We Know What's Best For The Little Woman

[filkertom]

By way of vixyish: Read, and read. And then, after you're done throwing up and gnashing your teeth and cursing these fucking evil moron Puritan babysitter wannabes to the skies, act, and act.

ETA: Honestly, gang, while I appreciate you asking if you can copy a link, you can pretty much assume that if I put the links up here and tell you to go do something about them, [a] they're reasonably safe, at least on a browser/system security basis, and [b] it's okay to copy 'em to your own LJ or wherever. Dang, but I've got a polite buncha friends. :)

Comments

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

"property rights?"

Since the concept seems to escape you, I'll explain it in more detail. In a free-market economy, someone with the ability to start a business purchases capital and hires labor. This involves various judgment calls, including who to hire and who to fire. Typically, someone's unwillingness to actually do the job you hired them for triggers that last decision. This is distinguished from a communist economy, in which people who share the ruling clique's political prejudices get to keep their jobs regardless of whether or not they actually do them.

Oh, and it turns out that the regulations do say that you're entitled to enter a job you have no intention of actually doing. From the above-linked news coverage:

The regulation is written to apply to a broad swath of the health care work force, not doctors alone. Accordingly, an employee whose task it is to clean the instruments used in a particular procedure would be covered. Also covered would be volunteers and trainees.