Business Owners, Employees and HR Generalists Beware

Obama has promised that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will become law. The EFCA was sponsored by Obama and is expected to be introduced sometime this year in the Senate. If that doesn't concern you, here are a few other bills sponsored by Obama that may. Let's hope these don't come to fruition:

"The Working Families Flexibility Act"
This act would require that when an employer denies an employee's request regarding a change in working conditions, the employee will have rights to challenge the decision through a series of escalation from employer to administrative law judge hearings, ultimately ending in federal court. It is the burden of the employer to prove that the denial of request is justified. A change in working conditions is an employee's request for a change in work hours, start and end times, and location of work.

"Protecting America's Worker Act"
An act that will increase OSHA penalties, impose significant mandatory sentences, and allow criminal penalties for non-fatal incidents.

"Healthy Families Act"
This act will require companies with more than 15 employees to provide 7 annual sick days. Employers cannot use the excuse that sick days are already provided, they will be required to add an additional 7 to the already exsisting sick days.

"The Paycheck Fairness Act"
This act would make it illegal for any employer to prohibit or discourage employees from sharing salary information. It also limits an employers defenses to EPA claims, uncaps damages for both punitive and compensatory, and eases restrictions on class action suits.

Strings Attached

Citigroup took over Merril Lynch. Citigroup didn't want to take the bailout money but were forced to by the government once it was found out how in debt Merril Lynch was. It's scary to think that the government is forcing their bailout money on businesses. Will Bank of America also be forced by the government to take the bailout money? So why is it that Citigroup didn't want to take the money? Because of all the government regulations tied to that money. You take the money, you are beholden to what Obama wants for this country. He is on the path to destruction of our businesses (large and small). He is squashing entrepreneurship, just another way to move from capitalism to socialism.



Obama claims he will cut our deficit in half within his first term in office yet doesn't say how he's going to do it. It just sounds good. Like all his speeches. It sounds good. He throws a little "preacher voice" in for good measure and the sheep gobble it up. Making the masses buy the load of what you know to be crap is just half the battle. Can someone tell me how you get out of a deficit by spending?! Is that how you get out of credit card debt? Charge more?

A Nation of Cowards

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says we are a nation of cowards when it comes to race relations. Yes, we are a nation of cowards but not because of his perceived lack of racial integration in our country. We are a nation of cowards because we won't take a stand to protect our country for fear of being called racist.

Prime Minister John Howard of Australia said it best:

Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques.Quote: 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It.. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians'.

'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'. 'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!

''Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. Itis certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.

''We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.

''This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom,'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.''If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.

While The Blogger Was Out

My head has been spinning over all the stimulus talk and I'm now trying to wrap my head around it all now that it has been passed. I'll be back to post my take on it all. In the meantime, I've been trying to catch up with everyone's blogs and have even discovered a new one along the way. Check out The Debonair Dude over at http://ourworldasweseeit.blogspot.com . While I'm gathering my thoughts on my next post, who in your blog roll do you highly suggest I add to mine? I'm always looking for some good reading!

Someone's Smoking Something

$200 Million for GRASS for the National Mall?! Can someone explain to me how GRASS for the lawn of the National Mall could possibly stimulate the economy? Thank you GOP for criticizing such a ridiculous use of money and thank you House Rules Committee for stripping that provision from the stimulus plan.

Isn't That Rich?

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have asked for $16 million of the bailout money. My question to them is don't you think you've done enough?

Good For America?

In what seems like a flurry to prove too hard he knows what he's doing, Obama is on a rampage to change everything. Taking abstinence education out of schools, using our tax dollars to fund abortions in other countries, taking away the requirement for an underage female to notify her parents about getting an abortion, closing interrogation facilities used by the CIA, and $4 million dollars allotted to NASA to study global warming. All from someone who sat in the Senate and could never make up his mind and often checked Present.

Obama says abstinence education doesn't work. He's also said, "A woman should not be punished with a child just because she made a mistake." Did you read that? Punished with a child. What a sad man to equate a child with punishment. We sure wouldn't want a woman to be put upon by a child now would we?

Whether you agree with the right to have an abortion or not, why should U.S. tax dollars go towards funding abortions or anything else in another country than our own?

Women's Rights groups stand for the right to choose. We're not talking about women here, we're talking about girls. A girl may be fearful of telling her parents she is pregnant but a parent has a right to discuss, counsel, and console their daughter on a pregnancy and whether or not it leads to an abortion. Think of the long term damage it can cause for a girl to hide an abortion from her parents.

With so quickly ridding homeland security measures put in to place after 9/11, has anyone heard Obama's ideas on how we are going to keep this country safe from terrorists? Liberals will laugh and tell you that there are no threats to U.S. soil. It's all just a manufactured fear tactic. Silly Libs, it is U.S. Intelligence that has worked hard over the decades and continues to work hard every day to make citizens feel safe and secure by the intelligence they gather.

In Obama's Inauguration speech he said we are all going to have to make sacrifices. Is $4 million dollars for a study one of those sacrifices?