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Grist // “Retirement makes sense until Reid tries to explain” — Las Vegas Review-Journal shar.es/1grNNJ
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Hmm: Dick Morris says Obama will include “free flow of labor” provisions in a fast-track Trans-Pacific Partnership. shar.es/1grbI9
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Dave Weigel pushs back smugly but effectively on the Harry Reid beat-up undernews. I demand a reenactment. (Why not?) bloom.bg/1NvGnWA
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While more excitable, productive types burn out … politico.com/blogs/media/20… kausfiles adapts + plods on. Sustainable! kausfiles.com
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51% of reg. voters, including 37% of Dems, say illegal immigration is “imminent” or “serious” threat to US-Reuters polling.reuters.com/#!response/TM5…
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Why I don’t believe anything Harvey Weinstein’s office puts out. (They got no problem with 100% BS.) kausfiles.com/archive/index.…
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Means-testing — You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet: The much-lauded bipartisan “doc fix” bill seems to contain only a very mild version of the most obvious fix for the Social Security and Medicare budgets — namely means-testing (shaving the benefits of the affluent). The bill would nick seniors with incomes over $133,500 ($267,00 for a couple) with mild increases in their Medicare premiums. Of course, very few seniors make that much — they tend to be beyond their high-earning years. The latest means test would only hit the top 2% of them. Imagine how much we’d save if we nicked the top 30%. There’s a lot more means-testing yet to go. …
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Undercard: Well, OK. I’ll accept What Really Happened to Harry Reid as the #1 undernews of the moment. Jeffrey Epstein’s elite (alleged!) Island of Davos Debauchery gets bumped to the #2 slot. Can’t say what’s #3. It’s under-undernews. …
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Jaguar’s new slogan is “Mark Your Territory”? Really? How do you do that — with leaking engine oil? #cheapshot #still #whatweretheythinking
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“Peri himself does concede that immigration may lower wages significantly for less-educated natives.”
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That Adam Davidson NYT article really was crap — told in Explainer Voice
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“I don’t see any downside for Republicans in siding with employees against the super-wealthy of Silicon Valley.” delawareonline.com/story/opinion/…
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“The GOP seems unwilling to criticize Big Business, even those parts of Big Business that hate the GOP” delonline.us/1C8mNfP
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Liberalism without Big Labor, Chapter XXVIII: “West Virginia Unions Suffer A Huge Blow By DEMOCRATIC Governor” — Daily Caller. (Not about Fox, so you can trust it!) “Project labor agreements” (PLA’s) and “prevailing wage” laws drive up the cost of public projects in a way that people who support public projects (i.e. Democrats) should oppose, no? …
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“ICE is tasked with carrying out deportations, and activists are often fighting against them.” … Often? … huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/26/imm…
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EPA likes @POLITICOPro because it “does not provide too much content.” What about @kausfiles? tws.io/1xD6vNl
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The key problem is that prices are variable, so there’s no way to know if it’s padded or discounted. tws.io/1D3lJNX
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Government funnels $ to @politico. Seems like an obvious potential conduit for corruption. tws.io/1D3kPRB tws.io/1EZhn7Z
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Government funnels $ to @politico. Seems like an obvious potential conduit for corruption. tws.io/1D3kPRB tws.io/1EZhn7Z
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Thank God Republicans control the Senate so we don’t have hearings stacked with amnesty advocates anymore. Oh wait .. hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/secur…
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It’s almost as if Obama’s action were a payoff to corporate cheap labor lobbyists left out of his executive amnesty! washingtonexaminer.com/did-you-know-o…
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Under L-1B program “Foreign workers can be paid home country wages, which is $6,000 a year for an IT worker in India” washingtonexaminer.com/did-you-know-o…
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Wow: Ford + GM want a 3rd, even lower-wage tier of workers below the $16/hr “Tier 2” bloom.bg/1G8oY5V (Solution: More immigration!)
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This piece-from the left-seems a challenge to @LHSummers‘ apparent idea that adding unskilled immigrant workers helps gu.com/p/46qex/stw
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With open borders: “It is the relatively unskilled in the bottom half of the distribution who have lost out.” #tlot gu.com/p/46qex/stw