Obamacare’ Poll Finds 42% of Americans Unaware It’s Law

That's good news. To preserve the same total hours worked while decreasing the work week to 3/4 of what it was, those companies will increase their workforce 33% (to 4/3 of what it was). This must be why unemployment is down.

 

Mind you, according to President Obama, 85% of all the good stuff is already in effect.

This bill was frontloaded with benefits for political purposes (re-election in 2012 first and foremost). Now, it will be time to pay. I'm going to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh when everyone is bitching about their taxes and insurance premiums while care and access decline.

Some of us have prepared for this shitstorm. To those who haven't and who voted for people who supported his legislation, you get what you deserve.

 

If a company has 1200 hours of work, it can choose 300 employees working a 40 hour week, or 400 working a 30 hour week.

Decreasing to a 30 hour week employs more people. It will have to happen here eventually, as China crowds out all the world markets.

Communist countries used to have 35-hour work weeks. I assume China abandoned that when it went capitalist, but what do I know.

 

The politicians who line their pockets with money earned from business people are admirable, though.

 

Unemployment is down because the percentage of eligible people working is at 1979 levels. Those who have dropped off UE rolls aren't counted. I'd expect an expert like you to know this...

 

Laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh? You sound evil. Yikes! I'll steer clear.

 

I knew it; I'd expect your expertise to know I was being a little sarcastic.

By the way, you just happened to pick the year for which I am most expert about availability of employment. In May and June, I explored every accounting opportunity in Seattle, garnering offers from Boeing, Upjohn, Westin hotels which would have propelled me into United Airlines, and others. I accidentally walked into the Sonics NBA championship parade and watched the players inch by in their open convertibles, colliding with throngs in the street, as I walked to an interview in my suit. I have many memories of incidents I saw--a racist woman yelling at a black woman, etc.

Anyway, you are right that I feel expert about 1979 employment conditions, of all years. They were very good under Carter. Reagan forced a recesssion with giant deficits and employment was never the same again.

 

Ron Wyden concerned about insurance rates escalating under this "we need to pass the bill to find out what's in it" law.

http://news.yahoo.com/obamacare-horizon-enough-people-sign-110255434.html

 

I believe actions have consequences and people should be responsible for their government. If you were too stupid to oppose this legislation or complacent enough that you didn't prepare for its implementation, you get what you deserve.

 

And you will laugh at them. You sound like Satan.

 

hmm, so if you tell some one "Hey, if you jump off off that building, you are gonna break you rfreakin leg", and they do,you find no amusemet in the situation?

 

Kind of like how you laughed at people opposed to gay marriage when it became legal?

 

Tell me your soul is free of Schadenfreude, then I'll reconsider my position.