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Detroit is broke on Thursday the Motor City became the largest in US history to
file for bankruptcy
after decades a factory closings in a massive decline in population
even governor Rick Snyder's little dictator Kevin or couldn't save the city
from financial ruin
now mister or has moved it right into bankruptcy court creditors will be
forced to accept pennies on the dollar for the city's debt
first governor Snyder in mister or are calling for huge cuts
to the Trades Union and pension contracts which they've been after for
such sometime
even before the bankruptcy mister or try to convince these groups to accept 10
cents on the dollar
and blame public unions for the city's financial strain
as a pension groups refuse the so-called offer mister or and governor Snyder are
blaming the bankruptcy in public workers
in a press release yesterday governor senator wrote despite mister ORS best
efforts he has been unable to reach a restructuring plan with the city's
creditors
I therefore agree that the only feasible path to a stable and solid Detroit is to
file for bankruptcy protection
in a press conference today mister or indicated that secured creditors will be
favored over unsecured
translation Detroit workers other creditors who are screwed
governor Snyder has offered no alternatives other
then throwing workers under the bus no alternatives like invest in the city by
creating jobs are repairing infrastructure
not have these things which could be done using state funds
instead snyder et or will use three decades reaganomics outsourcing in wage
declined to destroy public unions
and sell the city of in parts to the billionaire buddies and it won't be long
before Republican lawmakers in other states catch on and used forced
austerity measures
followed by bankruptcy to do the same in their states
in screen is only weeks ago thousands gathered at the Texas State Capitol to
protest
a radical anti-abortion bill Republican lawmakers in the Lone Star State must
like all the attention because they're considering an even more extreme version
of that law now
the previous bill banned abortion after 20 weeks and will shut down the majority
of abortion clinics in that state
although the measure was just signed into law Thursday morning a few hard
right state legislators think it doesn't go far enough state represented as
bilking dan Flynn and G Morrison bow their own version the law which would
ban abortion after just six weeks
the so-called fetal heartbeat bill would criminalize abortions after the first
after the first trimester
before many women even know they're pregnant it's not clear state lawmakers
will attempt to pass this extreme anti-choice
legislation but is likely that the protests in Texas are coming to an end
anytime soon
in the best to the rest to the news after spending 2.3 million
text here taxpayer dollars in legal fees republicans in the house representatives
are finally giving up on their defense is a mess %uh the
defense on mer love marriage act in 2011 when the Justice Department announced
that they would no longer defend the discriminatory law in court
Republican lawmakers jumped into the fight to keep same-sex couples from
getting married
this is the Supreme Court recently ruled the section 3 of DOMA is
unconstitutional
us Republicans will not continue spending our tax dollars to defend
its journey representing the group of lawmakers withdrew from the case
in which US service members were suing for military benefits for same-sex
partners
as the defense department has already announced that those benefits will now
be provided
really wasn't much of a fight left for the Republican lawmakers
the fight for quality is still ongoing in the States but at least our federal
tax dollars are no longer being used to be found
discrimination it's not just low-wage fast food workers who are standing up
for the right to a living wage
on Thursday underpaid federal workers walk to walked off the job
Washington DC's Union Station it went on strike for the third time in
eight weeks to protest poverty wages
workers are taking part in a campaign called good jobs nation to put pressure
on the federal government for allowing private sector partners to pay employees
less than they need to survive for you the National Employment Law Project
known as now about 75 percent of these workers make less than ten dollars an
hour nearly half rely on public assistance programs
just to get by nope reports that the federal government has
more low wage workers than Walmart and McDonalds
combining democratic representatives Keith Allison
and Eleanor gnome holmes-norton joined the striking workers
and they are urging President Obama to put in and to these poverty wages
one of the striking workers said we're all just trying to reach the American
dream
as more workers around our nation stand together and speak our
out hopefully that dream will soon be possible
and finally guber is the latest thing for on-demand car services
and in response to current heat wave there also the latest thing for
on-demand
ice cream today only over users in 35 cities cannot only place an order for
car but they can use who perhaps to request
it ice cream truck come to their location
requirement is that Cooper purchasers over users purchase
a minimum number of ice cream treats can make the requests between 11 a.m. and 5
p.m.
company tried out the special event last year and they were overwhelmed by the
response
so this year they expanded the offer to more cities to help more their users
beat the heat
spite the amazing response the promotion will only run one day as a company
spokesman said
for not going to be an ice cream delivery company on-demand ice cream may
sound like a child's fantasy but for today it's real life possibility for
people suffering
in extreme heat parents keep a close eye
on your smart phones that's the way it is today Friday
July 19th 2013 i John Hartman
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