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AN EASY WAY TO KNOW & RESEARCH ALL POLITICAL CANDIDATES  &  VOTE IN THE ELECTION OF 11-2-10.  We are using Georgia as an example, but you can click on your state of interest at the end of the blog article: NEXT TUESDAY – VOTE

This upcoming election on November 2, 2010 is extremely important for a variety of reasons. We are entering the tail end of October and we remain in the thick of the effects of a recession that started years ago. Is it reasonable to expect this recession to be repaired by now? Is it reasonable to expect some improvement through partial repair by now?  Are there repairs that have occurred but that are invisible to us? Could the country have collapsed completely as we know it, but we were spared such a tragedy because of the government’s work we fail or refuse to recognize? We speak to people every day who are unemployed and when its all said and done their unemployment compensation has been exhausted and they no longer care about what is or isn’t fair when evaluating our leaders. The unemployed want and need results. They are desperate and ready to lean on Democrats, Republicans, Tea Party supported candidates, Libertarians, Green Party candidates and Independents. The main focus is gambling on who we THINK might have the solutions and more importantly who has the most EXPEDIENT SOLUTIONS to unemployment, generating new jobs, motivating the cycle of spending through a stronger sense of financial security. How can Americans earn cash and gain wealth? How can businesses increase business and profits? How do we stabilize our economy and crawl out of this recession as quickly as possible? We can start by voting.    

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO AND WHAT YOU ARE VOTING FOR? THANKS TO PROJECT VOTE SMART, WE HAVE A LITTLE HELP IN THIS AREA.

WHAT IS PROJECT VOTE SMART?

http://www.votesmart.org/program_about_pvs.php

On common ground at a unique research center high in the Montana Rockies, a struggling group of Americans, who you are unlikely to know and will probably never meet, have begun a battle. A battle to protect all of us from the selfish interests that strip us of the most crucial component in our struggle to self-govern — access to abundant, accurate, and relevant information. Here at Project Vote Smart, Americans young and old volunteer their time, take no money from special interest groups, and have committed themselves to an extraordinary effort that, if successful, will provide their fellow citizens with the tools for a reemergence of political power not known for half a century. Their idea is one you may have thought of yourself. It is a deceptively simple concept but enormously difficult to achieve and would not be possible without the collaboration of citizens willing to lay their partisan differences aside for this one crucial task.

Picture this: thousands of citizens (conservative and liberal alike) working together, spending endless hours researching the backgrounds and records of thousands of political candidates and elected officials to discover their voting records, campaign contributions, public statements, biographical data (including their work history) and evaluations of them generated by over 100 competing special interest groups. Every election these volunteers test each candidate’s willingness to provide citizens with their positions on the issues they will most likely face if elected through the Political Courage Test.

GEORGIA VOTING NEWS & LIST OF CANDIDATES: 

INCUMBENT DEFINITION: A person who holds a designated, assigned, established or indicated position, role or office.  We can’t state the issues of each candidate in this blog, but we provide some general information so you have a way to conduct your own research under search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing or whatever search engines you prefer or typically use. Perhaps the best way to conduct limited but quick research is through the following website: 

http://www.votesmart.org/ : CLICK HERE AND SELECT YOUR STATE (WE CHOSE GEORGIA)

AFTER SELECTING A STATE BELOW - your screen will appear as

Current Candidates for Georgia               2010 Georgia Political Courage Test Results

Congressional Statistical Results                             Gubernaotiral Statistical Results                     State Legislative Statistical Results

Congress              Governor                  State Offices

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HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEKEND AMERICA


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Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.
Harry S. Truman  

 

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Well we are already here. Our first Monday in the month of September. End of summer, start of football season or is it more than that?

 

WHEN WAS THE FIRST LABOR DAY?                                               

1882 on September 5th in New York City organized by Peter J. McGuire (carpenter) as a march/parade from City Hall to Union Square then on to Reservoir Park for a picnic. The event included 10,000 workers and their families.   

WHEN WAS LABOR DAY FORMALLY ESTABLISHED?

                   1894

WHAT MADE IT OFFICIAL?

Labor Day became official based on the events surrounding the PULLMAN STRIKE  of 1894 during Grover Cleveland’s administration (The 22nd and the 24th President of the United States, which makes him the only president to have been elected to office twice but not in back to back presidential terms. He is also noted for being the only Democrat elected to office during the lengthy reign of a Republican majority between 1860 to 1912. Cleveland was a conservative in that he was not an advocate for inflation, subsidies for businesses, farmers or even veterans, pricey tariffs, or imperialism ).

 

WHAT WAS THE PULLMAN STRIKE?

The Pullman Strike was a political battle between the railroads and the labor unions which started in Pullman Illinois.  A company by the name of the Pullman Palace Car Co. suffered a strike of three thousand of its employees because of drastic reductions in wages. You have to understand that rail cars were the most popular mode of travel back then so traffic flow was adversely effected. Anything West of Chicago did not move.  Eugene Debs was the head of the American Railway Union that represented approximately 250,000 workers in 27 states. President Cleveland sent federal troops and marshals to shut down striking because of its ill effects on the nation. From a legal standpoint President Cleveland said it was affecting the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to deliver mail. He was thereby justified in sending troops. 13 union workers were killed and fifty seven were injured. Six thousand members of the union were involved and caused about $350,000.00 worth of damage (nearly nine million today).

 

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LABOR DAY?

When it was first established nationally, a parade was to take place following a festival to honor, encourage and celebrate the American spirit of trade and labor organizations. Some question the political cleansing attempt on the part of President Cleveland given that it was passed six days after the Pullman strike ended and many of his cabinet members did not believe the president had the right to unleash 12,000 army troops and marshals to the scene.     

 

WHAT IS LABOR SUNDAY?

Labor Sunday is the Sunday before Labor Day. It was established in 1909 to highlight the spiritual and educational elements of Labor Day as it relates to the Bible.

 

WHAT IS THIS OTHER LABOR DAY – MAY 1ST?

This is an international holiday recognized and celebrated by about eighty countries.  It is also known as the International Workers’ Day or May Day. It focuses on labor unions specifically. It marks the 1886 Haymarket Massacre of Chicago on May 4th. It started out as a rally for striking workers who were pushing for an eight hour work day. Someone threw a bomb at police while police were trying to break up the rally. Police retaliated with gunfire. Eight officers were killed. The majority were killed by “friendly fire”.  To this day it is unknown how many civilians were killed.  Eight men were tried. Four were convicted and executed and one man committed suicide in prison. Please take special note that the prosecution was convinced that none of the eight defendants were involved in throwing the bomb.

We so often get caught up in thinking the era we live in is the most volatile, the most corrupt as every generation wishes for the “old days” when matters were simpler, people were kinder, and there was a niceness in the air. Let this be a lesson and a strong reminder to all of us that corruption and suspicion of corruption go back long before any one of us was born. There is much more to many of these stories, but we don’t want to make the blog an entire American history lesson. Illegal searches were conducted and freedom of speech was squashed during this time.

Perhaps we need to look a little more carefully at Labor Day and its true meaning from all perspectives. Some of us recall May Day when we were children, but that is a holiday that has gone by the way side for the most part in this country. 

I HEAR GOOD & BAD THINGS ABOUT UNIONS:

Many people believe unions to be useless today. Many people take for granted the working conditions they have today and are unaware that those limited hours, pay, vacation time, sick time, and other benefits were as a result of labor unions fighting and its members dying for improved working conditions. Nothing is a given in this world unless you understand its history and continue to demand that it remain on the “books”.  Some form of American unions have been around since the start of this country.   

 

WHATS THE BIG DEAL ABOUT CHILD LABOR LAWS?

 Unions were instrumental in establishing child labor laws. Most of us are too young to know of a time when children as young as three years of age were put to work for twelve hour days, no school, and were working in conditions that most adults could not survive in.  The Industrial Revolution sparked the need for even more children working in small, tight, dangerous spaces that adults could not reach because of their size. Children worked in mines, around dangerous machinery, chimneys, prostitution and more. Because of the unbearable hours, malnutrition, no health care, children would sometimes fall asleep on the job. Even though they were working side by side with their parents and siblings, it was not unusual for a shop boss or supervisor to beat the child. The parents could not fight back because it would mean the loss of jobs for the entire family. Essentially it was about two steps higher than slavery minus the racism. This was nearly every company across the board. So it wasn’t as if you could argue unfair treatment, quit and get another job with a sanely operated company.  

To give you an idea of how barbaric our society was back then, and by we I mean every continent on the planet, it was a big milestone when Britain came through as the first nation to pass a law in favor of children. Its laughable now, but then it was a huge relief to many families and children. It fell under the title of FACTORY ACTS in the early 1900′s. Children under the age of 9 were not allowed to work at all. Chidren between the ages of 10 and 17 were limited to a twelve hour work day, which indicates they were working sixteen or more hours per day prior to the law. We still have sweat shops and worse still today. The poorer the country the fewer child labor restrictions there are.

 

WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE U.S.A.?

1.7 million children UNDER THE AGE OF 15 were said to be working in 1900 in the U.S.A. in the fields of industry.  By 1910 that number had climbed to 2 million. Labor unions were already up and running, fighting and battling for rights for everyone. The issue was that as with any movement, the extremists are the gutsiest of all, but with that extremists mentality comes a number of harsh negatives. The union leaders in the 1700′s and 1800′s and beyond were known to be violent, unruly, coercive, and intimidating to co-workers and political officials. Many would argue that if they weren’t, nothing would have been accomplished with those in power in America. It was only through fear that politicians were motivated to rein in the questionable employment practices of large company owners and executives. Opposition to unions, even today, allege that unions are socialistic and no longer necessary. In fact many would argue that we have swung too far in over compensating for our history and now we are dealing with ungrateful, selfish, nondedicated workers who have a sense of entitlement and take advantage of the system. WHERE DO YOU STAND ON THIS ISSUE

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Always remember humans are charged with keeping one another in check. It doesn’t matter if you are the President of the United States, a CEO of a major corporation, a clerk at a retail store or you are out of work on disability. Honesty and integrity should be at the top of every man and woman’s list because no one is any more important or any less valuable than the other. Every single one of us impacts, shapes and influences our employers, family, friends, children, community, the nation and the world. We are each representatives of this list. We have an obligation to be the best we can be to our employers and to the people who fought and still fight for the luxuries we enjoy today. 

HAPPY LABOR DAY!

 

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This blog is created from a response to a comment from an earlier blog posting.

The oil spill has produced some jobs. We have been able to help an alarming number of people with the information from our prior post known as JOBS CREATED FROM THE OIL SPILL.

This got us thinking that perhaps there are other events, circumstances, organizations and companies that are hiring unskilled and skilled labor on a temporary, part time or full time basis to assist with certain disasters, events, catastrophes and more (oil spill, earthquake, storm duty, flood duty, tsunami, mining collapses, etc). Since our area of expertise is in the following professions, industries and careers…  

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 …our goal is to reach those people who are in need of a job but perhaps would not qualify as a candidate with Best Services Online because of the type of work they are seeking or other variables. We still want to help so we are proposing the following. We want to post sources and information for these people where they can find jobs, applications, send resumes and more to get in for an interview and possibly receive a job placement beyond the scope of jobs we continually find for people and talent we locate for our clients (employers).   

In the hopes to reach a number of people directly and even more people, job seekers, job searchers, and the unemployed indirectly (by word of mouth, FaceBook, LinkedInTwitter, MySpace, InstantMessaging, etc.) we are seeking the knowledge & help of the reader. We hope to have a positive impact on people’s household finances, stability and their overall welfare.

Being unemployed can bring about a myriad of negative emotions. We invite all of our readers to share ideas, places, locations, company names, industries & more that may help the unemployed find jobs. We will post any and all information (provided it is not in conflict with our job placement services). The information must be credible and valuable to our readers.

We will not post job offers that are rooted in QUICK CASH, EARN CASH FAST, INTERNET JOBS, or questionable offers that are NOT attached to a formal organization with an easily traceable company name, telephone number, address, business email address, etc.

You don’t have to post all of that information in your email to us info@BestServicesOnline.com or comment to us (we prefer email), but we or someone should be able to locate all of this information on the Internet.

Our goal is to bypass the multitude of potential scams and misleading information. We refuse to transfer those false hopes to already financially strained & emotionally drained people.

If the offer or prospective employer fails to involve a traditional application and interview process, it most likely will not be posted.

If the offer demands money from the job searcher or job seeker to get more information, we won’t post that either. 

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RIDE YOUR BICYCLE TO WORK WEEK 5/17/10-5/21/10


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HELP MAKE YOUR WORK PLACE A BETTER PLACE TO WORK  - RIDE YOUR BIKE TO WORK

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If you are blessed enough to be employed we encourage you to ride your bike to your job at least one day this week. We have provided some links below which may help you map out a safe course. We urge you to wear your helmet, make certain the maintenance on your bike is current, check for reflectors & operational lights (if riding at night or pre-sunrise) and take all other necessary precautions. 

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If you are unaccustomed to riding a bike or exercising, then please take that into consideration as well. Be careful, stay safe & remember bicycles are not as visible as automobiles on the roadways. Many operators of vehicles are looking for other autos so they could easily miss the visual of your approach. Don’t assume drivers of vehicles have spotted you even when you have the right of way & please obey all of the traffic laws. You are a representative of all bicyclists when you are out on the road.  

We have discovered that riding your bike to your job generates & encourages:

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camaraderie

a boost in company morale

a higher level of productivity on the job

an increase in employee & employer satisfaction

a reduction in your CARBON FOOTPRINT

For those who have a longer commute, some employees have put their bikes in their vehicles & taken them out at lunch for a short ride. This also works well for the less athletic or those who do not have access to a safe bike route to & from their employer or job. This week can serve as a launching pad for a long term or life long exercise regimen.

As for those who are unemployed or retired, consider taking your bicycle out more often for running errands. You will save on gas and improve your health. Search for the positive side of being unemployed, while you continue your search for employment or a job.  It will also help relieve some of the stress (employed or unemployed).  The unemployed have more flexibility in their schedule to initiate an exercise regimen.    

You may be unable to ride a bike so consider alternatives such as walking or just going outside to have lunch. If all you do is benefit from some fresh air in the middle of your day, there are immeasurable gains to this. We encourage everyone to be creative given each person’s limitations.

Improve your health  -  Reduce costs of health care  -  You don’t have to be a super athlete – Practice Safety 1st!

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             BELOW ARE SOME LINKS TO BIKE TRAILS IN CERTAIN STATES & ACROSS THE U.S.A.

BIKE LEAGUE:                         http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/bikemonth/                                      

U.S.A.                                          http://www.great-trails.com/

U.S.A.:                                         http://www.trails.com/toptrails.aspx

GEORGIA:                                 http://www.americantrails.org/resources/statetrails/GAstate.html 

WISCONSIN:                            http://www.wisconline.com/attractions/biketrails.html 

TENNESSEE:                            http://www.state.tn.us/environment/parks/WarriorsPath/ 

 TEXAS                                      http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/parkguide/?page=bike&lang=en

MARYLAND:                            http://www.railstotrails.us/md_western_maryland_railroad_trail.htm

MINNESOTA:                          http://www.mesabitrail.com/                                                                             

PENNSYLVANIA:                    http://www.pennsylvaniabiketrails.com/

RHODE ISLAND:                     http://www.dot.state.ri.us/bikeri/          

DELAWARE                              http://www.destateparks.com/activities/mountain-biking/locations.asp  

NEVADA                                    http://www.tahoesbest.com/Biking/bikepath.htm 

SOUTH CAROLINA                http://www.sctrails.net/Trails/alltrails/mountainbike/MTN%20BIKE.html 

CALIFORNIA:                         http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/24317/files/bikingtrailsinparks.pdf

STATE BY STATE TRAILS: http://www.americantrails.org/resources/statetrails/

OHIO:                                       http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/facilitiesmaps/mntbikes/tabid/494/default.aspx

ARIZONA:                               http://www.globalbikesbikeshop.com/wheretoride.html    

ILLINOIS:                               http://www.kidzooie.com/bicycletrails.html

 

 

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