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Obama promotes family-friendly hours at businesses
breitbart ^ | 10/5/10 | staff

Posted on 10/05/2010 6:42:35 PM PDT by Nachum

President Barack Obama speaks at the Community College Summit, Tuesday,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is promoting flexible workplace hours and policies while telling a conference of female business leaders that it's not just a women's issue.

Speaking Tuesday night to Fortune magazine's 2010 "Most Powerful Women Summit," Obama said that having family-friendly working arrangements is an economic competitiveness issue. He said that companies with flexible arrangements can have lower turnover and absenteeism and higher productivity.

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1 posted on 10/05/2010 6:42:40 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

This from a guy who has never so much as run a lemonade stand.


2 posted on 10/05/2010 6:44:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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To: Nachum

Um, Americans need jobs before they can worry about hours...


3 posted on 10/05/2010 6:44:30 PM PDT by TSgt (Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho - 44th and current President of the United States)
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To: Nachum

...thereby guaranteeing that employers will cease hiring women...


4 posted on 10/05/2010 6:44:38 PM PDT by ponygirl (TEA people: First we take out the RINOS. Then we finish off the Socialists.)
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To: BenLurkin

OMG,This man is totally clueless.


5 posted on 10/05/2010 6:46:08 PM PDT by TaMoDee
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To: Nachum; All

Terrific! I can hardly WAIT to live on a 20 hour a week paycheck when my employer revolts and fires us all, then re-hires us as part-time workers or ‘contractors’ with NO benefits to comply with this added STUPIDITY from this Administration!

And I wouldn’t blame my employer one bit! I’d do the SAME were it MY company. Grrrrr!


6 posted on 10/05/2010 6:47:23 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
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To: TaMoDee

No, he has a clue ... the demise of America as we know it.


7 posted on 10/05/2010 6:48:56 PM PDT by doc1019 (Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
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To: BenLurkin

If you thought Mexicans were lazy having siestas, you haven’t seen anything yet. You see you are babysitting the employer. The employer should be thrilled to have you for there and cater to your schedule of pleasure. Life is all about PLEASURE to Obama. Keep in mind he HATES capitalism.


8 posted on 10/05/2010 6:49:40 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Nachum

What a complete jackass! Business is there to sell a product or service, make a profit and profit a wage for the workers and a return on investment for the share holders.

We are not here to baby sit the kids, had nap time, provide after school crap. This is beyond stupid. Wake up people.


9 posted on 10/05/2010 6:51:13 PM PDT by 23 Everest (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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To: TaMoDee
He wants to DESTROY America. Look at third world countries. Are they MOTIVATED? Do they WORK hard? Do they feel ENTITLED? All of these things are what he wants America to be - a third world thug country.
10 posted on 10/05/2010 6:51:41 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Nachum

Well that means you have to be open 24 hours a day because all kids of families keep different hours.

This President is clueless about the phrase “FROM THE MARKET”. He keeps wanting to stick Big Government’s foot on it to break it’s back IMO.


11 posted on 10/05/2010 6:52:43 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Nachum

this dipshit and blumenthal...to idiots, jackasses


12 posted on 10/05/2010 6:52:47 PM PDT by 23 Everest (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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To: Nachum

this dipshit and blumenthal...to idiots, jackasses


13 posted on 10/05/2010 6:52:53 PM PDT by 23 Everest (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Naturally you will expect to be paid for the 40 hour week even though you only work 20 hours. Of course that is when work suits you - not the employer. He truly is tempting us to become a third world country - appeal to our lazy side and pleasure.
14 posted on 10/05/2010 6:53:26 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: doc1019

We’ll be like union and government workers ... . He truly is trying to destroy what made us great - our work ethic among other things.


15 posted on 10/05/2010 6:54:40 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Nachum

Here’s what we do....

We take a couple of million dollars of the stimulus money and set him up in business for himself.

He can be company president. Joe Biden can be Vice President.

Then lets see how well HE can do it.


16 posted on 10/05/2010 6:54:50 PM PDT by earlJam
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“Hello, thanks for calling XYZ Corp.
Please hold until somebody’s mommy decides to show up for work.
Your call is important to us, and will be answered in the order received.”


17 posted on 10/05/2010 6:58:28 PM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: If you're reading this, I'm influencing your mind.)
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To: BenLurkin

More Rules and regulations-—Thanks for Nothing BHO


18 posted on 10/05/2010 7:05:43 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Nachum
Obama said that companies with flexible arrangements can have lower turnover and absenteeism and higher productivity.

Drawing upon his years of experience in the upper echelons of business, no doubt.

19 posted on 10/05/2010 7:06:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: nmh

He has one goal and one goal only ... to destroy America. He has such a hatred for this country that it verges on pathological.

He was birthed by a communist, raise by communists (or at least socialist) grandparents and surrounded by America hating socialist all his life. What could we expect this President to be but a hater of the US Constitution and free enterprise and the whole idea of democracy?


20 posted on 10/05/2010 7:11:43 PM PDT by doc1019 (Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
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