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Wednesday News Dump
Author: BobR    Date: 01/15/2014 12:26:38

I'm a little short on time today, so this will be a quick one. I do not want to write about the Chris Christie scandal today. So - as part of our continuing coverage of the crazies within the Republican party, here are a couple stories that may have slipped under the radar.

In the "destroy everything the unions gave us" category, I give you exhibit A - Wisconsin Republicans propose 7 day work week:
A pair of Republican legislators in Wisconsin are circulating a draft of a bill that would allow a 7-day work week for the state’s workers. According to the Stephen Points Journal newspaper, the two lawmakers are floating the bill on behalf of the state’s largest anti-union business lobby, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce.

The bill is a “slap in the face” to the state’s public labor unions, which lost most of their power when Gov. Scott Walker ® stripped them of their ability to bargain collectively in 2011. It was proposed by state Sens. Glenn Grothman ® of West Bend and Mark Born ® of Beaver Dam.
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Conservatives say that workers will only have to forego their rest days if they volunteer, but the law’s opponents argue that businesses could create environments that are hostile to workers who insist on their rights. Workers who take their mandated rest days could be skipped over for promotion, denied privileges allowed to workers who work a 7-day week or could see sharp reductions in their schedules until they no longer have enough hours to make ends meet, financially.

Next on the chopping block - eliminating child labor laws (don't laugh - it's been proposed).

Down in that bastion of intellectual discourse known as South Carolina, we have a GOP candidate comparing food stamps to slavery:
The Republican primary contender — who has been endorsed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Red State editor Erick Erickson and conservative pundit Ann Coulter – said the federal government doesn’t have the authority to spend tax money helping poor families obtain food.

“We’re taking our plunder, that’s taken from us as individuals, [giving] it to the government, and the government is now keeping itself in power by giving these goodies away,” Brannon said. “The answer is the Department of Agriculture should go away at the federal level. And now 80 percent of the farm bill was food stamps. That enslaves people.”

Brannon, who opposes public education as “Marxist,” instead suggested providing poor people with some means of improving their situation.

“What you want to do, it’s crazy but it’s true, teach people to fish instead of giving them fish,” Brannon said. “When you’re at the behest of somebody else, you are actually a slavery to them [sic]. You don’t need to have the government come in. That kind of charity does not make people freer.”

Well I'm glad he learned something in church - if only it was the "take care of the least among us" part.

That's it for today - it's hump day, so we have that going for us.
 

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