"Republicans celebrating the overtime injunction forgot about their new working class base. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant of Texas blocked the Obama administration rule to extend mandatory overtime pay to more than four million salaried workers. Expected to take effect December 1, the rule would have doubled the salary limit for overtime eligible employees to $47,500 from $23,660. In response, Republican politicians tweeted their enthusiasm and support for Mazzant’s decision, saying it was an important step in reining in the Obama administration’s egregious use of executive power. A win for small businesses and a long-disrespected Congress, most insisted. This injunction is great news for #Arkansas and an important step to reining in the Obama administration’s abuse of the regulatory process. https://t.co/PWkTJ1sGQK — Senator John Boozman (@JohnBoozman) November 23, 2016 But, as Igor Volksy pointed out, those very politicians failed to disclose the uncomfortable fact that they are far wealthier than the millions of people who would have benefited from this regulation. These politicians include Speaker Paul Ryan: Paul Ryan's net worth = $566,1038 He's cheering that 187,000 Wisconsinites earning less than $47,476 won't get paid for working overtime https://t.co/Ea513ncXE1 — igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) November 23, 2016 Ted Cruz: Ted Cruz's net worth = $3,013,518 He's cheering that 1,244,000 Texans earning less than $47,476 now won't get paid for working overtime https://t.co/fRw7dmh3gm — igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) November 23, 2016 and John McCain: McCain's net worth = $19,642,067 He's cheering that 258,000 Arizonians earning less than $47,476 won't get paid for working overtime https://t.co/DHm28iF4h9 — igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) November 23, 2016 So much for being the new champions of the working class. " Ron
Dear Dunce, The part you put in bold was from the original article, and if you want to find the source just cut and paste a line from it into google, like "But the constitutional gun is now loaded if anyone wants to pick it up in the future", and the first hit that comes up is the source page. Ron
I can easily identify sarcasm but it is clear you don't have a clue what sarcasm is, what you attempted was called hyperbole. You have also shown us that in addition to being unable to properly cut and paste articles, properly quote sources and properly attach a link to the quoted articles, we now see you can't even properly quote another post. One simple button to click and you couldn't do that. When posters like you expose their ineptitude while continuing to call other dunces it is the epitome of irony. Not even going to address you calling me a white nationalist, that is just too funny.
That's not how it works dumb ass. The person quoting an article is the person who should be putting it all in quotations and providing a link. Taking that sentence and pasting it into Google gives you over 33 million possible sources where it might have come from.
So a law, shot down by an Obama appointed judge, that would have benefited white collar workers, is now a shot taken at working class workers by Republicans. Thanks for clearing that up.
Ron-Ron, No need to go full-blown snowflake here, just get a handle on using quotes (e.g. use 'single quotation marks' to enclose a dialogue quote within a quotation - this while noting you dodged the emoluments clause question altogether).
" In Scotland, Trump Built a Wall. Then He Sent Residents the Bill. BALMEDIE, Scotland: President-elect Donald J. Trump has already built a wall not on the border with Mexico, but on the border of his exclusive golf course in northeastern Scotland, blocking the sea view of local residents who refused to sell their homes. And then he sent them the bill. David and Moira Milne had already been threatened with legal action by Mr. Trump's lawyers, who claimed a corner of their garage belonged to him, when they came home from work one day to find his staff building a fence around their garden. Two rows of grown trees went up next, blocking the view. Their water and electricity lines were temporarily cut. And then a bill for about $3,500 arrived in the mail, which, Mr. Milne said, went straight into the trash. Michael Forbes, a quarry worker whose home sits on the opposite side of the Trump property, added a second flag "Hillary for President" perhaps because Mr. Trump publicly accused him of living "like a pig" and called him a "disgrace" for not selling his "disgusting" and "slumlike" home. As many Americans are trying to figure out what kind of president they have just elected, the people of Balmedie, a small village outside the once oil-rich city of Aberdeen, say they have a pretty good idea. In the 10 years since Mr. Trump first visited, vowing to build "the world's greatest golf course" on an environmentally protected site featuring 4,000-year-old sand dunes, they have seen him lash out at anyone standing in his way. They say they watched him win public support for his golf course with grand promises, then watched him break them one by one. A promised $1.25 billion investment has shrunk to what his opponents say is at most $50 million. Six thousand jobs have dwindled to 95. Two golf courses to one. An eight-story 450-room luxury hotel never materialized, nor did 950 time-share apartments. Instead, an existing manor house was converted into a 16-room boutique hotel. Trump International Golf Links, which opened in 2012, lost $1.36 million last year, according to public accounts." Ron
This is what you argue about on the internet? Get your bald lonely ass off the computer chair and do something with your life. But please, please don't breed anymore.
the more Ron posts about how bad trump is the worse i think Hilary was for not being able to beat him.
Brilliant, critique my use of the internet by making a useless post about it. You are a special kind of stupid. And really, bald, lonely? That the best you can come up with, that's pretty sorry even for you.
Trump specializes in weapons of mass distraction. No one is talking about his taxes again, russia saying they were in fact in contact with the trump campaign, his personal business interest, his children and even son in law being involved, and who he's bringing into the whitehouse. Instead everyone wants to talk about his rant about Hamilton,post stupid memes and insult one another.
couldn't care less about this taxes. link? This has potential to be a real problem. He needs to take extreme caution and put some policies in place to make sure this doesn't happen. Another Clinton Cash scenario could easily happen, or appear to happen if the right steps aren't taken. who cares? what's the beef? his son in law played a huge part in a winning campaign his cabinet has been discussed for the most part.
"This Single Concept Explains Trump’s Many Outrages Even absent diversion, it can be difficult to characterize the information we learn about Trump in consistent ways. Is he a vindictive power addict? Is he irredeemably corrupt? Does he demonstrate Jacques Clouseau–like unfitness for the presidency? The answer to all these questions is yes, but separating them out in this way, to categorize different misdeeds, creates cognitive dissonance. Scheming mad men aren’t typically heedless bumblers and vice versa. What’s needed is a single conceptual lens through which to view all of Trump’s antics, whether they seem evil or dangerous or confused, and the one concept that encompasses all of them is impunity. Through luck and graft and privilege, Trump has gotten away with an incredible amount of chicanery in his life. If people behave ethically, whether out of genuine moral uprightness or the pragmatic desire to escape punishment, they exhibit self-control and an awareness of and respect for the rules. If people don’t particularly care about these things, they risk catastrophic consequences, but higher up the income scale, it becomes easier to escape penalty, and more tempting to let ethics slip further. Impunity serves as a magnet for bad people, and erodes the mental habits that make decent-but-flawed individuals behave ethically, creating a breeding ground for vice. Trump has inhabited such an environment his entire life. Having suffered no serious repercussions for any of his misdeeds, it is unsurprising that he gives little thought to how his actions affect other people. We can explain all of Trump’s transgressions with this single formative fact. And the most alarming thing about it is the way his air of impunity allows attendant failures–greed, incompetence, cruelty–to feed upon one another." Ron
