Posted by
JDComments on Friday, December 29, 2006 8:40:32 AM
An Ohio Court has
ruled that a KFC rightfully denied an employee workmen comp payments for an on-the- job accident he caused by ignoring the company's safety handbook and repeated warnings from co-workers and a supervisor, including some in writing. I don't often find cause to compliment the legal system when it comes to labor-management decisions so it is nice to see that commonsense still has a place in at least some courtrooms.
Of course there is already being heard the expected Liberal lament that this is the beginning of the end of the world as they know it, and I can only say to that- I hope so !
As an employer I have been involved in this kind of a case, and was told by my insurance company not to even bother to contest it because my state's impartial and objective judges NEVER seem to rule against the employee.
As is the case all too often , justice isn't blind here, it's defiantly holding a picket sign calling for the lynching of business owners, and the court is all too willing to oblige.
Like many people who have worked to create a business in the face of government rules and regulations that not only hinder but sometimes just plain hurt you, I have spent alot of time trying to understand the "Kill the Golden Goose" mentality at play here , but I just cannot fathom the thinking that justifies punishing the successful who are paying taxes and providing jobs for the sake of Liberal policies that are meaningless without them.
A perfect instance of this was a
story in the NY Times this morning about a coffee vendor at a train station who lost his business after 8 years because the law requires a blind person get it, so this young man who is supporting a family no longer has a job while his customers are angry and alienated. Just another success for Liberals!
As Ayn Rand so beautifully put it, if Atlas ever shrugs, the world will stop. Nevertheless, the Left keeps trying to get us to that stage as it persists in pursuing self destructive behavior which will especially hurt those they seek to help most of all.
So my thanks and congratulations to the Ohio Court for allowing personal responsibility and common sense to rule for at least one day. That is all we Conservatives ask for, and it doesn't seem like much, but it is actually the rarest of commodities in today's world.