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'A public safety disaster': Obamacare could force THOUSANDS of volunteer fire departments to close
Daily Mail ^ | Dec 09 2013 | DAVID MARTOSKO,

Posted on 12/09/2013 2:59:43 PM PST by MeshugeMikey

The Affordable Care Act forces companies with more than 50 workers to buy them all health insurance or pay hefty fines The IRS says volunteer firefighters are 'employees,' even though the Department of Labor says they're 'volunteers' Out of more than 1 million fire departments in the U.S., 87 per cent are staffed entirely or mostly by life-saving volunteers Members of Congress are weighing in, but the Obama administration hasn't taken any action yet to carve out a fire-fighting exception

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; firedepartments; firefighters; obamacare
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To: MeshugeMikey

Conservatives don’t want to do that. They want to solve the problems of this country with words. Idiots, everyone of them.


61 posted on 12/09/2013 4:11:06 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: ConservativeInPA
IF NEWS OF THIS doesnt wake people up nothing will.

yes its up to US to spread the news...at every opportunity.




62 posted on 12/09/2013 4:11:59 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: Venturer

“I suppose the Salvation Army, the Red Cross and other volunteer systems will also be required to provide Obamacare.”

There was a thread last week(?) about how charity hospitals will be fined for giving care to those who can’t pay (St. Judes, etc.). I imagine that any type of care that the Salvation Army or Red Cross supplies that might be determined to be “health” care would also be fined.


63 posted on 12/09/2013 4:13:19 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: 21twelve

Well this is Wickardly wickedness to the Nth degree. This isn’t just making health care have a higher price, it is decimating it.


64 posted on 12/09/2013 4:14:23 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: 21twelve

BTW, seems like an appropriate thread, when talking about obamacare to shout

“BURN BABY BURN”!


65 posted on 12/09/2013 4:14:43 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: MeshugeMikey

How is it possible that a girlyman Kenyan has gotten things to this point?


66 posted on 12/09/2013 4:17:36 PM PST by jetson (THE)
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To: 21twelve

thus fare Ie dound no references to other volunteer oganizations

I did however just find this !

http://www.firenews.net/10019/fire-chief-discusses-impact-of-obamacare-on-volunteer-fds-video/


67 posted on 12/09/2013 4:23:15 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: jetson

hes just the face on the the placards.....the empty suit who’s told what to do by the man behind the curtain

hes the presumptive queen of one world communism....


68 posted on 12/09/2013 4:24:45 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: CatOwner
I take umbrage at that

I AM a Conservative..and am willing to hitchhike to DC is necessary to take part in a HUGE outpouring of public OUTRAGE!




69 posted on 12/09/2013 4:26:34 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: MeshugeMikey

The fire unions LOVE this idea!


70 posted on 12/09/2013 4:57:15 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Yep, the only solution is single payor government health care. Obama’s plan is working perfectly.


71 posted on 12/09/2013 4:58:06 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: A CA Guy

A billion? Hell, how about at least a TRILLION? I don’t see much in the way of shovel ready jobs to show for that. I sure sure a lot of brand spanking new high dollar cars, mostly black in color, with matching drivers show up in 2009.

Go figure.


72 posted on 12/09/2013 5:21:17 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: MeshugeMikey

If you like your home in one uncharred piece you can keep it. Period.


73 posted on 12/09/2013 5:32:28 PM PST by Gritty (The emperor has hipster garb, but underneath heÂ’s just another Commissar Squaresville - Mark Steyn)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
if only unka nelson were alive to see this come to fruition ....


74 posted on 12/09/2013 5:33:08 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: Gritty
ahaha INDEED


75 posted on 12/09/2013 5:33:58 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: MeshugeMikey

Guess they will have to form a union or become Muslims to get a by.


76 posted on 12/09/2013 5:34:07 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Some people might call it a confidence game or swindle, others call it ObamaCare!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

This doesn’t make any sense to me. I don’t know why the IRS says a volunteer is an employee. And I have to imagine that most of those folks already have insurance elsewhere, like they have salaries elsewhere, because, you know, they’re volunteers.


77 posted on 12/09/2013 5:36:08 PM PST by jocon307
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To: RetiredTexasVet
imagine a bunch of volunteer firefighters being forced to adopt screaming allihu ackbar...as they head out towarda a balzing inferno

nah never happen as much as The Great Leader would like that.


78 posted on 12/09/2013 5:37:03 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: jocon307
the irs is currently being run by the regime thus all bets on their displaying any common sense is off.




79 posted on 12/09/2013 5:38:54 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: drypowder

Agree 100%. There will be a full on NWO planned and organized meltdown shortly. When the people who have been kicked off their healthcare plans, their children, those who think they and their families are signed up with the ACA and really aren’t finally ‘get it’, need care for themselves and kids, (especially their kids), and CAN’T get it...... all hell is gonna break lose. Timed with the collapse of the dollar, Martial Law is set to go and it is game over.


80 posted on 12/09/2013 5:49:46 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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