GOP Lawmaker Laments Workers’ Laziness In Hearing About Overtime Pay: “There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period,” Rep. Virginia Foxx said during a hearing about people who work too much.
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GOP Lawmaker Laments Workers’ Laziness In Hearing About Overtime Pay: “There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period,” Rep. Virginia Foxx said during a hearing about people who work too much.
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Sorry, most Americans don’t want to make someone rich while being overworked and underpaid. Everybody wants to work when they’re fairly compensated.
It’s not that we don’t want to work. We just don’t want to be wage slaves anymore. Fuck you and fuck late stage capitalism.
Guess who watches Fox “News.”
lol she’s a nutty one.
This is the problem, people in her age group are running the country. You can’t convince me that she is in touch with real life at all. I’m willing to bet she still thinks houses are less than 100k
She’s a bitter 80 yr old harpie who hasn’t had a real job since the 1980’s
Is there a GOP politician who doesn’t hate Americans?
Crusty geriatric fuck who talks for a living mad at the poors again
“Are there no prisons?” the spirit asked Ebeneezer. “Are there no poor houses?”
The Republican Party should be renamed the Ebeneezers.
Hmm, let me think…there’s some group of people out there that consistently refuse to do their jobs—oh, right! Republican lawmakers!!
They’re called the GOP.
Jesus what is this lady, 100 years old? What sort of crypt keep-ocracy is this, we’ve just got escaped old folks home patients running around screaming at the kids
How many days a week is that old desiccated bat working in Congress? I bet it is a lot less than the average American worker.
The entitlement of that woman is off the charts.
Yeah, they’re mostly in Congress.
We shouldn’t have to work the way we do now. We have AI and automation. The fact that we’ve essentially lived long enough to see 20 hour work weeks and everyone being housed and fed is amazing, except it isn’t happening because it’s cheaper to keep us as slaves. The biggest con of all was convincing a large portion of the country that your net worth is entirely reflected by the amount of manual labor you’re capable of.
This is when we need someone to yell during these meetings “the topic is overtime not unemployment! I know you tend to forget but this is your reminder!”
Because and I know there deflecting but I think the best option is to make it sound like they forgot what the meetings about.
I grew up in her district. She is an awful person representing lot of awful people. Couldn’t get out fast enough.
These people are unreal! How many holidays do these fine folks take a year? Paid!
Sigh…
There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to **pay for** work, period.
Shes 100% annoyed that slavery and indentured servitude is no longer acceptable in the usa (unless you go to jail)
Unfortunately most people don’t enjoy the kind of benefits she has been receiving most of her life. Maybe she will work to change that. /s
> “There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period … and want other people to take care of them,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.).
> The lawmaker’s statement came in response to testimony from Democratic witness Judy Conti, the director of government affairs for the National Employment Law Project, who’d said that many workers won’t put up with forced overtime these days.
> “We see that workers are increasingly willing to — especially younger workers — are **willing to leave jobs where they have to do mandatory overtime, especially where it’s uncompensated,”** Conti had said.
Foxx is actually complaining that people aren’t willing to work for free?!
You’ll work for pennies on the dollar and like it! ~ GOP 2024
That is the face I expect to say something like that. I don’t mind working crazy hours if the pay gets me ahead or gets me something I want. I don’t want to have to work crazy hours to just keep my head above water because the pay is paltry.
Seriously, North Carolina? This is who you elect to represent you? For shame. You should do better.
Never a good look when a member of Congress calls anybody anti-work and/or lazy. Yo barely work half a year and have one of the best pension plans ever for such a low bar to achieve.
Is congress just a taxpayer funded retirement home at this point?
Like Congress? They seem to work very little and accomplish even less.
Stupid AH perpetuating BS narrative. I’m salaried and have worked plenty of overtime. But I’m well compensated and the overtime wasn’t just having more work thrown at me. For many roles the pay isn’t there (retail) and poor planning by management shouldn’t force them to work without compensation.
This is also the tone deaf attitude that ignores people who want some sort of work-life balance and to be compensated for their labor.
Fucking conservatives always trying to screw the little guy.
>When the Labor Department announced the proposal, Foxx said it would “stifle workplace flexibility” and “lump burdensome costs on job creators.”
Damn that burdensome cost of being paid for the hours you work!!
A) I think you’d find very few people really *want* to work if they didn’t have to
B) Nobody wants to work *for shit pay* is the rest of that sentence
Including her old, baggy ass.
> Republican lawmakers have criticized the plan as a job killer, and their witnesses in Wednesday’s hearing claimed that the regulation would force employers to cut hours and positions.
In a hearing about forcing workers into mandatory (in some cases unpaid) overttime, they’re saying that requiring more employees to be paid overtime would result in cutting hours and positions? In what universe does that even make logical sense? If the employer is requiring overtime, it is because they haven’t hired enough employees to perform the amount of work that is required. So the solution will be to have fewer employees to do the work?
These aren’t serious people.
There is a Twitter user, Paul Fairie, who takes GOP talking-points and shows how they have been used for centuries with the right-wing populists/politicians.
[“No One Wants To Work Anymore”](https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544?s=19) has been around since fuedalism. It was a main complaint of the rich during the bubonic plague when the serfs realized they’re “unskilled labor” was in high demand so they leveraged for higher wages.
Another fun was was “[making men effeminate](https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1572713537910476801?s=19)”, which showed editorial articles with this theme going back to 1800s.
[Here’s one on “Lazy Children” ](https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1730361612123705354?s=19)
Is t she the geezer how shouted, “shut up!” At reporters a months ago?
She seems like a peach.
Stop electing geriatrics please
Most people would scrub toilets for $200/hr.
It’s not the work that’s the problem. It’s the wages and the respect
Overtime protection should be the default for all employees. No matter what.
It’s basic capitalism. You get paid for the service you provide. Overtime is simply failure by the employer to secure enough man power for all tasks. Thus requires penalities to the employer and compensation to the employee.
Or does Foxx except free handouts to employers. A socialism for the rich only.
Making employeer sacrifice their recovery time without any form of compensation.
Normal monthly pay is designed to only cover a normal monthly work (eg. 40 work week).
Beyond that. Pay up or shut up.
Don’t American congress people also get a summer AND winter break ???
In 2023 the House had only 117 meeting days scheduled. They also make at minimum 174k a year before budgets for travel, offices, and expenses. That means these people make more than 1k per shift and have done what??? That’s right nothing but almost shut down government and pursue Biden to point of staring at son’s dick in session. No wonder this 80 year old hag is holding on. Probably herself couldn’t keep a job at the library.
So workers who are working and not getting overtime pay are lazy? Sure grandma Karen.
Ignorant Republican from Ignorant Red State spouts ignorance. Will be rewarded with another 2 years of not working for $176,000.
No one in congress would understand having to work too much, since they only work 3-4 months a year themselves.
Are these the same people who essentially take the entire summer off and when crucial spending bills come up they look at the calendar and say “WELP! we are out of time for that so let’s recess for two weeks”
I’m really getting to the point that anyone over 75 should not have ANY say over anything that will affect a future that they will t be a part of
From the government employee who works about 140 days a year, gets full benefits and retirement and vote themselves raises.
She’s just a trashy mouthpiece for her corporate masters. Ignore her.
Speaking of lazy, the House of Representatives is projected to have 117 days in session this year. Work in August? Nope! How about October? Nope! Mid November is the earliest I can return! Sweet gig for 174 k, apparently.