146 - Labor Dept. Under Right-Wing Control Allowed Wage Theft From Workers / Red Cross Declares "Torture" And Spain Targets Bushians For Prosecution

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 2 April 2009

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today, some nefarious right-wing doings. What else is new?First up, a GAO study found that the Department of Labor, when it was run by right-wingers appointed by George W. Bush, often turned a blind eye when employers cheated low-income workers out of their wages. The Department of Labor is supposed to protect workers.Next, there have been more revelations of torture, including from an impeccable

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0:00.0	Greetings, you're listening to podcast number 146 of Blast the Right.
0:23.8	I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.
0:27.2	Let's get right into it.
0:52.6	Whenever I read about the average Joe being abused, it gets me really angry.
0:58.2	This is one such story.
1:00.2	The main sources for this segment are various articles in the New York Times.
1:04.2	The GAO, the general accounting office, is the nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress.
1:10.2	It did a study of the Department of Labor's wage and our division.
1:14.2	That agency is supposed to enforce minimum wage over time and other labor laws.
1:18.2	Bush, of course, cut the funding and staff for the Department of Labor.
1:23.2	And those left there apparently aren't much interested in accomplishing their mission.
1:27.2	The GAO's study found that under the Bush administration, this agency was not doing its job
1:33.2	leaving workers vulnerable to abuse and abused they were.
1:37.2	Not surprising for an agency run by right wingers.
1:40.2	Here's how the report put it, quote,
1:43.2	This investigation clearly shows that labor has left thousands of actual victims of wage theft
1:49.2	who sought federal government assistance with nowhere to turn.
1:53.2	Unfortunately, far too often the result is unscrupulous employers taking advantage of our country's low wage workers.
2:01.2	Close quote.
2:02.2	Low wage workers already not earning enough to survive getting the shaft via right wing closing their eyes to abuse.
2:10.2	Some of the gory details.
2:12.2	There were two areas.
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