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@EveAsks
Former Secretary of Labor @ElaineChao just said on @BloombergTV that workers have a patriotic duty to take jobs companies cant fill. What about an employers patriotic duty to provide jobs with decent wages and benefits? (Cricket sounds here.)
11:03 AM · Nov 8, 2021
Fuck off Elaine.
Me.
(35,454 posts)giving all kinds of breaks to your friends.
bedazzled
(1,767 posts)if they will have her
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)In It to Win It
(8,275 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Thats what the little people are for.
KS Toronado
(17,293 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,754 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,780 posts)Rebl2
(13,539 posts)I wont
DeeNice
(575 posts)Crickets, no doubt.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Lets see your ass out there doing jobs that dont pay a living wage or offer basic benefits or protection. Fucking greedy moochers. Eat the rich.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Celerity
(43,471 posts)AZ8theist
(5,487 posts)There's an image in my head that will take a horse paste overdose to get rid of......
sdfernando
(4,937 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,312 posts)When is she going back to work?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)I'm sure she gets something for that
Omnipresent
(5,720 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,249 posts)hunter
(38,322 posts)Otherwise, fuck off.
Any job that can't pay a comfortable living wage, especially in times of relative peace, simply shouldn't exist.
sakabatou
(42,170 posts)PXR-5
(522 posts)If every Republican member of Congress took a retail job would that do much to the labour shortage? 😆
Bettie
(16,118 posts)because can you imagine having those assholes as coworkers?
"OK, this is our new hire, Madison, now you need to train him..."
Or working with Marjorie three names or pretty much any of them. Imagine having to teach Gomert to use a cash register.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)Choked on my chile, had to give myself the Heinrich Maneuver.
rurallib
(62,433 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,976 posts)hamsterjill
(15,223 posts)The wife of Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, allegedly used her administrative position to help expand her family's shipping business that is deeply entangled with Beijing. In fact, during the four years when Chao was in the Trump cabinet, her family business grew by almost half a million dollars per day, reveals Raw Story.
LaMouffette
(2,039 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I suppose they delayed or canceled it due to the pandemic. They glom onto any reason they can to avoid confessing their crimes. What a couple.
hamsterjill
(15,223 posts)Given some judicial attention. Why arent these people behind bars!!!
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Trump administration, they'd have to build a new prison.
Trump would probably petition to have his name on it. How fitting would that be?
hamsterjill
(15,223 posts)And Golden toilets, right? Sheesh. There ARE a lot of them that should be doing time. Traitors.
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)See you at the Olive Garden
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We're gonna whip inflation now
We'll all eat crow instead of cow
We'll even starve to death and how
So we can whip inflation now!
And if you know what comic that's from, you're my friend.
mtngirl47
(990 posts)WIN (whip inflation now) Sorry I don't know the comic...hope we can still be friends!
malaise
(269,144 posts)These people are authoritarian lunatics.
I know a few truckdrivers and the medical costs of those severe back aches are astronomical/
malaise
(269,144 posts)These people are authoritarian lunatics.
I know a few truckdrivers and the medical costs of those severe back aches are astronomical/
Botany
(70,552 posts)... are some of those jobs?
malaise
(269,144 posts)Botany
(70,552 posts)... 2 times is bad luck but after that we have a pattern. Elaine's dad and his shipping Co. was
hooked into China's Communist party bosses & organized crime networks.
rurallib
(62,433 posts)Seriously Chao?
maxrandb
(15,345 posts)Ray-Gun Bullshit and 40 years of Hate Radio has turned this country into a Soup Sandwich.
I knew it right after 9/11 when we were basically told; "you have to sacrifice...GO BUY SOMETHING FOR GOD'S SAKE!
roamer65
(36,747 posts)NBachers
(17,133 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,456 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,566 posts)It's patriotic, after all.
onecaliberal
(32,882 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,939 posts)What the little people must do.
PatSeg
(47,560 posts)who has no idea how regular people live. Working a dead-end jobs for low wages and no benefits is hardly "patriotic duty". Maybe companies should do THEIR patriotic duty and sacrifice a little profit to pay their employees better.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Of course, given its very hierarchical structure, that sort of patriotic duty wouldn't apply to her priviledged class. These people keep revealing themselves.
Liberalism is the individual, fascism is the state. ~ Benito Mussolini
PatSeg
(47,560 posts)And they don't even realize they are doing so. To her, there was probably nothing wrong with the comment.
Deep State Witch
(10,449 posts)You can't force people to perform essentially slave labor.
NewHendoLib
(60,018 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)seasonally as needed if they had their way. Not theirs of course.
When the tRump admin didn't issue the usual visas to bring in seasonal seafood workers, seafood crisis! We had fairly high unemployment at the time, and it seems likely Chao types thought laid off claims processors, IT techs, etc, would fill them.
Not without being schooled on their patriotic duty.
FSogol
(45,514 posts)It's not just the poor but everyone else they want as slaves. People keep giving them power by voting against their own well being and instead voting for the fear of gays, taking away guns, god, abortion, etc.
Hekate
(90,769 posts)xmas74
(29,674 posts)Budget menu.
She should apply. They could use her help.
BootinUp
(47,177 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)patphil
(6,196 posts)She sure has the mindless f**ker mentality.
It's your patriotic duty to take that crappy job!
appleannie1
(5,068 posts)Now that you do not have a job, maybe it is your patriotic duty to get a job cleaning restrooms along the interstate. Or how about maid in a motel?
IronLionZion
(45,494 posts)If only those damn foreigners didn't come over here and steal all these jobs... oh wait. How about companies do some patriotic duty and use their stimulus money and tax cuts to pay more to their workers? Or is that socialism?
Hassler
(3,384 posts)BlueWeirdo
(9 posts)Do it for the Fatherland you unpatriotic slobs!
PortTack
(32,787 posts)Eugene
(61,937 posts)If you lose your life, it's a sacrifice we're happy to make.
This awful person has outdone herself.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)pecosbob
(7,542 posts)She really ought to go work for the CCP.
RainCaster
(10,908 posts)Who only works for foreign commie governments.
spudspud
(511 posts)TNNurse
(6,929 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)Note that she implies that workers (unspecified) need to take jobs even if they don't want them. Did she ever in her life take a job that she didn't want ... for patriotic reasons?
mjvpi
(1,389 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,754 posts)Watch George Carlin's "American Dream." He absolutely nailed it. RIP George.
dchill
(38,516 posts)No business using the word "patriotic."
NQAS
(10,749 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Takket
(21,607 posts)So... we're a communist country now? And Capitalism is dead?
JanMichael
(24,890 posts)Awful person. Awful awful person.
flying_wahini
(6,634 posts)PatrickforB
(14,586 posts)Oh, that's right. Not a rock, but a TURTLE SHELL.
Gore1FL
(21,147 posts)I look forward to having her wait on me the next time I go out.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Go figure.
Dave says
(4,626 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)Go straight to HELL and don't pass Go.
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)savvy is going to take seriously. What a conundrum, eh Chao?
Retrograde
(10,145 posts)In-n-Out Burger near me is even paying $18/hour. Agribusiness in the Central Valley is always looking for people to pick lettuce, but AFAIK it's piecework so you'll have to pick fast to make enough to get by on.
Retrograde
(10,145 posts)again they'll use their power to "draft" people to work for GOP donors who are having a hard time finding people to work for the lack of wages and benefits they want to pay?
HAB911
(8,909 posts)She is now, or has ever been, a member of the patriotic Chinese Communist Party.
Just asking a question.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)Warehouse work? Meat packing? Picking crops and fruits? Waiting tables?
All at the low pay and poor conditions you deem appropriate. After all, PATRIOTISM!
hatrack
(59,592 posts)Hotler
(11,440 posts)standing up to the orange one instead of tossing his salad. Social media needs to be all over this woman.
drmeow
(5,022 posts)The world would be a better place if she vanished from the public sphere entirely. I don't care how or why (prison, death, loss of oral and written functionality do to stroke, anything) I just wish both of them shut up and disappear permanently.