Posted on 02/06/2014 5:18:11 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The White House and congressional Democrats tried to limit the fallout Wednesday from the politically damaging conclusion in a Congressional Budget Office report that the Obamacare entitlement creates a major incentive for some people not to work.
While some critics focused on a finding by the CBO that Obamacare will result in 2.5 million fewer workers over a decade, conservatives said the bigger fundamental issue highlighted in the report is one familiar to the welfare state — that taxpayer-funded government subsidies provide disincentives for full-time work.
“People used to be stuck in jobs because they needed the health insurance,” said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a practicing physician and a specialist on health care policy at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute. “Now they’re going to be prevented from taking jobs because they need the subsidies.”
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To put it in better perspective, the figure is 5 million lost jobs over a 20 year time frame. Five million lost jobs is most of the population of Tennessee
Again the double standard at work. One minute Democrats are raging about income inequality. The next, they’re celebrating “Choice” that allows a person to decide not to work or to work less. Doesn’t that make the income gap even worse?
And the US Treasury income gap gets worse...
“People used to be stuck in jobs because they needed the health insurance,” said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a practicing physician and a specialist on health care policy at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute. “Now they’re going to be prevented from taking jobs because they need the subsidies.”
One lot pays taxes, the other lot consumes taxes.
Per today’s WSJ, percent of 25-54 males “not in the workforce” has tripled since the 1970s.
The US is well on the way to Eurosocialist numbers.
“Yesterday, Washington’s official non-partisan bean-counter, the Congressional Budget Office, dropped a bomb. By 2024, says the CBO, Obamacare will reduce the size of the U.S. labor force by 2.5 million full-time-equivalent workers.”
This may be happening in N Californicator land since the first of the year.
My wife and I are both retired citizens. One of the things we do is to try and avoid traffic jams and crowds when we go out for lunch and to do our errands.
So, when we go out to lunch it is usually after the so called lunch hour, 12:45 pm to 1 pm.
Since the first of the year, we have noticed two interesting trends:
1. Even less people than normal in the good restaurants and better so called fast food places for lunch. Problems, finding a parking place rarely occurs now.
2. There is a what appears to be a mini rush hour re heavier traffic from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm, like we used to have after 3:30 pm and then @ 5:30 pm plus or minus a half hour. The drivers don’t appear to be going shopping or after school kids. Usually just a driver and no passengers, lining up at the traffic lights. Also, more than usual construction pickups during this time period are in the traffic mix.
My wife knows many friends and others, who have had their work day hours cut to 4 to 6 hours per day. Walmart, other chains, and independent stores are cutting the daily hours for their employees since the first of the year.
A younger relative couple living in an East Bay county are seeing similar traffic patterns re a new mini rush hours. The husband is getting home about 15 to 25 minutes early. He said the end of the work day traffic is a lot lighter, and the going to work traffic is about the same. The wife usually does her shopping and errands from 2 to 3:30 pm before picking up their kids at school. She said that the traffic loads during that time are similar to past years’s after 3:30 pm.
Yesterday on 2/5/14, my wife and I saw the same weird traffic pattern, a mini rush hour from 1:30 to 2:30 pm.
Then, at 5:30 pm we took a dinner for a church couple with one of them recovering from a hospital stay.
The traffic should have been heavy at that time, and it was about the same or less than the earlier 1:30 to 2:30 pm.
Fifteen minutes it was even lighter when we came home.
Another great example of Democrats' false narrative evolved in the health care debate - Everyone knows health care in American is broken!. This was a double false narrative! First, the debate was about health "insurance", not health "care". When they said a man lost his job and therefore lost his health care, they were lying. He might have lost his health ins. (what about Cobra?), but he still had an ER he could go to. Second, I don't accept the premise that health care was broken. Most of us, those who took care to have health insurance, thought it worked great!
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