“There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period,” Rep. Virginia Foxx said during a hearing about people who work too much.

House Republicans held a hearing Wednesday throwing cold water on President Joe Biden’s plan to give more workers overtime protections.

Even though the hearing was about employees who work long hours, the GOP chair of the House Committee on Education & the Workforce took a moment to argue that too many Americans don’t want to work at all.

“There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period … and want other people to take care of them,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.).

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    10 months ago

    Can we collectively agree that the proper response to “nobody wants to work anymore” is “no shit” or “nobody ever did”?

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      10 months ago

      It’s not like we keep inventing tools to make work easier. The problem is capitalists then go, " Oh cool, now you can produce more."