Professor Cloward, have you met Professor Piven ?
The Part Time President hates the Middle Class.
The wrong thing can never be done the right way.
Obamacare is WRONG. It is unconstitutional and unjust. Don’t try to fix Obamacare because by definition you can’t. NUKE IT!!
Does this not broaden and strengthen the scope of Obamacare coverage instead of weakening it?
If Obama is going to veto this then the GOP should go ahead and pass it. Otherwise, the Republicans shouldn’t pass this sort of bill. While the 40 hour work week is essential, the GOP shouldn’t do anything to prop up Obamacare or make Obamacare more palatable. Increasing the work week from 30 to 40 hours for the employer mandate makes Obamacare more workable. Now, since Obama is happy to be unreasonable let him veto this bill.
Cue the list.
Leading unions bosses, including those who have supported President Obama and Obamacare in the past, have been furious for years about the health legislation’s devastating effect on working Americans
So let me guess, they became furious immediately after Supporting and Rallying for Obamacare across the country??
Cry me a river, take your lumps Unions, you begged for thrm
This is fine. Nice, clean, short bills. Stack them on his desk and let them die.
Then unpack them for the 2016 election and win, while at the same time eviscerating any D Senator that voted against them.
The only weeks I go down to 40 hours is when I am on vacation.
When I had my own businesses, 80 hours seemed like a short week.
He’ll veto it if it reaches him. I expect it’ll be filibustered in the Senate first.
Side issue, thanks Boehner and McConnell.
REPEAL and/or DEFUND. Vote on it. If there’s a veto, vote on it again.
To play the devil’s advocate, wouldn’t this just allow companies to work people 39 hrs a week and still call them part time? Sure they would be getting more money but still no full time benefits.
Probably in this context insisting on the 40 hour week is good. Unfortunately as productivity increases and more and more jobs are abolished by automation (or the number of people needed to do them drastically reduced) we will eventually have to go to a shorter work week if we are to keep anything like full employment. The alternative is the one beloved of the left, having more and more people as permanent beneficiaries of the state who will always vote to increase the power of the state.
“...............and they’ve found an unlikely ally on the topic in labor unions. Leading unions bosses, including those who have supported President Obama and Obamacare in the past, have been furious for years about the health legislation’s devastating effect on working Americans.”
Hmmmmmmmmmm...lessee here....IF the workers make less, the union gets less...IS THAT RIGHT?
Make him veto all this stuff so that it will be on the Democrat record for 2016.
The 30 hour threshold has been the standard definition for full time work for decades. This is nothing new, and nothing to do with Obama care.
If the Congress Critters think this is a recent change, they are dumber than I thought.
When you change this rule, millions of people who otherwise had full time benefits (not just health care) are going to be kicked to the curb.
I don’t think they have thought that particular item through or have done any homework. It is just another example of how these guys have no idea of how the real world works.
Obamacare was designed to destroy the incomes of middle class Americans by forcing employers to convert full time workers to part time workers in order to stay in business and avoid ObamaCare induced bankruptcy.
The Democrats can thus blame “greedy companies” for heartlessly shifting workers to part time status and use ObamaCare as a tool generate labor strife and to drive a wedge between companies and employees that could be exploited by the Democrats and their friends in the Labor Unions
It certainly won't help small business owners and the self employed.
Does anyone have any DOUBT that Obozo’s number one agenda and goal is to destroy America?