Republicans Plan To Screw Americans 40 Hours At a Time
In a post-midterms victory op-ed, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) and soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) promoted “a proposal to restore the traditional 40-hour definition of full-time employment, removing an arbitrary and destructive government barrier to more hours and better pay created by the Affordable Care Act of 2010.”
That talking point has been echoing around Republican-land since the midterms, and to the untrained ear, it sound innocuous enough. I mean, 40 hours is a full-time job, and “restoring” something means it must have been that way before, so how bad could it be to put it back that way? First, do no harm, and all that. If you’re not paying all that much attention, it sounds like they just want to put things back the way they were before, and reward hard-working Americans somehow.
Republicans have been fairly disciplined at keeping this point vague enough to obscure the proposal’s true intent. Well, all except one. See if you can spot him…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Spirit of America November 14th, 2014 at 21:20
First, why did I have to go to another site to get the important part of an article posted here? Please, if someone posts an article here, finish it here, don’t use it for click bait for one’s self.
But as for the 40 hour week, on its own, I have no problem w/that.
Dwendt44 November 15th, 2014 at 00:02
Then you either don’t understand or didn’t read the whole article.
Spirit of America November 15th, 2014 at 04:20
” Well, all except one. See if you can spot him…READ MORE”
so I clicked to read more and rest of article was on some banter site.
Spirit of America November 14th, 2014 at 22:20
First, why did I have to go to another site to get the important part of an article posted here? Please, if someone posts an article here, finish it here, don’t use it for click bait for one’s self.
But as for the 40 hour week, on its own, I have no problem w/that.
Dwendt44 November 15th, 2014 at 01:02
Then you either don’t understand or didn’t read the whole article.
Spirit of America November 15th, 2014 at 05:20
” Well, all except one. See if you can spot him…READ MORE”
so I clicked to read more and rest of article was on some banter site.
Tim Coolio November 14th, 2014 at 21:53
Keep in mind cons, Obama still won two elections
in electoral landslides, he still has a mandate and
one third of the government and…..a nice veto pen!
and don’t forget……..he’s still the President!
Spirit of America November 14th, 2014 at 22:00
And, POTUS himself believes elections have consequences!
:)
Tim Coolio November 14th, 2014 at 22:53
Keep in mind cons, Obama still won two elections
in electoral landslides, he still has a mandate and
one third of the government and…..a nice veto pen!
and don’t forget……..he’s still the President!
Spirit of America November 14th, 2014 at 23:00
And, POTUS himself believes elections have consequences!
:)