Ask any Obamabot. This means nothing. There is no empirical evidence that anything bad is occurring.
And it’s not like Duke University is a bastion of conservatives.
...and sadly, once again validating early claims from Tea Party members and other racist, right-wing "extremists."
Wait, Dems keep assuring us that under ACA we cant lose our insurance :
”Under ACA insurance companies can no longer take your insurance away”
How could this happen? Why wont Obama answer?
Obama, The Great Prevaricator, is liberating working people from reliance on greedy employers for healthcare or income.
When his work is complete people will be free of the oppression of having to work for sustinance and healthcare.
Most people will just look to the Federal Government for everything they need.
Except for the Tea Party, white veterans and Bill O'Reilly.
” 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.”
“Adding to a devastating CBO report of how Obamacare could damage the economy, a Duke University survey of top companies found that 44 percent are considering reducing health benefits to current employees due to Obamacare, confirming the fears of millions of American workers.
In its December survey of chief financial officers around the country, Duke also found that nearly half are “reluctant to hire full-time employers because of the Affordable Care Act.”
And 40 percent are considering shifting to part-time workers and others will hire fewer workers of fire some to avoid the costs of the program.
What’s more, they said in the study, “One in five firms indicates they are likely to hire fewer employees, and another one in 10 may lay off current employees in response to the law.”
Without the law, the CFOs told Duke that they would hire more full-time 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 to 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 occur 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 a 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.
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, one of them is recovering from a hospital stay.
The traffic should have been very heavy at that time, and it was about the same or less than the earlier 1:30 to 2:30 pm.
Fifteen minutes later, it was even lighter, when we came home
I’d wager that number is too low. Every one of them has likely considered it and most will follw the first domino to fall....
And the other half aren't going to put that information in writing
