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The message from GOP senators: Suffer, little children
Opinion piece by Catherine Rampell at WAPO. Article.
I guess it wasn't bad enough before when I said that the current GOP is totally dysfunctional. They have set out to become the gold standard of perfectly dysfunctional. Where do they find these people.
I'm afraid that it's gotten to the point that it's hard to get upset by something like this because it's become so commonplace and expected that now it's just "normal". It seems like stuff like this is going down every single day, so it's become just a blur of stupidity, greed, incompetence, and just plain evil. Crapo... what a fitting name.
Not 30 seconds after posting the above I happened on this:
Florida blocks heat protections for workers right before summer
Florida Governor Ron DeStantis has signed a law that prevents cities or counties from creating protections for workers who labor in the state's often extreme and dangerous heat.
Two million people in Florida, from construction to agriculture, work outside in often humid, blazing heat.
For years, many of them have asked for rules to protect them from heat: paid rest breaks, water, and access to shade when temperatures soar. After years of negotiations, such rules were on the agenda in Miami-Dade County, home to an estimated 300,000 outdoor workers.
But the new law, signed Thursday evening, blocks such protections from being implemented in cities and counties across the state. Miami-Dade pulled its local heat protection rule from consideration after the statewide bill passed the legislature in March.
@Old_Joe, you beat me to it. That is absolutely inhumane and lack of to common decency toward your fellow human being! Of course, many of these farm workers are migrants and some are not documented.
agenda Monday, April 15, 2024 H.R. 6192 – Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act H.R. 7673 – Liberty in Laundry Act H.R. 7645 – Clothes Dryers Reliability Act H.R. 7637 – Refrigerator Freedom Act H.R. 7626 – Affordable Air Conditioning Act H.R. 7700 – Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act
How is anyone supposed to take them seriously?????
EDIT to add: remember those days when we got BIG things accomplished? Like the Marshall Plan? The manned Space Program? The trip to the moon? Civil Rights?
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Florida blocks heat protections for workers right before summer
Link to NPR Report
agenda Monday, April 15, 2024
H.R. 6192 – Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
H.R. 7673 – Liberty in Laundry Act
H.R. 7645 – Clothes Dryers Reliability Act
H.R. 7637 – Refrigerator Freedom Act
H.R. 7626 – Affordable Air Conditioning Act
H.R. 7700 – Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act
Those guys should know plenty about it with all the dirty linen they got hidden away.