Left Wing Authoritarians! Only Fitted Sheets on Beds (California Bill)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nanny-state-madness-californias-proposed-fitted-sheet-law/

It's too hard on the maid's backs. No really....

That should run off a few hotels that are barely getting by and cost another few thousand jobs.

 

That is some riveting legislation they are dealing with there. Maybe this political hack has stock in a sheet company?

Can you imagine a law which tells you the sheets you must use?

What's next, we must stop squeezing the charmin?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDPhA2WwV4A"]Charmin Commercial Mr. Whipple - YouTube[/ame]

 

Well why not tell us which sheets we can use?

Liberals already dictate which:

• light bulbs
• Toilets
• Show Heads
• Thermostats
• ... etc... (There is more... but I have to drive to the office)

.... we can use.

 

Oh don't get me started on this crap.

Hotels are already forced by law to purchase their products from approved monopolies at outrageous prices.

Hotels pay the most property taxes of any business.

The Local City I work in adds a SIXTEEN PERCENT BED TAX that is immune to tax exemption even by Government employees that has to be paid by the guest. Many people get mad about that one. LOL

Hotel industry has always been raped by Government.

 

A labor dispute with UNITE HERE, the largest hospitality labor union. The claim from the laborers is that lifting heavy matresses causes back pain, also part of their request is to be provided with long handled mops to reduce back strain.

In my opinion, this is a dispute that ought to be sorted out between the union and the employer, there really is no need to legislate this. But this is California... is anyone really surprised?

Article on HuffPo

 

That, and rental cars. State and local government see it as taxing non-locals, if not complete out-of-staters, who cannot vote in that district or state.

Here in Florida, you can add toll roads to the list. All designed to get as much revenue from non-Floridians via the tourist industry taxes as possible.

 

Fire the flimsy hispanic (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)es and hire proper sturdy Russians to do your housekeeping! That's what we do in Ohio! You won't find many hispanic housekeepers around here, Hispanics can't speak Russian and those women are invincible.

 

It would not surprise me in the least to find out De Leon has ties, received contributions from, or is heavily lobbied by Cali's linen industry/unions.

 

This (*)(*)(*)(*) has to stop, guys. I don't ever want to hear another word about how the right is authoritarian for opposing abortion and gay marriage when the left in California insists that the government should dictate where you can smoke, what sheets you can use, what you can order at a restaurant, and that owning pets "violates their rights."

 

Clearly this is occupational health legislation designed to benefit the poor working stiff. And clearly, the right could care less about the poor working stiff.

Keep this in mind when you poor working stiffs vote, eh?

 

Apparently all of their contributions (at least those that are reported) are made at the federal level and almost entirely to democrats.

http://influenceexplorer.com/organization/unite-here/b7ddb5ace94e40fe83f74718c48c3e98?cycle=2008

 

And the march of clueless posts continues....

However, notice the subtext in the post -- anti-union. Again, the right lets pass no opportunity to crap on the working class.

 

I'm telling ya, the day is coming when these a$$holes will have toilet paper meters in our bathrooms and we'll be taxed according to the number of sheets used each day. They'll also probably want to meter & regulate toilet flushes, breaths, and maybe even eye blinks (don't exceed the max limit - or else). By that time a full scale revolution may be the only way out of the prison they are constructing. Exaggeration? I sure hope so but when you look at who and what we are dealing with here, I'm not so certain anymore where they will draw the line, if a line even exists in their warped "thinking".

 

ONE persons mommy's alleged back pain should cost Cali's hospitality industry 15 to 30 million?

.

 

I have no idea what it will cost, and since you've provided no source for your figure, you obviously don't either.

But assuming that your hysterical post is correct, let's split the difference and say $22.5 million. Let's then guesstimate that there are a half million hotel/motel rooms in CA that this would affect. The cost per hotel room would be $45.

Obviously this will bankrupt Paris Hilton

 

Pathetic! If that's the best you can do at coming up with a defense - you lose!

 

Yeah right. Mom and pop bed and breakfasts scattered across the State just get a couple thousand dollar hit a year. Great strategy there sparky.

 

The state of CA is broke and about to fall off a cliff and this is what the liberal left is working on?

A bill to outlaw flat sheets. what a joke.

 

If you don't want to make beds for a living, than don't become a maid. its pretty simple right?

What did maids do for the past 235 years? the outrage!!!

 

it's actually symbolic of leftist beliefs where the govt must be involved in every aspect of one's life.

 

There's no doubt it'll be expensive for the hotel chains, from the HuffPo article:

It's both an aesthetic issue and a cost issue. Regardless, that isn't the issue. The issue is that this is a dispute between an employer and the laborers they employ, I see no reason they can't sort these out between them, legislating this is completely unnecessary.

 

Ah, an update on the mysterious source of the unsourced claim by Mr. webrockk:

Code:

[Lynn] Mohrfeld’s [president of the California Hotel & Lodging Association] 
group has submitted a letter against the bill and estimates that the 
switch to fitted sheets would cost the industry around $15 million statewide.

[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/19/california-hotel-maids-bedsheets_n_850766.html[/url]

So, in right wing debate circles, a $15 million figure becomes a $15-25 million figure. How many here would call that intellectually honest? A show of hands?

So, back to our previous math, assuming a half-million hotel/motel rooms in the state, the cost per room is now $30 instead of $45, assuming the industry group figure is not inflated. Perhaps Paris Hilton can keep her little doggie after all....

 

To be fair though, that is a one time cost of change over. It doesn't include the future costs of using fitted sheets that wear out more quickly than flat sheets, that however might be difficult/impossible at least from where we sit to quantify.

 

Clearly it is a workplace safety issue.

Using your logic, OSHA should be disbanded (while the peanut gallery will no doubt cheer that point, please note that your views and arguments are not considered intellectually worthy of comment).

 

To be fair, it is a figure submitted by an industry group opposed to the change. We have no idea what it includes, nor how it was arrived at.

However, workplace safety often costs money. It just depends on how you want to amortize human suffering. I'm sure that there are those that would rather see a maid down on her hands and knees scrubbing a bathroom floor instead of using a long-handled brush that might cost her employer five bucks more....