HEY TWO THIRDS OF VOTERS FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT CAUSE HERE IT COMES!
An op-ed from House Speaker John Boehner and soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Wall Street Journal outlines their plans forcrippling governmentwhat they call helping the "struggling middle-class Americans who are clearly frustrated by an increasing lack of opportunity, the stagnation of wages, and a government that seems incapable of performing even basic tasks." That includes taking on Obamacare, of course.
They begin with the totally false premise that, "Health costs […] continue to rise under a hopelessly flawed law that Americans have never supported." Never mind that the rise in healthcare costs has slowed dramatically in the last several years, in part because of the law. And never mind that the law—even in Tuesdays' Republican electorate—gets more support than the idea of repealing the law. It's been a good 14 years since Republicans abandoned the reality-based world, and it's been working for them. So they're sticking with it. And how they say they'll start on the dismantling of Obamacare is this:
[…] a proposal to restore the traditional 40-hour definition of full-time employment, removing an arbitrary and destructive government barrier to more hours and better pay created by the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Right now, full-time employment is 30 hours/week for the purposes of the law. Republicans say that is forcing—forcing—poor beleaguered employers to cut workers' hours to below 30 hours to save them from the exorbitant costs of having to provide health insurance. And raising that threshold is going to restore those employees' hours how exactly? Now employers would be able to make workers put in a 39.5-hour work week without shelling out for health insurance. Which is, of course, the whole point for McConnell and Boehner. Hint, American worker: They're not looking out for your paycheck. Or your health insurance.
Problem one for Boehner and McConnell is getting their respective caucuses to go along with any Obamacare plan. Boehner's been at it for almost four years with no success, and McConnell's got at least three would-be presidents—Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida—to wrangle. Problem two for the "reformers" is the $83 billion hit to the deficit over the next ten years the CBO says this provision would cost. (Here's another hint: They don't really care about the deficit.)
this is tantamount to measuring the drapes, 4 days after two thirds of voters ruined life for the rest of us and themselves. they have given republicans who are anxious to get things back on our backs that they are again telegraphing their intent to take away all that Pres. has done for an ungrateful populace and emboldened them to start denying us before they even take over. what happened to their looking forward to doing so much for "we the people" and working with Pres. that was a not so subtle ploy to blame him when he veto's their never ending attempt to kill health care and relegate people to the ER's, but they can say they tried but he wouldn't play.
immigration you've heard them also talking smack that if Pres. seeks to implement it himself he'll get burned that is for all those Hispanics who deserted Pres. and voted for keeping their status the same "NON CITIZEN". participation is paramount if we don't we wake to this. 5tay tuned for more reports on what they will dispose of next if you don't have time just look at all Pres. has done then draw a line through it, or watch the news and hear it from your favorite news [person except fox they tend to mislead and misinform.
30 hour week was because of selfish employers designed to cheat you out of job supported health care by creating a staff of part time workers is your boss a republican who does not care about you at all? we can also expect their civil war to continue to fracture their party thereby fracturing our opportunities. if we don't get back on the real right track by 2016 bend over and kiss it goodbye because it will then belong to the republican right wing establishment, thanx to the two thirder's.
