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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
Tue May 19, 2020, 01:18 PM May 2020

Sen. Brown Presses Mnuchin, 'How Many Workers Should Give Their Lives' For The Dow?

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Matt Shuham
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May 19, 2020 12:10 p.m.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) took the treasury secretary to task on Tuesday for the Trump administration’s efforts to keep facilities such as slaughterhouses open without sufficient worker protections.


“How many workers will die if we send people back to work without the protections they need, Mr. Secretary?” the senator asked Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, contrasting the point with Mnuchin’s earlier line that the country risked “permanent economic damage” due to business closures.

The administration doesn’t “intend to send anybody back to work without the protections,” Mnuchin responded, adding that he “couldn’t be more proud” of the medical advice the administration was receiving.

Brown kept pressing. There’s no national program to provide for worker safety with regard to COVID-19, he pointed out, and while the President signed an order declaring meatpacking plants “critical infrastructure,” he did not insist on slowing down processing lines or ensuring that workers have protective equipment.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sen-brown-presses-mnuchin-how-many-workers-should-give-their-lives-for-the-dow



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So why don't you and him were a mask and gloves, and if you feel really safe why don't you stand in line with him and shake peoples hands without a gloves and mask and as for medical advice............it is being reported that he doesn't listen to medical advice and its all fake...........and this gem.....The administration doesn’t “intend to send anybody back to work without the protections,”.............your full of shit, literally........your "guy" signed a executive order to send people in meat packing plants back to work with out any protections as prime example.............
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Sen. Brown Presses Mnuchin, 'How Many Workers Should Give Their Lives' For The Dow? (Original Post) turbinetree May 2020 OP
Murderer In Chief. n/t Tommymac May 2020 #1
There is nothing more permanent than death DBoon May 2020 #2
Sen. Brown just gave a lesson on how not to play nice with these rat fuckers. nt Hotler May 2020 #3
Exactly..............they are rat fuckers.............. turbinetree May 2020 #4

DBoon

(22,286 posts)
2. There is nothing more permanent than death
Tue May 19, 2020, 02:12 PM
May 2020

His damn economy will recover. The people he has allowed to die will still be dead.

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