[bgill]

Businesses have caught on and are using part time work so they aren’t out any benefits. That’s a good portion of what’s hurting the economy.

[wiggen]

Exactly. The only work my son can find.

[EBH]

Benefits are not a perk to a business they are a cost. A business cannot be “out any benefits,” they can only be out the cost of offering those benefits as part of the overall job package.

At the current cost of ‘benefits’ you expect businesses to just suck it up and not make adjustments to their bottom line by using part-time workers heading into 2013?

So are you insinuating it is the businesses hurting the economy because they are refusing to play ball with the new “benefits” requirements?

I do not believe you meant what your wrote as it reads. Blaming businesses.

If not, then say what you do mean...The future regulation of private sector benefits are hurting the economy. The skyrocketing costs of benefits are being counter productive to the economy and businesses ability to hire full-time workers.

We have to be in the habit of using the rhetoric that is the truth and affixing understanding to the root causes that hurt our country.

[Soul of the South]

“Businesses have caught on and are using part time work so they aren’t out any benefits. That’s a good portion of what’s hurting the economy.”

Obamacare, if it is upheld by the Supreme Court, will solve much of the benefits issue for employers. Beginning in 2014 they will discontinue medical benefits just as most employers discontinued defined benefit pension plans in the 2 decades after the legislation establishing 401K plans was enacted (1978).

[kearnyirish2]

“Businesses have caught on and are using part time work so they aren’t out any benefits.”

They’re using temps, too; it might be a ten-year assignment, but it is staffed by temps. Not likely Obama voters in November...

[ichabod1]

What do you propose as a solution? Businesses will do this, and they will do much more of this to avoid paying for health insurance. It is not their fault, and they are not “hurting” the economy. They are doing what they have to do to avoid bankruptcy and stay in business. The communists and their regulations are what are hurting this economy.
p.s., I’m no gop-E poster either. I think the first step in recovery is removing oppressive regulations. The second step is to erect trade barriers. The third is erect immigration barriers. The consumer economy does not work if the consumers can’t afford to consume. That’s just poverty.