NPR "Restaurant News" confirms exactly what I have been saying about Obamacare: Restaurants to Mitigate Health Care Costs by Cutting Hours.

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Mike Shedlock

Mike Shedlock

Mike Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management.

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caitlinspark Wrote: Feb 05, 2013 5:36 AM
Many people are having hard time with their work. Thousands of Americans may find themselves not able to pay for health care as a result of what is being called a "glitch" in the wording of The Affordable Care Act. That legislation is more commonly known as "Obamacare." Source of article: get details at the web-site!In the aftermath of what is being called a "glitch" in Obamacare, thousands of Americans may find themselves listed out of health care insurance in 2014. Pay for your healthcare bill with a short term loan.
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Pistol Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:39 PM
Welcome to the 2 job 50 hour week. Just as employer health insurance was created as a ploy to avoid salary fixing during WW II, the 25 hour week is a ploy to avoid the cost of barrycare to full-time employees. Unintended consequences are the bane of government "solutions". As often as not, the consequences are worse than the problem they are supposed to solve. Most government over the last 40 years has ignored the noble aspects of human nature, and rewarded the base aspects. Anger envy gluttony greed lust pride and sloth. 5 out of 7 ain't bad.
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loadstar Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 7:46 PM

OMG, the election is over, but the paid moonbat spammer trolls are still morphing, repeating the same off-topic comments from the Move-on/HuffPuff playbook talking points ad nauseam, often pirating real screen names here...now I see "goshank" to add to these phony names:

Here are some (just a few) of the culprit names:

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goshank Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 6:16 PM
Here is what I do know. The USA, essentially, had a balanced budget at the end of Bubba Clinton's presidency.

The Republican party, then, single-handedly pisssed it all away.

Let's see, social engineering project in Iraq, nation building in Afghanistan, pork barrel spending explosion, No Child Left Behind, ethanol mandates, Medicare Prescription, Faith Based Initiatives, airline bailout, auto bailout, insurance company bailout, Wall Street bailout, federally regulated bank bailout and federally non-regulated bank bailout.

And all paid for with our precious George W. Bush tax cut. Who said "when the Iraqis stand up, we can stand down"? And when did he say it?
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Blair31 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 3:54 PM
Obama wanted this. I'm NOT voting in another rigged Third World election.
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loadstar Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 2:26 PM

interesting revelations about voting irregularities as observed by foreigners--

The Left (NAACP, UN groups) brought in poll watchers from 60 countries to watch for voting opportunity denials, BUT what they observed SURPRISED:

1) they found it TOO EASY to vote here-- often too little valid I.D. required versus abroad (fingerprint I.D, etc.)

2) they felt that it there was too much chance of voting more than once here, such as early voting AND same day voting, without valid checks

3) they sensed NO REAL voter suppression, notwithstanding Leftist mythology to the contrary
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uvuvuv Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 10:47 AM
well obama got in with emotional sentimentality in 2008, now he's re-elected so i now see him as legitimate. but in a few weeks we will all have bumper stickers saying HEY I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM. this is when you either get insurance or get fined. this will be catastrophic for struggling low paid workers everywhere. if their employers don't divvy up then the cooks and waitresses will have to, and the guys who mount your tires. they will be forced to even if they're healthy. and local chains of restaurants will break up into individual locations to get under the 50 employee mandate. so then the employees will be stuck.
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SpaceVegetable Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 2:44 PM
Yeah, just wait until all these loons who voted for Mr. Redistribution see their tax bills next April. They'll be singing a different tune then. That's what happens when you vote based on media sound bites and not real facts.
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Mark in CA Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 3:49 PM
Problem is, the people who live off government won't really see their taxes rising. Costs of living will increase and their money won't go as far as is the past but they aren't likely to make the connection. Instead, they will vote for more politicians who promise to keep their checks coming.
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LtScrounge Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 9:03 PM
Oh it's going to go so far beyond just restaurant workers. Pretty much all service industry employees will find themselves being reduced to part time status. Unless you're a highly skilled employee (and they don't count advanced sales or management experience as skilled) you can count on your hours being cut.

Likewise those who do manage to remain employed full time will discover that the more economical (and the best buy for the money high deductible major medical) plans will not meet the standards that Obamacare demands so they will be FORCED to purchase the far more expensive comprehensive plans with minimal deductibles. What people don't understand is that low deductible policies are not worth the extra premiums.
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LtScrounge Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 9:08 PM
Premiums on a low deductible policy can be as much as double the amount of the difference in deductibles.
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anti-neocon Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 10:19 AM
you mean obama-romneycare. with the election over, you can speak the truth now.
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loadstar Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 9:46 AM
Reasons O won...

1) first, it was dead close-- it ain't no mandate!

2) the Obamanators relentlessly pushed a dissembling narrative and a compliant, nonfeasant press declined to challenge that narrative-- the bad economy was all Bush's fault...the war on women...Republicans are anti-Hispanic...they just care about the rich...Obama offers better hope for jobs eventually

3) we have undergone HUGE demographic changes. Whites are down to only 72% of the vote while Hispanics are up to 14%; O successfully used them, and they matter in Fl, Co., etc.

4) single women now predominate; like blacks and browns, they are just OK with Big Guvment giving them stuff; a bigger dependent class: 47% are net takers

5) PC schools have brainwashed Millennials
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loadstar Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 9:46 AM
Ironically, the groups who re-elected O have been HURT by his failed policies! The worst recovery since WWII hurts the young (half of new college grads cannot find jobs), the low skilled, minorities, single women the most. Hispanics got NOTHING tangible from O, but gullibly voted in lock step for the fellow brown guy. Black unemployment is TERRIBLE. Single women have been crushed by the lingering failed economy.


But Food Stamps are up 50%...47% take (net) from the federal guvment...you can fool SOME of the people all of the time, and there are simply now more of those ignorant people.
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justme16 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 12:32 PM
How is it going to work? Sequestration and cuts in defense spending will put tens if not hundreds of thousands of defense contract employees (high paying jobs btw) out of work in in the unemployment lines. Then flash back to Obama's talk about "shovel ready jobs" (shades of FDR and his works projects) then forward to Van Jones speaking of moving people over and out to make room for others. Now enter the unions Trumpka etal..and walla the new OBAMA JOBS programs mean that if you are NOT of the right race, the right creed, the right union representation you will NOT get those brand new LOW paying works projects of the 21st century...and the TRANSFORMATION (revenge) will begin. First in line? Well you figure it out.
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Mark in CA Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 4:35 PM
loadstar, I believe black pride had much to do with Obama's re-election. There is simply no way the blacks were going to let the first black president have a failed legacy. He may yet have a failed legacy but it won't be because the black community didn't get him re-elected.
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loadstar Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 5:42 PM
But they are just 13% of the vote...they DO vote in lock step-- they see EVERYTHING in black vs. white terms

I first realized that, as did many whites, after the inexplicable OJ verdict
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uvuvuv Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:11 AM
how come 10 seconds after katrina hit everyone jumped all over george bush, but in nyc they voted in tents with candles and no fema in sight and not a word. it could be the difference in races, one complains, the other puts up. but still, no fema.
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Mark in CA Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 4:31 PM
For no other reason than with Katrina, Bush was in the WH but with Sandy, Obama is in the WH.
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justme16 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 12:51 PM
"PC schools have brainwashed the Millennials" Is absolutely true and it was/is by design in order to get outcomes such as last night. That "brainwashing begain back in the 1960s at about the same time Hewy Newton stated "become the man" and Bill Ayers gave up bombing buildings and became a professor (to have unfettered access to the gullible minds of our youth) It was Lenin who stated 'Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever" There are now three to four generations of brainwashed (er um educated lemmings) most of whom followed the yellow brick road like a puppy in a Pavlov experiment (most don't even know what that means) and their slobbering was over Obama and the collectivist ideology blind dumb followers
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citizen al Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 9:12 AM
you know how you make unemployment go down? EVERYBODY works less than 30 hrs. per week. of course, many people can't live on what they make in 30 hrs., but that's not relevant in the new America--the one where media will trumpet a declining unemployment rate, as opposed to increasing poverty
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justme16 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 12:36 PM
What the dummies who voted for this clown don't realize, is that the HEALTH CARE (lie) of the century will NOT get them FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE health insurance. So two things will happen. A. Many will get their hours cut so employers will sidestep their poriton of the mandate. It then falls to the individual (individual mandate) to PURCHASE insurance (probably around 300 to 500 per month) and they will be faced with that on LESS hours and LESS takehome pay. Yup Obama sure does have the middle class in mind but it isn't to help them it is to ensnare them. Then even if an employer decides to comply, those employees will also be faced with an IMMDEDIATE payroll deduction to the tune of 300 to 500 per MONTH...and no pay raises.
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SpaceVegetable Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 2:47 PM
And if you have a chronic condition or get sick, the lame coverage you'll get for those high prices won't cover large percentages of it, so you'll be stuck paying out of pocket anyway.
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Greg1084 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 8:58 AM
In a way this is the same thing France did thirty years ago when it mandated a shorter work week in order to drive down unemployment. There was an apparent short-term gain in employment, but the long term effect was to further stifle the economy, and they then doubled down and made it nearly impossible to fire anyone. Expect more of the same here.
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justme16 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 12:38 PM
The ignorant masses who voted this clown back in office DESERVE the consequences. The problem is our children and grandchildren who by in large will be the ones suffering thhe most from this marxits redistributionist/collectivist ideology DO NOT.
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Bad News Barnes Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 8:52 AM
Ignorance is curable, but stupid is a life time affliction.

God, you leftards are stupid. No intelligent person ever said Obama was not a crony capitalist. There is just as much money to be made in the destruction of a nation as there is in the building of a one.

It is just that some people have a moral objection to evil and do not wish to profit from it. Turdandgoal does not have that moral safeguard built into his soulless carcass.

What profit is there if a man gains the world and loses his soul. My guess is that Turdandgoal is going to break even.
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Mark in CA Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 4:30 PM
Reminds me of the John Wayne quote: "Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid."
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bjohnson410 Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 7:12 AM
amazing how all the mentally challenged waco left are gloating now, just wait until they have to wake up, pull their collective heads out of that dark smelly orifice and come to the realization that they have made a mistake, the people aren't going to pay for their freebies anymore.
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mhubbard Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 4:57 AM
In all the writings about the Obamacare issue, I have never read anything about the impact on school districts. What about all those substitutes employed by the districts? Are they going to be declared self-employed even thought the districts pay their taxes? What about subs that work in several districts? Will there be collective hours that the states are responsible for as all subs ultimately are employed by the state governments? Or will the districts start limiting how many hours a sub can work, even though the districts don't have enough subs to do so?
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uvuvuv Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:22 AM
this is a toughie. the subs get called up in droves on fridays, because of the no-fault absenteeism policies of many school districts. this can put every sub into the classrooms. or a bug goes around where even the subs are sick. if the subs are re-designated as independent contractors then they could fall outside of the control of the school districts in terms of qualifications. i looked into subbing and backed off because one's life centers around the 630 am phone call. then if they have to start paying for health insurance it would no longer be worth it for them if they net just $10 a day.
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SpaceVegetable Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 2:52 PM
Don't forget that being self-employed gets more difficult all the time because of the union-sponsored rules that make it nearly impossible for companies to hire freelancers directly. I work as a software freelancer, but usually have to use a middleman staffing firm, who acts as my W-2 employer and farms me out to the various client companies. The problem is that they add 25-60% to my pay rate, raising costs for business. That's money that could be going into my pocket if it weren't for the ridiculous tax rules. Unions claim they help prevent "exploitation" of workers, but they merely reduce competition for unions.
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Rochesternative Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 11:30 PM
I'm a sub. One is considered "per-diem" and not an employee of said district. One is given a letter guaranting "employment" at the end of the year
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