The New American Job

The New American Job:

The part-time job.

The number of workers employed part-time because they couldn’t find a full-time job increased by a seasonally adjusted 322,000 last month.

What is a  part-time job? :

 The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does  not define full-time employment or  part-time employment

A new way of governing

The selective enforcement of laws.

The government delays the insurance mandate for  businesses, though not for individuals,  of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

The government  rewrites via regulation the laws it dislikes.

The Law Against Free Market

The Law Against Free Market

Tesla has won lawsuits in several states giving it the right to sell its cars directly to customers.

But Virginia recently slapped down Tesla’s attempt to sell its electric Model S directly to customers.

Automobile dealers associations have been trying  to prevent Tesla Motors from opening its own
dealerships.

Tesla is banned from opening dealerships in Virginia.

The law is restrictive and  intends to prevent large car manufactuers from  selling directly to customers.

The car-dealer lobby has worked hard to  ensure that  You Can't Buy a New Car Online.

Since the late 1990s, car dealers have used their  considerable political clout to pass or better
 enforce state franchise laws that in many cases  make it a criminal offense for an auto manufacturer  to sell a new car to anyone but a state-licensed  car dealer.

The Privilege of Large Employers

The Privilege of Large Employers:

The Obama administration said it is delaying penalties for large employers who don't provide  health insurance coverage to workers under  the federal health-care law for 2014.

If You Are Self-Employed You Are Required to  Have Health Insurance or  Pay a Penalty.

Number of employees of EPA

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has 17,359 employees  (2011) and a budget of $8.682 billion (2011), $500,144 per employee.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China (MEP) was set up in March 2008 with  two Chief Engineers one Minister , five Vice Ministers and one Member of the Leading Party Group of MEP,

The modern "global middle class”

The modern "global middle class”, status defined by education or simply in monetary terms, is engaging in political activism to save  its economic self-interest as in the past the French, Bolshevik and Chinese Revolutions did .

The modern "global middle class” knows that the only way to save its status is being the “new part” of the “new big government”, an ineffective, unresponsive  and corrupt "system".

How Lobbying Spenders Make a Law

U.S. Senate passed a giant, 1,200 page immigration bill.

The Senate bill provides $50 billion for border security measures.

Boeing and a team of companies including L-3 Communications and
L-3 Government Services, Washington D.C.; Unisys, Reston, Va.;
Perot Systems, Plano, Texas; Kollsman Inc., Merrimack, N.H.; and
DRS Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, Palm Bay, Fla.,
have formally placed a bid.


Boeing Is Top Lobbying Spenders In Washington.
Boeing spokeswoman Susan Bradley says the company recently decided to re-engage with the Washington legislature on issues of what she calls “business competitiveness.”


Total Lobbying Expenditures
    for Parent L-3 Communications in 2010: $4,930,000

Total Lobbying Expenditures
    for Parent Unisys Corp: $906,349

Total Lobbying Expenditures
    for Parent Perot Systems in 2006: $247,713

DRS Technologies announced on September 25 that it has been selected to be a member of the Boeing Company SBInet team.
The work will be performed by DRS Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group of Palm Bay, Fla.