Received charges are a fraction of the total violations. Wage and hour violation claims will be a mushrooming until the statutes of limitation run on them.

their entire purpose was to break our government

they succeeded and in one short presidency we have been brought to our knees

Good morning, pups. Bob Herbert is off today, so Bobo gets to “shine” alone. In “Car Dealer in Chief” he gurgles that by enmeshing the White House so deeply into G.M., President Obama has increased the odds that March’s menacing threat will lead to June’s wobbly wiggle-out.

Here he is, if you want to waste the time.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got lemon poppy seed muffins this morning. Hoover is making himself completely impossible, so it’s time for me to go and get the newspaper Daily Disappointment and let him go outside. Have a great day.

Welcome to the real world. Low compensation, constant abuse and being told we should be happy we have jobs.

Whatever happened to that Guy?

Nice picture of the last case that Clarence ever gave a shit about….

Maybe this explains why my encounter with the EEOC came out like it did.I thought it was an agency that looked out for the working person that felt slighted at work.

As someone who does employment law “in the real world” the purpose of the EEOC and state discrimination bodies is to basically hold complaints to see if the complainant has the capacity to decide they better go get an attorney.

They often times act as more of an additional hurdle to a client than an agency dedicated to ferret out discrimination.

What’s more the State EEO agencies make money as “contractors” of the EEOC where they get paid when they CLOSE a case — i.e. an incentive to find “No Probable Cause”.

Bush pretty much “fixed” all government agencies that once supposedly looked out for the welfare of any but the wealthy — a pox on his house forever. :-(

Morning all, I am still not sure if the bush regime was grossly incompetent or diabolical in its desire to destroy the entire federal govt.

Sorry, off topic. Arian Huffington is LIVE in the den of thieves, otherwise known as CNBC.

Please consider sending the show an email in support of Ariana’s appearance at squawk@cnbc.com.

What’s more the State EEO agencies make money as “contractors” of the EEOC where they get paid when they CLOSE a case — i.e. an incentive to find “No Probable Cause”.

Not paid to handle the case, but paid to close the case? IANAL, but that sounds like “accessory to a conspiracy” to me.

From the Post article:

The agency may be subject to paying back wages to employees based on the ruling.

I suppose it would be too much to ask that the agency’s penalty on this come out of the pockets of those who set the illegal policy and those senior agency officials who enforced it. (EEOC head at the time: Cari M. Dominguez)

It was a rogue government instituted by the Supreme Court.

Speaking of theives, it looks like Cassano created a nice little den at AIG for rich people to hide their income from the Feds. More popcorn, please.

Yesterday I tuned into CNBC to see what the “we’re not in bed with Wall Street” Wall Street insiders were saying. They had a guy on there who was standing up for the hard working little guys and you should have seen the reaction of the other four panelists! They were livid with this guy for standing up for those low wage earners.

knut, our government was overthrown in a silent coup and we were a nation under siege for 8 long years

I’ve been retired from the civil service for a couple of years, but if I remember, there were “exempt” and “non-exempt” employees and I believe those terms referred to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The term “exempt” applied to management and staff positions who, by law, received a maximum overtime rate of GS-10, step 10. That meant, as a GS-14, any overtime you got paid for was at a much lower rate than your normal hourly pay. Non-expempt employees could not be paid less than time-and-one-half for overtime and could not legally be made to take “comp time”. I don’t know whether most EEOC employees under discussion were exempt or non-exempt, but throughout the government, the larger issue was the contracting out of civil service positions to private contractors.

“…we have been brought to our knees.”

Speak for yourself.

Swim’s up.

Not sure why comments were shut off here: http://firedoglake.com/2009/03…..-giuliani/

But I at least wanted to set the record straight for non-Catholics who were misled or misinformed by that article -

Some of the points are legitimate, some are not. The points involving “W”, the war and the death penalty are not. The Church does not unequivocally oppose the death penalty or war. It does, however, unequivocally oppose abortion, euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research – all of which involve the direct, intentional destruction of *innocent* human life, which is morally wrong in every instance. There have been approximately 50 million abortions since 1973.

True – all who support the killing of the innocent should be held to the same standard. But I can at least somewhat understand why a bishop would be mildly reticent to strongly criticize Republicans (assuming he even knew those individual Repubs supported abortion). As a party, the Republican party officially opposes the culture of death. As a party, the Democrats support it – even in their official platform.

Pope Benedict XVI :

“Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. For example, if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion. While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”

http://www.catholicculture.org…..N=97641824