rep. virginia fox - workers who want overtime pay are just lazy and don't want to work
"Even though the hearing was about employees who work long hours, the GOP chair of the House Committee on Education & the Workforce took a moment to argue that too many Americans don’t want to work at all.
“There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period … and want other people to take care of them,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.). Foxx added: “That’s not what this country is all about. We have great opportunities in this country for people to be successful, if they want to work hard.” The lawmaker’s statement came in response to testimony from Democratic witness Judy Conti, the director of government affairs for the National Employment Law Project, who’d said that many workers won’t put up with forced overtime these days.
“We see that workers are increasingly willing to — especially younger workers — are willing to leave jobs where they have to do mandatory overtime, especially where it’s uncompensated,” Conti had said.'
"U.S. overtime protections date back to the Great Depression, but over the years fewer and fewer workers have been eligible for them. That’s largely because of the low “salary threshold” — the salary below which workers have a legal right to overtime pay regardless of their job duties. The current rate is just $35,568 per year, but the administration wants to hike it to $55,068. Raising it would bring millions more workers under the law’s protections. The Labor Department estimates that the overtime proposal would put $1.3 billion of additional wages in workers’ paychecks. When the Labor Department announced the proposal, Foxx said it would “stifle workplace flexibility” and “lump burdensome costs on job creators.”"
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 39 | December 7, 2023 7:36 PM
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I'd wager that Foxx has never worked a minute of overtime in her life.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 2, 2023 6:40 PM
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She's the reason the term rancid cunt was invented.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 2, 2023 6:43 PM
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80 year old Appalachian woman who get her degrees for 5 cents over 50 years ago wants to tell us about how people don't want to work - in a session about people working full time and not getting paid just for their overtime.
I'm so sick and tired of having to hear ANYTHING about life from these country, non-urban congressional members. Their provincial viewpoints with little to no real world experience outside of their little agricultural areas are stunningly ignorant and out of touch.
Sucks to be from there - but the rest of us living in cities and states that are actually CONTRIBUTING to the economy and culture of America can do without your input. Go back to Cracker Barrel and your main street parades.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 2, 2023 6:54 PM
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When they complain about career politicians who are too old to understand modern society, are they referring to this?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 2, 2023 7:02 PM
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"Calling Grim Reaper. You have have a Rush job on line 1."
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 2, 2023 7:05 PM
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People who talk and think like this are horrible pieces of shit.
If you talk or think like this, you are a horrible piece of shit. Just, the worst. You aren't a Christian. You aren't. You're disgusting.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 2, 2023 7:07 PM
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People don't want to work for no money.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 2, 2023 7:09 PM
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She's the eloquent woman who yelled "Shut Up" when Mike Johnson was questioned about his support for Trump and Jan 6.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 2, 2023 7:13 PM
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80 yo old with her mouth always hanging open. Kkklassy
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 2, 2023 7:19 PM
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This old bitch works for the federal government, so she knows all about not wanting to work. Being a member of Congress requires about as much work as being on welfare.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 2, 2023 7:19 PM
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The GOP is rotten rotten rotten- anti-humanity.. Why the heck do they run for office? Revenge against all their enemies and those less than their imagined selves?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 2, 2023 7:24 PM
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Maybe bitter about the lack of indoor plumbing back home.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 2, 2023 7:29 PM
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I should clarify that being a member of Congress requires as much work as you want to put into it but clearly there is no 'minimum' work threshold. We have hardworking, principled legislators and then you have the ones who are completely disconnected and can't be bothered to show up and vote. Their low information constituents have no idea they are being ineffectively represented as long as the lazy, entitled Congressperson shows up on TV once a term for stupid reactionary soundbites like this old whore Foxx.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 2, 2023 7:29 PM
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A conservative wants to keep poor people from getting paid what they deserve? I'm shocked!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 2, 2023 7:33 PM
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This ancient bitch again?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 2, 2023 7:42 PM
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The least you could do is spell my widow's name correctly.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 3, 2023 4:13 AM
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she's a crazy senile hateful pile of old shit .........
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 4, 2023 12:42 AM
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It seems to me that she was thinking of a relative when she made that statement.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 4, 2023 2:10 AM
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SHE IS TOO OLD TO BE IN OFFICE
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 4, 2023 2:33 AM
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She’s a woman of her time.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 4, 2023 2:38 AM
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Many people are saying that Fox's mentee and protégé got into politics for precisely this reason. Elise Stefanik has family money and likes to pose by VIPs for attention, while not quite understanding the meaning of "work."
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 4, 2023 3:21 AM
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Hmmmm...
She's a fossil who is too old to be in a position of power and influence. She can go on the list of people who are way overdue to drop dead like so many other US politicians. There should be an age or term limit.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 4, 2023 3:40 AM
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I dunno, r23. A low energy, elderly MAGAt is preferable to a youthful guy who stays up doing lines and colleagues' and business associates' wives before he does (or doesn't) show up for votes the next morning due to a hung over state. Such a modern GOP conundrum.
Or maybe Ginny Fox is doing rails with Matt Gaetz? Ya never know...
by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 4, 2023 4:03 AM
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[Virginia] Foxx, a Republican who represents North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District (a region which includes Watauga County) reported dozens of assets ranging from $2,737,046 to $9,256,001 in 2013, giving her an average net worth of $5,996,523.50. The numbers are consistent with Foxx’s filing from 2012, which earned her a spot as the 68th-richest member of the 435-member House of Representatives.
Foxx reported multiple assets in excess of six figures, with nearly half-a-dozen rental properties in the Banner Elk area along with annuities and stocks. The congresswoman holds stakes in companies including Altria Group, AT&T, FedEx, Ford Motor Company and Six Flags. Unlike many of her House colleagues, Foxx reported zero liabilities to her name.
The totals for Foxx, along with McHenry and Meadows, don’t include any income (such as capital gains or dividends) generated by assets, nor do they include any dollars earned from their $174,000 congressional salary.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 25 | December 4, 2023 5:43 AM
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Thanks for sharing that information R25.
Maybe we should just start calling her Miss Rich Bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 4, 2023 7:52 AM
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Avatar for hateful Republican meemaws forgot to take her pills today. Shouldn't her DL fans be crying for dementia meemaws to retire?
"Virginia Foxx, the Republican who told reporters to ‘shut up’ after Johnson was elected Speaker, can’t seem to find the right words to say on the House Floor and has to be told what to say by a staffer"
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 27 | December 6, 2023 7:27 PM
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Doesn't she recall charging time-and-a-half when her waitressing gig at the last supper ran over?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 6, 2023 8:06 PM
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Cunt is a cunt is a cunt is a cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 6, 2023 10:12 PM
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I rather be poor than work myself to death for a person who doesnt give a crap if I live or die as long as they stay wealthy
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 6, 2023 10:25 PM
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Rancid, old, inbred, hillbilly cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 7, 2023 2:32 AM
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She needs that face ironed.
And I should know.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 7, 2023 3:43 AM
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Is she supposed to be white?
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 7, 2023 4:39 AM
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Interesting that she doesn't need to be prompted to scream shut up at a press conference, being rude and dumb is second nature.
But when presenting in Congress, she is forgetful and needs aid to compose her thoughts .
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 7, 2023 4:54 AM
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Raggedy-mouthed old BAG, does she think she's somehow accomplished a thing on this earth except by dint of being white & not getting arrested in the 1950s & 60s?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 7, 2023 4:55 AM
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Can’t wait for this hillbilly gasbag to buy the farm.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 7, 2023 5:04 AM
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More evidence that there are far too many ancient skeletons currently in US politics who belong to an age long gone and never to return and now do deep harm to a modern society. They all need to go.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 7, 2023 9:31 AM
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Rep. Virginia Fox, still showing her "'o' face" at 80.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 7, 2023 10:10 AM
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Kudos to anyone who is consistent and is concerned with both Foxx’s and Biden’s age related issues. Jeers to the partisans who criticize Foxx but not Biden.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 7, 2023 7:36 PM
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