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Feds Building Smart Phone App for Public to 'Report' 'Unfair' Businesses
Breitbart ^ | 07/13/2013 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 07/13/2013 8:51:24 AM PDT by Rusty0604

The Labor Department is sponsoring a "Smart Phone App contest" to allow customers to report businesses that do not treat "their workers fairly and lawfully." No word on whether a company has to be unionized in order to treat its workers "fairly and lawfully," in the eyes of the Labor Dept.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: business; labor

1 posted on 07/13/2013 8:51:24 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Hopefully they hired the same folks who built ORCA for the Romney cammpaign.


2 posted on 07/13/2013 8:53:24 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Rusty0604

We need an app to report GOVERNMENT incompetency and graft...


3 posted on 07/13/2013 8:53:42 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: Rusty0604

Is the App in Arabic, Cantonese, mandarin, bangeladesh and Indian languages??


4 posted on 07/13/2013 8:57:09 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: Rusty0604

So an APP to let those who are experienced and learned in employment practices and law report QUALIFIED and thoughtful complaints to the government, or a new way for disgruntled employees and customers extract revenge on innocent employers.


5 posted on 07/13/2013 9:03:24 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: bunkerhill7

So far just Ebonics and Spanish I think.


6 posted on 07/13/2013 9:03:31 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Why would anyone want to start a business in this country? On top of all the other headwinds, now this. It will only lead to more government intimidation.


7 posted on 07/13/2013 9:03:31 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: bunkerhill7

“Is the App in Arabic, Cantonese, mandarin, bangeladesh and Indian languages??”

they might as well sync the app to the CA DMV.


8 posted on 07/13/2013 9:07:38 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Rusty0604

Sieg Heil! Does the app also spray paint an appropriate symbol on the offender’s building or property so good little Obama Jugend know not to do business there?


9 posted on 07/13/2013 9:07:40 AM PDT by JoeTheGeorgian
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To: JoeTheGeorgian

Can we report Congress and the Supreme Court.


10 posted on 07/13/2013 9:26:47 AM PDT by Richard from IL
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To: Richard from IL

We should start by spamming them with complaints about Planned Parenthood.


11 posted on 07/13/2013 9:31:25 AM PDT by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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To: Rusty0604

This is a soviet style “turn in your neighbor” system on steroids. We are all slaves now.


12 posted on 07/13/2013 9:32:28 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Rusty0604

I can think of plenty of ways for “us” to use this app — just not in the way they intend. :-)


13 posted on 07/13/2013 9:38:38 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Lets Roll NOW

That may work. Didn’t the WH have to shut down some ‘lie reporting’ website because of trolls like us?


14 posted on 07/13/2013 9:39:16 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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15 posted on 07/13/2013 9:42:18 AM PDT by RedMDer (When immigrants cannot or will not assimilate, its really just an invasion. Throw them out!)
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To: Rusty0604

An app like this would have made life easier for Stalin.


16 posted on 07/13/2013 9:43:34 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Fight the culture of nothing.)
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To: Rusty0604

Reason number 63 why I’m glad the only phone I have is a POTS unit I’ve had for 25+ years. Does everything I need.


17 posted on 07/13/2013 10:02:05 AM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: goodnesswins

> We need an app to report GOVERNMENT incompetency and graft...

The Internet would come to a crawl, however hiing would be up for DHS and assasin contractors so it would boost the economy.../s


18 posted on 07/13/2013 10:17:28 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Rusty0604

We should use this to report every business we suspect of having illegal aliens working there.


19 posted on 07/13/2013 10:18:33 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Rusty0604

Report every business owned by Dem politicians and Dem contributors.


20 posted on 07/13/2013 10:40:36 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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