Posted on 02/05/2014 8:05:27 PM PST by rightwingerpatriot
In the wake of yesterday's Congressional Budget Report that ObamaCare will cost 2.5 million jobs over the next ten years, the progressive left is spinning like crazy. The first is that people will be liberated from jobs that they hate but were forced to stay at, lest they lose their health insurance. Worked forty hours a week as a shipping clerk but secretly yearned to be a writer of neo-classical poetry that will make angels weep and puppies spontaneously clone themselves with joy? Well, according to outfits like The New York Times, you're now liberated to chase your dreams, away from the evil shackles of the workaday world. The reason that you're able to do so is that the government will subsidize your health care, so you can choose where you work and how much you work.
The New York Times says, "Thanks to an increase in insurance coverage under the act and the availability of subsidies to help pay the premiums--many workers who felt obliged to stay in a job that provided health benefits would now be able to leave those jobs or choose to work fewer hours than they otherwise would have." Other progressive liberal entities are also saying the same thing. The problem is that they're leaving something out...reality. Government does pay for anything, taxpayers do. I know it's nigh impossible to explain this to a liberal, but government money actually comes from hard working Americans who pay their taxes, not from gossamer trees where unicorns nap under.
Using their liberal logic, I should be happy as hell that I'm unemployed at the current time. Funny, I don't feel happy. I actually want to work. Does anybody losing their job over the consequences of ObamaCare feel great that they now have leisure time to pursue sand sculpting or some other inane project? What about the hundreds of employees of Time Inc. who are getting laid off now? Are they happy? Of course, liberals are planning on having government swoop in and provide other aid, such as extending unemployment benefits or other aid programs. All of this is being done to make the average citizen wholly dependent upon the government for their very existence. ObamaCare has always been about control, pure and simple.
The media is also spinning the CBO report by twisting the conclusions. They gleefully report that deficit spending will drop over the next few years. Other idiots are saying that the Affordable Care Act will raise wages for workers. They are, naturally enough, ignoring the fact that the true costs are being pushed down the road until after Obama leaves office. Then the true bill of ObamaCare becomes due and it won't be pretty. Deficit spending will go over a trillion dollars, and that's without the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare. The total unfunded liability for those programs range from $70 trillion to $90 trillion. The entire point is that those who are leading us off the cliff will be long gone, and secure in their mansions and investments, when the Pied Piper comes calling for the rest of us. To paraphrase the most interesting man in the world, "Stay broke, my friends."
Go for it. Calling this thing Obamacare lets all the other Rats off the hook to too many unthinking LIVs. They need to be constantly reminded of who raped them.
The GOPs and scribblers and babblers on the Right seem to be too f-—ing stupid to figure that out.
“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 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 to 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.
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