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First 100 Days: Day 19 - Legal Conference. Without blackjack nor hookers.
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GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
They're not.
Like two years ago in Ledbetter v Goodyear, the SCOTUS ruled that even though the pay discrimination was ongoing, the plantiff (Ledbetter, thus the bill's name) could not sue because the statute of limitations said 180 days and the conservative majority chose to interpret that as from the first pay check instead of the clear meaning.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
Coleman's lawyers are just coming out and saying it now; they don't really care about the law at this point.
GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
This bill has a lot of backing of the public. Any Senator of either party is going to have to justify not voting for it.
Especially the Senators in states Obama won that are running for re-election in 2010. Arlen Specter, come on down!
POTUS ON BONUSES: “That is the height of irresponsibility. It is shameful. And part of what we’re going to need is for folks on Wall Street who are asking for help to show some restraint, and show some discipline and show some sense of responsibility.”
“There will be time for them to get bonuses. Now’s not that time,” he said.
...pwnt
I really hope Stewart goes to town on Citigroup for the plane fiasco, especially since it might be a little late in the day to get this in.
Sigh.
We need to have a new cabinet position called Secretary of Stabbing Stupid and/or Greedy People.
No, I am not really communist. Yes, it is weird that I use this name.
Well, there is a good argument to be made that bonuses ensure you get the best and the brightest working for you which is what those firms desperately need right now. Those best and brightest just don't appear to actually be working there, though, to be given a bonus in order to keep them.
The saddest part is entire sub-industries have spring up based on these people's earning and bonuses
it is not a good time to be a 200 dollar a plate caterer right now I tell ya what
Those responsibilities have already been divvied up
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The three jobs I did on the side in college - Private SAT Tutor for the rich (they paid me 18 and hour and the company $90+ an hour), wedding waiter/catering worker (once did a Mormon-Hindi wedding at a mansion on the Cape that cost $500K reception for less than 200 guests), and the corporate office for Talbots/working the phones during catalog sale season (a clothing company essentially designed for rich middle aged suburbanite women which is currently in the crapper). I would not be doing well if this had hit 5 years ago
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Anybody else think they can name Republicans that will vote with the Dems on this bill?
Anybody think that there will be a Dem that's crazy enough to go against the grain and vote against it?
You have to fight through some bad days, to earn the best days of your life.
They'll be dragging out the guillotine if Dems voting against it cause it to fail to pass.
I'd say Baucus is to his right fiscally. But I think they'll hold the party line on HR 1 and there will be a least 4 GOP defectors
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I dunno, Baucus seems willing to spend if it's on the right thing. From what I've read his health care proposal is pretty well to the left of Obama's.
YES! :^:
I was really hoping this would happen.
Okay, yes, that is how Wall Street works. In order to acquire and keep talent, they pay moderate (speaking very relatively here) salaries and enormous bonuses when things are good. Things are not good. If your company royally screws up and loses billions upon billions of dollars to the point that they need billions upon billions from taxpayers, you do not 'reward' your employees with billions upon billions in bonuses, nor do you spend $1,200,000 remodeling your already opulent office.
Besides, where would these people go to get jobs if they didn't get their bonuses? All of those firms are experiencing the same problems, and saying 'hey I just came from a failed company, and I'm a pompous jerk who left because I didn't get my bonus' is not gonna look good in an interview.
Hell yeah
:^:
hehehe in foreign relations no less!
Oh god yes this is awesome news. She's perfect for the job in multilateral affairs and hopefully something to do with the UN.
This is pretty fantastic.
I want her to play The Monster Mash next time Clinton is in her office.
I had to read her book for my history class last year... I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Well, as much as one can enjoy a book all about genocide in the past century.
Watch this http://www.ricksteves.com/iran/. It's interesting as hell. Made my rather ignorant father change his mind about Iran when he saw the whole thing.
It will be repealed...at some point. I think they want to do it via legislation so the next President couldn't just repeal it.