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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Gina on June 17, 2014, 07:39:26 AM

Title: Obama uses his executive order crap again
Post by: Gina on June 17, 2014, 07:39:26 AM: Quote
WASHINGTON â€” After years of pressure from gay rights groups, President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against employees on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity, the White House said Monday.

While Obama lacks the authority to extend that protection to all Americans, the order being drafted by the White House would impact about 14 million workers whose employers or states currently do not ban workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals. The scope of the measure was tabulated by the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School, which studies sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.

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The announcement comes a day before Obama attends the Democratic National Committee's annual gay and lesbian fundraiser in New York. While the president has widespread political support among the LGBT community, advocates have become increasingly irritated with the president's reluctance to move forward with the order.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2014/jun/17/obama-sign-order-extending-gays-protections/?comments_id=1827597 (http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2014/jun/17/obama-sign-order-extending-gays-protections/?comments_id=1827597)

I'm not so much upset over the actual basis of the law for gays but I am sick of him not taking care of the dire situation of the economy and the terrorists/illegals.
Title: Re: Obama uses his executive order crap again
Post by: thundley4 on June 17, 2014, 11:21:05 AM: Quote
The announcement comes a day before Obama attends the Democratic National Committee's annual gay and lesbian fundraiser in New York.

It's all about the money. Almost every time Obama announces something like this, it is right before a fundraiser. Yet it is also something that he never tried to get passed through congress. I'm pretty sure this would have passed congress, but Obama doesn't want to share the credit with anyone.

And yes, he panders to his base, while the country continues its downhill spiral.
Title: Re: Obama uses his executive order crap again
Post by: JohnnyReb on June 17, 2014, 11:40:14 AM: The next republican president to come into Washington should tell congress, "Y'all can just go home. I got a pen and a phone. I don't need you."