The nasty news no one's talking about regarding this insane gas tax holiday supported by McCain and Clinton, is that more than 300,000 transportation workers will lose their jobs due to lack of funds.

300,000 mostly white men will lose their jobs. Got that? Paying attention now?

The association also estimates that suspending the tax would divert about $8.5 billion from the Highway Trust Fund, which pays for road and bridge repairs and already faces a shortfall of $3.2 billion. Taking that tax money from the trust fund could endanger hundreds of thousands of jobs — every $1 billion in highway money supports 33,000 jobs, by one estimate — and would push more maintenance and construction costs onto the states.

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^{Crossposted on the NoSlaves.com blog. I thought pointing out the real trade positions of the two candidates before the primary highly relevant for there is currently much misinformation. We are a grassroots groups who focused on economic issues in favor of working America. Thanks for letting me post.}

While the choices for President slim down to next to none, one might evaluate positions instead of joining the various cheer leading camps. Who, overall has the best trade, economic positions to stop this global train wreck?
Firstly any group name calling someone protectionist because they acknowledge the obviously massive ~5.6% GDP trade deficit, is obviously not basing their economics on anything remotely resembling reality. The reason I link to this Pro Obama group is because they want more bad trade agreements. They assessed Obama as more of a corporate free trader than Hillary. Below are some statements from the two for easy comparison contrast.

Obama

• Fight for Fair Trade: Obama will fight for a trade policy that opens up foreign markets to support good American jobs. He will use trade agreements to spread good labor and environmental standards around the world and stand firm against agreements like the Central American Free Trade Agreement that fail to live up to those important benchmarks. Obama will also pressure the World Trade Organization to enforce trade agreements and stop countries from continuing unfair government subsidies to foreign exporters and non tariff barriers on U.S. exports.

• Amend the North American Free Trade Agreement: Obama believes that NAFTA and its potential were oversold to the American people. Obama will work with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to fix NAFTA so that it works for American workers.

• Improve Transition Assistance: To help all workers adapt to a rapidly changing economy, Obama would update the existing system of Trade Adjustment Assistance by extending it to service industries, creating flexible education accounts to help workers retrain, and
  providing retraining assistance for workers in sectors of the economy vulnerable to dislocation before they lose their jobs.

The demise of the state legislative study council committee that could not agree on a bill to effectively implement the Great Lakes Compact in Wisconsin is not the end of the world.

Its difficulties were embedded in its membership selection a year ago.

That's when narrow-minded Waukesha County political and business interests were given nearly 50% of the committee's seats - - with the Waukesha imbalance being cited as central to the committee's lost year of work, according to State Sen. Rob Cowles, (R-Allouez), a GOP colleague of the chairman, State Sen. Neal Kedzie, (R-Elkhorn).

What is needed now as the guide - - the underlying principle, the inspiration - - to making real progress at the State Capitol on this crucial piece of conservation legislation was best summed up by former Governor and US Senator Gaylord Nelson in his now-legendary 2000 Earth Day remarks.

The address was quoted by Bill Christofferson in his must-read Nelson biography The Man From Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson: