One more quixotic cause that only hurts the Right. By all means, please contribute. Tea Partiers! Yuck!!!
So thy can waste another $30 billion trying to defeat it? That's the real waste. No, I donate my money towards helping people, not hurting them.
The problem with Obamacare, however, is that you're not "donating" your money. It's being forced out of your wallet in the form of a tax via an unquestionable mandate. I encourage you, if you're able, to donate a respectable portion of your income to help those less fortunate. But, to be forced under threat of penalization by an imposing bureaucracy.. well.. that's akin to Stalinist Russia. It reeks of tyranny and that's the real evil here.
I'm almost certain that the mods do not approve of soliciting donations for any cause on this forum. I think Yaky may just get his hand slapped if they are paying attention.
Okc the donating money I was referring to was the ops link to donate toward its defunding, not towards the bill itself.
Very doubtful. He's not asking for donations for himself. It's really no different than if I were to ask someone here to consider donating to PETA.
Congress has the constitutional power to tax. It did so. I thought you guys were these uber constitutional zombies that always followed the constitution?.... Oh unless it involves something you don't like of course.
In that case, you might consider the OP's offer. Obamacare is going to hurt many families by causing employers to reduce their workers' hours; in fact, that's already happened. The law hasn't even fully gone into effect yet, but people are already suffering because of it.
Don't know any. I've heard that businesses that planned to cut hours or even employees are just using the new law as an excuse to do something they were going to do anyway. Can you prove differently? Of course not. Until I actually meet someone that is suffering some type of economic hardship directly as a result of this law and not a Right-wing fanatic business owner, I will look at all of the wonderful benefits the new law has given us already.
P.S. You search for your superior moral justification for selfishness in a lot of strange and inconsistent ways. Like pretending to care about low wage workers. Look at the latest repukes randsome demands for not shutting down the government. In return for a one-year suspension of the debt ceiling, House Republicans are demanding a yearlong delay of Obamacare, Rep. Paul Ryan’s tax reform plan, the Keystone XL pipeline, more offshore oil drilling, more drilling on federally protected lands, rewriting of ash coal regulations, a suspension of the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate carbon emissions, more power over the regulatory process in general, reform of the federal employee retirement program, an overhaul of the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, more power over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s budget, repeal of the Social Services Block Grant, more means-testing in Medicare, repeal of the Public Health trust fund, and more. Now you pretend to care about some worker affected by the new law and being able to afford health care. You would make me laugh if you didn't have people like the GOP right behind you undermining everything you just pretended to care about.
I suppose living in your ivory tower, you wouldn't meet anyone who is actually suffering. But, don't use that as an excuse to be so naive: Employers around the country, from fast-food franchises to colleges, have told NBC News that they will be cutting workers’ hours below 30 a week because they can’t afford to offer the health insurance mandated by the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. “To tell somebody that you’ve got to decrease their hours because of a law passed in Washington is very frustrating to me,” said Loren Goodridge, who owns 21 Subway franchises, including a restaurant in Kennebunk. “I know the impact I’m having on some of my employees.” Goodridge said he’s cutting the hours of 50 workers to no more than 29 a week so he won’t trigger the provision in the new health care law that requires employers to offer coverage to employees who work 30 hours or more per week. The provision takes effect in 16 months. Luke Perfect, who has worked at Goodridge’s Kennebunk Subway for more than a decade, said it was “horrible” to learn he was among the employees whose hours would be limited, and that it would be a financial hardship. “I’m barely scraping by with overtime,” he said. The White House dismisses such examples as "anecdotal." Jason Furman, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors, said, “We are seeing no systematic evidence that the Affordable Care Act is having an adverse impact on job growth or the number of hours employees are working. … Since the ACA became law, nearly 90 percent of the gain in employment has been in full-time positions.” But the president of an influential union that supports Obamacare said the White House is wrong. "It IS happening," insisted Joseph Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which has 1.2 million members. "Wait a year. You'll see tremendous impact as workers have their hours reduced and their incomes reduced. The facts are already starting to show up. Their statistics, I think, are a little behind the time." In a letter to Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, Hansen joined other labor chieftains in warning that the ACA as presently written could “destroy the foundation of the 40-hour work week that is the backbone of the middle class.” http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_...re-has-forced-them-to-cut-employee-hours?lite
I can't help but laugh. If BO came out and told us the moon was green the libs what be spouting off what a beautiful shade of green.
