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The end of the 40 hour work week

Welcome to Bush's logic: By removing the requirement to pay overtime, employers will hire more people. Excuse me?!? The only way employers are going to hire more people is if it's cheaper than making the people you already have do everything by working longer and longer hours. If you have five people and one of them leaves (or better, is fired) why replace him or her when you can just give the other 4 another 10 hours of work to do? Well, Bush has done it anyway. Millions of workers have now been labeled "managers" or "skilled advsiors", labeling them as "exempt" from overtime rules. Oh, and a "skilled advisor" is anybody who learned their trade in the military. Hi, veterans! Welcome to the 80 hour work week!

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