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Hillary: ‘I Am Going To Make Some Employers Go to Jail
National Review ^ | 09/08/2015 | Tom S. Elliott

Posted on 09/08/2015 6:38:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Speaking at a Labor Day rally in Hampton, Ill., today Hillary Clinton threatened to imprison employers for “wage theft.”

“We’re going to go back to enforcing labor laws,” Clinton said. “I’m going to make sure that some employers go to jail for wage theft and all the other abuses that they engage in.”

“And we are going to make it harder and harder to stop what should be the right of every American: to join a union and bargain collectively through that union,” she continued. “But, I’ll tell you, we’ve got a fight on our hands.”

The presumed 2016 Democratic candidate also endorsed President Obama’s executive order mandating government contractors provide employees “paid leave.”

“I was very proud that President Obama said today he is going to require federal contractors to provide seven days of earned paid sick leave,” she said. “And he’s going to fight for paid family leave, something that I’ve been fighting for for 30 years and we’re going to get it done. It’s not right to treat working people as though they don’t have other responsibilities.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: employers; hillary; jail; wages
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To: SeekAndFind

The more desperate her campaign becomes, and the closer she comes to having to deal with a somewhat ordinary life, the more radical her rhetoric will become.


21 posted on 09/08/2015 7:00:22 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: SeekAndFind

It gives a little hope to see Hillary and Go To Jail in the same sentence. Has a ring to it.


22 posted on 09/08/2015 7:03:40 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, the owner of the company who installed her server...


23 posted on 09/08/2015 7:03:48 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Obama loves America the way OJ loved Nicole)
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To: SeekAndFind

This should go a long way towards helping the workers. The boss is in jail. No job. Looks like we’ll be getting a whole new batch of artists, poets and guitar players.


24 posted on 09/08/2015 7:04:36 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

How about jail some for hiring illegals? That would be enforcing the law right?


25 posted on 09/08/2015 7:05:12 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

how bout jail for being Hillary?


26 posted on 09/08/2015 7:06:05 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: JudyinCanada

I thought the headline was “I will make some employees go to jail.” You know. Huma, the IT guy...


27 posted on 09/08/2015 7:06:05 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cruz talks about restraining government and freeing the American economy.

Trump talks about making America great again.

Hillary talks about putting Americans in prison.

Biden babbles and gibbers incoherently.

Fascinating.


28 posted on 09/08/2015 7:08:04 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: SeekAndFind

You first bitch.


29 posted on 09/08/2015 7:08:33 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I want to see people in prison jumpsuits.

She does seem to favor orange.

30 posted on 09/08/2015 7:09:11 AM PDT by McGruff (Paid for by Hillary For Prison 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind
Hillary: ‘I Am Going To Make Some Employers Go to Jail

Well then she can discuss business policies with them during yard time.

31 posted on 09/08/2015 7:10:15 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: sphinx

Sounds like Hillary has been re-reading “Das Capital”. Marx asserted that the wealth of the capitalist, ie, employers, resulted from their withholding wealth rightfully belonging to the workers by paying them less than the fair value for their work. Anyone paying less than a “living wage” would be guilty of “wage theft”.


32 posted on 09/08/2015 7:13:52 AM PDT by DugwayDuke
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To: McGruff

Shelling out $100 mil to the Baraq Obama Foundation for a POTUS pardon in Jan 2017 will hurt nearly as much as going to jail, LOL.


33 posted on 09/08/2015 7:13:53 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: SeekAndFind
We’re going to go back to enforcing labor laws

What about immigration laws and employers who hire foreign invaders? What about the same lawless intruders who jump on our welfare gravy train?

34 posted on 09/08/2015 7:14:56 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: NorthMountain

No matter the choice, I predict the American people will make the WRONG one.


35 posted on 09/08/2015 7:16:54 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wage theft? Avg hourly pay for CEOs 62K. Avg hourly pay for Hillary 300K.


36 posted on 09/08/2015 7:19:17 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Theodore R.

So ... some combination of “Shotgun Blast” Joe Biden, Socialist Sanders, and Hildebeeste?


37 posted on 09/08/2015 7:19:20 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: sphinx
What is "wage theft?"

That's when you bust your hump trying to make a living for your family and then the government taxes the living crap out of you....stealing your money..!!

38 posted on 09/08/2015 7:20:43 AM PDT by unread
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To: txrefugee
Hillary has no shame and is an embarrassment to this nation

HRC is still America's choice for 2016; maybe the American people are too uninformed to know about the real HRC.

39 posted on 09/08/2015 7:24:14 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: SeekAndFind

and just watch Donald Trump step into a steaming pile on this issue:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/labor-board-ruling-puts-more-companies-on-the-hook-for-temporary-workers-1440704018


40 posted on 09/08/2015 7:32:22 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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