Less money spent on things like eye-washing stations and fire escapes means more money for the boss. There’s two ways the story can go from here. You pick.
a) Some day I’ll be the billionaire industrialist, and when I am, I ain’t having no gummint telling me what I have to spend my money on
b) As a good and loyal American I will feel the benefits of my billionaire boss making an extra couple thousand every year. As a paperclip bender on the factory line, when he buys another yacht (or, more likely, sticks that money in a bond somewhere) I’ll totally benefit.
I mean, really, have you ever seen anyone USE an eye-washing station? Total waste of money. The only reason they have to buy them is because of gummint interference - that, and everyone knows that all eye-washing station manufacturers are owned by George Soros. It’s just kickbacks from the Democrats to their buddies.
^Those are both probably the (hugely idiotic) thinking processes behind it. However, eye washing stations are what, maybe 1% of the overall OSHA regulations that keep people safe?
What about MSDS sheets on hand so that information about the dangerous chemicals used are available? Eye and hearing protection? Before government regulation, the workplace was a FREE FOR ALL of severed limbs and mutilated bodies, so the two realities for being against safety regulation as I see it are,
You don’t KNOW about the growing pains of the industrial revolution, and don’t realize that you want American workers to face more danger and become more like China,
or, 2) You KNOW how dangerous and miserable the working conditions in America used to be before safety regulation, but you don’t care because you believe you will move out of your double-wide and into a mcmansion if somehow there was less government “waste”.
I am extremely liberal, but I don’t like government waste either, but OSHA of all things? Just absurd.
What kind of hateful fearmongering IS THIS? I guess I had mistakenly thought that people in general are decent and moderately intelligent and capable of independent thought. No one can really defend statements like these. These tactics are straight out of 1984.
Meh. It’s a lot less damaging than much else Newt might be doing. He might as well have said, “we should have a federal law that says Monopoly money is not legal tender in the United States.”
I’ve heard some other outrageous quotes from him, but I think convincing the sheeplike masses that them thar evil muslims are trying to force us all to wear bhurkas and stone adultresses is “socially irresponsible” to put it lightly, and xenophobic and evil to put it bluntly.
Yeah, practically speaking. I’m just amazed that every single person that heard this didn’t just collapse in convulsions of laughter, pointing and laughing. Teh stoopid. Must be contagious.
He REALLY doesn’t want that smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. It’s a sure bet that all Americans see lazers in space as our TOP NATIONAL PRIORITY, right now!
Does he think we should have a law prohibiting “Christian Law”, or is that the one time he’ll stop pretending to fellatiate the Founding Fathers and admit they were wrong just that one time?
Rease: What? You can’t launch a laser into orbit with coal? Nevermind.
