Protect American Workers, Protect American Jobs Rally

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Target Misses Mark With FEED USA Campaign

Target has a new promotional scheme in which they are claiming that if you buy certain products from them, they will make a donation to provide meals to children and families across the country.

It sort of gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling.

But this is an absolute failure.

Target's first problem is that they are anti-union and refuse to pay their employees a livable wage. They are so anti-union that they have violated national labor laws to prevent their employees from unionizing.  They have even hired union actors to make an anti-union video for their new employees.

Their other problem is that the items they are selling in order to feed American families were all imported, presumably from places like China, Bangladesh and Burma, where they don't have unions, labor laws or respect for the workers or their lives.

How about this? If Target is really serious about feeding American children and families, how about they start by buying and selling American made products.  And then they can start paying their own employees livable wages so they can feed their own children and families.

Just sayin'.

Romney's Private-Sector Experience

Remember this when Mitt Romney or any of his zombies squawk about his "private sector experience":



We cannot allow Rob Me to do the same thing to this country which he did to these companies.

Blaska, Wigderson And Kleefisch All Agree: Monthly BLS Numbers Are The Ones To Use

On a tip from a reader, we find that some of the staunchest supporters of Scott Walker unanimously agree that the job numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are the ones to use.

David Blaska:

The good news: Wisconsin added 12,900 private sector jobs in June -- the largest single-month gain (PDF) since September 2003. What's more, our Badger State accounted for half the new jobs created in the entire Obama-stricken nation, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.

James Wigderson (and subsequently, MacIver Institute):

Wisconsin, you’re among workers.

According to the latest Labor Department statistics, Wisconsin added 9,500 net jobs last month using seasonally adjusted numbers. In the private sector, 12,900 jobs were created, the largest one-month gain since September 2003, the first year of former Governor Jim Doyle’s administration.

Manufacturing continued seeing job growth with 800 more jobs added in June.. That’s 14,100 new manufacturing jobs created this year.

Listening to some of Governor Scott Walker’s critics you would think the news is somehow bad news for the governor, or that these numbers from the federal Department of Labor are somehow made up.

And last, but least, Rebecca Kleefisch, Walker's lieutenant governor (even though she was no this first choice):

When Gov. Scot Walker told me what the new labor numbers would say, there was no mistaking the significance: Wisconsin is open for business and the numbers put an exclamation point on our omnipresent slogan.

The outrageously good news came on the heels of concern. Our Department of Workforce Development Secretary, Scott Baumbach, had warned us that the nation’s financial woes would almost certainly trickle into Wisconsin’s job growth numbers this summer: the tremendous pace with which Wisconsin was growing jobs might hit a speed bump, he said. The secretary didn’t want us to be disappointed if there was a minor setback on the road to success.

But then the numbers were released, and there were 12,900 net new jobs in Wisconsin last month. It was one more endorsement of the tough, smart decisions that have made Wisconsin uniquely attractive to job creators.

Walker should take note. If his biggest supporters, even his own second in command doesn't believe his numbers, he probably shouldn't have tried something so desperate.

And no, I don't believe these three would have changed their minds just because the numbers don't say what they'd like them to say. Why, that would make them almost as hypocritical as Walker!

Why President Obama's Re-election Matters

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In Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case which could have an enormous effect on the future of the American food industry. This is Monsanto’s third appeal of the case, and if they win a favorable ruling from the high court, a deregulated Monsanto may find itself in position to corner the markets of numerous U.S. crops, and to litigate conventional farmers into oblivion.

Here’s where it gets a bit dicier. Two Supreme Court justices have what appear to be direct conflicts of interest.

Stephen Breyer
Charles Breyer, the judge who ruled in the original decision of 2007 which is being appealed, is Stephen Breyer’s brother, who apparently views this as a conflict of interest and has recused himself.

Clarence Thomas
From the years 1976 – 1979, Thomas worked as an attorney for Monsanto. Thomas apparently does not see this as a conflict of interest and has not recused himself.

Fox, meet henhouse.

The lawsuit was filed by plantiffs which include the Center for Food Safety, the National Family Farm Coalition, Sierra Club, Dakota Resources Council and other farm, environmental and consumer groups and individual farmers.

What would be worse?  Mitt Romney's assault on American manufacturing OR Mitt Romney's Supreme Court Choice(s)?