I need to be purified in boiling water. I had to have lunch with my new Republican Assemblyman and

Cleita

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Fri Feb-11-11 08:01 PM
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I need to be purified in boiling water. I had to have lunch with my new Republican Assemblyman and

10 Republican doctors. My employer, another doctor, lured me into this with a promise of a free lunch and being paid regular wages for my time there. The lunch was at a fancy, white tablecloth type Italian restaurant. The food was nice, however.........

First, my doctor and another doctor across the table from us get into a verbal pissing match over medical marijuana, which my doctor favors and this other doctor considers the devil's bane. Both are pain management specialists. I can't put my two-cents worth in because I was warned ahead of time not to get into any arguments with either the doctors or the Assemblyman because he has to socialize with them.

Then my new Assemblyman, whom I almost feel sorry for gets up to make a speech. It seems he owns a bunch of gas stations. He's an immigrant who made his money from the bottom up, yet he's drinking the Republican Kool-Aid. He railed on about paying people to take fifteen minute breaks. He said you have to hire an extra employee so they can have breaks, then he finishes by saying that saving businesses money on payroll will increase jobs :wtf: Well it gets worse, he goes on about Worker's Comp and heavy regulations driving businesses out of California to Tennessee taking good jobs with them. Of course every time he talks about cutting employment costs, he ends up saying it's going to create jobs.

I want to get up and shout that if he really wants to create jobs, he should hire attendants at all his stations to pump gas and wash windows so little old ladies like myself don't have to. After all they do it in Oregon and gas is cheaper there than it is here in California, but I had to remain silent. So in his mind deregulating businesses and wages will create jobs. I almost shouted out that, sure it will for all the undocumented immigrants who will be the only people who will take those jobs because they don't know any better. Of course the doctors, also small businesses owners, are nodding their heads in agreement. They really believe the corporate owned Republicans give a rat's ass about small business people. Yet, I couldn't say anything. Fortunately, we had to leave before dessert because we had patients this afternoon.

My blood pressure is still way up there. I told my doctor after the fact that single payer health care would take care of two problems the doctors are upset about, Worker's Comp and mal-practice insurance and instead of blaming workers for employers' ills, they should be blaming the insurance companies. I don't know who is going to convince Mr. Gas Station Owner Assemblyman that his bosses, the Oil companies are making all the money off his hard work. I would like to send him some figures if anyone can point me in the direction of such statistics.