Posted on 02/04/2014 2:20:15 PM PST by Sir Napsalot
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the Congressional Budget Office report that shows Obamacare will make the labor force lose 2.3 million full-time workers by 2021 is positive because it lets Americans be “free agents.”
“We have the CBO report, which rightfully says, that people shouldn’t have job lock. If they — we live in a country where there should be free agency. People can do what they want,” Reid told reporters outside of a close policy luncheon. “And what they’re saying here is — and the fact checkers have already done this — the Republicans talk about losing millions of jobs simply isn’t true. It allows people to get out of a job they’re locked into, because of — they have healthcare in their job."
“So my caucus is right on track to understand this. The CBO report is far better for us than it’s not. Republicans should get away from repeal and start talking about some constructive ways to handle the issues that they’re concerned about,” he added.
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Paying your taxes is also voluntary.
According to Reid.
Is this satire? I truly cannot tell anymore..
(Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council):
“These (i.e., more people who have access to healthcare) are the types of things that in an advanced economy give people more options and choice. They don’t cost jobs. They give people more options and choice to live their lives as they have. .....”
Yeah, ‘Free Agents’ who are scrambling to find two or three part-time jobs where the employer in each insists that the ‘Free Agent’ make that crappy little job the #1 priority in their life, like people used to treat careers back when such a thing was the norm and not the exception.
If you aren’t a pro athlete, ‘Free Agent’ means the same thing as ‘Day Laborer’.
Free agent is correct. Companies let workers go so they don’t have to pay the mandate, and that former employee becomes a “free agent”.
But, not by chose.
Free agents without a team.
And Boehner wants to make deals with this lying Fool.
wow
because of the crappy economy killing my good paying job i have a crappy job paying me a lot less and because of obamacare my employer just dropped our insurance jan. 1 and what i can get now is less coverage for more than double the price
i sure feel more free
the things ya see when ya aint got a bulldozer
Also, several high-paying full time jobs have been created for Democrat operatives who come up with these increasingly ridiculous Orwellian double-speak talking points.
Yes, after the Affordable Care Act forces your existing “2nd rate” insurance policy to “transition” to a “quality” policy with great value” you can look forward to a lifetime of “free agency”.
Sadly it is not.
The Left is real busy spinning that less able-bodied people participated in workforce is actually a good thing.
Yes, Harry. The unemployed have been freed of the commitment of having to show up for a job each day. They are also free to live in squalor, a direct effect of the unemployment caused by the unAffordable Care Act.
Has Reid been sharing bags and needles with Philip Seymour Hoffman? There must have been an especially pure shipment.
Free agents without a team or a conference or a division, or even a sport. Think how many free agents the skyrocketing unemployment under 0bama’s reign has created?
Free agent. That must be someone that goes on Medicaid and gets food stamps, housing assistance, earned income tax credits, and on and on.
Harry Reid makes me wish that we could have a coup, followed by Nuremburg trials.
The Great Depression created a whole lot of free agents
I wish there was a way to make Reid and Boner free agents.
Really, and I was simply pining the days of tar and feathers and lampposts. .....
THAT was MY thought...make most of Congress “free agents!”
In the early days of the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong would enter a rural village, with intent to loot anything they had of value, including their sons to be soldiers. But first, they would get the village elders, force them to kneel, then murder them, execution-style, in front of the villagers, before proclaiming: “You are now free!”
At about the same time, a campus radical at UC Berkeley made the famous quote: “Don’t trust anyone over 30”, which even at the time was seen from the radical communist perspective, later seen in Cambodia, that “come the revolution”, everybody over the age of 30 was to be murdered.
Hairy, ask a washed up running back what it is like being a free agent. . . these folks are not bargaining with a marketable skill. You are just “pushing granny off the cliff” like you accused the Republicans of doing.
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