You made only 1.5 mistakes about GMO:
- When the genes are added to corn, it doesn't make a new species,
because it can still interbreed with the original corn, which is actually
part of the problem, that the GMO pollen infiltrates the original corn
fields, giving Monsanto a claim of patent ownership on the resultant
daughter corn, in addition to spreading GMO corn where it's not wanted.
The GMO corn is merely a new variety, not a new species.
- The tumors in rats fed GMO insecticide corn has been discaimed by
an official medical organization, because there wasn't enough published
information to be able to evaluate whether it was a correct conclusion,
nor to be able to replicate the experiment to check if it's valid.
So you need to say that caveat when talking about it.
Re Michigan (not Wisconson, sorry for mistake, now fixed) "right to work" law:
Obama got it mostly correct, it's a "right to be greedy" or
"right to work at lower wages" law, not an actual "right to have
a job" law. But he missed the big point
re equity: It's not fair to *require* by law that unions represent
all employees, not just paying members but greedy non-members too,
but then to allow non-members to save their money and thus have
less take-home pay than paying members of union.
If @BarackObama doesn't like union-busting "right to work" laws,
why doesn't he support a right-to-employment law?
TinyURL.Com/MaasKey/Hu1
tweeted
Addendum: Why Michigan is so important, why this new law is so ironic,
is that Michigan was the origin of
the big labor union, United Auto Workers.
Re fiscal cliff: Obama is wrong to support higher taxes for all
income over $250,000/year. People with just a little over $250,000/year
aren't "rich" as claimed by Obama, they're just middle-class good income,
getting just barely enough to start a small business without needing
to become indebted to a bank.
Better to raise taxes *only* on income
over $1,000,000/year, people who are truly rich.
And raise taxes a large amount only on income over $3,000,000/year,
which is maximum amount a high-level professional such as lawyer
would actually *earn* from working 60 hours per week,
anything over $3,000,000/year would be unearned income, excess income
from priviledged position rather than actual work. Hence my
TinyURL.Com/MaasKey/Tax80.
At 10:36 your guest
(Richard Eskow
www.ourfuture.org)
cited the top tax rate under Eisenhower was
91%, and he recommended that be restored. You should have told him
about TinyURL.Com/MaasKey/Tax80. Please tell me how to contact him.
Re employment:
Among everyone over 18, 25% don't want jobs (happily retired,
taking maternity leave, etc.),
and 31% are involuntarily unemployed i.e.
want jobs but can't find any. Excluding the 25% who don't
want jobs, among only those over 18 who want jobs, 41% are
involuntarily unemployed.