Quoting Commies like Terkel doesn't help his argument.
Leftists define Freedom as: you don’t have to do anything, but people just hand you free stuff.
And so we need illegals to do the jobs they escaped with this handout?
From the article: “......and that, I think, is a very serious flaw in ObamaCare.”
The serious flaw of Obamacare is Obamacare.
For any trolls out there (and the NSA), let m put it in terms that a brain dead zombie can understand:
1. Less hours worked = less income
2. Less income = lower standard of living
3. Lower standard of living = More poverty
4. More poverty = Need to work more
While it is true that working fewer hours means mom doesn’t have to work to pay day care. That choice, however, existed before DeathCare.
How pathetic. People are ony dependent upon insurance companies if they are stupid. There is plenty of information available to teach people how to stay healthy.
Per Adelle Davis, one study demonstrated that 80% of all automobile accidents are caused by one or both drivers having low blood sugar. Imagine that. If everyone took enough responsibility for their own health, 80% of all accidents could be prevented.
Free markets work. Government compulsion always does more harm than good. Just because there is a smidgeon of good is no reason to ignore the overwhelming destruction of this despicable law.
Conservatives believe that work is a good thing,
Conservatives think that - that's it? Just Conservatives?
and, indeed, we cannot disconnect the spiritual and psychological benefits of a good day's work from our policies.
What are those polices? Not work? (the un-work)
Sitting around the house won't give you fulfillment or happiness that you get from accomplishing a goal. But guess what? Neither will working a horrible job.
Whose house, exactly, are you sitting around in?
I work to fulfill exuberant tax obligations...that give Progressives happiness....
Yea, and who pays to support these “free agents” who sit around all day getting high or whatever. These “free agents” should never go without anything, and if they have children their children should never go without anything. And they should never have to lift a finger to support themselves or their children.
This is the liberal message. It is very popular among politicians. And Democrat voters.
I can’t believe we’ve got a government encouraging the people to sit home on their fat arses and do nothing all day. Whadda country. We’re spiraling into the ground rapidly.
Now I get it. The only reason the economy is terrible is because people are working for companies that provide health insurance as a benefit.
Just when I think liberals can’t get more stupider they find a new way to get more stupider.
The big question is what this will do to Social Security. It will, in effect, decrease the number of working SS taxpayers by well over 2 million at exactly the time they’re needed the most to keep Boomer retirement checks flowing. Libs don’t care about that, though. The next election is all they care about.
Would you want employees that only show up for the health insurance?
Seems like a risky scheme to me.
Wow. I thought the article itself was insanity. Then I read some of the comments on that site. Think I lost about 10 IQ points just reading that stupidity. (I’d have to lose about 100 to get close to where those morons are at. Not really joking.)
I always thought that Poverty was an Incentive.
Now the Government rewards Poverty and punishes Incentive.
Third World here we come.
If these people are choosing not to work then they should not be eligible for food stamps, section 8 or Obamacare subsidies!!
“... since they might no longer put in a ton of time at work simply to get health insurance through their employer.”
That’s patent Boo Chit right there.
ObamaCare® mandates full time employees receive insurance.
It describes and regulates that full time shall be considered 30 hours per week.
Just how many hours less per week are they going to work?
Why are you promoting bouquets of flowers, unicorns and settles?
Isn’t the American Ethos hard work? Self determination?
If people work less hours that will necessarily have a negative impact on payroll taxes.
That can’t be good for the treasury.
If they work less hours won’t they take home less pay?
That would result in them spending less money on clothes, movies, concerts , etc.
Heck, working less hours, taking home less pay might result in a down grade from your abode to something more affordable.
Maybe they will choose to ride a bike everywhere as they can’t support car ownership.
Maybe they Flintstone it everywhere and lie through their teeth about how much they love to walk.
But, let’s face it; you were on some psychedelic when you wrote this trope of contrived intellect.
I’m guessing you get paid by the word.
People aren’t going to work less. Everyone wants stuff. Hell, they want lots of stuff.
They will continue to work 40 hour weeks or look for jobs that will give them 40 hours so the can make more money.
Yer a fiction writer of sheep dip drivel.