Darlings, Please pay attention to the elections. We are under attack this year. Please vote against it.

[Toughy]

What is puzzling to me is the idea that blue collar workers do not go to college or vocational technical schools. It says education beyond high school is not part of the 'american dream' for some of us. It says education beyond high school is not needed to get a blue collar job. American companies are always saying the work force is uneducated and there are not enough skilled workers for the new economy.

Here is a list of the top 10 blue collar jobs and every one of them requires some kind of training/education beyond high school. Vocational technical training will get you a college degree (an associate degree..2 yrs) or some kind of certification. Is that not higher education?

http://www.careerbuilder.com/Article...e-Collar-Jobs/

[always2late]

Originally Posted by Toughy

What is puzzling to me is the idea that blue collar workers do not go to college or vocational technical schools. It says education beyond high school is not part of the 'american dream' for some of us. It says education beyond high school is not needed to get a blue collar job. American companies are always saying the work force is uneducated and there are not enough skilled workers for the new economy.

Here is a list of the top 10 blue collar jobs and every one of them requires some kind of training/education beyond high school. Vocational technical training will get you a college degree (an associate degree..2 yrs) or some kind of certification. Is that not higher education?

http://www.careerbuilder.com/Article...e-Collar-Jobs/

Um...are you using logic and facts to support your statement?? That's not what this campaign is about!! Quit trying to undermine America!

[iamkeri1]

AZ Introduces Bill Allowing Employers to Fire Women for Using Contraception

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Mar 14, 2012 in Genital Warfare | 10 comments
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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-2 Monday to endorse a controversial bill that would allow Arizona employers the right to deny health insurance coverage for contraceptives based on religious objections.
Arizona House Bill 2625, authored by Majority Whip Debbie Lesko, R-Glendale, would permit employers to ask their employees for proof of medical prescription if they seek contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes, such as hormone control or acne treatment.
“I believe we live in America. We don’t live in the Soviet Union,” Lesko said. “So, government should not be telling the organizations or mom and pop employers to do something against their moral beliefs.”



It all sounds rather condescending and Arizonish when you put it like that, but there’s more to this bill than meets the eye.
Arizona is an at-will employment state, which means bosses can fire you just because. The type of employer who wishes to deny women access to contraception unless absolutely medically required to do so (think ovarian cysts) is the type of employer that may give women a pink slip for failing to provide medical records showing a non-birth control necessity for well, birth control.
In short, if your boss objects to you taking the pill, under Arizona House Bill 2625 your boss is protected by the law in terminating your employment.
Jezebel’s Erin Gloria Ryan has a fantastic piece up explaining this all far better than I’m able to. (Because I’m leaving for the airport, not because I lack ovaries.) Go read it.
Please, dear readers, make a giant stink about this. Share this. Spread the word. The war on women in our country is bizarre and real and very much happening. Attention gays, stand up for the women standing up for you.
How is this real life?