Yep - now they want to CUT Pension retirement benefits to millions of workers (while REQUIRING the Post Office to fund 75 years worth of pensions/health insurance). Have fun being poor, all you who voted republican! Business-friendly Republicans were largely united behind efforts to roll back government regulations affecting the trucking industry, financial sector, federally-funded school lunch program and more in what shaped up as something of a dress rehearsal for next year, when the GOP controls both houses of Congress. Democratic officials said they had rejected several proposals to ease environmental regulations, and the fate of other attempts was unclear. Among them was an attempt to ease a regulation by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association requiring truckers to take a 34-hour rest break at least once every seven days and that it span two periods between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. In a blog post, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said the regulation had been upheld in court, and said efforts to overturn it will put lives at risk. Welcome to more truck crashes and fatalities, poorer retirees who have worked all their lives to earn their retirement pensions as promised, less regs on many things, poorer health, poorer all over. Welcome to Republicanland!
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:26:06 +0000
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