Comments on: Mopping Up Corporate Greed

By: der1

der1 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:52:53 +0000

Who’s got Obamarhama’s ear, Andy Stern or Penny Pritzger? We report you decide:

“Ms. Pritzker serves on the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board which formulates and evaluates economic policy for the Obama Administration. She was National Finance Chair of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and co-chair of the 2009 Presidential Inaugural Committee.”
http://www.penny-pritzker.com/.....raphy.html

I didn’t bother looking for any thing on Stern, went for a beer instead.

Pritzger Family Real Estate, anyone remember General Growth Properties? In March of ‘07 GGP was $67, March of ‘09 was 33 CENTS it now trades at $4.20. Where is the Feds $9 Trillion off books going?

We.Are.So.Fucked.

By: laborite57

laborite57 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:17:57 +0000

Yes, there is a Hyatt boycott campaign underway - see www.hyattboycott.com

Please sign up and live a pithy message.

By: NCGal

NCGal — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:10:59 +0000

During Senator Kennedy’s funeral, his eldest son related an anecdote that I found moving. It is below. And is there a boycott going on for Hyatt Hotels? There should be. The article states they have the highest injury rate for housekeepers on top of everything else.

- “I once told him that he had accidentally left some money — I remember this when I was a little kid — on the sink in our hotel room. And he replied, Teddy, let me tell you something, making beds all day is back breaking work. The woman who has to clean up after us today has a family to feed. And just — that’s just the kind of guy he was.”

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:17:49 +0000

I’m waiting for a billionaire Chicagoan named Oprah to weigh in on the need for health reform AND EFCA…..

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:07:35 +0000

Hotel staffing company faced wage complaints‎ - 5 days ago
Hospitality Staffing Solutions has faced lawsuits in Florida, Georgia, … She is one of the six former Hospitality Staffing Solutions workers who have …Boston Globe - 590 related articles »

This is a good piece about the firm being used to replace the fired Hyatt housekeepers.

Lots of info that needs to be revealed.

By: hackworth1

hackworth1 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:04:08 +0000

The comments on that story from hateful, ignorant wingnuts are as crass as any I’ve seen.

By: Tula Connell

Tula Connell — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:59:31 +0000

I don’t know, but if I find out, I’ll let you know. It would be in keeping with what corporations do when hiring low-paid staff without a union voice on the job.

By: Blub

Blub — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:53:08 +0000

apparently, we can’t afford to bury our dead either

http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/0…../index.htm

Looks like in Detroit, bodies are piling up in the morgues ’cause impoverished citizens are dumping them there because they can’t afford to dispose of them themselves, and the local government is too broke to bury them in a potter’s field.

What have we come to…

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:50:58 +0000

Ms. Pritzker is one of three cousins who manage their family’s fortune, which includes Hyatt hotels, casinos and other ventures. She oversees a chain of luxury retirement communities, an airport parking company, a realty group and the credit-rating agency TransUnion

By: hackworth1

hackworth1 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:46:09 +0000

McChrystal is a good soldier for Dyncorp, Haliburton, XE Blackwater, Raytheon, GE, and etc. Keep that gravy train running. They have bankrupted us. But since the Federal Gubmint/Pentagon need not run a balanced budget it can spend into oblivion. Bernanke keeps those printing presses running. As you know the money supply figures are no longer released to the public.

The US runs the biggest Ponzi Scheme in the world.

But we can’t afford health care or education.

Just prisons or the military for our youth.