If governments never save during good times, explain the Clinton surpluses.

The current problem is the huge subsidy we give to coal and oil by letting them just dump the waste into the air. WE pay the price for this, they get the profits.

This is the legacy of the Reagan, and later the Bush tax cuts. We deferred maintenance of our infrastructure, never mind modernization. Now it is caught up to us.

If they release the data it will prove that Obama was born in Kenya!

Obviously the photos of sea lanes in the Arctic are Photoshopped by this vast conspiracy!

You're talking about ONE LAB. But their data matches all the other labs in the world. Are you actually trying to claim that every single climate scientist is part of a vast conspiracy?

I strongly suspect you ran up against what I ran up against. Possibly even the same guy from the way you describe it. Here is what I think is going on: It's pretty clear that there are people employed to do this.

I ran up against someone who I confirmed was employed to put a corporate viewpoint into articles on tort reform, and to keep other viewpoints off of the site. He was an admin, who worked on the site all day, every day, and who was employed as Director of a Tort reform center at a right-wing/corporate "think tank." There was no question that was almost all he was doing with his time. But he had a number of other admins he could call on to confrim his decisions.

So I started tracking the edits of this guy and his cohorts. I found that they were working full-time on articles involving trade issues, tax cuts, tort reform, and the who gamut of the Chamber of Commerce / Corporate agenda...

This does not ELIMINATE secret ballots, it provides an alternative, if that is what the employees want.

(What is TFA?)

Well a lot of the rest of us work here.

"with true capitalism a good or service should have a price based on demand "

This has nothing to do with capitalism. You are confusing market economies with capitalism. capitalism is when a few people are allowed to own what would be consider public resources in other economic systems -- to sell you health care and water, stuff like that.

"The proposed law would eliminate the secret ballot for union formation."

This simply is not true. Where did you hear this? It looks like you fell for some corporate propaganda.

The problem is that during the current process, companies are firing the union organizers and supporters. THAT is the real value of the Employee Free Choice Act, to keep the companies from firing the union supporters.

"If all unions were to disappear tomorrow, we will not return to The Jungle."

We all gotta wonder where YOU work? Where has it not already returned to that?

This completely misrepresents what the Employee Free Choice Act does. Currently a union can do a "card check" and if 50% of the workers have signed up for a union the management can simply ignore it and then set up a cumbersome procedure for what they call a "secret ballot" election. But during this time the union organizers are all fired and others are harassed and intimidated. This is what is happening today.

The Employee Free Choice Act allows a "card check" to form a union, UNDER SUPERVISION AND REGULATION. If 50% of the employees vote to form a union, then negotiations on a contract begin.

Question: Are you for or against firing people who try to organize unions?

The auto unions HAVE made huge concessions, lower pay, etc.

In Germany and Japan THE GOVERNMENT provides health insurance and generous pensions. Here the auto companies have to pay that, so they are less competitive.