Allah:
I’m done, guys. If we’ve reached the stage of welfare-state decadence where it’s a selling point for a new entitlement that it discourages able-bodied people from working, there’s no reason to keep going. We’ve lost, decisively.
As a great man once said, remember me as I am — filled with murderous rage.
In a statement and conference call featuring top administration officials, the White House tried to beat back an emerging narrative that the CBO report supported claims made by health care reform critics. The CBO report says the Affordable Care Act could lead to a reduction of 2 million full-time workers between 2017 and 2024. The CBO says the reduction would not come via fewer available full-time jobs (as critics of the law have alleged) but “almost entirely from a net decline in the amount of labor that workers choose to supply.”…
“To put that in context, I have no doubt that if we eliminated Social Security and eliminated Medicare, there would be many 95-year-olds that would choose to work more hours than they’re working today just so they could survive, feed themselves and have health insurance,” the official said.
The CBO’s projected reduction in full-time workers, then, “shouldn’t be a significant cause for surprise and it reflects the fact that workers have a new set of options and are making the best choices that they can choose to make for themselves given those options,” the official said.
In other words, it’s not that employers will be offering 2.5 million fewer jobs. It’s that ObamaCare, by subsidizing low earners and expanding Medicaid for the very poor, will incentivize 2.5 million people not to work. Or, if you prefer:
The message from this WH presser: ACA gives workers more choices, including the option to work less.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) February 4, 2014
Billions upon billions of dollars in economic productivity up in smoke as workers who’ve stuck with their jobs for the health insurance quit and take a subsidies check from Uncle Sam instead.
Pelosi told an audience in DC that ObamaCare is an “entrepreneurial bill,” because it will let people quit being productive and allow them to leech off of … entrepreneurs:
That was May of 2010.
This one was her from March of 2010:
So, Nancy had this in mind way back then!
I hadn’t thought there would only be 2.3 million quitting jobs to be artists.
If given a chance, who wouldn’t want to lay under a tree and philosophize?
this is UNAMERICAN TO TELL PEOPLE SUCH CRAZY STUFF THEY HAVE TO BE OFF THEIR ROCKER,THEY I GUESS THE JOBS WILL BE GIVEN TO ILLEGALS,
ASK THE 20 MILLION FELONS LOOKING FOR WORK< BECAUSE THEY DO NOT LIKE NOT WORKING<
AND ARE NOT WELL RECIEVED BECAUSE OF THE LABEL WRITTEN BEHIND THEIR NAMES,
who care for them, no one , you think you will have fun on the dole of the few still working,
this is a socialist communist marxist triangle which will entangle you in a neck lock they give to big cats so to follow their every step, so will you be, next coming there will be no money for all so the subsidyes will be cut and you think you can go back to your job? think again someone illegal from a foreing country
will have your old job, you thought nobody else but you could do,
and will be ready to fight you to retain your old job which is his now, HIS JOB,
so how are you going to make it without the subsidies evaporated in thin air by OBAMA, NOT A MIDGEON LEFT,