Every Day is Labor Day Part II

Every Day is Labor Day! Day 1

Being the family man and slacker blogger I am, didn't even get around to doing a Labor Day Post. So continueing my lazy blogger ways, I am going to take The Nation's top ten list and post one labor song video a day, but in my order.

Top Ten Labor Day Songs | The Nation:

Lets start with Phil Och's tribute to Joe Hill

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Regulations Can Create Jobs

So our alleged so-called progressive President Obama has caved on new clean air standards. The alibi is that these new regulations would have allegedly "killed jobs", from the New York Times here: "Obama Administration Abandons Stricter Air-Quality Standards"

Never mind the facts of climate change and the adverse effect on our health from dirty air.  The fact is, according to Krugman, these regulations would have created jobs by forcing expenditures on equipment and installation.

Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com: "And now you can see why tighter ozone regulation would actually have created jobs: it would have forced firms to spend on upgrading or replacing equipment, helping to boost demand. Yes, it would have cost money — but that’s the point! And with corporations sitting on lots of idle cash, the money spent would not, to any significant extent, come at the expense of other investment."
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Why can't Obama even stand up for something when he has got an argument on his side?  I say fuck his re-election!

Stand Up and Fight Back!

Quote and Post of Note by Paul Krugman

Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com: "Third, the idea that a temporary disruption would permanently damage faith in US institutions now seems moot; if you haven’t already lost faith in US institutions, you’re not paying attention."

Quote and Post of Note From: Pink Scare

pink scare: "Neither of the two pro-business parties, Republican or Democrat, will allow the US to default. They are playing a game of chicken. But, from the sounds of it, they are close to arriving at some sort of 'deal'. The present 'deal' includes a punishing, cruel $3 trillion cut (of historic proportions) to the living standard of the majority of Americans. That means cuts to education, cuts to scholarships, cuts to health care, cuts to pensions, massive cuts to public transportation, cuts to unemployment insurance, cuts to the arts, cuts to cutting edge scientific research. It will mean worse infrastructure, cancelingdesperately needed maintenance on our country's bridges and roads, massive layoffs and severe pay-cuts for public sector workers, worse sanitation services, worse libraries, worse public parks. It means that Obama and the Democrats will sign off on all of this as their own. (The beauty of it for Obama and friends, of course, is that they can push through austerity while externalizing culpability by claiming that "Republicans made us do it", thus pacifying liberal discontent with the slashing and burning of the very policies and programs for which the Democrats have any "progressive" credentials at all). "

Quote and Post of Note from LENIN'S TOMB

LENIN'S TOMB: "Providers' in this statement, as the newspapers have noticed, is synonymous with public sector workers. Essentially, the idea is, through marketisation and competition, to introduce the usual discipline of the market - fear of losing one's livelihood - to drive up productivity and force down labour costs. People will be working harder and receiving less for it. In marxist terms, that's an absolute increase in the rate of exploitation. That's their growth strategy for British capitalism."

And American Capitalism to!