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Bush wanted to stop over time pay
M Dogg™:
Also, Republicans split, and pass a Democrat bill that allows more people to collect unemployment. That's huge in California with all the lay offs right now.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/05/congress.unemployment/index.html
House votes to extend unemployment benefits
From Ted Barrett
CNN
Thursday, February 5, 2004 Posted: 11:06 AM EST (1606 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thirty-nine Republicans in the House of Representatives crossed party lines to join Democrats in approving a measure that would extend the unemployment benefits for about 375,000 people whose regular benefits have run out for six-months.
The vote may be little more than symbolic, lawmakers from both parties predicted, because opposition from GOP leaders is expected to prevent the measure from ever becoming law, which means unemployed workers are unlikely to receive the benefits.
The measure, which would extend the temporary federal unemployment insurance benefits, was attached to an unrelated bill dealing with community block grants.
Democrats hailed the vote as evidence that there is majority support in the GOP-controlled House for the extension -- an issue Democrats have pushed for months.
But House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, dismissed the vote as a "clever political stunt" designed to give the Democrats fodder for the campaign season.
"Sometimes people vote for political reasons," DeLay said about the GOP defections. "It's more important to provide jobs than unemployment."
A Republican aide said the extension was not needed because the economy is improving and the unemployment rate is down.
Woodrow:
--- Quote from: M Dogg on February 05, 2004, 01:57:49 PM ---here's an unbiased article. You want more, I got many articles. Tell me what you want? Because obviously, you don't want the truth.
"It's a pay cut and an attack on workers' rights," he said in an interview. "They're trying to roll the clock back. People fought and went to jail to have a 40-hour work week so they could spend more time with their families. The president just wants to pay back his corporate friends."
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You're in college but you haven't learned shit...
Unbiased?
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK YOU TWIT.
I hate ignorant people.
LuvMilkshakes:
LMAO @ engel refusing to admit that Bush is doing this to help out big business. I mean how dumb do you have to be to not see this. MDogg lists many sources, and this idiot picks out ones and says "those are biased". Do you expect someone to find this information on shit like NewsMax? Why don't you believe the CNN link?
Woodrow:
What a sorry existANCE (spelled wrong just for you)
Don't you have a life Jamal?
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: Krayzie-Eyez Killah on February 05, 2004, 03:40:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: M Dogg on February 05, 2004, 01:57:49 PM ---here's an unbiased article. You want more, I got many articles. Tell me what you want? Because obviously, you don't want the truth.
"It's a pay cut and an attack on workers' rights," he said in an interview. "They're trying to roll the clock back. People fought and went to jail to have a 40-hour work week so they could spend more time with their families. The president just wants to pay back his corporate friends."
--- End quote ---
You're in college but you haven't learned shit...
Unbiased?
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK YOU TWIT.
I hate ignorant people.
--- End quote ---
We'll take from the White House then...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040106-4.html
...and Forbes, a supporter of big business.
http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2003/11/21/rtr1157407.html
As I said, I got sources for days on this, do you want me to get anything else for you sir. May I add that I did learn lots and college, I ask you, want can you say to counter my argument. I mean after all, I even got a conservative magazine one this. This is from the National Review, a highly conservative magazine. Here's the information of when this was printed. I really think you should check out this mag, you'd love it. As Jay-Z once said, What more can I say.
Copyright 2003 National Review
National Review
September 29, 2003, Monday
SECTION: The Week; Volume LV, No. 18
-- Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938, employers have to give overtime pay to some employees if they work long hours. Which employees? Well, that's not always clear -- and the confusion has made for rich rewards for trial lawyers. Elaine Chao's Labor Department is trying to update and clarify the regulations. The current rule automatically grants overtime to anyone who makes less than $8,000 a year. Chao would raise that threshold, as labor activists have long demanded, to $22,000. But many workers would be reclassified so that employers would no longer be legally required to give them overtime pay. The unions have therefore launched an ad campaign accusing President Bush of being the Grinch who stole overtime. If we had our druthers, Chao's new regulations would be scrapped, along with the old ones: Wages and work conditions are properly a matter to be worked out by employees and employers competing in an open market. But at the very least, congressional Republicans ought not let the unions scare them away from supporting Chao's modest deregulation.
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