Extremes

This is an alarmingly sensitive article.

Some groups are protected on the federal level: Employers can't discriminate against workers based on age, gender, race, disability, national origin, or religion. But unless state law says differently, all other characteristics are fair game, including your political leanings and even what you wear outside of work.

In 2004, for example, an Alabama housing insulation company reportedly fired a woman for sticking a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker on her Chevy Lumina. In 2002, Goodwill Industries sacked a man who ran for mayor of Miami as a member of the Socialist Workers Party. Also that year, a federal court ruled that the Winn-Dixie grocery chain had the right to fire a Louisiana employee because he wore women's clothing off the job.

For an outsider looking in, I see..... a lot of issues that are Not Nice. It's hard not to compare, but at least in Singapore, you know what you're getting. It's that much less platable when you have proponents touting land of the free in all sides, and then you come across an article like this.


America - land of extremes, sometimes.....