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Old 02-06-2014, 12:53 PM   #1
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I bet you didn't actually read the CBO report. Did you?
It's not that the report said that employers were going to lay off 2.5 million workers.

WHat the report said, is that millions of Americans will recognize the incentive of working fewer hours, and thus taking advantage of the Obamacare subdsidy (Paul, do you know who pays for the subsidy?).

In other words, people will be faced with a choice...work more hours, and pay for healthcare on my own (which should be precisely what we encourage people to do), or work fewer hours so that income goes down, and thus take advantage of the public subsidies. The CBO estimates that millions of Americans will voluntarily cut back their hours (in other words, millions of Americans will voluntarily impoverish themselves), and thus rely on public subsidies that the rest of us have to pay for.

In other words, Obamacare will increase, by millions of people, the number of folks s#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g on the public teat. This has the added bonbus for Obama, of buying quite a few votes, as these parasites won't want to hear a conservative candidate tell them to get their lazy asses back to working 40 hours a week like everyone else has to do.

Here's what I don't get...Bill CLinton is considered a hero among liberals, he enjoys a 70% approval rating. DO liberals not remember what Clinton did after the Gingrich revolution? Clinton kicked millions of poor people off welfare, and told them to go back to work, which is exactly what they did. SO shouldn't Bill CLinton be championing the same conservative economic principles that helped make him popular?

The CBO report confirms what many have suggested, that Obamacare was one morew way of increasing the number of people dependent on the federal government, and decrease the number of people who are self-sufficient. We are providing financial incentives for people to choose to be less self-reliant. Paul, if that's a good thing, the benefit escapes me. The benefit I see is more votes for liberals who want to keep public assistance pumping.

Earth to Obama...we can't all be on public assistance. We can't tax the top 5% high enough, to provide freebies to everyone else. For Christ's sake, this is not higher order calculus, this is grade school arithmetic.
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Old 02-06-2014, 01:34 PM   #2
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It's not that the report said that employers were going to lay off 2.5 million workers.

WHat the report said, is that millions of Americans will recognize the incentive of working fewer hours, and thus taking advantage of the Obamacare subdsidy (Paul, do you know who pays for the subsidy?).
So I'm guessing he didn't read the report. Heard about it on Fox news?

Yes, I know what a subsidy is and I know what the report said were the reasons for the decrease in people working.

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Old 02-06-2014, 03:12 PM   #3
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So I'm guessing he didn't read the report. Heard about it on Fox news?

Yes, I know what a subsidy is and I know what the report said were the reasons for the decrease in people working.
Paul, what do you really think of a government program that effectively encourages 2.5 million people to voluntarily cut back to less than full time, so that they can receive public assistance? Isn't that a BAD thing? How could that not be considered a bad thing? This is by far Obama's most significant achievement, and the effect is to encourage people to be less productive, and to make people more reliant on the feds?
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Old 02-06-2014, 03:46 PM   #4
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make people more reliant on the feds?
This is the most important point of your explanation and precisely why Obama wanted so desperately to pass Nationalized Healthcare.

“It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Antonin Scalia
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This is the most important point of your explanation and precisely why Obama wanted so desperately to pass Nationalized Healthcare.
So that was the goal?
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So that was the goal?
To get more people dependent on the feds, and therefore more people who vote for dems.
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To get more people dependent on the feds, and therefore more people who vote for dems.
That is a joke so I'm out,
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