Guys with big mouths who talk a good game, but that's it.
Even Al Franken had the guts to run for office ...
... while others try to sell you stuff.
Posted on 12/01/2012 8:40:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There is an antique saying -- no less true for its antiquity -- that you need to be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. This came to mind when I read a recent report about what is happening at a Pennsylvania college.
One of President Obama's most loyal -- not to say fawning -- constituencies clearly is academia. His rate of support among collegiate faculty and administrators surely approaches near-unanimity on the typical campus. This is why the news about the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) is so richly ironic. CCAC has just announced that because of ObamaCare, it will have to slash the hours of 400 of its employees, about half of whom are adjunct instructors. This is because under new law, companies and other organizations employing 50 or more employees are required to provide full health care insurance (at high cost, because of a host of new mandates the law includes) for all employees working 30 or more hours a week. This means that employers have a tremendous incentive -- indeed, virtually a gun at their heads -- to either cut hours for employees to under 30 hours per week or eliminate workers outright (by outsourcing, offshoring, contracting out, and automating), or to keep the employees under 50 by simply not expanding.
This has led numerous private companies start taking precisely those actions -- including Abbot Labs, Applebee's, Boston Scientific, Covidien, Dana Holding, Darden Restaurants, Kinetic Concepts, Kroger, Lockheed-Martin, Medtronic, New Energy, Papa John's Pizza, Smith & Nephew, Stryker, TANCOA Janitorial, and Welch Allyn. For example, major restaurant chains such as Olive Garden and Red Lobster are already moving employees to under 30 hours a week. Boston Scientific has said that it will lay off 1,400 workers and shift production to China.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Combine this with layoffs from taxes and government spending cuts, and next year should be fun.
CommieCare is not something the most ignorant electorate on the planet can blame Bush for. The consequences are totally the fault of the Democrats who bent the House rules to shove this monstrosity down the throats of the taxpayers.
They are entertainers. They exist to sell ad time.
Rush, Hannity, Levin, Styn, etc. are all entertainers.
Now, think about which would drive up ad prices. Winning for their “conservative” cause or having something to rail against?
I don’t often log in to post a reply but your comment is hilarious!!!!
“..John Roberts sucks big time. Traitor....”
Yep. That he does and that he is. He is a real-life, modern-day Benedict Arnold. He will go do in history with a legacy even more sinister than Arnold’s.
This one man alone could have saved his country. Instead, he handed it over to the communists.
Arnold was only plotting to hand over West point and capture Thomas Jefferson. Roberts plotted to hand over the entire USA and captured the “producers”. His name, like Arnold’s, will be the new synonym for treason once history plays out.
The impact on colleges and universities will even be more profound as retiring bab-boomer tenured proessors are replaced with even more part-time adjuncts.
On the plus side, maybe all of those unemployeed ABD’s might get to teach a course or two—while they get food stamps.
“Bush’s/Robert’s fault”
I’ve heard the new response/narrative for all issues with Obamacare. One of the ladies in my quilting group is a major lib. When we discuss healthcare and Obamacare, every negative issue is the fault of the evil greedy insurance companies. Sometimes it’s a long path for her to arrive there, but... she always arrives there. Evil greedy insurance companies. Prepare to hear that ad nauseum.
If adjunct instructor class hours are cut, then somebody will have to pick up that slack. That means professors will have to teach more classes, grade more papers & tests.
These men of leisure are not gonna like that!
The marketplace is like water - it seeks its own level. Even the most tyrannical regime on Earth, North Korea, cannot stop people from acting in their own interest - the basis of the marketplace.
So, Liberals can pass all the foolish tax laws they want, yet people, businesses, & universities will always find a way around them to their best advantage. This is why Buffett, Sorors, & their ilk support taxing the rich - they know they will never pay more that they want to pay.
What is so sad is that the little guy - the lower class - ALWAYS bears the real pain of these grand schemes - Obamacare in this instance, through lost jobs, lower wages, & inflation that makes them poorer every day.
AND .... via those employers, no insurance or whatever other 'full-time' benefits might have been previously available. There is going to be a lot of blowback on this as the Obamaphoner types (gimme gimme, we like freebies) who might be working figure out they are worse off rather than better ... working harder for much less. This crap will NOT improve the economy.
What do you mean?
/johnny
We laugh at the ignorance of Obama voters, but they do rule for now. Even our “Republican” “leader” fall head over heels for Obama. The American people will never confess their failure here.
Sadly, I doubt most of the affected workers will blame the Democrats and Obama. Corporations are all rich and evil, you know. I’m not sure how the profs will rationalize their problems, but they will. The end result will probably be an outcry for the government to step in and spend yet more borrowed dollars.
Yes, and one would have though heroes like Bob Dole could have seen what he was doing in the legislative area. Newton Gingrich once called ol’ Bob “the tax collector for the welfare state.” But ol’ Bob wanted to be “popular.”
Sadly though the “little man” is the last to figure out what is real, if he ever does. I guess he’s just too naive.
The title this author used is misleading. “Professors” are usually tenured and thus will not be directly affected, unless their insurance goes up. They WILL be indirectly affected by losing the adjunct people who help teach their classes. And btw, I suspect that a very large number of adjuncts, especially in the south, were Romney supporters. Many of them also have jobs in the private sector and haven’t self-isolated in The Ivory Tower for years as many of their professor colleagues have.
I go back and forth on believing the ability of members to work that plan, over all these years. But if true, we're toast.
Know of The Frankfurt School?
Where you gonna get 4 dollar gas? I expect more like 5 dollar gas!
Point made.
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