Tag: Public Sector Unions

You Deserved It, Now Reap What You Sowed

Some Michigan communities are helping fund police department budgets by charging criminal defendants for the labor and services involved in their arrest - and they're targeting offenders least likely to speak out: impaired drivers.  

Critics of the practice say charging taxpayers for specific offenses amounts to double-dipping because police agencies are charging an extra fee for work that is part of the job.

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And, all of Lansing spread its legs with zeal for the $50 Barry Soetoro left on the nightstand.

"This is a common-sense bill that puts community safety at the forefront of the argument," she said, "and when you have common sense and community safety, you really can't go wrong with that."

The Republican-led House on Wednesday approved a measure that would give private sector workers the option of trading overtime pay for extra time off weeks or months later.

The bill, approved on a 223-204 vote, would allow employees who work more than 40 hours a week to save up to 160 hours of earned time off for future use. GOP lawmakers say they want to give busy working parents at private firms the same flexibility that public sector workers have to take time off to spend with their children or care for aging parents.

Busy parents?  Feh.  Whatever.  An extra 20 days of vacay banked away sounds good in most anyone's book.  But, of course, like pending doom, the Progressives have to opine.

Democrats say it's not fair to compare the legislation to similar flexibility that is offered to public sector employees because many government workers are unionized and have civil service protections against potential abuse by employers.

See that?  You're just too stupid to carve out your own swath in life.  Only the DNC Progressives, bureaucrats in the hive mentality of Mother Government, and Goonions can save you peons from yourself.  And we pay their wages, and retirements?  Insanity.

Amash, Benishek, Bentivolio, Camp, Huizenga, Miller, Rogers, Upton, and Walberg, thank you for voting YES on this legislation.

90 days have expired since charges were filed by Mr. Crowder, and AFP.  All I can say is, it's amazing.