Here's a more important question. Why are you threatening to ruin Pub Club by bringing up politics? Leave politics to Spray. Pub Club is for talking about climbing and anything else save politics.
The Coalition for Economic Growth and American Jobs- What is it?
A group dedicated to preserving American Jobs, <OR>
An industry lobby fighting against laws that would limit outsourcing.
Click here to find out. It's a grand name, don't you think? It sounds so patriotic.
The latest battle is over perchlorate in drinking water. The military has dumped ammonium perchlorate from solid rocket fuel all over the place and most drinking water supplies have at least some of it present. It affects the functioning of the thyroid gland. I believe this is the chemical that was involved in the Erin Brockovich movie.
The big debate is one what is considered a "safe" level. EPA want one level while the military wants another. The lower level will cost four times in clean up costs.
Clearly, the union members stand to lose from this as the managers are not investing in the funds that give the best return to the investors, but rather the ones with the greatest kickbacks.
Too many words? Can't you speed read? Read the thing is 1 min. It basically says that between the local effects on the water sources and the manufacture of plastic bottles in which to contain it, bottled water is environmentally unfriendly, hence Dru's title "drink tap water".
It sure sounds like it except that I know Doug Sanders was one of them (maybe there were three of them?). I saw a picture of the rescuers posing with the rescued. The rescuers looked in way worse shape.
There will be an Open House of the FHWA (Federal Highway Admin.) for the development EIS; i.e. widening and Paving the Middle Fork Road (F.S. # 29) for 10 miles.
The Open House is being held Thursday, March 4th at the Mount Si Senior Center in North Bend (411 S. Main Street North Bend, WA 98045) from 4 'til 8 PM.
I don't know much about unions, not ever having worked where there was one, but I sure have been enjoying this thread. My college economics professor's take on unions was that there will always be some who gain and others who lose. Those with the most seniority gain through higher wages at the expense of those with the least seniority who lose their jobs first in a downturn. Those who join a union are betting that they will gain enough seniority fast enough that they aren't the ones to go at recession time.