The Next Obamacare Battle Nobody is Talking About

Townhall.com ^ | June 30, 2015 | Alex Vargo

[mrsmith]

Just have congress pass a blank sheet of paper. The president can fill in the details that the courts think are best.
The new ‘checks and balances’.

[hosepipe]

Obama OWNS both houses of (a republican) Congress and now the Supremes..

Whats left to conquer?.. answer; NOTHING..

BOHICA time has arrived.. He can NOW do pretty much anything he wants to..

The attorney general "LYNCHING PEOPLE"... one would think.. with IRS; CIA; FBI; NSA; military security; and joint chiefs; SUPPORT...

The Federal Frankenstein is on the loose.. with Union Vampires, academic Werewolves and Journalist intestinal parasites infecting or roaming freely "hungry"..

would make a killer movie or novel.. even IF (some of) the people rise up and cleanse the land of these "BEASTS"..

GODZILLA is real only in the movies..... ... PITY ...

[SGCOS]

Too bad the young'uns can't get off their lazy asses and get a job, instead of having the 'gimme dat' attitude.

When you burn down all the businesses in your neighborhood, you have no right to start bitchin about not having a job..

Stupid m'fers

[MUDDOG]

There’s no dealing with Obama. It’s his way or the highway.

Otherwise you could try trading this in exchange for eliminating the mandate.

[tophat9000]

Brainwashing requires you disorient the person.. destroy points of reference..and make the state dictates be whats “true” at any given moment....

the ended of “self evident truth” is what a dictate needs.. the truth of the day will be issues to you to follow

Both SCOTUS ruling , Obamacare, and Gay Marriage has the same thing in common..the total destruction of a definition and reformed in to a new creation....it is all Newspeak ...

[Logical me]

King Obama and his communists empire will make sure this effort by Republicans will end up in the toilet. The King will in retribution lower it to 25 hours.

[expat2]

My primary goal would be to repeal the individual mandate. It is outrageous for the govt. to insist that we buy a product, whether we need it or not. Especially when the product is not only high-priced in terms of premiums but is also a defective product — the deductibles are so high that they make the product useless.

[Robert357]

Congress really shouldn't allow anything to be changed until Democrats publicly admit that the law they rammed through was flawed. After the Supreme Court decision top Democrats said the law was working as written and it better than intended. If they feel it is so good, then give them enough rope to hang themselves.

All of the high state increases may tell the public something else.

[Jeff Chandler]

The editor hit 29.5 hours and had to go home.

Post of the Day.

[ken in texas]

Congress really shouldn't allow anything to be changed until Democrats publicly admit that the law they rammed through was flawed.

As Thomas Sowell observed about politicians and failed policies in Basic Economics: "It is always easier to admit someone else's mistakes."

It would be nice it they did but I don't see it happening.

[stevie_d_64]

“the end(ing) of “self evident truth” is what a dictate needs.. the truth of the day will be issues to you to follow”

I think this is a tremendous, strong statement!!!

He who dictates what used to be “self-evident”, rules...It no longer becomes “self-realized”, and therefore anyone who doesn’t think beyond what is spoon fed to the masses whose attention span is about that of a gnat...

We should realize that the social condition this country and the rest of the world is in right now is kinda what has been engineered, without much of a fight...

[liberalh8ter]

Heck, Since SCOTUS now uses the spirit in which the law was written to make rulings, I wouldn't be surprised if there is no work week anymore, just employment. It wouldn't even shock me if Roberts finds some pretzel logic that bestows insurance coverage on ex-employees, as well.

[WayneS]

...and maybe even FUTURE employees.

[Popman]

...new rules that if an employee works more than 40 hours per week and makes over $455 per week that they be entitled to over time compensation. This rule change will prevent companies from labeling them managers and exempt from OT pay.

I'm actually in flavor of this proposal... first time ever I agreed with this administration, I think...

The new cut off pay scale was done based on inflated dollars from when the rule was first initiated...so this should be no skin of the company back...

Many and I mean a lot of companies misuse their employees by working them more than 40 hours a week while being labeled exempt...

Many employees as of now, before the new regs, wind up working at close to minimum wage when you break it down to pay divided by hours...

Non-exempt employees punch out at 40 hours (if they are lucky) and go home..

[musicman]

[generally]

What I expect to see, regardless of the exact numbers they settle on, is that many business will cut hours back to whatever they need to in order to avoid paying benefits. Employees reduced from 39 hours to 20 hours (or whatever the numbers might be) will then work 2 jobs. In fact, it’s a lot easier to work 2 20-hour/week jobs than to work a 30 hour/week job and find something else for 10 hours.

[RipSawyer]

I generally oppose all these federal labor laws, I think that first of all the constitution does NOT empower the federal government to do these things, if they are to be done at all they should be done at state level only. Having said that, if we are going to have federal labor laws, a minimum of $455. a week to qualify as overtime exempt was absurdly low. That won’t support a single person at a level of bare subsistence in many areas of the country. Of course in some areas it will and that is one reason why there should NOT be national labor laws from the feds.

[RipSawyer]

Twenty hours at $20. an hour is a long way from a living wage now. A person would need at least two and preferably three of those jobs to have a real living wage. Three of them would gross $1200. a week and that would not even equal in real terms the $110. a week I was making when I was 23 years old and working an office job with overtime after forty hours. I paid $4. a week for a fantastic health insurance package back then. I doubt that you can buy the equivalent now for any amount. I was driving a new Mustang that cost me three grand and I OVERpaid.

[caww]

....”We should realize that the social condition this country and the rest of the world is in right now is kinda what has been engineered, without much of a fight”....

Makes one wonder who’s doing the engineering...the head of that snake. By and large a group of people scattered throughout various organisations.....where’ever there’s lots of revenue flowing. Clinton Foundation does come to mind as one....Clinton’s are the front people to bring it on in to the vault. Someone else is distributing it.

[caww]

....”We should realize that the social condition this country and the rest of the world is in right now is kinda what has been engineered, without much of a fight”....

Makes one wonder who’s doing the engineering...the head of that snake. By and large a group of people scattered throughout various organisations.....where’ever there’s lots of revenue flowing. Clinton Foundation does come to mind as one....Clinton’s are the front people to bring it on in to the vault. Someone else is distributing it.