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...never thought I'd be agreeing with Republican Senator Richard Shelby from Alabama, but my assessment of the current bank bailout conforms with his response: No! Invest in infrastructure, home weatherization, worker-retraining, green-collar jobs and whatever will move us away from our oil addiction. Rather than doubling down on our already obscene national debt, we should face up to letting the chips fall and reorganizing our lives and economy around a sustainable paradigm. Bruce Garver, Murrieta, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...every presidential election in the past 100 years except one. "I've done this sort of rolling interview before," he says, "and what struck me as different this time was that everyone seemed a little nervous to be talking politics." In general, David found a good number of blue collar white voters who said they plan to vote for Obama because of the economy, and some who say they plan to vote against him because they disagree with his policies. But he found little evidence that race will be a determining factor either way. Accompanying David's piece are provocative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Decide | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...running on his business background; he worked for his family's business, an engineering and technology firm from which he made millions when it was sold to an international conglomerate in 2007. Kryzan says her work as an environmental lawyer means she's poised to help create green-collar jobs in Western New York; she has painted Lee as an irresponsible deregulator, making the tone of the race feel very much like the presidential contest between John McCain and Barack Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races to Watch: A GOP Seat at Risk in Upstate New York | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...most recent book, “Real Education,” Charles Murray, a co-author of the controversial bestseller “The Bell Curve,” points out that nearly all of the most notable members of elite professions (which typically pay higher than blue-collar jobs) have IQ levels of 120 or above...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Speaking Truth To Test Scores | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

...driver into a breathless verbal tour of his hometown, beginning with Union Street and a mom-and-pop restaurant, accelerating through all the stops—the current administration, taxes, Iraq, education, health care—taking a slight detour to note his (working-class, blue-collar) predilection for Home Depot, and wheezing back into the station with a promise of change from Obama. To viewers at home, Biden’s brief but intimate portrait seemed to say much more than any dense policy proposal...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: In a Nutshell | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

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