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'A public safety disaster': Obamacare could force THOUSANDS of volunteer fire departments to close
Daily Mail ^ | Dec 09 2013 | DAVID MARTOSKO,

Posted on 12/09/2013 2:59:43 PM PST by MeshugeMikey

The Affordable Care Act forces companies with more than 50 workers to buy them all health insurance or pay hefty fines The IRS says volunteer firefighters are 'employees,' even though the Department of Labor says they're 'volunteers' Out of more than 1 million fire departments in the U.S., 87 per cent are staffed entirely or mostly by life-saving volunteers Members of Congress are weighing in, but the Obama administration hasn't taken any action yet to carve out a fire-fighting exception

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; firedepartments; firefighters; obamacare
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does it get any better?......./s
1 posted on 12/09/2013 2:59:43 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey

Hussein sought high office so he could “fundamentally destroy America” and destroy he has.


2 posted on 12/09/2013 3:03:19 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

My prayer: That one year from now, there is a Tea Party led House and Senate, and Joe Biden is POTUS.

Seems like everyday we get closer to an affirmative answer.


3 posted on 12/09/2013 3:06:00 PM PST by Rennes Templar (If you like your disease, you can keep it.)
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To: BenLurkin
WHERE DID THE OBAMACARE WEBSITE DOUGH GO?????

Hannity recently had two PROFESSIONAL web site developers on his TV show. He asked them both how much they might have charged to construct a secure web site that functioned as necessary from the git go: Their TOP figure was around $10 million!!

That's much more than one well respected US IT firm offered to do the project for: THEY'D HAVE DONE IT FOR FREE!!

Compare those to the estimated $1 BILLION this SOB has shuttled to his cronies for this turkey and I think even the most devoted obozo worshiper can grasp the magnitude of the CORRUPTION in this on-going CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE!!! (Well that's almost certainly an overstatement...)

QUESTION: WHERE THE HELL IS CONGRESS IN ALL OF THIS?

ANSWER: On their computers checking their numbered Swiss accounts to be certain the proper amount was deposited!!!!

IF THIS DOESN'T P.I.S.S. Y.O.U. O.F.F. you aren't paying attention and you're certainly too stupid to vote.

We need an angry electoral tsunami to sweep the parasites on the regular, COMMON SENSE citizens who have READ and UNDERSTAND the CONSTITUTION!! Anything short of that and we're TOAST!!

5 posted on 12/09/2013 3:06:08 PM PST by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: MeshugeMikey
On a somewhat related topic. In addition to a volunteer fire company, my town has a volunteer Ambulance squad in the same building.

Most of them have full time jobs and pull 12 hours shifts 1 day / week.

What will this do to them?

6 posted on 12/09/2013 3:06:40 PM PST by verga (The devil is in the details)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I know of an instance in 2009 where a volunteer EMT was denied unemployment because of only one call and a stipend of $60 in one month.


7 posted on 12/09/2013 3:07:07 PM PST by reformedliberal
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To: BenLurkin

this was likely the subject of at least one meeting...the fundamental destruction of volunteerism...in fire departments...

with each new day theres a Bright Sparkling New Obama OUTRAGE being reported ...

I simply can’t contain my delight......


8 posted on 12/09/2013 3:07:17 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: Dick Bachert
Where did almost a billion go? If I had some power I would require an expense report with receipts.
Bet 400 million or more made it's way back to the DNC or related organization.
9 posted on 12/09/2013 3:07:36 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Rennes Templar
Amen and Amen!




10 posted on 12/09/2013 3:07:58 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: BenLurkin

He isn’t that smart.


11 posted on 12/09/2013 3:08:10 PM PST by CityCenter (Resist Obamacare!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I’m sure an exemption will be forthcoming. But the more the chop this thing up and shoot it full of holes, exemptions, delays, and special treatment - how many other groups will be looking for similar deals? It seems ripe for a whole slew of Equal Protection lawsuits.


12 posted on 12/09/2013 3:09:18 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Unamended consequences.


13 posted on 12/09/2013 3:10:42 PM PST by moovova
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To: MeshugeMikey

Obama’s scorched earth destruction of the US is proceeding right on schedule.


14 posted on 12/09/2013 3:15:14 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Dick Bachert

“QUESTION: WHERE THE HELL IS CONGRESS IN ALL OF THIS?”
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Congress? America has no congress. What use to be the Congress is now the Politburo. The left over Republicans are limp-wristed nobody clowns, there only for decoration purposes.


15 posted on 12/09/2013 3:15:30 PM PST by AlexW
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To: MeshugeMikey

wow


16 posted on 12/09/2013 3:15:38 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: MeshugeMikey
I was talking to a co-worker today. He's a good person, but a low information voter, semi-liberal, and doesn't see what the fuss is about over ObamaCare. He's also a volunteer fireman, VP of his fire company. When I told him that this might happen he was pissed.

I have a feeling ObamaCare is going to reach out touch a lot of lives in a bad way. Conservatives need to be on message and wake some people up.

17 posted on 12/09/2013 3:16:12 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (We need to fundamentally transform RATs lives for their lies.)
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To: MeshugeMikey


18 posted on 12/09/2013 3:16:48 PM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

If you like your fire department, you can keep it...


19 posted on 12/09/2013 3:17:25 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: A CA Guy

This was tiny compared to Stimulus so far, at least the website part


20 posted on 12/09/2013 3:17:28 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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