Rand Paul freaks out on workplace equality enforcer: 'How do you show up to work?'

[There are some liberals - Bill Maher among them - who hear only what they want to hear from Rand Paul. As a libertarian, he DOES share some common positions with progressives. But there are many issues on which he presents a very dangerous position. And the man says something different about each issue on varying days. -Bozo]
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David Ferguson
14 Nov 2014 at 09:40 ET                  
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On Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) attended the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing regarding the nomination of P. David Lopez to serve as General Counsel and Charlotte Burrows to serve as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
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The EEOC's job is enforce federal anti-discrimination laws in the workplace and to investigate claims of discrimination.
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Sen. Paul's line of questioning suggested that he believes the very existence of such regulatory bodies creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, that anyone who looks hard enough for discrimination in the workplace will find it, eventually.
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In some cases, the agency will investigate workplaces where there appears to be a fundamental inequality in the business, where women and minorities are given lower-paying, low-prestige positions, even if no one at the business has complained.
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Paul appears to find this idea outrageous.
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"Do you realize the downside of the unlimited nature of going after people with no complaint and what this is going to do to business? I mean, do you not understand what we've got to somehow balance that we want people to have jobs?" he asked Lopez.
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"How can you show up to work with a straight face?" he demanded. "I don't understand why you wouldn't resign immediately and say, 'This is abhorrent.'"
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