{"id":10773,"date":"2013-08-03T01:48:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T08:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10773"},"modified":"2013-08-03T01:48:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T08:48:22","slug":"the-republican-plan-for-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/03\/the-republican-plan-for-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Plan for Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the antebellum South, there were two kinds of laborers, separated by race.  One was slaves.  The other was wage slaves.  Republicans see this time as an ideal in American history.  They are now attempting to return us to those days with a bill sponsored by Tom \u201cAny woman that hires me as her doctor is crazy\u201d  Coburn and Rand \u201cIdiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot\u201d Paul.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"3Workers\"More than three-quarters of the Senate Republican caucus signed onto legislation introduced Wednesday by Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Rand Paul (R-KY) that could render it virtually impossible for Congress to enact any legislation intended to improve working conditions<\/a> or otherwise regulate the workplace. Had their bill been in effect during the Twentieth Century, for example, there would likely be no nationwide minimum wage, no national ban on workplace discrimination, no national labor law and no overtime in most industries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Like many Tea Party proposals to neuter the federal government<\/a>, Coburn and Paul\u2019s bill is marketed as an effort to bring America back in line with a long-ago discarded vision of the Constitution. It\u2019s named the \u201cEnumerated Powers Act of 2013,\u201d a reference to the provisions of the Constitution outlining Congress\u2019 specific powers, and it claims to require all federal legislation to \u201c\u2019contain a concise explanation of the specific authority in the Constitution\u2019 that is the basis for its enactment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The key provision in this bill, however, would revive a discredited interpretation of the Constitution that America abandoned nearly eight decades ago. Although the text of the bill is not yet available online, a press release from Coburn\u2019s office<\/a> explains that it \u201c[p]rohibits the use of the Commerce Clause, except for \u2018the regulation of the buying and selling of goods or services, or the transporting for those purposes, across boundaries with foreign nations, across State lines, or with Indian tribes<\/strong>.\u2019\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Saying that they don\u2019t like the commerce clause<\/em> so they <\/em>will prohibit its use is be as absurd as saying they don\u2019t like the right to vote right to vote to they will prohibit it.  Of course, they are trying to do that too.<\/font><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure this bill is not going anywhere, but it serves to illustrate who the Republican Party represents.  Don\u2019t believe the argument that it\u2019s only for show.<\/font>  Consider all the outlandish schemes that people used to claim were only for show and are now the law in places like North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, etc.  Republicans MUST be removed from power.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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