09-16-2020, 07:51 PM
(09-16-2020, 07:26 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-16-2020, 03:42 PM)David Horn Wrote:(09-16-2020, 02:49 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(09-16-2020, 01:31 PM)David Horn Wrote:(09-15-2020, 09:03 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: MSNBC has been chasing a whistleblower complaint that one of ICE's commercial dentition centers has been performing hysterectomies on women in their custody without their informed consent and without reason. One more case of immigrant's rights being violated by this administration. This one is still gathering momentum, though it took Rachel's prime spot.
The outrages are so common and pervasive that we're immune to them. A prime example: Trump used a draft written by one of several giant meat processing concerns to mandate meat production in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. The processors were told to accommodate their workers health needs but did nothing. Over 200 workers died of COVID, and Trump's ever-vigilant OSHA responded by fining the processors $29,000. That's $29,000 not apiece, as measly as that would be, but in total. Jointly, the plants generate $55 Billion annually.
You talk like food production and maintaining an adequate food supply isn't viewed as essential as the COVID19 crisis seems to be to you and those on the Left politically.
No, I'm arguing that letting them get away with murder is criminal, in and of itself. More to the point, this sends a huge signal that business, especially big business, is immune to the laws as written.
Mistreating workers has been common for so long that anything to the contrary would be newsworthy. But outright killing them, by seeing what's happening and doing absolutely nothing about it, should get some people serious jail time, not a petty fine. You want the swamp drained? Start there!
I'm glad that you're not in charge, I have no doubt that Americans be fighting/ killing each other over food by now. I want the swamp drained and I understand that the Left and it's Democratic allies are about the only ones standing in the way of progress.
...and what is wrong with ensuring that people who do essential work as in food-processing places can expect to be paid well enough to be able to not be in danger from COVID-19? How can we be sure that there won't be a SARS-3 that causes a similarly-deadly COVID-23 plague? We have gotten away with doing much on the cheap for a couple of decades. That may be over. The people who do this work, and much of it is done in rural areas, are not expendable.
By the way -- your food does not originate in a supermarket.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.