The Huffington Post is a brilliantly packaged product with a particular flair for addressing the cultural and entertainment tastes of its overwhelmingly liberal audience. To grasp its business model, though, you need to picture a galley rowed by slaves and commanded by pirates, which makes all the "HuffPo's" raging against Wall Street plutocrats, crony capitalism and the Bush and Obama administrations' insensitivities to the middle class and the unemployed a bit much.

From Tahrir Square to Times Square, inequality is something Guild members know about, especially last week, when Thomson Reuters released stellar corporate results for last year and the last quarter. There’s plenty of recognition by TR managers that Guild members are among the most productive employees at the company, but no indication that any part of the money we help bring in will trickle down to us.

President Barack Obama’s proposed Labor Department spending plan for the year starting Oct. 1 cuts the DOL budget by $40 billion. But that cut may be an illusion: virtually all of it is in mandatory spending programs, such as jobless benefits, whose actual dollars flowing depend on the state of the economy. Still, Obama’s DOL budget blueprint -- part of his larger $3.75 trillion proposal for the entire government in fiscal 2011 -- drew a cool reception from both parties.