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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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1 posted on 09/08/2015 6:38:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Did she say that in one of her orange jumpsuits? Some prosecutors have flipped her perhaps?


2 posted on 09/08/2015 6:40:04 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: SeekAndFind
What is "wage theft?"

Is there such a thing, or is Hillary just saying she'll jail anyone who doesn't pay whatever she deems appropriate?

3 posted on 09/08/2015 6:40:47 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: SeekAndFind
We’re going to go back to enforcing labor laws,”

So the Obama administration is not enforcing labor laws at all?

Sounds like Obama needs to squeeze her a bit tighter on this e-mail thing. Send a message, you know.

4 posted on 09/08/2015 6:41:14 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: SeekAndFind

Somehow, I don’t think this refers to going after Pelosi’s husband.


5 posted on 09/08/2015 6:42:50 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: SeekAndFind

She is going to make sure employers “go to Jail”??? She must be looking for white collar company in the orange jumpsuits with whom she can trade stock tips, discuss recipes and recount past luxury foreign travels.


6 posted on 09/08/2015 6:42:52 AM PDT by laconic (M)
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To: sphinx
is Hillary just saying she'll jail anyone who doesn't pay whatever she deems appropriate?

 From each according to his ability, to each according to PIAPS' whims.

7 posted on 09/08/2015 6:43:13 AM PDT by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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To: sphinx

RE: What is “wage theft?”

That my friend, is the danger — it has not been defined. Therefore, it will be anything Hillary and her cohorts decide it will be.


8 posted on 09/08/2015 6:44:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (What is the difference between Obama and government bonds? Government bonds will mature someday)
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To: Psalm 144

She only wants more people to be there so she’s not alone when she goes herself.


9 posted on 09/08/2015 6:45:13 AM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Walker Cruz Carson | hard targets.)
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL…hearing Hilary talking abut the sins of others, reminds us of the teaching of Jesus about finding specks in someone else’s eye, while you have a log in your own.

Hillary has no shame and is an embarrassment to this nation. Those who still give her over 50% approval ratings show they have no moral principles.


10 posted on 09/08/2015 6:45:15 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind; cripplecreek

Bernie Sanders is an outright Socialist.

So to out lefty him she is going to go full on Red Terror Bolshevik.


11 posted on 09/08/2015 6:45:32 AM PDT by KC_Lion (This Millennial is for Cruz!)
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To: Psalm 144

...Hillary: I’m going to make some employers go to jail...

She must be ready to roll on some co-conspirators.


12 posted on 09/08/2015 6:46:26 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: SeekAndFind

May Hillary Clinton go to jail.


13 posted on 09/08/2015 6:46:38 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: SeekAndFind

The real “wage theft” is taxes. I suggest we arrest everyone in D.C.


14 posted on 09/08/2015 6:46:45 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: SeekAndFind

“Hillary” and “jail” go together, but not in the way she’s talking about.


15 posted on 09/08/2015 6:47:50 AM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016? If you have a 24-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Wage theft” is right up there with “voter suppression”.


16 posted on 09/08/2015 6:49:47 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Hillary: ‘I Am Going To Make Some Employers Go to Jail

Is she trying to pick her cellmates?

17 posted on 09/08/2015 6:50:54 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (0bama's regime exists because of the most inept and corrupt congress in history.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, under Hillarycare she threatened to jail doctors who didn’t obey her diktats, so.......


18 posted on 09/08/2015 6:51:50 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: SeekAndFind

RE: What is “wage theft?”

That my friend, is the danger — it has not been defined. Therefore, it will be anything Hillary and her cohorts decide it will be.


I’ve heard wage theft described as a situation in which employees are not paid time and a half for their overtime work, or if they are working off the clock and not getting paid at all.

What gets me about that is that these labor practices are already against the law. So what’s up with Hillary saying we’re going to “go after” this alleged problem? Is it really a huge problem? If so, it’s already against the law. If not a problem, then what’s the deal with talking about it?


19 posted on 09/08/2015 6:56:04 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: sphinx
What is "wage theft?"

Like "Micro-Aggression" it is another leftist fabrication designed to demonize or criminalize various aspects of everyday life.


20 posted on 09/08/2015 6:59:32 AM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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