Pocan came to Madison to attend college and shortly after earning a degree in journalism in 1986, opened up his own small business – a union printing company he continues to own and run today. His active years at UW-Madison in College Democrats led to his election in 1991 to the Dane County Board of Supervisors where he served Madison’s downtown community for three terms. In 1998, he was elected to succeed his long-time friend and ally Tammy Baldwin as the state representative from the 78th District, when she left for Congress.
On Wednesday, Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI-02) argued that the Congressional Budget Office’s projection that Obamacare will incentivize about 2.5 million Americans to give up full-time work means “they might be able to tuck their child in bed at night.”
Pocan said:
“But I would argue, part of what you’re saying is that people in aging populations, more people aren’t participating, that’s part of the statistics. People like my mom who worked until she was 70 at a Taco Bell don’t have to do that. But secondly it could be someone on the lower end who now is working two part-time jobs instead of three part-time jobs. And what that means is instead, they might be able to tuck their child in bed at night, and read a bed-time story, or go to an activity. Which means they’re better off.”
Washington Examiner columnist Byron York called Pocan’s line the “birth of a talking point.”
In response to the CBO report projecting Obamacare’s impact on the labor force, most liberals have taken up some form of Pocan’s argument: that Obamacare is “liberating” millions of Americans from full-time work.
They’re morphing to the total state with zero responsibility for anyone. Its something that even hard core communists have never attempted to do.