Posted on 09/08/2010 6:06:55 PM PDT by dajeeps
I was out driving this evening with the radio tuned to my favorite talk station. A commercial came on for an employment contract house, explaining how the ObamaCare mandates are putting a damper on business plans and their new co-employment service is there to be partnered with to help ease the burden.
I don’t know the details of this service. For all I know it is just rebranding and a new market pitch for the temporary/contract employment concept, but it gives pause for wonder whether this is the first sign that life as an employee as we used to know it is shifting to a new paradigm.
If ever there ever was a way to make someone feel like a slave, it seems like this might be it. Employers will pay much more for labor either way, and in addition to taxes for ObamaCare levied on the employees, they would also be subject to the middlemen taking their cut when employers refuse to deal with the mandates and paperwork and dump all their employees on contract houses on a massive scale.
Anyone else foresee the same giant sucking sound of our hard earned wealth being vacuumed out of our pockets as we work to eat and provide for our families? Not only that, but I can see that if it should happen on a large scale, we might even be deprived of the opportunity to entertain bidders for our labor. Obama and his band of thieves have taken nearly everyone who hires out for a living and turned them into nothing more than serfs.
TV. The six TV networks own all the channels and at least 5 out of 6 have Saudi shareholders, investors or business deals. They are all for Islamification. We have more energy onshore than the saudis by about 3x. Enough to pay off the debt and have a booming economy like Canada, Brazil and Australia.
The sheeple are brainwashed by TV and ball games. Their monthly cable and sat TV bills help enslave them, Stupid people.
I worked for a company in the 80’s where we bought an Italian company that was described to me as having only the “officers” as employees, and everyone else (certainly a hundred or two hundred) were contractors. This was done for tax reasons and the near-impossibility of firing a worker unless they were seen murdering more than one person by several credible witnesses.
When the metro area I lived in was being forced by the EPA to come up with elaborate plans and expensive incentives for employee mass transportation (I think that this was shelved in the early 90’s), we noticed that the rules affected only employers with 100 or more employees. We seriously considered splitting the company up into several divisions.
Just some older examples of how well-run governments keep the wheels of commerce on track and running efficiently, in order to maximize the wealth of its citizens!
| U-6 unemployment | ||||||||||||
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2000 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 7.1 | 6.9 |
| 2001 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 9.3 | 9.4 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.4 | 9.7 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 9.7 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 10.0 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.3 | 10.3 | 10.1 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 10.0 | 9.8 |
| 2004 | 9.9 | 9.7 | 10.0 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 9.5 | 9.5 | 9.4 | 9.4 | 9.7 | 9.4 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 9.3 | 9.3 | 9.1 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.6 |
| 2006 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.0 |
| 2007 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.8 |
| 2008 | 9.1 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.7 | 10.0 | 10.5 | 10.9 | 11.2 | 11.9 | 12.8 | 13.7 |
| 2009 | 14.0 | 15.0 | 15.6 | 15.8 | 16.4 | 16.5 | 16.4 | 16.8 | 17.0 | 17.4 | 17.2 | 17.3 |
| 2010 | 16.5 | 16.8 | 16.9 | 17.1 | 16.6 | 16.5 | 16.5 | 16.7 |
Making medical insurance independent of employment is in principal a good idea. The problems of Obamacare are due to the communist ideology of the people proposing it.
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