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11.24.2009 6:20 pm

We can’t grow the economy without health care reform

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Politicians on both sides of the aisle are fighting to preserve the current system of employer-provided health insurance.  But the current system of buying insurance is part of the problem.  Just one example: as an agent several years ago I…
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11.23.2009 5:32 pm

I’ll help out, but I don’t want to be taken advantage of

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I am responding to the statement that ‘This will be enormously painfull and anyone who says othersie is a fraud. The trick will be to spread the pain fairly.

Let’s have a bank in the US where all those who WORK…

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11.19.2009 7:03 pm

Consumers have choices, as do companies

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Wednesday’s editorial page printed letters regarding Emerson Electric Company, more specific, letters regarding the Company’s CEO’s decision. It isn’t often that letters illustrate two sides to an issue.

Both sides of the issue are right. Mel Appleman states that it is…

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11.18.2009 5:19 pm

Welfare reform should focus on eliminating poverty

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The focus of “welfare reform” being primarily on the reduction and limitations of cash benefits is unfortunate.  Too often it appears as though we are blaming the victims.  This is not to say every TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families)…

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11.12.2009 6:16 pm

CEO’s anti-American comments on Veterans Day are outrageous

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It is appalling to me that on days like today, when we remember our fallen heroes nationwide, people that fought to protect our freedoms and our economic system, we have to hear words like those spoken today at a conference…
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08.05.2009 5:56 pm

Sometimes the American Dream comes at the expense of “lowly workers”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

This is in response to the 7/31 Equal Opportunity letter which criticized your 7/28 editorial on minimum/maximum wage imbalance.

 

The writer implies that low wage earners lack ambition. I say, rather than complaining, (if they are not too lazy), they should…

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07.14.2009 4:34 pm

So, the plan was 9.5 percent unemployment?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
We were told that the $700+Billion plan was required to get the economy fixed. President Obama said this week that the plan was on schedule and was “doing what it was supposed to do”. Are we to understand that the…
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03.30.2009 5:00 pm

Fight over card-check shows who has real power

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Regarding the Editorial last Friday “Secret ballots, card check and politics”:

While it remains to be seen if Senator Arlen Specters’ recently announced opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act will doom this legislation (3/27 – Secret ballots, card check…

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02.24.2009 3:19 pm

Who does Shimkus think he represents?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What is up with John Shimkus? I was delighted to see that someone else from Rep. Shimkus’ district is not happy with his record and his lack of representation. Doug May had it correct when he stated that Shimkus has…

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01.20.2009 4:57 pm

Message to the president: Made in the USA

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I have a message for the new President. I’ve been preaching it since I became a Teamster in 1970. Here it is.
MADE IN USA MEANS JOBS IN USA

Timothy C Donahue
St. Louis

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