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In the battle over immigration reform, some believe we need to grant amnesty to “undocumented workers” because they do the jobs “Americans won’t do,” as George W. Bush once said. But there’s a new class of vacant jobs in U.S. manufacturing — call them “the jobs Americans can’t do.”
Thousands of jobs go unfilled because [...]

You and I now own 56% of GMAC (which is not part of GM, and tanked thanks to mortgage loans, not auto). Treasury just transferred another $3.8 billion of our earnings to GMAC, for a total aid package of $16.3 billion.

Buried in the story: U.S. agrees to convert $3 billion in preferred shares, which must [...]

“The president seems to believe that greedy corporate bosses have not only driven their fatigued wage-slaves to put in an extra 12 minutes per week, but that they’ve also “squeezed” them for more output per minute, thus assuring the unemployed will remain sedentary. This “problem,” of course, already has a couple of tailor-made solutions within [...]