Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:48:38 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A point of information about the government shutdown
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 10/3/2013 4:30 PM, Mike B. wrote:

> On 10/3/2013 12:39 PM, mark wrote:
>
>> contracting companies' employees. "Salaried" or "exempt" *used* to
>> mean you got paid a fixed annual wage, regardless of work. These
>> days, if you can't bill, you don't get paid.
>
> Yes, these days "exempt" just means you don't get paid for all the
> hours you work...i.e. free overtime for the employer.
>
>> Right now, with the "Tea Party" (and their wealthy backers)
>> shutdown of the
>
> Sorry, but I'm sick of hearing this line on every radio broadcast or
> TV news show I listen to, and I don't really need to hear this
> propaganda here too!
>
> The shutdown is the fault of BOTH major parties.  One wants to delay
> or kill a law they find unconscionable, and have made a solid stand
> on doing so and they won't pass a bill that requires them to back
> down on it, and the other party refuses to look at any bill that does
> delay or kill the same law because it would hurt the pride of their
> leader to have his biggest triumph dented in any way.  It's pure
> pride, nothing more at this point...for BOTH sides.

Total crap.  There is no moral equivalency.  The tea party Repubs, led
by Ted Cruz, are out to destroy the United States.  They campaigned in
2010 on platforms of shutting down the government (which they hate
almost as much as they do a black president) and are pleased that
they've done it.

"Obamacare" is law, passed by both houses of congress, signed by the
president, and upheld by the Supreme Court.  And it is proving to be
workable and increasingly popular as people get past the Republican lies
about it (note the traffic to the just-opened health exchanges).  The
Republicans are scared silly that it will work and their lies
("trainwreck") are exposed, and are hysterically trying to kill it, even
if it means bringing down the country.

There is no possible compromise.  The "clean bill" accepts sequester
spending cuts and that's a major compromise from the Dems.  The Repubs
want *more*.  And they offer no compromises at all.

Ask yourself why the Repubs want to kill affordable health care.  And
check out who is actually funding the tea party traitors -- the richest
men in the country, people like the Koch brothers.  These people mean us
all ill.

--Ted White