I’ve been in Perth for the last 4 months, getting my degree such that I could pursue jobs with better prospects. During this 4 months, I was involved in a Long Distance Relationship which had gone one smoothly until the end of the 3rd month. My girlfriend at this time had found herself a new [...]

I’m sick of hearing how unions are hurting this country because here in Michigan the unions are what made middle class families. I’m not defending the “Big Wigs” in any union, in my eyes they are just as bad as the corporate CEOs BUT it’s the union workers that are taking the brunt of the [...]

This post is dedicated to my husband, a union Ironworker. He recently had to leave home to work, like so many other Ironworkers around the nation. They always go where the work is. Ironworking is a tough trade and when I say they are a breed of their own that’s no lie. They get up [...]

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they [...]

I still have mixed feelings about Congress doling out more money to the Big 3 Automakers, but considering what is on the line I would say it is needed. Speaking as a resident of Michigan who has more than one family member employed in some way by the auto industry, Congress must approve some form [...]