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Riiiiiight.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117800110659124563147'>Think Progress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, this is 2012, not 1812.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FLunchBreak.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/02\/08\/421510\/new-hampshire-gop-repeal-lunch\/'>New Hampshire Republicans Propose Bill To Eliminate Workers\u2019 Lunch Breaks<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNew Hampshire\u2019s GOP legislature has come up with all manner of absurd bills recently, including a proposal making public school curriculum optional, another to prevent police from protecting domestic &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amusingly enough, the proposer of the law thinks that we can just use Twitter to &quot;shame&quot; employers who don&#39;t graciously offer their employees work breaks. Riiiiiight. #ddtb Reshared post from +Think Progress Yes, this is 2012, not 1812. Embedded Link New Hampshire Republicans Propose Bill To Eliminate Workers\u2019 Lunch Breaks New Hampshire\u2019s GOP legislature has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/and-the-slow-march-back-to-the-gilded-age-continues.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the slow march back to the Gilded Age continues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,77,21,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-economy","category-job-jollies","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42370,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/i-fought-the-law-and-another-level-of-law-won.html","url_meta":{"origin":26236,"position":0},"title":"I fought the law, and another level of law won","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Jun-14 2:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The more state and local law enforcement become entangled with federal law enforcement (or the other way around), the more they can provide cover for each other, and the \u00a0more they become a de facto federal law agency insofar as (lack of) accountability goes. 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