Or even point me to them and I will write it up, or you could write an Instapopulist. Unpaid labor is really outrageous and it does happen every day, so obtaining deep statistics would help expose the pattern. I can look as well.

The abuse going on and here you have attorneys with 6 figure law school debt to boot is outrageous. Yeah, they also use 1009-misc "contractors" to get around minimum wage laws and paying people.

Its very sad when someone of modest means borrows thousands and thousands of dollars to get a technical degree and then are spit on by their own elected officials. Its out of control.

Do corporations with foreign holdings benefit from a strong dollar? Is the strong dollar better for Google with tons of cash over seas?

Also Robert what do you think of Obama's minimum wage proposals? Maybe a chance to involve corporate America in some stimulus? More money equals more demand right?

And why does the media always go to Jim Bob's diner to interview him about how hes going to cut the throats of a couple employees if they raise the minimum. Why not do stories on McDonalds, Burger King, IHOP and the rest of the service industry? An industry that employs millions of American workers. Many of those workers make the minimum or close to it.

No society, none, can keep destroying so many people's lives. It simply can't happen. No society can be sustained that allows a tiny minority (in effect, less than 1%) to rule and get all the riches, safety, security, health benefits, protection of laws, handcrafted laws, etc. History is replete with fallen governments that thought they could keep pushing and pushing and pushing. At a certain point, everyone outside the super-minority realizes they are being screwed. Tax base gets whittled down. Schools collapse. People's health goes down the crapper and more inmates in prisons - greater burden on those paying taxes, but the super-minority are exempt from real taxes and no one else has jobs = no tax base.

One relative gets fired/long-term unemployed, okay, maybe tolerable. Two? Three? Entire families long-term unemployed? How pissed is that family and are they going to be lavishing praise on anyone connected to the regime?
And if the super-minority think they can keep going at it, they are wrong. Cops, prosecutors, corrections, teachers, everyone sees their pensions being stolen from, they see hedge fund managers making billions (literally, billions for managers) just for sitting on the money or losing to the market and being born into the right circles in the first place. Private security? Those folks get paid pathetic sums of money.
So, no jobs, no tax base, public servants that might be pro-regime see they are just another expendable line in the ledger. And so it crumbles. Toss in the rampant corruption, kids to people in their 90s getting screwed, no jobs, destined for a life of unemployment and crushing debt and only a delusional PR shill or politician thinks that could last.

Egypt, Tunisia. EU. Africa. China - as corrupt and oppressive as they come. USA. Look around the globe - no one is immune. And if banksters and the top levels of bureaucracy that do nothing but make money from having money or destroying people think there's some paradise where servants and peasants would love to serve them we'd like to know where that country is because everywhere they are hated. Delusional people think that somehow because they vacation in Bora Bora or have $50 billion in the bank that they are immune from caring. 25,000 miles around - it's a small world with an ever growing population of really, really disenchanted people. Things don't have to be this way, if only the majority of people actually had a voice in the system instead of being purposely ignored and crushed at every turn.

Corporate profits are and have been at record highs. the U.S. worker, from no high school to PhDs are treated as an expense instead of the key components to make a business profits and successful. Beyond that, there is no sense of responsibility, of loyalty of purpose to employees at businesses. They fire people almost like they are taking target practice at the gun range and instead of even recognizing the devastation that brings, hire PR and HR hatchet men (women) to make sure no one causes a scene or sues them.

People are perceived only as consumers, not producers and especially not as citizens with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

The lie is dispelled with the simple labor shortage = wage increase. In every single sector they claim there is a "shortage" or "skills gap," you won't find any corresponding wage increase. Truck driver shortage? Sure, ask American truck drivers if their wages/payouts per mile are increasing, better benefits, more training for free. Not happening. But the business press claims the driver shortage so that they can flood American roads with foreign drivers, driving down transportation/driver costs (another consequence of NAFTA + CAFTA). College grads in STEM and every other major aren't seeing wage increases, in fact, as studies posted here and elsewhere, wages are flat or decreasing, benefits are going bye-bye, and people are working for free despite minimum wage laws. Wages and jobs for Americans in tech, manufacturing, etc.? Every sector the press claims a "shortage," immediately just substitute "we need to claim a shortage to import more foreign workers and drive down wages."
Shortage = wage increase, and that's not happening. But why bother with Econ. for Simpletons, facts suck, spin and screwing over Americans is awesome. Facts shouldn't get in the way of payouts and bribes, ooops, "lobbying fees" and "speech fees."

Jefferson used to deliver his State of the Union in writing only because he thought it was too much like a monarch to deliver it; that practice lasted into the 20th Century - I'm all for ending the speech delivery. No need to watch a circus when the media and politicians already receive a copy of the script long before we're subjected to it (or purposely avoid certain channels because it's on).

I need to read the transcript but business and politicians are out to flood the U.S. labor market with foreign workers under the great lies that we have a worker shortage or that they stimulate the economy.  Uh, no they do not, when one is doing worker substitution, which is what is going on, in particular with H-1B.

So, I was thrilled with this particular set of lies was given a paragraph or two instead of longer and it sounded like some good ideas for manufacturing and advanced state-private partnership of high tech hubs.

I agree, the entire thing is a political advertisement and should not be given prime time airspace.  

These problems were preventable, so given the numbers, we're looking at tens of millions of people who have been adverseley affected. Everything from paying too much on loans, getting denied loans, losing out on jobs, and many other negative consequences. That's ignoring the ID theft that this allows, the ID theft that also affects credit ratings, and everything else these companies allow. The AGs and every politician that didn't accept $ from those with interests in credit reporting agencies, banks, loan companies, etc. could have said running credit reports for anything except high-risk/high-security jobs (e.g., military, national security, top cash handling positions, law enforcement positions) would be illegal. In addition, they could have said all credit agencies and employees must be based in the US and all inquiries and responses must be within the borders of the US, all documents must be stored in the US. Did they? No. And now after people are ruined or have been screwed long enough and hard enough, the AGs and other publicity seekers smell microphones and press conferences and easy cases to make their names in (because apparently going after the big banks, $ laundering, etc. was even too much for the one AG for NY to pursue). Congrats, easy pickings for people that get paid by us, to serve and protect us, but simply refuse to see and do what the average American understands and knows. Complete lack of faith in politicians and the govt. once again - seems to be a running theme for decades now.