Ryan predicts Doom, Gloom, "People losing their Livelihoods" if more hard Working Americans get Overtime!

While Democrats stumble around trying to defend no-brainers like the money saving advantages of health care for all or a simple hike in the minimum wage, Republicans are courageously bashing a rule change that would give overtime to more hard working Americans…without consequences. There’s a lesson to be learned, but not by the Democrats.

Reporters and the news media must have given up a long time ago trying to make sense out of GOP policy, because no one blinked an eye when Paul Ryan spewed the following nonsensical warning about expanding overtime:

“This regulation hurts the very people it alleges to help. Who is hurt most? Students, non-profit employees, and people starting a new career. By mandating overtime pay at a much higher salary threshold, many small businesses and non-profits will simply be unable to afford skilled workers and be forced to eliminate salaried positions, complete with benefits, altogether.”

How’d those same warnings work out when he and others predicted massive job losses and a tanked U.S. economy under ObamaCare? Yea, I know, who even remembers that.

And while Republicans tear away at the unreasonably high pay and benefits union workers receive, with new right to work laws and no hikes in the minimum wage, they can come across like they're not doing that at all:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a press release, “Just like Obamacare’s 30 hour work week, this regulation will once again incentivize employers to cut worker hours, provide fewer benefits, and hinder flexible work arrangements for hardworking Americans.”

Never happened, but you’d never know that listening to the bubble world news on conservative talk radio.

But how does all this really effect employers, who might have to pay more, and their employees? It could mean hiring more Americans to cut down on overtime (overtime that wasn’t paid for anyway). Here's a labor department video that explains both sides of this potential job creator:

Walker: " I will continue to have the backs of police officers, sheriff’s deputies, and state troopers and treat them with the respect they deserve." Except for Overtime Pay.

Scott Walker actually said this:

"We must do more to protect those who protect us. Police officers across this country need to know that we have their back. As I’ve done throughout my career, I will continue to have the backs of police officers, sheriff’s deputies, and state troopers and treat them with the respect they deserve."

After Scott Walker actually did this:

Walker not only has to fork over the overtime pay he didn't think important, he's also cutting his security team in half and taking away their recent 4% raise. Would I kid you? From WKOW: 

At the same time Scott Walker caught skipping Overtime for his Bodyguards, GOP bashes Obama's Overtime reform. See an anti-labor pattern?

So Scott Walker didn't pay his personal security detail their earned overtime? Without taking a breath, "Stand with Walker" drones are already creating excuses for their "unintimidated" fearless leader...again:

Walker isn't even afraid to shortchange security staff paychecks? Now that's unintimidated. WKOW:

27 News has found the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) is requiring the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WISDOT) to award retroactive overtime pay dating back to May 19, 2013 to nine Wisconsin State Patrol officers who serve as bodyguards for Gov. Scott Walker and other state dignitaries. Since the State Patrol is a division of WISDOT, the officers are paid out of that agency's budget.

And as we all know, the transportation budget can’t afford another expense, without borrowing more money:

WISDOT Spokesperson Peg Schmitt said the agency was verbally notified of the decision by USDOL on Monday, August 24, but said officials have not yet determined how much it will cost state taxpayers.

It might be surprising to some that Mr. “Unintimidated” Scott Walker thinks he needs so much protection at such a high cost. But maybe they forgot this expense at the 2011 peaceful protests...:

More than 200 law enforcement agencies provided officers for security at the Capitol … in February (2011) (where) huge crowds showed up at the Capitol to protest Walker's separate budget-repair bill … The bill to pay law enforcement officials from all over the state cost taxpayers at least $7.8 million.

Unintimidated, really? If the governor were so beloved for doing what the people wanted, why so much protection?  

The cost for Gov. Walker's security detail jumped from $1.6 million in 2011 to $2.4 million in 2014. The out-of-state portion of that 2014 tab was $89,454, a number which is expected to jump up exponentially in 2015 with his run for the GOP presidential nomination.

The Feds had to step in? So why did Walker wait until the federal government had to be brought in?

Rep. Katrina Shankland (D-Stevens Point) “Instead of waiting for the federal government to step in, the state should have paid these officers the overtime pay they were owed to begin with.”