when the boy took office i worked 40hrs minimum with 5-8 OT, now with this wonderful economy, i work 35hrs minimum with 3-4 extra hrs as needed who knows, at the rate the economy is going, i might be down to 30hrs before the boy is out of office...
We should all recall Obama's 2008 promise to fundamentally transform America. Pseudo conservative types rarely refer to that evil pledge.
Obama's promise to transform America has so many nooks and crannies we haven't thought about. The 30-hour work week is one of them, and that's one way to turn the middle class into the lower class. Communism did that in Russia. It created two classes: the super rich bourgeoisie and the real poor schmucks. It looks like this country is heading in that direction to achieve his goal of everyone being dependent on the federal government for their existence.
Yes I’ve heard that when they move into the new stadium in 2014, the SF football team will be renamed the “29ers” in honor of the Baraqqi “new normal”.
when the boy took office i worked 40hrs minimum with 5-8 OT, now with this wonderful economy, i work 35hrs minimum with 3-4 extra hrs as needed who knows, at the rate the economy is going, i might be down to 30hrs before the boy is out of office...
We are becoming France.
Liberal utopia is reality’s dystopia.
Yeah, we got the 30 hour work week all right, TWO of them. With NO overtime pay.
America's founding principles were carefully designed by the Founders to expose, rebut, rebuke, and avoid the tyranny of any "class warfare" or "redistribution" ideas which tyrants might use to enslave individuals.
In their overwhelming desire for accumulation of power of government over people, how many have noticed that Democrats, under Obama, now acknowledge the taxing power as useful for restraining motivation toward what they deem to be undesirable behavior.
On the other hand, they deny the certain fact that "taking," or taxing productive citizens also discourages and restrains motivation toward productivity and plenty.
They now have endangered the liberty of millions yet unborn with their illogical arguments on behalf of "taking" and "redistributing" the earnings of hard-working Americans. They claim they are "taking care" of those who elected them. Their "taking care" amounts to enslaving every citizen, born and unborn, for generations to come.
Their claims would fall on deaf ears, if most citizens understood their Constitution's limits on the powers of government. Hear what some of the Founders said about the policies of today's so-called "progressive" Democrats.
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And:
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
All who claim to be conservatives need to publicize and "conserve" (preserve) these ideas on behalf of future generations.
Those who speak for conservatism must be able to use founding principles intelligently against the "chief redistributionist" and "leveler" of today.
A de facto 30 hour (or less) work week already exists in the federal government. The only exception to this is in the IRS for employees involved in processing tax status applications and audits for conservative organizations and individuals. Those special people are required to put in a 40 hour work week, at a minimum. LOL
Well, a required part three is already largely in place in France - companies will not be allowed to fire anyone. As partners with government in the search for full employment, you would need Cabinet-level approvals for any terminations.
The left wants us poor, weak, unarmed and dependent upon their view of what a government should be. The left wants to decide who shall be born, who shall be educated, what they will study, what they will be allowed to do, where they can live and when they will die. Personal freedom and personal power are anathema to the leftist agenda.
Entirely possible. After all, this is a policy designed by the same people who thought the solution to low prices for farm-produced commodities was to have the government buy up the surplus grain and milk and destroy it, and the solution to low-quality housing for low-income people was to have the government buy up old houses and apartment buildings and level them. No doubt they'll eventually decide the solution to inflation is to confiscate cash and burn it.
After all, they've done such a wonderful job already with reducing the surplus population by killing it before it's born.
The seat of evil is in hell... earth is only its footstool so to speak. I wouldn’t spend too much time looking for people choosing to conspire. There’s a conspiracy but it’s not what you think.
This is called "spread the work" by libtards, union leaders, and consumptionist economists, who believe that the total amount of work in a country is fixed, and by shortening the work week to 30 hours, more people will be needed to perform the fixed amount of work, and the employment rate will improve.
But, if wage rates are increased to compensate for the reduction in hours worked, the result will be that those who already had jobs would lose them outright in order to make room for the unemployed.This is because the rise in hourly pay to compensate for the shortening of hours totally nullifies any ability of shorter hours to serve as the basis for spreading the work.
You folks are looking at this all wrong.
What did you all expect from a president that works 10 hours per week?
Besides, how do you expect him to get the jobs numbers up? If folks only work 30 hours, that means a whole lot of positions will open up to get the jobs done.
Simply brilliant in the mind of a man like Obambi.