What will eventually happen once the final ruling is put into place will give companies like Verizon total control over the internet with the ability to decide who gets what bandwith with no regulations over which sites gets preference. This is the ultimate free market decision. Are you happy with this because if you are, you are truly stupid, no matter which side of the fence you are on. Tea Party nonsense? Gone. Left wing lunacy? Also gone. While that doesn't sound so bad, the rest of us will also get swept under the rug with them, eliminating free speech and destroying the first amendment in the process. Isn't living in a land free of regulations grand?
Now word is the FCC is going to reclassify broadband as having to abide by the regulation, rather than be exempt, a provision that sounds like it was inserted by some Tea Party retard tired of all the "useless" regulations that are keeping us all alive and healthy. But who needs health and life when you can reap incredible profits? If this ruling stands, we will have entered into a true fascist state where only Big Brother will speak and the rest of us will be silenced. Contact your local senators and representatives to complain BIG TIME about this, regardless of party as EVERYONE will be hurt by this. Everyone!
As if that wasn't bad enough, a Wisconsin lawmaker, state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R), wants to eliminate weekends. That's right, weekends. Seems there is some pesky law that does not allow people to work seven days straight and this ass wants to eliminate that. This is from the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post obtained an email Grothman sent to other state lawmakers on Friday in which he proposes legislation that “would allow an employee to voluntarily choose to work without one day of rest in seven.” State Rep. Mark Born (R) is sponsoring the legislation in the state Assembly.
Wisconsin is somewhat unique in having the law on its books. “Right now in Wisconsin, you’re not supposed to work seven days in a row, which is a little ridiculous because all sorts of people want to work seven days a week,” Grothman told The Huffington Post. But workers don’t have to get a day off every seven days, as they could work for up to 12 in a row “if the days of rest fall on the first and last days of the 2 week period,” according to the law. Grothman called the law “goofy” and called undoing it a matter of “freedom.”
While he argues that the law would ease workers’ ability to work overtime, it’s possible that employers would force their employees to work the extra time, making it less than voluntary. “It’s a very hard thing to know whether something is truly voluntary or not,” Vice President of the Economic Policy Institute Ross Eisenbrey told the Huffington Post. “If the employer puts pressure on people and lets them know they will be unhappy if workers exercise their right to have a day off, that might be enough so that no worker ever does anything but volunteer to work seven days a week.”
Who here, of any party affiliation, wants to work seven days a week? No one, that's who. Here's more from the same source:
In fact, the power usually lies with employers and instances of them abusing labor laws are already on the rise. In 2009, two-thirds of low-income workers said they had experienced a wage law violation in the previous week alone. Wage theft, where an employer illegally withholds overtime pay or makes its employees work off the clock, robs low-wage workers of more money than is stolen from banks, gas stations and convenience stores combined. Actions filed in federal court alleging wage and hour violations increased by 400 percent between 2000 and 2011.
And the law doesn’t always come to workers’ rescue. In California, workers recovered less than half of what was taken from them from 2008 to 2011, and, worse, 83 percent of those who actually proved a case of wage theft still never got what they were owed.
American workers already put in more hours and are guaranteed less time off than most other developed peers. We work more than in any other industrialized countries. Unlike in the United States, it’s illegal in six of the 10 most competitive countries in the world to make workers put in more than 48 hours a week. The United States also lacks laws guaranteeing that workers can take time off if they or their family members are sick, will get vacation or holiday time off, or can take paid time off for the arrival of a new child. Many other developed and competitive countries, on the other hand, do guarantee these things.
Grothman would also go further and take away the national holiday for government workers on Martin Luther King, Jr., day. He was a sponsor of the country’s first preemption bill that blocked cities and local communities from enacting paid sick days legislation in Wisconsin.
This guy is a dick and you WILL see him again tomorrow on my Douchebag of the Week column. This is what the Tea Party wants in both the above scenarios: a country in which workers have no rights and your freedom of speech will be shut down by the same greedy companies exploiting us. Everything unions gave us, like weekends off, a forty hour work week, affordable health care, sick days, vacation days and safe working conditions are all being eliminated. The worst part is that some of you out there are demanding this. Wise up or get ready to worship the new swastika because fascism is on the rise and shows no sign of abating. Be prepared.
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