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This guy is a curse to everything that is American.One rule transfers assessment of the impact of ocean-fishing away from federal inspectors to advisory groups linked to the fishing industry. Another allows factory farms to self-regulate disposal of pollutant run-off.
Bush's midnight regulations will:
- Make it easier for coal companies to dump waste from strip-mining into valleys and streams.
- Ease the building of coal-fired power stations nearer to national parks.
- Allow people to carry loaded and concealed weapons in national parks.
- Open up millions of acres to mining for oil shale.
- Allow healthcare workers to opt out of giving treatment for religious or moral reasons, thus weakening abortion rights.
- Hurt road safety by allowing truck drivers to stay at the wheel for 11 consecutive hours.
Pardoned a bunch of criminal's.What did Clinton due in the eleventh hour? Bush has been focusing very heavily on the environment, which surprised me a bit
Bush's actions of late night laws are doing nothing but benefiting big business that has been filling his coffers all these years. This guy is a curse to everything that is American.
Pardoned a bunch of criminal's.
or how allowing healthcare workers to opt out of giving treatment for religious or moral reasons benefits big business.
or how allowing truck drivers to stay at the wheel for 11 consecutive hours benefits big business.
Did he similarly push through a bunch of policies or is that unique to Bush?
Directly? Probably not. But given how meat packing companies as well as firms like Wal-Mart have provided health care, I wouldn't be surprised if that gets abused by big business to reduce their health care costs by saying that huge numbers of injured workers that normally would have their medical paid by the firm or workmen's comp paid by the firm forgone it for "religion/moral" reasons. Big meat packing firms are notorious for this kind of shenanigans. Read "Fast Food Nation" for more details.
If you thought Bill Clinton was bad in his last throws of the Presidency, wait 'till you see what the schrub is doing on Capitol Hill. George Bush's "Midnight Regulations" are showing just how partisan he is and making it harder for the Obama team to overturn what he has done. Bush's actions of late night laws are doing nothing but benefiting big business that has been filling his coffers all these years.This guy is a curse to everything that is American.
Here's a few other examples of his signing carnege...
likely you are right but this wasn't my understanding of it at all, the way it was worded in the OP I thought it meant people who work in hospitals and clinics could refuse to perform procedures that went against their religion or morals.
Given how the meat packing industry works, I'm sure they will find a way to get out of paying workmen's comp or medical bills through this regulation. They've done it before with other seemingly irrelevant regulations.
you could easily make the same vague statement about anything.
if my interpretation is correct and bush is making it possible for medical professionals to refrain from performing medical procedures they have a moral objection to, I don't see how this could possibly end up with employers or insurance companies refusing to pay workers' comp or bills.
That depends. For instance, several large meat packing industries have internal healthcare and medical practices within their firms. If a worker gets injured, they can either sign a waiver disvowing their right to sue and the firm takes care of all of the costs. Or they could refuse and be forced to get healthcare elsewhere. No one ever doesn't sign because it often takes months to years before they can sue for health care coverage and medical costs from the firm. Hence the meat packing firm effectively controls the health care costs and what their employees can get. Once they are in, this law now allows the firms to effectively deny coverage and get away with it due to the waiver being signed.
I'm pretty sure Bush didn't intend that, but given how the meat packing works and how it treats its employees for their medical, this is pretty hilarious in a twisted sort of way.
bush's policy as far as I know only gives privileges to healthcare workers, not employers or insurance companies.
And these meat packers employ doctors and nurses who provide much of the medical care. The ruling applies to them.
even still, I don't see a bunch of doctors and nurses objecting to setting a broken arm on moral grounds.
Ah, but the difference is that the doctors and nurses are under the control of the meat packer management. This is ripe for abuse. Management could simply make it policy to deny a wide variety of expensive procedures on "moral/religious" grounds.
I really think you're making a mountain of a molehill.
I think you need to study the abuses of the meat packing industry on illegal workers.
Again, I never said Bush intended this (I doubt the thought even crossed his mind). But this is a logical outcome given the previous behavior of several large firms in that industry.
I think you need to study the abuses of the meat packing industry on illegal workers.
Again, I never said Bush intended this (I doubt the thought even crossed his mind). But this is a logical outcome given the previous behavior of several large firms in that industry.
And you've failed to provide any evidence to corroborate your claim.............once again!Bush's midnight regulations will:
- Make it easier for coal companies to dump waste from strip-mining into valleys and streams.
- Ease the building of coal-fired power stations nearer to national parks.
- Allow people to carry loaded and concealed weapons in national parks.
- Open up millions of acres to mining for oil shale.
- Allow healthcare workers to opt out of giving treatment for religious or moral reasons, thus weakening abortion rights.
- Hurt road safety by allowing truck drivers to stay at the wheel for 11 consecutive hours.
note you failed to link to the actual EO's.....
The ones in bold are good. :lol:
oh and as usual you are hoplessly wrong. :2wave:
Clinton 364 executive orders, wanna get into em? :lol:
If you thought Bill Clinton was bad in his last throws of the Presidency, wait 'till you see what the schrub is doing on Capitol Hill. George Bush's "Midnight Regulations" are showing just how partisan he is and making it harder for the Obama team to overturn what he has done. Bush's actions of late night laws are doing nothing but benefiting big business that has been filling his coffers all these years.This guy is a curse to everything that is American.
Here's a few other examples of his signing carnege...
8) I would make possession of marijuana a serious crime, punishable by giving each offender a pound of weed.
GWB's regulations, by contrast, are entirely evil It's one of those "difference between night and day" things.The Clinton Administration enacted a flurry of rules limiting logging and lead paint, raising appliance energy efficiency, and tightening privacy of medical records. One of Clinton's midnight regulations imposed a more stringent drinking water standard for arsenic after years of EPA study. Although Bush suspended the new regulation upon taking office.
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