ROI from financial trading 15% to 200%.

Where would you put your money?

I hear exactly the same discussion in London by stockbrokers in the late 1960s.

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AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka traveled to Nevada on Monday to address the Sheet Metal Workers International Association (SMWIA) to talk about the new approach the labor movement will be taking towards conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats and Senate centrists like Senators Max Baucus and Blanche Lincoln.

The SMWIA is the first union to have suspended all campaign donations to ALL Democratic candidates until the Employee Free Choice Actand a bill addressing real Health Care Reform are passed. The SMWIA, along with a coalition of over a dozen unions will be running ads next week targeting several Democratic Senators and a Republican.

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Or should I make that totally hot?

In my youth, I once worked a summer at a steel plant, but before Nomex existed, so it was my own shirts and jeans that always ended up with holes burned in ‘em. Talk about fookin’ warm!

And after each and every shift (3:30 to 11:30 PM), each of us looked like we had just come out of a coal mine.

We were liberally covered in black coke used in the process, and having sweated through another 8 hour shift, that stuff was so embedded in our skin and clothes that normal washing just never got it out anytime soon.

And I learned that various auto parts are made of Ductile iron and they take hours and hours to cool down (yep, learned the hard way. Ouchie!).

Even before the late 1800’s the movement involved peasantry against landed gentry. We can trace the movement at least as far back as the Magna Carta – if not all the way back to Jesus (read the book of James).

The Declaration of Independence was a major milestone, but the oligarchs are patient and have steadily worked at chipping away freedoms and co-opting the democratic systems for their own uses.

And the battle rages on.