On the employers dime, your opinions and convictions have to be checked in and out along with your timecard.
If your opionions and/or convictions are that important, quit working for 'the beast' and find another gig.
Posted on 06/27/2012 3:09:50 PM PDT by magellan
When all is said and done, We the People are the final arbiters of what our civil law is. As for writing our congress critters and expecting them to save us from the societal suicide that this incident represents; I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
Imagine the riotous mayhem that will ensue the day those EBT cards stop working.
And in most everyone of those instances the perps have a second source of income that allows they to scam the system and use your money for frivolous purchases.
If this were to happen tomorrow, it could not be soon enough...and let them riot - they will just destroy their own homes and neighborhood businesses. (sorry, Mr. Korean grocery store owner - check your insurance policy now!)
You’re correct from the legal angle, of course.
As I read this story, she was objecting from the moral angle, and was ready to sacrifice her job for her conviction.
The customers foster mother complained?? How old was the customer that the clerk was required to sell ciggs to?? Was he buying them for his foster mother??
Government doesn’t get a kickback if they buy toilet paper, but they do when they buy cigarettes. That’s why it’s the way it is.
On the employers dime, your opinions and convictions have to be checked in and out along with your timecard.
If your opionions and/or convictions are that important, quit working for 'the beast' and find another gig.
The reality is that smoking is highly correlated with lower social-economic status. Tax payers are subsidizing cigarettes purchases... then they subsidize the health care when smokers get sick.
As everyone knows smokers die younger, so the costs are held down in that the subsides end at an early age.
Welfare must be for subsistence level survival only, and cover only necessities; NO discretionary spending.
Anything else is goverment sanctioned mugging. And the elected criminals don't even have the decency to wear hoodies.
I normally curse "hackers"; but, there is a "hack" I might be able to overlook...
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