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Offline Carl

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Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« on: September 27, 2011, 03:35:54 PM »
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Advocates for the unemployed have cheered a push by the Obama administration to ban discrimination against the jobless. But business groups and their allies are calling the effort unnecessary and counterproductive.


The job creation bill that President Obama sent to Congress earlier this month includes a provision that would allow unsuccessful job applicants to sue if they think a company of 15 more employees denied them a job because they were unemployed.


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/obama-proposes-letting-jobless-sue-discrimination-191042168.html

Another reason a business will be looking to sit on as much cash as possible...so they can defend against such idiocy.

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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2011, 03:54:48 PM »
Oh give me a freaking break.  ::)

I guess Obama can represent the lazy asses once he's out of the White House in 2013.
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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2011, 04:23:37 PM »
Oh give me a freaking break.  ::)

I guess Obama can represent the lazy asses once he's out of the White House in 2013.

Niether he nor Mooch-shelle have a license to practice law any more.....they now have a permanent government tit to suck.
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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2011, 04:25:14 PM »
I lost my job 2-1/2 years ago when Barry and his team came in and cut the existing budget for the project I was working on - a satellite/ground station network that detects the heat bloom of missiles as they're launched - by 75%.  Whaddaya think: do I have a case against the jug-eared Kenyan SCOAMF? :confused:
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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2011, 04:36:11 PM »
What a great way to keep a small businessman from hiring anybody new!  Genius!  :sarcasm:
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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2011, 04:40:37 PM »
Well, then what's to stop us from bringing a class action lawsuit against Obama and crowd for all our loses in savings/stocks/401k's and such?

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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2011, 08:17:21 AM »
Well, then what's to stop us from bringing a class action lawsuit against Obama and crowd for all our loses in savings/stocks/401k's and such?



Sovereign immunity, mainly.
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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2011, 02:30:08 PM »
Memo to DUmmies with dollar signs dancing in your heads.  Alleging it is one thing.  PROVING it is quite another.  Kinda like age bias.  Does it exist?  Yup.  But prove it.
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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2011, 06:52:51 PM »
What a great way to keep a small businessman from hiring anybody new!  Genius!  :sarcasm:

No, they might hire someone... after they trim staff to 14 people. Even then, it'll be a one for one exchange: One fired, one hired.

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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2011, 07:51:24 PM »
I heard there was a line of unemployed homosexual prostitutes lined up to sue Bonnie Fwank when they heard about this.
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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2011, 07:19:22 AM »
Liberals are always scouting for the next victim class.

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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2011, 07:37:11 AM »
Liberals are always scouting for the next victim class.

Yup....
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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2011, 10:50:59 AM »
Oh give me a freaking break.  ::)

I guess Obama can represent the lazy asses once he's out of the White House in 2013.
No, my guess is that he will be too busy suing all of us for discrimination for making him unemployed when we replace him with a more qualified person.
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Re: Obama proposes letting the jobless sue for discrimination
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2011, 04:00:20 PM »
Oh give me a freaking break.  ::)

I guess Obama can represent the lazy asses once he's out of the White House in 2013.

He won't be representing anyone, no law license anymore.