization were a new form of MNC is evolving responsively to globalization.

I have a chance to watch the combination of money, business and banking work on my Student Visa /Debit cards. I have a checking account and savings account at National City, a checking account at J.P. Morgan/Chase, a checking account at Comerica and a checking account at 5/3 Bank and a B.P. Credit/Gas Card [Beyond Petroleum] . This is because I hope to become a student abroad in a university such as Mexico or Germany to study Political Science, Biology, Geology or Astronomy.

The college crowd will figure things out in 2009 when they are not able to find a job. They are choosing speeches over real solutions to our problems.

If they think that the problems we will face as a nation will disappear because of a "feel good" speech, they are in for a rude awakening.

I know the liberal wing is trying to hijack the Democratic party just like the right wing has hijacked the Republican party. The problem is, it never works in the general election. The young people may not be old enough to know this. Their parents ought to know.

God help us all.

Hillary watched her husband as pres and so understands how to BE pres? Please.
She is being kinder to McCain than she would be to Obama. Hillary is willing to harm the likely Democratic nominee for her personal agenda.

Hey,
Why should Hillary uses that against McCain. Does anyone remeber the story of MONICA L?.
That would be too hypocrite of hillary to make a punch.

She watched her husband pass NAFTA,..which caused MILLIONS of americans to lose jobs,...many of which stay in OHIO and TEXAS!!!!!

Just ask James Hoffa from The Teamsters Union,...

Then she wants to give us middle class tax breaks,..then Granish our wages for health care even if we dont want it,...So are we really getting a Tax break?,....

Time to turn the page people,....

I like McCain wife's answer. My kids and trust my husband.
Hey like she had something else to say. she is looking to be the first lady.
I am going to put that story on pause After november when McCain lose the election i'll see what she is going to say.

I think McCain said it clearly so we could understand where he lays his hat on the matter "today".

I did not have lobbyist relationships with that woman.

Hey Samo,
I'll tell you what. As a graduate college student I can tell you we don't have to wait until 2009 to figure out that we are not able to find a job. hey Samo we are not able to find a job in 2007, 2008. Thanks to NAFTA and every great deal Clintons and Bush made with the companies.
Samo aren't you tired to speak to someone in India when you call you service companies. Samo aren't you tired bying product that say MADE IN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA?
i guess you are not. He Samo do you know why experience worker college graduate has to look for another career.?

G.H. Bush, Brian Mul. Canada Prime Minister,and Carlos De Cartior president of mexico signed nafta in Dec. 1992

Don't giveclinton all the credit for NAFTA bush 41 needs to take some of the credit to .

I am so looking forward to tonights debate.

Nafta: Okay idiots, Canada, is the number one supplier of oil and I believe second in your gas suppliers right now. How does five hundred billion being spend right here in my hometown, Fort McMurray, Alberta on the second largest oil reserve on earth after Saudi Arabia? Many of you are using our oil to run your vehicles even as I write. Check it out for yourselves which AMERICAN companies now own our resources. If it were up to us we'd rather sell to China. If you live on the eastern seaboard of the United States you are probably using Canadian hydro power to light your homes and use your computer right now. Recall the brown out down the eastern seaboard? One hydro line in Quebec, Canada burned out from a sun spot. Under NAFTA and only because of NAFTA your country is building pipelines down through my province to provide you folks with oil and gas from Alaska. Trust me, without that NAFTA agreement no one up here would ever agree to something like that being built on our lands, especially not for our use. Nowadays, your country, under NAFTA again, is starting to fight us in our courts to get our fresh water supply for your western state. Under NAFTA there is a one billion a day trade going BOTH ways across the border even as I write. Right here in my hometown, Fort McMurray, Alberta, there are THOUSANDS of Americans working here in the oil sands. THOUSANDS! Furthermore, ask the border states how much money CANADIANS spend every day buying American goods and service. Don't believe me, check it out for yourself. Under NAFTA, we spend millions a day on the internet buying from America. Myself and my wife have spend thousands ourselves. Heck I could go on and on and on. But you have no idea what NAFTA is at all, do you? One more point, our wages are higher than yours, our taxes are higher than yours mostly because of health care that I gladly pay, our dollar is the same as yours,and we still have to compete with you in the world. And by God, we do, despite your NAFTA edge!

Just read that Clinton spent nearly $15 million in January on consultants? No wonder they finished the month in the red.

I wonder if they're still in the red now, despite claims (which I question, and apparently some reporters do as well) of raising $15 million over the website since Super Tuesday.