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Guy

And, I'm actually able to connect. I just hear music right now, but I am connected!

third day without heat here... single digits outside. great fun!
so i hope this will be a HOT show today!

Looks like technical problems have been fixed???? (fingers crossed!)

I am sitting here with Michael and Guy....watching them do radio stuff. What's up with you today?

shivering but here and waiting

It's cold here in FL too...I am sitting here in a sweater.

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on the very start.

LOUD and CLEAR now

:hi: everyone, looking forward to the show!

here in Northwest Indiana, Steph. Hi!
:thumbsup:

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:bounce:

I cannot seem to get it started from Guy's webpage.

thanks

was Skull and Bones. He just graduated from Yale University.

And thanks Guy and JanMichael...

with my own two ears that he was never asked by Skull and Bones to become a member.

Is she a DUer?

Diane from Fort Myers, FL

:shrug:

Guess if RWers can have them, we can too, eh?

discussing the dismal JOBS performance, Dobbs pointed out that corporations are making LOTS of money... without creating any NEW jobs and forcing more work out of LESS workers.

ie. no new retail help was hired this season, but they made more $$$. by paying less, reducing benefits, etc. the corporate pigs make the $$$ while the workers, afraid of losing even a BAD job, can't do anything.

the SELFISH RECOVERY - that's bushco policy!

i have his CD! i've met him on the NYC cabaret scene....

it was a few years back... he'd recognize me if he saw me... our paths crossed at ALL those NYC clubs he named...

on edit:

i'll contact him about contributing to the political revue I have planned

I hope Guy plays the other one next week.

and find something better than 'prehistoric' to describe Rush. that didn't work for me and since it comes at the end of the chorus, it weakens the impact. (speaking from a director/producer POV)

and that's too bad because

"he's Robin Hood with a switch,
he robs from the poor and gives to the rich"

is VERY good.

...have any impact.

Other than that it was a great tune.

I passed Michael a piece of paper that said, "Jeff knows him.."

He would totally remember you if he saw you-

That's where the jobs went.

Here's the story:

AP: Labor Dept. Lists Ways to Cut Costs

WASHINGTON - The 1.3 million low-wage workers the Labor Department (news - web sites) says will be guaranteed overtime pay as part of new rule changes may not necessarily see any extra cash.

While touting the $895 million in increased wages it says those workers would be guaranteed from the changes, the Labor Department is suggesting ways employers can keep their labor costs from going up.

Among the options: cut workers' hourly wages and add the overtime to equal the original salary, or raise salaries to the new $22,100 annual threshold, making them ineligible.

The department says it is merely listing well-known choices available to employers, even under current law.

"We're not saying anybody should do any of this," said Labor Department spokesman Ed Frank.


New overtime regulations were proposed in March after employers complained they were being saddled with costly lawsuits filed by workers who claimed they were unfairly being denied overtime. But the regulations themselves have stirred controversy over how many workers would be stripped of their right to overtime pay.


The issue is being seized by Democrats in their attempt to win back Congress and the White House.


A final rule, revising the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, is expected to be issued in March. The act defines the types of jobs that qualify workers for time-and-a-half if they work more than 40 hours a week.


Overtime pay for the 1.3 million low-income workers has been a selling tool for the Bush administration in trying to ease concerns in Congress about millions of higher-paid workers becoming ineligible.


But the Labor Department, in a summary of its plan published last March, suggests how employers can avoid paying more money to those newly eligible low-income workers.


"Most employers affected by the proposed rule would be expected to choose the most cost-effective compensation adjustment method," the department said. For some companies, the financial impact could be "near zero," it said.


Employers' options include:


_Adhering to a 40-hour work week.


_Raising workers' salaries to a new $22,100 annual threshold, making them ineligible for overtime pay.


If employers raise a worker's salary "it means they're getting a raise — that's not a way around overtime," Frank said. The current threshold is $8,060 per year.


_Making a "payroll adjustment" that results "in virtually no, or only a minimal increase in labor costs," the department said. Workers' annual pay would be converted to an hourly rate and cut, with overtime added in to equal the former salary.

Essentially, employees would be working more hours for the same pay.

The department does not view the "payroll adjustment" option as a pay cut. Rather, it allows the employer to "maintain the pay at the current level" with the new overtime requirements, said the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division administrator, Tammy McCutchen, an architect of the plan.

Labor unions criticized the employer options.

Mark Wilson, a lawyer for the Communications Workers of America who specializes in overtime issues, said the Bush administration was protecting the interests of employers at the expense of workers.

"This plan speaks volumes about the real motives of this so-called family friendly administration," Wilson said.

He says cutting workers' pay to avoid overtime is illegal, based on a 1945 Supreme Court ruling and a 1986 memo by the Labor Department under President Reagan.

But McCutchen disagreed. If changes were made week to week to avoid overtime, they would be illegal. A one-time change is not, she said.

"We had a lot of lawyers look at this rule. We would not have put that in there if we thought it was illegal," she said.

"Unless you have a contract, there is no legal rule ... prohibiting an employer from either raising your salary or cutting your salary," she said, adding, "We do not anticipate employers will cut people's pay."

The final plan does not require approval from Congress. That hasn't stopped Democrats and some Republicans from trying to block the rule, thus far unsuccessfully, out of fear that millions of workers would become ineligible for overtime.

Department officials say about 644,000 higher-paid workers would lose their overtime eligibility. But the proposal says 1.5 million to 2.7 million workers "will be more readily identified as exempt" from overtime requirements. Labor unions claim the figure is about 8 million.

The Labor Department is aware of lawmakers' concerns has read tens of thousands of comments about the proposal, McCutchen said.

"We understand what the public concerns are and we're going to be doing our best to address them," she said. "It's important to allow us to finish that process so we can back up our words with some good-faith action."

Link:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040106/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/overtime_pay_5

One DUer that I have always wanted to call in while I am sitting here!

I adore him!

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I have always hoped you would call in while I am down here with Michael-

:yourock:

call, and mention D.U. Way to go!

Nostamj, good luck getting the heat back.

Nice work from the New York bureau!

It comes as no surprise me that disabled vets have to be minded by bush&co when visiting our wounded soldiers. But it enrages me at how much mental damage we are doing to our sons and daughters who are wounded and are not allowed to talk about their experiences.

edit: Great call Jeff!

on this story...

maybe i'll add financial analysis to my website! (not!)

hey, it's ANDY (god_bush_n_cheney)

of Bushonomics personally, but that will just enhance your credibility in my eyes compared to the grossly overpaid hacks on the financial cable channels (for some reason Larry Kudlow comes to mind here).

i *was* THE wordperfect expert, now, we're migrated to Word. i am obsolete and they can hire a Word person for less than I'm making (after 10 YEARS with the firm). it still sucks. and I do blame * for a job market with little to offer me...

Guy is wise to point out most people simply go to their doctors for pain treatment, and don't go to Denny's parking lots, instead.

Wow. "Hey, Punk's" letter truly smelled up the show. George Bush, the Man of God!

gave over to the pill pushers just supported crime and terrorists. He didn't hand all that money over to the corner drug store pharmacist.

Previously if I turned my speakers up as loud as possible, they would blast me out of the room. Now (and last week) I have them on high and can barely hear the show.

Anyone else having this problem?

have the volume at about 50% and it's a little LOUD... dunno

where it is buffering every two or three minutes. And I have to turn off the broadcast to read the thread or post. So can only post on commercial breaks. My ISP seems to be having a problem, normally it is not this bad. But the sound is the same as usual.

Does anyone know her D.U. username?

"nostamj," very good to hear your call. You are, after all, officially, the New York Bureau!

one currently in the GJS studio, one (that I know of) in NYC.

not sure who the Indiana Stephanie is....

and thanks... i guess it is 'official' now.... (i do my best!)

Me, Cici the Psychobunny, and Stephanie.

Wonder if it was Stephanie? Cici is a Kiwi-

she's a new yorker!

that called a little bit ago. I was kind of nervous. Hope it didn't show.

Very cool! You sounded like you are used to talking in public-

(don't Guy and Michael make it EASY???

in Indiana is a status symble. That is so true. My family lives in Crown Point, Portage and Hobart and that is exactly what happens there. Going back home for Christmas was a trial at times.

Good call.

I married a COMMIE????

rats

should just move off shores to Burmuda so he could get some of that corporate welfare from his pubbie pResident. hahaha

with this week.

great mix of calls. Guy and Michael were ON. no tech issues.

not saying the previous shows were 'bad' but... this week, all the pieces were in place and the tech was solid and...

BRAVO! good sign for the upcoming year. and there's certainly room for Ed and Guy in the liberal market!

support!

you were especially ON today. good job.

Buffering, I hate it.

But the show was great. There are more calls from the right than there were on the old station. Personally would like to hear more of the sane right not the rabid right. But I guess the rabid is good for a laugh.

Good show Guy and Michael, thanks for being there for us.

...he seemed to really have his act together.

He even gave us time counts over the headphones prior to breaks, it was really smooth.

One bad thing though was a new TV on the desk...I hate to admit it but I zoned out on the screen a few times...I hate those damned things!

For archiving the show on "White Rose Society" site. We appreciate what he does and encourage everyone to throw a buck or two his way for the tremendous service he provides to those of us on the Left. If it were not for guys like Ben there would be silence.

I am honored to be able to add another excellent show to my archive.