I am sticking by my prediction that says between 40,000 & 60,000 businesses will shut down because of Obamacare across the USA. Regardless of how many employees they have, they sill shut down.
Think of a product that is part of a chain—raw materials-processing of raw material-addition changes to raw material- more changes to same-finished goods at mfg level-goods at wholesale level- same goods at retail level.
Lose just one of those stops along the boulevard of production & you no longer have the end product!!!!
One thing—starry-eyed kids in college & under age 30 will be the ones who have to pay back Obama’s borrowing. I am over 70—won’t fall onto me.
They have voted for what will hit them in the near future.
I think your numbers are probably very conservative. Not only are the links in the chain you mentioned affected, all the little businesses that have sprung up nearby to cater to their workforce are also impacted. All the restaurants that relied on workers on lunch breaks, the gas stations/convenience stores, liquor stores/bars, etc., soon seem to follow.
It’s a shame because there are still a heckuva lot of good, hard-working, decent kids who didn’t vote for this. Most of the people that voted for this are going to be completely unaffected. They’ll still be sitting on the couch in their taxpayer-funded housing, eating their taxpayer-funded food while the rest of us are struggling to keep a roof over our heads.