John Sweeney
John Sweeney
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 August 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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We cannot afford to stand by and wait for the federal government to take action. So we're going to take it on state by state.
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Working people are not just fed up -- they are ready to get active to set our country in a different direction, one state at a time.
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The budget also proposes bringing the total annual state spending on education to nearly $17 billion, or 72 percent higher than when (Pataki) took office. As a result, today New Yorkers spend more than $12,000 per pupil to support public education - virtually the highest amount in the nation.
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Despite the same, tired old scare tactics of the special interests, under the governor's budget New York will continue to spend more money than any other state on providing quality health care to its citizens. If the special interests want the taxpayers to spend even more than the record amounts they already provide, then the special interests need to say which tax they would raise or what other area of the budget they would cut.
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Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
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A long-term strategic grass-roots campaign will follow in each state in the coming weeks and months.
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We checked and he wasn't given any preferential treatment.
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I've been hearing more workers -- including former Enron workers -- say they now wish they'd had a union.
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Employers are all too eager to exploit workers. This is no time to make that easier. What a double tragedy it would be to allow the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to depress living standards even further. Taking advantage of a national tragedy to get rid of a protection for workers the corporate backers of the White House have long wanted to remove is nothing less than profiteering.
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We had several good opportunities on goal in the second half. We played well tonight, but we see where we need to improve.
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There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.
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There's more emphasis on what the person has achieved than there is on observing what time they're in in the morning or leaving at night.
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Maryland's working families have sent a clear message to local governments across the country and corporate America by demanding health care fairness -- and winning.
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I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.