More proof the GOP HATES workers

Remember when the GOP used to name bills that were meant to pollute the air, the Clean Skies Act, in hopes that their low info base would vote as they were told?

 Today Eric "Weasel dick" Cantor is introducing his Working Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1406), through Alabama puppet representative Martha Roby. 

It is meant to deny workers overtime pay. That is pretty much it.

There are 168 cosponsors, not one of whom is a Democrat. In fact most of them are from ultra right wing Confederate districts that have been safely gerrymandered and where anti-union and anti-worker sentiment is part and parcel of the political culture. 

Most... but not all. 

Among the cosponsors of this bill who could suffer from their anti-worker attitude in 2014 are John Kline (R-MN), Tim Walberg (R-MI), Dave Camp (R-MI), Joe Heck (R-NV), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Buck McKeon (R-CA), Tom Reed (R-NY), Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Erik Paulsen (R-MN), Ed Royce (R-CA), Steve Daines (R-MT), Mike Rogers (R-MI), Fred Upton (R-MI), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI), Mike Coffman (R-CO), Chris Collins (R-NY), Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Tom Lathan (R-IA), David Reichert (R-WA), Reid Ribble (R-WI), David Valadao (R-CA), and Paul Ryan (R-WI). 

Of course South Carolina elected a proven liar, cheat, public monies stealing ass hat solely based on the "R" after his name. So there is no guarantee that intellect holds any sway in these districts at all.


The progressive Democrat running for the seat Paul Ryan is now occupying, Rob Zerban, wasn't happy to hear his congressman is cosponsoring this anti-worker bill. But he wasn't surprised either. "If you are looking for the precise year Republicans are trying to roll back the clock, it's 1886. That's the year 7 people gave up their lives demanding a right to an eight hour workday and overtime compensation right here in Milwaukee at the Bay View Massacre. We just had a memorial this past weekend on the 127th anniversary of the event. Stripping employees of their hard-fought right to overtime pay is outright robbery, and that's exactly what this bill does. "

But the GOP has been VERY busy passing legislation effectively rolling back worker's rights. women's rights, and even voting rights. Seems the conservative agenda is a return to the Antebellum mindset, where only wealthy white folk have any rights at all. 

They do not seem to understand, that all their gun toting, low info, extremely reactionary base are firmly in this demographic... I wonder what Republicans will do when THEY become the bad guys in the eyes of the fringe groups?

I loathe these buffoons, and the voters that keep electing these imbeciles! Elected officials that have no idea how government works, nor any inclination to learn....

Keith Ellison (D-MN) was very succinct: "99% of Americans have seen their income decline during economic recovery. Yet Republican are pushing a bill that ends overtime pay." 
So was Tony Cárdenas (D-CA): "Tomorrow, we vote on letting companies stop paying overtime. Paying people less for working more? Is that what our country should be about?" 
Or, as Donna Edwards (D-MD) put it yesterday morning, "The only flexibility in the GOP bill is the flexibility for workers to be abused by their employers." 

George Miller tweeted this graphic to help make clear what the Republicans are up to:

Needless to say, the Republicans hated the idea of modernizing the American workplace in Alan Grayson's amendment, the Paid Vacation Act of 2013 and wouldn't even allow a vote. It's worth reading carefully, though, because it highlights the difference between a forward-looking progressive mindset compared to what the GOP is trying to do to further diminish ordinary working families and drag the country back in time'
 Do the GOP actually believe we can go back to a slave based economy? Because the certainly want the American worker to be on par with sweatshop workers in Indonesia, working for $.45 an hour... You know to be "Competetive"

UPDATE: GOP Law To Abolish Overtime Pay Passes

It'll never get taken up in the Senate, of course, but it passed 223-204, 8 Republicans voting with the Democrats and, shamefully, 3 conservative Republicans who got elected as Democrats, crossed the aisle in the other direction: Henry Cuellar (Blue Dog-TX), Jim Matheson (Blue Dog-UT), Collin Peterson (Blue Dog-MN).

Send these dick holes to the unemployment office in 2014! THEY DO NOT REPRESENT AMERICAN WORKERS!!!