Atlas PUKED!!!
Posted on 08/13/2008 4:01:43 PM PDT by John Semmens
A Los Angeles City Council committee unanimously recommended an ordinance that would require home improvement stores that are 100,000 square feet or larger, or any building with 250,000 square feet or more of warehouse floor area, to set aside space for day laborers.
The space required must include shelter from the elements, be easily accessible and equipped with drinking water, bathrooms, tables with seating, free condoms, and trash receptacles.
Bethany Leal of the Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network, urged adoption of the ordinance. “These immigrants have journeyed far from their native countries,” Leal observed. “Most have entered the United States with little more than the shirts on their backs. Many are virtually homeless. This measure merely meets minimum welfare standards.”
Leal called the proposed ordinance “good insurance for the time in the future when these immigrants will constitute a majority of the electorate.” “The kindness we show today may be repaid tomorrow when they have the upper hand,” Leal warned.
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what kind of street worker needs free condoms? Oh, I see - nevermind...
I realize this is satire, but what is it based on? Is there a real story behind this?
This is a good idea. It could be greatly improved by requiring all such big box stores to include a branch office for Immigration attached to the day laborer area.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I see that this idiot has no knowledge of history.
Sad to say, this isn't satire. It's really on the way to full implementation in Los Angeles County.
Neat, huh?
Heh! You're STILL the best!
Well, isn’t this nifty.
Businesses should be allowed to charge rent and usage fees for any facility constructed to shelter day laborers. Businesses should also be allowed to require that day laborers who use the facility have current and valid work documentation or U.S. citizenship, as well as health clearances.
I mean, if the government is going to force the businesses to build these places, might as well let them make a little bit of money. And since the business is essentially going to be promoting the employment of these day laborers, they should be able to protect themselves from immigration violations by ensuring that the day laborers who use their facility are legally able to work for pay.
Also, there’s the liability issue if any of these day laborers should be injured after being hired out of the day laborer shelter, of if a day laborer should be injured or should expire while on the premises. How is the business expected to recoup the insurance increases associated with permitting these day laborers to seek employment on the business’ premises?
How many of these local politicians actually own and manage their own businesses? Seems to me that they spend an awful lot of time trying to manage everyone else’s businesses.
Goodbye, Cali....
Boy, with that kind of thinking, you’d never make it as a Los Angeles City Councilman! ;)
I’d like to see these country clubs also provide big screen, high-def TV so the “workers” can watch Oprah and Jerry Springer while they are waiting to be “hired.”
the day labor sites is a real proposal
see...
http://www.narbosa.com/2007/06/los-angeles-would-require-day-labor.html
The Arizona Conservative should stop giving the left ideas. Given the crazy direction of certain parts of this country, an ordinance like this is not difficult to imagine.
Atlas PUKED!!!
Then I guess all we have to do is wait for the Home Depot to be sued by a day laborer for some reason or another. Or for Home Depot to be cited in a civil action by someone who hired a day laborer they found at the Home Depot.
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