President Biden thread

In 1981 a president stepped in to stop a strike of air traffic controllers. 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-fires-11359-air-traffic-controllers

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On August 5, an angry President Reagan carried out his threat, and the federal government began firing the 11,359 air-traffic controllers who had not returned to work. In addition, he declared a lifetime ban on the rehiring of the strikers by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). On August 17, the FAA began accepting applications for new air-traffic controllers, and on October 22 the Federal Labor Relations Authority decertified PATCO.

Of course, in this instance the strikers were actual employees of the federal government.  

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The Senate on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to impose a labor agreement between rail companies and their workers who have been locked in a stubborn stalemate, moving with uncommon speed to avert a potential holiday season rail strike that would jeopardize shipping across the country.

Passage of the measure cleared it to be signed by President Biden, who just days ago made a personal appeal for Congress to act to impose a labor agreement that his administration helped negotiate earlier this year but that had failed to resolve the dispute. He was expected to sign the bill quickly, racing to stave off any economic fallout that could come from a work stoppage in the coming days.

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With Senate Vote, Congress Moves to Avert Rail Strike

Zounds! The new congress should definitely hold investigations into this. A press secretary who makes errors and smirks is definitely a threat to democracy! 

23 hours ago, chare said:

I'm not saying that I agree with @MaybeeRN's post; however, consider this.  While Congress is considering action because the rail strike might impact the entire economy, they're doing this base on their authority to regulate interstate commerce.

Cornell University's Legal Information Institute defines interstate commerce as "... the general term for transacting or transportation of products, services, or money across state borders."  This likely applies to many large healthcare systems.

That is a very interesting question you bring up.  I found another definition in the regulation:  

§ 776.29 Instrumentalities and channels of interstate commerce.

(a) Typical examples. Instrumentalities and channels which serve as the media for the movement of goods and persons in interstate commerce or for interstate communications include railroads, highways, city streets; telephone, gas, electric and pipe line systems; radio and television broadcasting facilities; rivers, canals and other waterways; airports; railroad, bus, truck or steamship terminals; freight depots, bridges, ferries, bays, harbors, docks, wharves, piers; ships, vehicles and aircraft which are regularly used in interstate commerce. 

It seems to me that a thing must be used to facilitate the transportation of another thing or person to constitute interstate commerce.  Why would this affect nurses strikes unless they were federal workers?  Nurses at ABC Hospital System and strike separately at the facility in which they work without the entire system going on strike.  And I'm not sure that even if the entire system decided to go on strike, it would be an issue of interest to the federal government.

2 hours ago, Beerman said:

An error?  I would have thought she would have been expecting and prepared for that question.  And, it's pretty common knowledge Biden hasn't been to the border.

Anyway, maybe it was an error.  I'm sure she has or will correct herself at the next briefing?

If she does, the top journalists of Fox News will be all over it! That is, if they can break away from Hunter’s laptop.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/futures-slip-ahead-November-jobs-report-2022-12-02/

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The S&P 500 closed slightly lower on Friday, although major indexes rallied off their worst levels of the day, as the November payrolls report fueled expectations the Federal Reserve would maintain its path of interest rate hikes to combat inflation.

The Labor Department's jobs report showed nonfarm payrolls rose by 263,000, above expectations of 200,000 and wage growth accelerated even as recession concerns increase.

The U.S. unemployment rate remained unchanged, as expected, at 3.7%.

Wage growth has been in an uptrend since August," said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investment in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

"We will have to see that trend reverse for the Fed to be comfortable with a pause. Until then, they’ll continue to taper towards a pause."

Investors have been looking for signs of weakness in the labor market, especially wages, as a precursor to faster cooling of inflation that will enable the Fed to slow and eventually stop its current rate hike cycle.

Gas prices are also down dramatically in interior Alaska. 

Texas Man Threatened Boston Doctor Who Treats Gender Nonconforming Children, U.S. Says https://nyti.ms/3H65VzE

Is this another example of a social conservative who is manipulated by propaganda and lies in their preferred media?

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According to federal prosecutors, false information began to spread online in August that doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital were providing hysterectomies and gender affirmation surgery to patients under the age of 18. The hospital does not perform those procedures on minors, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors allege that on Aug. 31, Mr. Lindner called the Boston-based National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and left the threatening voice mail for one of the center’s doctors.

Who radicalized him into acting out his emotional distress?

1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Texas Man Threatened Boston Doctor Who Treats Gender Nonconforming Children, U.S. Says https://nyti.ms/3H65VzE

Is this another example of a social conservative who is manipulated by propaganda and lies in their preferred media?

Who radicalized him into acting out his emotional distress?

Murdering doctors is a missionary tradition on the right.

2 minutes ago, heron said:

Murdering doctors is a missionary tradition on the right.

He is a manipulated moron who didn't have enough curiosity to check if the story was even true. Now the taxpayers will have to cough up the costs of keeping him in prison. They are a dangerous tribe.