DeSantis Slams OSHA Because He Had To Buy Boots

June 1, 2023 Politics, Republicans

“My first full time job was, I think I was 18. I was an assistant for an electrician in an electrical company. And I actually learned something about government on that one because I showed up to work the first day.

“I’m all decked out in what I thought was like good electrical garb. And they looked at me and they started looking to see, you know, they were inspecting my boots and I didn’t know what they were doing. They’re like, ‘We don’t know if your boots are OSHA approved or not. We can’t let you work if they’re not.’

“And so I had to go buy a new pair and it cost me my entire first week’s salary to buy boots that I didn’t really need. So what it taught me was, you know, government was imposing something. I don’t think it made me any safer.

“It did make me a little bit poorer as a young kid trying to get by.” – Ron DeSantis, who went directly from high school to Yale and then to Harvard Law, relating a man-of-the-people anti-government yarn.



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