Originally posted by huntr1
I guess you forgot about this tread.
Originally posted by Toxick
Now, now..
Don't you know that if you say it enough times, it becomes true?
too true.Originally posted by Toxick
Now, now..
Don't you know that if you say it enough times, it becomes true?
Originally posted by Toxick
Now, now..
Don't you know that if you say it enough times, it becomes true?
Originally posted by Toxick
Now, now..
Don't you know that if you say it enough times, it becomes true?
Originally posted by rraley
Just how President Bush said the Iraq war made us safer nine times in a thirty minute speech, every conservative commentator says that the Kerry-Edwards ticket is the "most liberal ticket in history" (after all, Kerry was the most liberal senator and Edwards was the fourth most liberal senator), and just how all the Sunday morning talk show guests referred to the Music City Fundraiser as a "hate-fest." Gotta love the repitition from both sides.
Okay, which body of government is it that makes the laws and which executes the laws? If the Congress is against the new rules, as claimed, wouldn’t they be within their powers to change them as they see fit?Originally posted by Sparx
Can I help it if bush won't give up on it even though a majority of both the House and Senate say it's no good for American workers?
As a person making over 70K a year, and exempt from the FLSA, I don’t think anyone making over 100K needs overtime. On the other hand a person working as a manager in a fast food place making a buck or two more an hour then the non-managerial employees and not getting overtime might be the exact person this change was designed to benefit.bush says it will bring more people into the overtime ranks on the low end of the pay scale. So, if he wants to help why take it away from a whole other group? Why not just bring them in?
Originally posted by Sparx
Overtime wasn't designed to put more money in peoples pockets in the first place. It was designed as a deterent to keep some greedy business owners from requiring unfair and sometimes fatal work hours on their employees. It doesn't make any difference how much one makes in salary or hourly wages you can still be worked to death and have no time with your family without some kind of deterent. [/B]
Originally posted by SamSpade
And if I tell my wife I love her every day, it never actually becomes LESS true, because it was true the first time. Repetition only becomes *tedious* when it was FALSE the first time.
As the comment on the "liberal ticket". They give yearly ratings BUT they also give lifetime ratings.
Kerry's lifetime rating is 92%.
Edward's lifetime rating is 81%.
This is an observation made by DEMOCRATS. And it makes this ticket the most liberal ticket observed by them.
Originally posted by rraley
Please tell me how two men who voted for the Iraq War, voted for No Child Left Behind, the Patriot Act, the largest defense budgets in the nation's history, and in Kerry's instance, for welfare reform represent the most liberal ticket ever? Kerry and Edwards are proposing cutting corporate tax cuts, they are not proposing that the United States cut and run from Iraq, and they are proposing deficit reduction measures to cut the deficit in half (after supposedly conservative President Bush allowed the deficit to balloon to $500 billion). I just do not see the out of touch, liberal mentality that the GOP wants us to.
Originally posted by rraley
and they are proposing deficit reduction measures to cut the deficit in half (after supposedly conservative President Bush allowed the deficit to balloon to $500 billion).
Originally posted by tlatchaw
This is as interesting point of view. Do you have any documentation you quote from the original overtime rulings that support this?
Originally posted by Sparx
No I don't. This is my opinion on it. The history of overtime talks about job creation as the reason for overtime pay. Incentive for employers to hire more workers to do the same amount of work instead paying overtime. Another good reason though and it works.
But it seems this administration would rather see jobs go overseas than create new ones here.
The FLSA was about money in the people's pockets and additional concerns in regard to employee well being. The text of the law under "Congressional finding and declaration of policy" 29USC202 states, "The Congress finds that the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers..." The minimum standard of living was in reference to worker pay which resulted in the establishment of the minimum wage, defining the work week in hours, and declaring that additional compensation will be paid for time in excess of the defined work week at a minimum of time and a half the employees normal wages.Originally posted by Sparx
Overtime wasn't designed to put more money in peoples pockets in the first place. It was designed as a deterent to keep some greedy business owners from requiring unfair and sometimes fatal work hours on their employees. It doesn't make any difference how much one makes in salary or hourly wages you can still be worked to death and have no time with your family without some kind of deterent.
Originally posted by Sparx
No I don't. This is my opinion on it. The history of overtime talks about job creation as the reason for overtime pay. Incentive for employers to hire more workers to do the same amount of work instead paying overtime. Another good reason though and it works.
But it seems this administration would rather see jobs go overseas than create new ones here.
Originally posted by Sparx
No I don't. This is my opinion on it. The history of overtime talks about job creation as the reason for overtime pay. Incentive for employers to hire more workers to do the same amount of work instead paying overtime. Another good reason though and it works.
But it seems this administration would rather see jobs go overseas than create new ones here.