Clocking
Out
 When
I first heard that the GOP had passed a bill which replaced
overtime pay with comp time I thought
the main thrust of the plan
was to
force all hourly workers to become sub-40 hour temp workers,
thus throwing a nasty
wrench into the American Health Care Act, which requires
its recipients to work at least a 40-hour week. That
would have been a brilliant plan. Completely evil, but
brilliant.
But, no,
this was just another case of the GOP saying to itself,
"What way could we possibly screw over the middle class
again? Oh, yeah! Take away their overtime
pay and promise them OH GOD THIS IS RICH promise them
comp time I CANT STOP LAUGHING comp time that they could
use whenever they wanted! I CAN'T BREATHE! I CAN'T BREATHE!
OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK!"
To be clear, the promised comp time was not guaranteed
by the bill, which means this was like free money for private-sector
businesses.
Fortunately the bill, which
passed along party lines, is doomed to failure in the Senate. It
was seemingly just more red meat for the conservative base
while the GOP sits on its collective hands waiting for
the economy
to
falter
as they await
the 2014 mid-terms.
=Lefty=
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