House Republicans Vote to Cut Workers' Pay

[Beestie]

From the partisan and biased source (not even a left-leaning paper but the democrat spin machine itself) linked above:

However, the Bush administration has increased the salary threshhold (the salary below which overtime compensation is guaranteed) from $155 per week to $455 per week.

This change will INCREASE the number of employees eligible for overtime by 1.3 Million workers. 1.3 Million workers. That's 1.3 Million workers who will now be eligible for overtime that were not eligible for overtime before the Bush administration made them eligible for overtime.

The dems claim that this number (1.3M), the one change that increases the number of eligible workers is vastly and tremendously overstated while asserting that all of their (the dems) numbers are dead-on accurate if not conservative (no pun intended).

Overtime rules are a clusterF***ing mess and no one knows how many people will fall in and out of the newly defined protected classes. But, focusing only on those who fall out while paying short shrift to the newly included makes for good election year politics.