# Biden helps avert railway strike **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 16, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674 "2022-09-16T14:23:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674/141 "2022-12-09T07:46:05Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > Lets be real here: it was never really on the table. It only got added because they realized that they fucked up and looked real bad. Cite, or retract. > [@](#): > > The US system is fundamentally broken because people are willing to throw the 0.03% under the bus the second things _might_ become inconvenient for them. My heart _bleeds_ for the 0.03%. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674/142 "2022-12-09T07:56:38Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Cite, or retract. …opinion based on the actions of this administration. No citation required. > [@CaptMurdock](#): > > My heart _bleeds_ for the 0.03%. Well it _should_. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674/143 "2022-12-09T11:56:25Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …of course they do. It’s the year 2022 and America is one of the few developed industrial nations that still doesn’t allow sick pay. Do you think that is going to change _unless_ people take radical action? Come on now, be reasonable. Sure, we’re the only country that doesn’t have sick leave, but it’s not like the countries with sick leave have a rail system nearly as robust as ours. US trains are the envy of the world, right? You can’t have a top-notch set of choo-choos and ALSO care about the health of the cogs. Workers. I meant workers. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674/144 "2022-12-09T19:11:54Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > My heart _bleeds_ for the 0.03%. You _do_ realize of course that just because you aren’t one of those affected being thrown under the bus, that this lumps you into comfortably into the “everybody else” ( on the bus )category, don’t you? Each person’s line of work running the gamut from railroaders to paper-pushing sinecures, comprises a very small percentage of the overall total. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674/145 "2022-12-09T19:35:45Z")
Are you talking the railroad workers, or the super-rich? The railroad workers, I want them to get the paid sick leave. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674/146 "2022-12-09T20:27:14Z")
The railroad workers. I thought, as well as Banquet Bear apparently, that when you wrote that your heart bleeds for them, that you were using sarcasm. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674/147 "2022-12-09T20:32:36Z")
Yeah, I misconstrued something he said. This is what happens when I post after working late. Sorry for the slight hijack, peeps. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674/148 "2022-12-10T00:42:20Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …of course they do. It’s the year 2022 and America is one of the few developed industrial nations that still doesn’t allow sick pay. Do you think that is going to change _unless_ people take radical action? Of course the US allows sick pay. Many companies offer it. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674/149 "2022-12-10T01:06:34Z")
> [@Bootb](#): > > Of course the US allows sick pay. Many companies offer it. …I meant _obliged_ to pay sick pay. As in: the state mandates you must provide a set amount of sick pay per year. While some states require this: it isn’t fderally mandated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-helps-avert-railway-strike/971674.md?page=7)