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"If all economists were laid end-to-end -- it would be a good thing." -- JK Galbraith
In This Issue
Dressed up in their designer suits, they trade in human cargo
The new racketeers
Also in this issue:
- Zapping the beef supply
- Granny d marches on!
- Postmodern piracy
- Suffer the little children
- Hogs at the trough
- Charity begins in the house
- Bill's beer
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August's Lowdown
Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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Charity begins in the house
Won't you help? This is a group of Americans who've not had a pay raise in more than a year. Inflation is eating into their families' standard of living. Many are even having a hard time covering the pay of their Filipino nannies. These are our members of congress, turning to you with their big, sad eyes saying: "COLA." Not Coca-Cola, but "Cost-of-Living-Adjustment."
Speaker Hastert and Democratic leader Richard Gephardt have formed a bipartisan front to okay a $4,600 COLA pay hike for this depressed class, boosting them to a barely adequate $144,300 a year.
Speaker Hastert needs your help now to get this money approved for our hard-hit lawmakers. Call him at 212-225-0600 and tell him what you think about giving a $4,600 COLA to members of congress. Thanks for caring.