and proof that the gop don't intend to govern for the people.

I once drove a friend to collect her wages from a cleaning company that she worked for. I was waiting in the car for quite sometime, and thought I saw my friend exiting the building, but instead saw her boss briefly trying to push the door closed. I could tell that the boss and her husband were detaining my friend without my friend's permission. As I was getting out of the car, the friend stumbled out of the building. My friend was rather shaken up, and I took her home. Shortly after that an officer came to the door as the employer reported my friend for assault. Thankfully, the officer believed my friend, and suggested that she file a complaint with the EEOC. Nothing ever came of the complaint.

It's scary out there.

My mother went to get her monthly prescriptions refilled and discovered that she no longer had any health insurance. Come to find out, the company my father worked for stopped paying their bills, although they continued to take money for the insurance out of his salary.

My father had some political connections and spoke directly with the Attorney General's office who told him there was nothing anyone could do. My father had no legal leg to stand on. Within months, the company went bellyup.

Years later I heard I heard from one of their customers in Massachusetts that the owners of the company basically ran it into the ground because they had no clue about the industry. Typical local wealthy Republican yahoos. They stole the profits basically and got away with it and because they run the county no one even squawked much.

It's not all that surprising that our Senators are asking Jamie Dimon (a self-admitted inept bank manager who lost $2 Billion dollars) about how to better regulate the banks.

Since 2004. I posted here under a different name a while back, then deleted my account and just lurked for years and years. Just thought I'd come back with a new moniker.

I was a long time lurker prior to posting as well. I'm glad you dived back in.

"Business friendly" government at all levels. The owners know that they can do damn near anything they want so long as it doesn't make the news.

D'OH! I didn't!

I can be a sort of one-note flute on this subject, but we need to enforce laws already in place, rather than to create new law.

-- Mal

Many years ago, an employer refused to pay my daughter for her last week of work.

I told her to contact the State Department of Labor, which she did.

She subsequently received the pay she was owed, plus an apology.

She was a teenager then, the employer probably thought she wouldn't know what to do, and that they could get away with not paying.

Shocked ? Nope. The guy that owned one of the largest chains of Pizza Huts in Louisiana & Mississippi failed to pay into health insurance and pension funds for years. He got in trouble in 2007 because he had not paid sales tax to either the state or the parish, that led to an investigation into pension funds, which progressed all the way to the IRS getting involved. He declared bankruptcy immediately and hundred of workers were left with zilch! And he lives in his quiet water-front home in relative peace.