"women make up 65 per cent of the six million public sector workers....In local government.....75 per cent of the workforce is female"
This article says women will probably bear 70% of the cuts, which sounds pretty fair to me. Indeed, to be considered really fair, even more women should go, to restore the gender balance to something more representative of our society.
There should also be an investigation into whether institutional sexism created this imbalance in the first place, along with an affirmative action programme to correct it.
on Dr Kelly post-mortem files to be released
Oh don't try to confuse us with facts, our minds are already made up: we have decided that this was a conspiracy and no amount of truth will ever convince us otherwise.
Under fire for obeying the law?
The congress people who wrote these laws might be a legitimate target, but it seems churlish in the extreme to criticise a company for doing what each of us would do: use every deduction the tax law allows.
Only partly thanks to Mr Osbourne, Johann.
Mostly thanks to the government and people of Britain who, for the previous 12 years, simply thought they could keep on spending more than they made without the bank manager ever twigging.
Yep. Buy something from overseas and get them to put it on an airplane. That's really green.
Egads! Does this mean that we will have to content ourselves with the military we can afford? What happened to just taking how ever much money we think we might need from our children and grandchildren?
Yeah Mark, we're wimps. We should be out in the streets damaging property and hurting other people, like the French, or wiping out more of Britain's wealth with a general strike like the Spanish. I know this might lose our nose, but it certainly would spite our face, wouldn't it?
Public Employees Union Spends Huge to Save Dems
Given the millions contributed by corporations, including those bailed out by the taxpayer, , this seems a reasonable response by the unions: in the free marketplace if ideas, let the biggest spenders win.
NPR Under Fire After Canning Juan Williams
Mr Williams was fired because he did not understand the difference between opinion and fact.
Not sure he will be comfortable at Fox, who understand the difference but prefer opinion.
Criticism as a crime. I like it.
If this succeeds, perhaps movie and play producers can sue for compensation when a bad review hurts ticket sales, restaurants can sue if being panned reduces their number of diners
Gosh, having to work two years longer when I will live 15 years longer. That's certainly worth getting violent and hurting other people for.
Warns? What will they do to the government if it doesn't listen?
Excessive food consumption in general kills 10 times more
That would be good; we could then set an individual age limit on when others have to pay for someone's IVF treatments. Delaying childbearing beyond natural fertility makes it a lifestyle choice, not a disease or handicap, and there is no ethical argument to support my paying for someone else's lifestyle choice.
If the minimum price was set at 1p per calorie, not only beer, wine and spirits but fizzy soft-drinks, candy and cakes - which are much, much more damaging to health than alcohol is - would also be effectively restricted
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We're getting the same money but demand is rising, therefore we are being cut - this is the kind of whacked-out logic that bankers used to get us into the financial crisis. Some folks, including the authors of this piece, seem to think we can keep on paying more and more for more and more services from the NHS, but they do not say where the money is supposed to come from. Either you and I - regardless of our income level - pay more taxes than we do today or we take the money from our children by growing the deficit.
Judge Rules Teachers Do Not Get First Amendment Rights When It Comes To Curriculum
Commented Oct 22, 2010 at 07:18:20 in Education
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