I shit you not.
It’s come to this.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) argued this week that restaurants should be able to “opt out” of health department regulations that require employees to wash their hands after using the bathroom.
On Monday, the freshman senator ended his talk at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) with a story to illustrate his philosophy on government regulations.
“I was having this discussion with someone, and we were at a Starbucks in my district, and we were talking about certain regulations where I felt like maybe you should allow businesses to opt out,” Tillis recalled. “Let an industry or business opt out as long as they indicate through proper disclosure, through advertising, through employment, literature, whatever else. There’s this level of regulations that maybe they’re on the books, but maybe you can make a market-based decision as to whether or not they should apply to you.”
Tillis said that at about that time, a Starbucks employee came out of one of the restrooms.
“Don’t you believe that this regulation that requires this gentlemen to wash his hands before he serves your food is important?” Tillis was asked by the person at his table.
“I think it’s one I can illustrate the point,” Tillis told the women. “I said, I don’t have any problem with Starbucks if they choose to opt out of this policy as long as the post a sign that says ‘We don’t require our employees to wash their hands after leaving the restrooms.’ The market will take care of that.”
So this guy would drop the regulation about having to wash one’s hands before serving food, BUT his regulation would be they post a sign indicating handwashing was not enforced.
These are the people the Koch’s are spending a billion dollars to keep in power forever.
Then they drop the regulation about having the sign. Are GMO’s labeled?
But no, the Koch’s eat at restaurants so this will not float.
A restaurant getting an ‘A’ rating, when it deserves a ‘C’ rating may just reflect the money that exchanged hands in obtaining that rating. But ANYONE can observe an employee NOT washing after using the lavatory and bring a lawsuit on behalf of EVERYONE who dines at that Restaurant. Tillis wouldn’t appreciate this because, for him, all regulators and corporations are natural antagonists. Or, to put it simply: he was born yesterday.
OMFG! I didn’t know they had it on video. This and the anti-vaxxer stuff is a sign of the End Times…for the Republican Party. NYT has a good “retro report” on their video service right now that explains how the anti-vaxx stuff is occurring. The Republicans, seeing an opportunity, are diving int and grabbing onto it, and I say, throw ‘em another anchor!
Jim
This is going to provide grist to the comics. Try the old episode from Seinfelt about hand washing after going to the bathroom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssktVpcv9WI
Republicans are going to be the gift that keeps on giving.
Excellent Seinfeld clip. And you are right with “Republicans are going to be the gift that keeps on giving”. I am looking forward more and more to the 2016 elections.
There’s a metaphor in there somewhere—once voters figure out that the Repugnants seldom “wash their hands after” on ANY issue, they’re going to stop eating the Repugnant s**t sandwiches and vote for more Dems.
So funny that Tillis was so self unaware that he inadvertently proposes a new regulation so that he can do away with what he considers an unneeded one.
That’s always the trouble with libertarian style deregulators, they think that problems will always find a self correcting solution, but if that were true, the laws that were created to address most problems, would have never been created in the first place. It is always after problems arise and are not being addressed that laws and regulations are created to try to correct them and protect society. They aren’t always the best fix, but then, what human endeavor really is.
Just make sure you get your Hepatitis A and B shots like Rand Paul recommends, and you’ll be fine. In fact, if you eat out a lot, you should probably get those vaccines anyway.