California: Obama

The Obama administration has asked California to explain how furloughs for state workers are affecting the state's ability to meet an escalating demand for unemployment insurance benefits and services to millions of jobless people. That's from the L.A. Times. Remember,...

Of late, a letter to the editor to the U-T and several e-mailers who don't like my potshots at heavy government spending, massive pensions for public employees or Obama's health "reforms," etc., have ripped me for being a rabid hard-right...

The absurdity, the childishness and the wilfull ignorance of the lefty pundits and academics who argue that all criticism of Obama's health "reform" plan is either racist or hysterical or manufactured by evil corporations continues to drive me up the...

This is supposed to be a news article, not an opinion piece.  We start with outsiders creating trouble.  "But an example of a more aggressive labor movement is being played out in the Inland area. A group called Warehouse Workers United made its appearance early this year, seeking to speak for workers at Inland distribution centers."

This is not about so called warehouse workers or the Inland Empire.  It is about "global" considerations and empire building by those who demand bribes from workers.  ""From the macroeconomic standpoint, the Inland Empire is the linchpin of the global supply chain," Denier said. "Some of the largest corporations in the world operate distribution centers in the Inland Empire.