Comically Evil

Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:45 pm by JM Ashby

Republicans are banding together to put a stop to the latest encroachment of big government — minimum wage for home healthcare providers.

A group of Republican senators on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at blocking the Obama administration’s controversial efforts to extend minimum wage and overtime protections to 2 million in-home care providers through Department of Labor regulations.

Sens. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., along with 11 other lawmakers, introduced a bill known as the Companionship Exemption Protection Act, to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to preserve the current state of the law’s so-called companionship services exemption.

It’s minimum fuckin’ wage! Did Fox News do a segment on spoiled home health workers living in largesse that we all missed?

The only reason the Obama Administration’s regulations are described as “controversial” is because the Republicans seemingly have a problem with people being paid a minimum amount of money for services rendered. Home healthcare providers are currently excluded from minimum wage requirements, which is known as companionship exemption. And while the “Companionship Exemption Protection Act” sounds harmless, it’s nothing more than an attempt to enshrine below-minimum wages for millions of workers.

I happen to personally know several home healthcare providers, and they work harder than anyone else I know and they’re usually on-call day and night.

They take care of your parents and grandparents. Do the Republicans not have parents, or were they long ago replaced by Skrulls? The latter would explain a lot.

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  • http://phydeauxpseaks.blogspot.com Bob Rutledge

    Republicans have parents, they just don’t give a shit about them. “Fuckin’ losers, got all old and sick, sucking up valuable space and profit with their still living and shit.”

  • missliberties

    I am one of those workers. And we definitely get screwed, but the states are broke! Broke!

    I don’t do it for the money, but to help people. The only reason I can is because I am married and do it for a little extra income.

    The thing is the clients are seriously disabled, and often just changing a lightbulb is beyond their capacity. I shop. I clean. I listen. Now these folks are allowing complete strangers into their homes, and the key to making this good service work is trust.

    Good Lord, this is an important job that saves the states billions by keeping folks out of nursing homes and allowing them the dignity to stay in their home. I am one of the ‘senior’ workers at my company and I get paid $9 an hour, with no compensation for gas. The new hires get $7.50. Isn’t that just unimaginable.

    This is contract work, and the cheap cost of my services, (no health care, no benefits, no sick pay, no holiday pay) is Mitt Romney’s wet dream.

    • http://mdblanche.myopenid.com/ mdblanche

      God bless you. A home health care provider was able to help my grandmother stay in her own apartment until almost the very end, all while busy raising her own family. You all deserve a lot more than minimum wage and to see those bastards trying to deny you even that ought to be a nationwide outrage.

      • missliberties

        :-)

  • roxsteady

    Sorry Ash but, the reason Republicans don’t care about the people who take care of the sick and elderly poor is because they don’t know any elderly people who are sick and poor so, they don’t think that these folks who take care of them deserve a minimum of minimum wage? Ugh!

  • Bob McIntosh

    They’re not Skrulls, they’re Onlies! I suspect the Republic Party wants to bonk the Grups on the head. As proof, I quote from the Star Trek’s wiki, “Bonk! Bonk! On the head! Bonk! Bonk!” — Rand, the leader of the Onlies. http://youtu.be/b_Pz-w5-2A4

  • Mike Huben

    The continual whine of the rich conservatives for centuries: “You can’t get good servants any more.”