President-elect Obama has vowed to make the misleadingly titled Employee Free Choice Act, better known as “Card Check,” the “law of the land” and that’s bad news for Americans who want to keep their jobs. If Sen. Saxby Chambliss loses in the Dec. 2 run-off election, Card Check will indeed become law, driving more jobs overseas and decimating what’s left of the American economy. My column in this week’s paper explains why Georgians need to send Chambliss back to Washington to defeat this disastrous legislation.
Here’s a preview of the rest of this week's news section, on racks this weekend.
From Josh Clark’s story, “Cigarette Money”: “I smoked while I wrote this article. I was smoking while I interviewed the guy from the American Cancer Society who you’ll meet later. Since I spend an average of about 15 minutes out of every waking hour smoking, statistically speaking, if you read this article between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. there’s a 25 percent chance I’ll be smoking then too…”
From Mark Woolsey’s “Help”: “At the Marine Corps Reserves’ Atlanta Toys For Tots Campaign, Director and Gunnery Sgt. Edward Barrett says demand is up 30 percent as his organization looks for 800,000 toys, two per child, and if they run short, he says, “We’ll just have to contact organizations that have requested toys and say we will not be able to meet obligations.”
From Arianna Huffington’s column, “Going broke? Volunteer!”: In a recent column,
David Brooks paints a gloomy picture of the coming psychic toll he predicts will envelop what he calls the "formerly middle class." It's a toll that would be greatly lessened if those heading for "a perilous psychological spiral" would look outside themselves and, at the same time they are trying to improve their diminished circumstances, find ways to serve others even less fortunate -- bringing both perspective and meaning to their lives.