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Obamacare Allows Workers To Tell Bosses To Shove Off; Conservatives Are Angry.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/10/obamacare-allows-workers-to-tell-bosses-to-shove-off-conservatives-are-angry/Obamacare Allows Workers To Tell Bosses To Shove Off; Conservatives Are Angry.
By Amanda Marcotte
Monday, February 10, 2014 10:36 EST
Roy Edroso of the Village Voice has a round-up of all the ugly and frequently dishonest right wing attacks on Obamacare after the Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that Americans would reduce their work hours by enough to equal 2.3 million full-time jobs because of it. After it became clear that they wouldnt get very far with the lie that these jobs would be lostbecause the hours cut back would be workers choosing on their own to work part-time or retire earlyconservatives switched their tune, painting Obamacare as a handout that discouraged people from an honest days work. This was no surprise, of course. If theres one position that will always be consistent in conservatism, its the position that holds that capitalists should be able to do anything in their power to undercut labors bargaining power. Squeezing as much work out of people as humanly possible for the lowest cost possible is possible the first rule of conservative ideology. So of course theyre against this. Being able to cut back at your crappy job where youre drastically underpaid to maximize your greedy bosss profits so you can do other thingsinclude, perhaps, go to school or pick up freelance work so that you can get a better and better-paying jobruns against everything that the right holds dear. Were talking about people who resist even the tiniest raise of the minimum wage. This is no surprise.
Which is why, while they come across as cartoon villains, I appreciated the conservative bloggers Edroso chronicles who just straight up admit that they disapprove of Obamacare because they want you to work your ass off at a menial, soul-destroying job for the privilege of not dying of cancer. Theres a refreshing honesty there that I can work with. More evil were the conservatives who concern trolled, pretending that they wanted to make you work more at a crap job for your own good.
At the New York Times, Ross Douthat worried that Obamacare might reduce financial hardship while actively disincentivizing upward mobility overall when a good is providedgratis theres always an incentive for some people to work less. Later Douthat explained that there were people we should want to be attached to the workforce, for their own long-term good and the good of the economy as well. He didnt tell us who that was, but we suspect if someone told Douthat himself to shovel coal 50 hours a week for his own long-term good and the good of the economy, he would swiftly preclude himself.
Its just a straight-up lie to claim that reducing ones ability cut back or even quit a crap job reduces economic mobility. As noted above, being able to cut back at work is exactly what a lot of people need in order to get more job training or even, you know, go to college. This will also help people with creative or entrepeneurial ambitions that dont have wealthy parents to cover bills like health insurance while they get their careers or businesses off the ground. Opposition to this has nothing to do with wanting people to better themselves. On the contrary, its about keeping it so that people are stuck in their crappy jobs with no leverage to make positive changes.
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Obamacare Allows Workers To Tell Bosses To Shove Off; Conservatives Are Angry. (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Feb 2014
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gwheezie
(3,580 posts)1. I might retire early
because of Obamacare, I can back off to part time and not have to worry about health insurance, I can buy an obamacare policy. My husband and I have pre existing conditions that we no longer have to worry about. Some younger person can take my full time hours.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)2. Did you forget to use the sarcastathingie? nt