…learn that elections have consequences:
That mean old company won’t throw extra cash at them so that they can live the New York City lifestyle to which they’ve become accustomed! Dear Dudes: Companies are in business to stay in business and employ people. Obamacare regulations are making that increasingly more difficult; the costs are staggering and burdensome. That whole “you can keep your plan” deal? Obama lied.
And anyone with half a brain would have known that. But they’re products of the public educational system, and universities.
Believing these people can put two and two together is quite a stretch. If they could, we wouldn’t have Obama as President in the first place.
Ugh, I can’t wait for universal part time employment (at least in the private world). That’s going to be worker’s paradise.
You know what would drive the final nail in this particular coffin? Requiring an employer to provide benefits, if the employee works more than 30 hours in total for anyone. I’m sure I could get double digit support for that.
What do I call the fact that these guys are being hurt, and hurt badly by this?
I think it’s a pretty safe bet I know how these nitwits voted, so I call it AWESOME!
Or karma.
Or awesome karma.
Karma’s good, but schadenfreude also applies.
Hmm…schadenkarma? Karmanfreude? (Scratch that last one…that’d be the joy associated with, er, fluid flow…)
As H. L. Mencken wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Maybe if they get it good and hard enough, they’ll have a teachable moment.
You fargin sneaky bastage! You lousy corksuckers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes…like yourselves. You owe me 40 hrs at $22 per and wadayamean deport me to Sweden? I’m not from there!
Jobs are not a benefit to business, they are a cost. Increase the cost of workers and you decrease the profit to the business. Decrease the profit and you put pressure on the share price which means you can’t invest which means fewer workers or the business goes belly up.
Most businesses operate on a month to month balancing act teetering on the edge of disaster. Those that don’t probably operate on an annual disaster basis.
Making payroll, paying taxes, paying off the loans you took out to set up the businesss, (or at least paying the interest), paying off the loans you have to keep taking out to keep the business going, paying utility bills, suppliers bills etc. etc., and for the really lucky ones, trying to keep the shareholders happy as well as the creditors.
And then the state comes along at smacks you with yet another huge tax, this one based on number of employees and the hours they work, and those highly educated, (or at least highly expensively educated), employees don’t see the connection when you lay them off or cut their hours.
The crazy thing is that they blame the store and not the politician who passed the law. Just like Democrats have been and will blame insurance companies for problems instead on the people who forced this on us.
Blaming the store demonstrates indoctrination rather than education from schools. The rot is deep and the solution needs to be as well.
Where’s Jim the Grinning Idiot to tell us how wonderful this is? Did Talking Points Memo have nothing for him?