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."
funemployment,... right???
They have great math working for them. For every dollar of unempolyment benefits, it’s worth two dollars of spending in our economy. For every job that disappears, we all benefit. Just ask Nancy Pe-loser.
Yet the GOP is useless, because they’re busy trying to keep America’s stores stocked with stuff made in China.
Neither party is for American businesses.
Meanwhile, China continues to get bigger, and stronger.
Our trade deficit with China is 300 billion last year (400 billion sold by China to the USA, on just over 100 billion sold by America to China).
Bring back American jobs.
Now.
Why doesn’t 0Bama just use his executive pen and legalize any and all drugs, make them available for free, and make all his lib and progressive buddies forever happy in their daze of emptiness. After all, the Soviet Union made vodka available to its subjects for years at a price so low, it was nearly cheaper than water. The Soviet citizens were in a perpetual buzz as a result. All the Soviets wanted was their next drink. 0Bamma can make citizens exist only to score their next hit...
The Dems don’t even try to hide it anymore. Living off the Taxpayer is a civil right and a lifestyle choice. Not having to work and making someone else pay is “freedom.”
yup, Soma for the 21st century...
There needs to be a switch from everyone calling this atrocity Obamacare. Was Obama around when Hillary and the rest of the Demorats were trying to ram this through in the 90s?
It’s DONKEYCARE
It’s DEMOCRATCARE
Pelosi,Reid,Baucus,Schumer,Waxman,Feinstein,Boxer,Clinton and the rest of these criminals are not named Obama and the low intelligence voters need to have this shown to them every day.
Hey Gutless Old Party fearless leaders, there IS an election coming up after all.
Can’t Obama be liberated from the job he obviously considers to be tedious? I’ll bet he secretly yearns to be a highly paid model of women’s lingerie.
” Living off the Taxpayer is a civil right and a lifestyle choice.”
And, that is the precise course this sad excuse for a President is on; striving toward the day when the unemployed are living off the one, single, remaining Taxpayer!
It is Freedom for them.
It is slavery for us.
There, fixed it!
Regards,
After seeing the glasses of yellow drinking water in Sochi, it’s easy to understand why Russians prefer vodka.
If 0bama had been president on 9-11-2001 he and the left would be extolling the windfall opportunity of new open space in lower Manhattan.
To tell US citizens that they will be better off working less hours (for less pay, of course) is ludicrous! Why would we listen to a herd of dumbasses with a challenged mentality?
Hey, I like that! I will borrow the term, if you don't mind.
If everyone were liberated from a job they hated, we’d have about 95% unemployment.
On top of the absurdity of the argument, HIPPA largely eliminated the “leave your job, lose insurance” issue back in the 90’s. The argument not only doesn’t make sense, it isn’t even true.
Actually, you can put this one to bed. Our beloved Paul Ryan (/s) came out and said, explicitly, that it is not job losses it is reduced hours. He made it clear, albeit reluctantly, that no one loses their job. So while this may get some spin on some blog sites, it’s DOA. And while I, quite frankly, do think that is a correct reading of the report, be sure and thank dear Paul for neutering anything the GOP might have gained on this issue.
The idiot.
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