The Brass Monkey

Wave goodbye to more money headed for China.
We are sure that you and probably everyone in the U.S. has heard about green jobs that are going to play a large part in bringing our economy back. Remember when Bush in his earlier years as president said yeah we will lose some lo tech manufacturing jobs [...]

A poll conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC for the American Council for Immigration Reform found that most Americans think that the flood of illegal aliens in this country effect the cost and quality of health care. One thousand likely voters were contacted for this poll. 78% of Americans believe that high immigration levels have [...]

The Title is right folks, Farouk Systems is closing there manufacturing plant in China!
This move will bring over 1000 jobs to Houston Texas. There main product line is called CHI and consists of amongst other things the very popular CHI flat iron used in hair styling. This move will also help other industries here like [...]

Back in ‘08 Bill Gates made another pitch towards getting more H1B workers in the country, telling Washington that, “America will lose its status as a leader in technological innovation unless it allows more skilled workers to enter the country”.
The Facts are that these workers are taking jobs from American workers. Not good especially with [...]

The Above title (US Chamber Of Commerce) is a misnomer. These people are not acting in the United States best interest. They are acting in the best interest of there cronies in big business. By there actions they show that they could care less about American workers and are all for the outsourcing of jobs [...]

A quick look back at the jobs situation from 1909 to 2009. What a difference a century makes!
In 1909 there were all kinds of jobs available in the good ole USA. Clothing, retail, Steel manufacturing, Tool and die, railroad locomotives, textiles, manufacturing and so forth.
Moving now to 2009. Flipping Burgers, Casinos, Big Box Stores, well [...]

Here we go again people! There are rumblings from Washington that allowing Mexican Trucks full access to Americas highways might be resurfacing again. You will recall that congress stopped funding for that issue last year.
Are the folks supporting this totally bonkers! Lets look at issues that would pop up real fast if this were to [...]

Where were all of the tea partiers when dictator Bush was throwing money away into that bottomless pit Iraq and borrowing all that cash from China and making remarks like when asked how are we going to pay for this and that? His answer we will just borrow it. Phhhht!
Oh yeah do not forget [...]

Okay you say, but who is Sallie Mae? Sallie Mae is the nation’s leading provider of student loans, helping millions of Americans achieve their dream of a higher education.
Sallie Mae has been around for awhile it was originally created in 1972 as a government-sponsored entity (GSE). The company began privatizing its operations in 1997, a [...]

General Electric and its CEO Jeff Immelt have outsourced American jobs to cheap overseas labor markets and GEs focus on financial services over manufacturing and technology has not helped the American job market at all, in fact it hurt it big time.Immelt said recently the U.S. manufacturing base is hollowed out, the country has a [...]

Get this folks! Around 13 of the corporations that have applied to receive bail out money have not paid there taxes!. So far no names have become available of the culprits. Wait! It gets even better. Two of the companies owe the IRS over 100 million.
Now I have no idea how these deals for those [...]

Tells Bold Face Lie Tuesday March 17th
Not a direct quote but basically what he said amounted to, I have no idea who put that loophole in the bail out legislation that allowed the big bonus pay outs to the big corporate types at AIG. I know it was not me!
Some of the folks that got [...]

Believe it or not folks it is common for bills in Congress to grow to well over 1,000 pages to around 2,000 pages.
The stimulus bill was 1,200 pages. If you bet that anyone in congress read it in it’s entirety you would lose. This is a common ploy in Washington, make a bill so huge [...]