Thursday, March 05, 2015

No government intrusion, unless we do it.


For all the prating about Big Government and its intrusion into our lives, we all know that the first ones to force government rules on people are the Conservatives. In Pennsylvania the legislature, still locked in the hands of evil Teabaggers, is moving to "protect the good citizens of Philadelphia from the evils of "paid sick leave".
Last month, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signed mandatory paid sick leave into law, promising workers at businesses of ten or more employees at least an hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked. The legislation survived seven years of political wrangling and two prior vetoes by Nutter, but come mid-May, Philadelphia will become the first municipality in Pennsylvania and the 17th in the nation to offer such protections.

But not if the state legislature has anything to say about it.

Nutter signed Philadelphia’s sick leave law on February 12. At that point, conservative lawmakers in Harrisburg, had already introduced a bill that, if passed, would prevent municipalities from establishing paid sick leave laws or any other kind of mandated time off. Unhappy with the latest developments from the state’s largest city, state senators altered the legislation on March 3 to ban any such law passed after January 1, 2015 (the earlier language would have let previously enacted ordinances stand)..

The amendment’s primary sponsor is State Senator John Eichelberger, a conservative Republican from central Pennsylvania and a longstanding opponent of paid sick leave legislation.

“The amendment was introduced because we do not want to allow municipalities to try to sneak in changes to local ordinances before this bill is placed into law,” Senator Eichelberger told Al Jazeera America. “The city of Philadelphia knew that we had a bipartisan effort to get this done and they passed this anyway. We need to ensure we have a system across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that is uniform. We can’t allow municipalities to put a hodgepodge system of local ordinances that would be very difficult for people to understand.”
And anybody who believes the Pennsylvania Teabaggers would have passed any bill allowing paid sick leave would probably buy ocean front property on the Moon. The Teabaggers just love telling people what is good for them. And any man who doesn't believe it need only ask a woman.

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