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WaPo Praises The Joy Of Being "Untethered" And "Unleashed" From A Job, The "Freedom" Of Unemployment
Now that the full court press to refute the findings of the CBO report which, as we reported, confirmed what was largely known - that as a result of Obamacare, the strapped US economy will have even fewer workers as millions will fall back on welfare state entitlements which make hard work obsolete - has failed, it is time for the propaganda to take a different track: one where not having a job, and in fact losing it due to Obamacare, is hailed as an act of nobility. Sure enough, here comes one of the administration's favorites, the Bezos Times, with "They quit their jobs, thanks to health-care law" which does largely as its name suggests: highlights just how "enabling" and "liberating" Obamacare is for one's life, once a person is no longer burdened by something as trivial as a job.
No, we aren't kidding:
Count Polly Lower among those who quit their jobs because of the health-care law.
It happened in September, when her boss abruptly changed her job description. She went from doing payroll, which she liked, to working on her boss’s schedule, which she loathed. At another time, she might have had to grit her teeth and accept the new position because she needed the health benefits.
But with the health-care law soon to take effect, she simply resigned — and hasn’t looked back.
“It was wonderful. It was very freeing,” said Lower, 56, of Bourbon, Ind., who is now babysitting her 5-year-old granddaughter full time. With the help of federal subsidies that kicked in Jan. 1, she is paying less than $500 a month for health coverage for herself and her husband.
One really can't make this up - it appears that in America's creeping transition to a socialist paradise, the new American dream is living on "Federal subsidies" (paid for by taxpayers) and government welfare. It gets better:
The White House and its allies argue that the government has a role in addressing a failure of the health-insurance market: the high prices and coverage restrictions that have kept health coverage out of reach for so many people. Like Social Security, which provides a safety net so people can retire, the health law may have the effect of leading some Americans to stop working, they say. But they called the impact positive, arguing that people have for too long been stuck in jobs that are a poor fit or that they dislike, simply for the benefits. While some people may make the calculation to just work less to keep more generous benefits, many will use their time to do something more productive, such as start their own business or take care of family members, advocates of the new law say.
“What the White House wants you to think is, if a person chooses to make less income, they must be doing something that makes them better off,” said former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, now president of the American Action Forum, a conservative policy group. “What conservatives would have you ask is, is it an appropriate use of someone else’s money to put you in that position to choose?”
The CBO acknowledged that there could be some positive economic impacts from unleashing people from their jobs but concluded that there was no good way to quantify that, and therefore left the number out.
Incidentally, "unleashing people from their jobs" may be the punchline of 2014. And why not, everything else is rapidly going to bizarro socialist hell. Actually, here is another punchline candidate: "tethered to a job":
Lower acknowledged that it has been harder to make ends meet without a steady paycheck. But she said there is no way to quantify the peace of mind she feels, now that she isn’t tethered to a job she hates and can help her daughter, a single mother who works full time, with child care.
Lower expected to miss her job. “It was definitely a scary move to make,” she said. “I’m a person who likes routine, and there definitely was an adjustment period.”
But upon reflection, she said, “I’ve adjusted well.”
We hate to break it to you, but "adjusting" to living on the welfare of others, while being untethered, and unleashed from the tyranny of working (hard) and paying taxes is not exactly training for the Ironman Triathlon. Also, the final outcome when the entire population becomes untethered and unleashed is rather unpleasant - just see every socialist paradise in history.
However, what is becoming clear is that slowly but surely, the entire process of labor and being employed is increasingly cast in a negative light: something which is not exactly surprising. At least not to our readers, because, sadly, we were once again just over a year ahead of the prevailing sentiment when, in November of 2012, we wrote "When Work Is Punished: The Tragedy Of America's Welfare State" when we said that "for increasingly more it is now more lucrative - in the form of actual disposable income - to sit, do nothing, and collect various welfare entitlements, than to work. This is graphically, and very painfully confirmed, in the below chart from Gary Alexander, Secretary of Public Welfare, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (a state best known for its broke capital Harrisburg). As quantified, and explained by Alexander, "the single mom is better off earnings gross income of $29,000 with $57,327 in net income & benefits than to earn gross income of $69,000 with net income and benefits of $57,045." That was then. Now we can add Obamacare... which will further help America's now almost extinct middle class get even more untethered and unleashed.
Of course, it is up to the likes of the Bezos Washington Post to make it appear that this is all not only perfectly normal, but noble and dignified.
Alas, as smarter people than us have pointed out, being untethered and unleashed only works as long as the system has other people's money to distribute to those who chose not to work and pay taxes. Once said money runs out , complete social collapse and revolution usually follows.
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I'm glad someone is supporting the economy.
I just wish there were more than a few dozen of us.
Hang in kai, this shit never works.
Its just an adapted version/re-run of Engels meets Buffet and they set up a bank so Uncle Sam can feel good about himself for a few generations or so...we just happened to fall on the back end of it here.
But hey!...its gonna be another great fireworks show! ;-)
All it takes is a spark;)
Wha...? I've been playing fappy bird for years, is there something new?
god damn my spastic fingers...
If you follow daily kos to get the fringe left perspective they believe when people no longer have to work unsatisfying jobs in order to pay the bills, that they will all be unleashed to pursue their dreams, and humongous economic growth and productivity will ensue.
Works just fine if you dream about crack and fat Ho's.
One good thing about this down economy is that it's finally driving out all the people who have no talent and shouldn't be in the art business in the first place. Dreams? That's for dilettantes and wanna-be poseurs who go to a for-profit art school to learn how to look and talk like an artist.
The only people who belong in the art business are those who would do it no matter what and are willing to wait tables or whatever it takes to support themselves while they put in the time and effort while they learn what they need to so they can produce work that is worth putting out there that other people will want to buy.
Most working professional artists I know have been at it for decades and they have the talent plus a real educational background and show records to back up their claims that they are indeed 'artists'.
When money got easy, it was too tempting for just anyone to slap paint on a canvas and proclaim it art. What bullshit.
When Pelosi made that statement about people being free to pursue their dreams of being poets and artists I nearly snorted coffee out my nose. Such horseshit, but I'm certain it played well in her home district full of wastrels.
Thanks Jena,
I'm of the writer persuasion. Couldn't draw to save my soul, but everything you said applies to the academics, posers and pretenders I know so well.
I always liked wastrel. A fine Anglo Saxon word which is rarely heard these days, unless you are talking about actors or politicians.
Happy Trails.
"Happy Trails."
Have to be of a certain vintage to hear that tag. Miss the breakfasts with Roy and Dale.
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More choice for the workers makes the wealthy cry.
They took our jobs.
healthcare portability has long been a conservative goal and now that the benefits are nill it makes it even easier to carry around with you.
So it is a compromise. Portable but empty. Like constitutional rights in the old Soviet Union.
Forward.
I thought it was the Fed's money. Keep on spendin'. Woo-hoo!!!
I am become death, destroyer of worlds Here is a short clip of Oppenheimer and his famous quote above. A reader has suggested the the strange head twist (at 14 seconds in) as he begins his statement of I am Become Death is actually the devil entering his body. It sure is odd. And look at his face, the stress, the introspection, the resignment.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/01/oppenheimer-and-trinity-nuclear-bomb.html
It actually feels very liberating to be free of a job ... As long as you have money, that is
Alas, without the money it's a different kettle of fish ...i.e. Terrifying !!
Very true. Although they do their best to make sure must have an income source of some kind by imposing a property tax. That way nobody can buy a place, raise chickens and a garden and essentially drop out. You still have to earn the coin of the realm to pay their property tax. The money vampires don't let go of any potential bodies to bleed dry.
On the positive side maybe all of the out of work folks move into the gray economy and help to crush the so-called legitimate economy that's full of parasitic, meaningless "jobs" that keep this crony/colonial capitalist shitpile going. Then maybe we can move onto something that is freer and better suited to everyone instead of just those at the top.
+1
For... practical creativity.
we have a winner!! it's the only solution, George. we should all strive toward a de-financialized economy.
The 1st rule of Fight Club is... you do not talk about Fight Club.
Finally watched 'Fight Club' two days ago...deeply disturbing.
Now I understand how fucked up Zero Hedge really is. Semper Fi.
So... if you manage to make enough cash in the gray/black market to pay your property taxes, without showing a source of income to be taxed...
you can expect a visit from the IRS SWAT team?
how does the IRS know it was 'you' who sent in that payment and not some anonymous benefactor doing you a solid? you must not be familiar with HSBC's laundry services.
My plan is to pay off the house, raise chickens and tend my garden while welfare pays the property taxes.
"Forward"!?!
FSA FSA FSA !
If you like not keeping your job, then you can not keep your job.
"We're from the government and we're here to help!" This phrase (and its intended punchline) will be making a comeback.
Meanwhile, Humana will begin tapping ObamaCares "risk corridor"...right on schedule.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2014/02/06/obamacare-bailout-for-one-insurer-450-million-in-2014/
The end is near.
How can a country survive this madness?
It cannot, and we all know where this ends.
sschu
It ends with mass graves.
Same as it ever was.
Little different.
INhospitable now the new death camp, unless you are still useful for labor battalion .
Old days state recidavists were shot but now do you get organ harvest and then prison tested nighty night injection.
What's your life expectancy if your are "admitted" to an American hospital.
Sweet Jesus. As my eldest son says of the lottery, "a tax on those who can't do math."
Better than in an a hospital in any other country, bar none.
witb 8 billion people mass graves is a foregone conclusion.
I started to read the comments section on the WaPo article. Had to stop as I was unable to stomach the insanity. I suspect they article is getting "jammed" by true believers in this idiocy.
But I fear many people really buy into this nonesense, which is the most disturbing part.
sschu
Underlying belief system,
Whitey pays.
Hope the old job is still waiting for them once this piece of shit is repealed.
to the wapo:
Get A Haircut And Get A Real Jobhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp_MVMzHu1c
"Walking Dead"...Someone in the military, please unleash the "Walker Virus". If you could start in DC, thanks.
i have some money from hard-work gotten gains...i tried not working for 9 months..it was neither liberating nor enabling. first three months = party town, next three months = ok..what shall i do today, next three months...sheesh this is dull...
maybe if nobody works then we can all steal each others food or squat in each others houses, well until someone else's food runs out and everyone's house turns into a sh*th&le...one small step for qe, one giant leap for mobocracy.
Going on 2 years. Half of the year it is great but these 6 month long winters in Wisconsin can drive anyone bat shit crazy
6 months Wisconsin, 6 months Brazil...
Anything's possible
In our clinic the fun is already starting. They took on every obamacare person that called for an appointment. About fifty percent of our bills to United Healthcare have come back with "we cannot identify this person as covered by our insurance"
I have thought in the past that shit cannot get any crazier. And I was always wrong. We have just barely entered bizarro world. It will get crazier.
Don't worry. They signed up for Obamacare. It's just sitting in their shopping cart. You should get paid in 4 years or so.
Don't worry if half of them don't pay: You'll make it up on volume!
Truly juvenile thinking. When I was 18 years old, I though that by being yet another statistic on social security, I could bring the state down. However, I had merely become a ward of the state, a dependent.
Anyone who thinks losing your means of supporting you and yours is on drugs.
It is all about the freedom to walk away from your ball and chain, otherwise known as your job, without the fear of losing your healthcare.If you are going to leave the workforce you clearly must feel financially secure.And then by retiring from the workforce you open up a position for the twenty somethings who are desperate for work.Win-win.
Yes, we are at the apex of American savings and fiscal health! We all have fared so well we can just quit and enjoy the fruits of our savings!
http://m.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/many-americans-accumulating...
WAPO CHOSEN FOR IRONY
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/
READ SLOWLY
Agree. The last thing employers want are employees with choices. It's nice for producers to have workers who are cornered. Life is so much easier for employers when they're labor pool is desperate.
"Dat's the way you do it, get your money for nothing and your chicks for free". DS
look at the inverse correlation between prices of the S&P and myredbook since QE started and it's pretty much true already.
Who knew future productivity would consist of babysitting and selling ironic vintage items on Etsy. The construction industry is such a nightmare I've thought about retiring my hammer, but this whole time I should have been building kitschy dog houses. It's also hard to get a gig playing real music, on ya know, real instruments, fuck it, I should just become a "DJ". I also grow organic veggies that go for $1-$6 dollars a pound, but I should have been growing pot for $5000 bucks a lb...What's wrong with my priorities, now I can't even deposit into my MyRA.
If Vicki Nuland's antics didn't cut it for you already along with the last 5 years of the "Obama-thon", then this article in Wa-Po certainly tells you how far off the reservation, or unmoored from reality we as a heavily medicated Nation of peoples have become.
If it gets any worse, I want to know where we can find Philip Seymour Hoffman's dealer!
How is everyone going to contribute to MyRA when no one has a job?
Where the hell are you Lou when we need you most?
Good thing he isn't around anymore to see what has happened to this fiasco since 2008!
As the saying goes, he's probably spinning in his grave so fast he has his own gravitational force.
They'll give you less on the ole EBT card and rake it off into your MyRA account.
So on this new government imposed starvation diet (lets call it MyEmaciationPlan for now) the poorer class obesity levels drop, thus being less of a burden to ObamaCare insurers and .gov can say "See, toldja! Our bonds are being snapped up by patriotic Americans eager for .gov to breach yet another debt ceiling."
Its like eugenics meets government accounting gimmickry on steroids, its all explained in the marketing brochure you can find down at your local SSI & post offices ;-)
You're a disturbing influence on my thougts...what you just described is very close to the truth. I think you nailed what Obamanism will do. Taking the Free Shit Army's benefits and front loading MYRA on it. Guaranteed by the US Taxpayer.
You're an evil genius.
The gov't will pass a Retirement Fairness Bill - .gov will contribute to MyRa for unemplyed. Dude, pay attention :)
Dear Zero Hedge anarchists, anarcho-capitaliists, libertarians,
THIS is what your ideology enables.
CREATING - much less KEEPING - LIMITED GOVERNMENT requires constant vigilance.
People are HUMAN, not angels. That includes YOU and me.
On behalf of the 240-year heritage of the United States of America, "thanks" (/s) for making this possible.
Dont blame just the few you mention. Maintaining limited government and avoiding the huge concentrations of wealth that ultimately kill republics was a pipe dream. It takes a lot of energy and vigilance to stand still. Both the left and the right are to blame.
Dear Carl (nice moniker!),
True enough, but I tried to tailor my comment to the folks at ZH reading this.
Falls on deaf ears, judging by the down thumbs (like I care!).
I was only trying to point out the counter-productive, self-destructive (but ego-flattering) nature of those ideologies found among those groups mentioned.
What's your ideology? You seem to have everyone sized up in a nice blanket assessment. You're so witty. Typical asshole who calls names and provides no thought. You have it fuckin figured out, grow a set and state it.
The US Constitution is a failed experiment. Having three separate branches of government does nothing to limit the size and power of government.
The supreme court has let the document get very twisted, to the point where "interstate commerce" means, "any and all commerce" AND now even non-commerce(Roberts' Obamacare treachery).
SCOTUS didn't "let" the Constitution get twisted as if they were passive onlookers. They were the one doing the twisting!
So downmods, please tell me how the 3 branches have worked to limit the size of government because I'm not seeing it.
wtg Polly, I wouldn't want to work on your pos ex boss's schedule either.
She can thank me for subsidizing her. I suppose I should be happy that I am able to do so.
At some point when the cart becomes too hard to push I will try to jump in and ride instead.
the moar the merrier
Weekends seem to be filled with Drudge-like analysis here at ZH. Obamacare and other government handouts are a means for the Fed and its owners, and the multi-national corporations who have enriched themselves at the expense of the middle class, to avoid revolution.
Except it only delays revolution, not avoids it. Eventually they run out of other people's money, and god knows they'll never spend their own on this.
Thus the hollow points and FEMA camps. It's all part of the plan. Sad to see ZH feeding at the trough of blaming the entitlements that are a tool to enslave the masses, without so much as a mention of who really benefits from it.
You have a selective memory of ZH articles
No he's got it right. We have the usual Marc Faber and Snyder articles. We have added a few page boomers though. The Myra stuff alongside a the bank teller who dropped a nail gun and met a grisly demise.
ZH seems to have lost the plot sometime in the past year or so. Tyler himself seems to have a selective memory of what he has posted. It went from a site that had a clearly identified enemy/cause (the FED, BOTH corrupt parties, cheating mega corporate/oligarchs, all working hand in hand to keep the masses enslaves, dumbed down and retarded) to one that seems lately to focus entirely on Obama and Obamacare.
What's next ZH, endorsing whatever retard the Repulicans present as the "free market" candidate?
Seems to mirror the transition from Ron to Rand. From highly principled logic to wildly swinging.
Those on the left/right plantation never seem to understand that all welfare is corporate welfare. The whole point is divide and conquer. If people were actually aware Jamie Dimon was the biggest welfare queen there is, we might actually have a revolution.
Janie Dimon and other financiers
Fed Reserve
MIC
Post secondary education
Healthcare
There is a lot of competition for biggest welfare queen.
+ It's all subsidized now. .gov owns it.
The inmates are truly running this asylum.
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Nonsense.
There is nothing wrong with government providing healthcare.
In your idealized jungle there is no healthcare, and life for the animals is cruel. Let's hope humans are one step above that.
I'd like to see these corporate "wealth creators" try to make a dime if we pulled every gov't stimulus, subsidy, tax break and what not from them. Oh, pull QE's, TARPS and every other bailout too. I have a feeling most of them would drop dead in 4 hours w/o gov't.
The big joke about corporates...they NEED gov't just to survive day to day.
Sad to see ZH feeding at the trough of blaming the entitlements that are a tool to enslave the masses, without so much as a mention of who really benefits from it.
At this point does Tyler really need to?...
+1
For...
Obamacare and other government handouts are a means for the Fed and its owners, and the multi-national corporations who have enriched themselves at the expense of the middle class, to avoid revolution. -- LetThemEatRand
...and continue enriching themselves.
I agree with your other comment too, except why limit it to weekends?
Delay, yes, avoid, no.
"We have a two-guillotine garage."
When the American dream becomes unemployment, the American nightmare is to work supporting others.
Eventually no one works (on the record, anyway.) I think we know how well that pans out.
The money ran out a decade ago, hence the 18 trillion debt.
But the fantasy won't end until everybody refuses to accept the bogus notes the treasury issues.
I thought the money ran out at the first issuance of debt based currency. They just kept a ponzi going for the illusion of solvency.
It can go on longer than most of us can imagine. Look at Argentina now about to default for a third time in 32 years.
We should all hope the ponzi can continue for a while longer. Can you imagine life in the USA when the average person no longer trusts those green pieces of paper with numbers on them?
Let the sheeple trust those green pieces of paper, while we stack!
VINTAGE 80'S MOUNDS & ALMOND JOY COMMERCIAL SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE A NUT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOJAxformw (0:33)
How did the black guy get in the shower? Lots of white faces in that "vintage" commercial.
TX might just be pussified.
Rand Paul warns Texas Republicans, 'Your state could turn blue'http://news.yahoo.com/rand-paul-warns-texas-republicans-39-state-could-2...
If we give people free stuff, why would they want to compete with each other to offer their labor at the lowest possible wage? Can we at least bring back the poor laws, and the work houses, and the treadmills?
A bunk in a poor house would cost local taxpayers $200/person/night.
We have a shelter in our mini slum. Runs about $50k/bed/year. Not including all the "programs" the unjoblocked are signed up for. All in, shelter, disability, cop emergency visits, SS... $100k/person/year. At least.
Wake up.
See NYCity shelter boondoggels.
You, sir, may be the one who needs to wake up. Effective poor laws and proper union work houses are disincentives to sloth. What you describe could only increase the rate at which the poor shirk their duties and prey upon the kindness of those who toil tirelessly to provide for their estates. I will endeavour to support the establishments I have named, and the bad-off must endeavour to go there, or if they should rather die, then they had best get to it.
S-REX
How about couch methane collectors?
It's the 21st Century!
Pitch in MOAR!
Perhaps we can get a local franchise!
http://img.moonbuggy.org/its-a-fart-collector/
The new power grid.
They don't work or pay taxes; however, they still can vote.
I think it was Hamilton who wrote that if we allow people without property to vote, they will just vote to take away the property of others.
Those damn know it all founders.
We've been down that road before, and look where it got us. Only land owners should have the right to vote.
People wanted fundamental change. We have fundamental change, and the hangover is going to be hell.
The propagandists should take into consideration that at some point they cross a line and become complicit in the crimes of the pols, crats and banksters and will face the same fate.
We, the American people, are watching and listing.
"The first ride on the guillotine is free."
ah the smell of unemployed pussy is in the air and now i can focus on impregnating at twice the previous rate now that im unencumbered from work....amerika great place ..... gold and pussy in the street.... negrodomus strikes AGAIN
Man, the bullshit is so deep you gotta have a huey to stay above it.
Forward, Nazobamunism!
Sieg Heil!
at what point do I get 'untethered' to my debts?
The morons who wrote this crap should be "liberated" from earning a living, forever!
The bomb about to go off is the subsidies this woman is now fortunate enough to receive (at my expense) will turn out to be far, far larger than initially thought, bringing the entire program down even faster, and accelerating the move to single payer.
Let's be frank: gas chambers and ovens for the bottom 80% of the world's population would pretty much solve the problems for the remaing 20%. In fact, keep 10% of the lower classes to continue to provide landscaping, fruit picking, and hotel cleaning services, and reprocess the other 70% into food. I wonder how long soylent green lasts, and what the productions/storage/distribution costs would be?
Costs of SG production could be substantially reduced,,,with a generous enough subsidy?
If it would require a subsidy, better scotch the idea. Alternatively, we could convert the surplus into fertilizer.
OK YOU CAN BE FIRST!
For QA assurance sake!
7 billion people x 70% = 4.9 billion
Assume each person produces 100 lbs of protein (wildly inaccurate but this is fight club) = 4.9 x 1011
4.9 x 1011 / 2.1 billion remaining = 233 lbs of protein per person
USDA says 2-3 oz per serving of protein. So say 8 oz / day.
So the 70% can feed the remaining 30% approximately 433 days = about a year and 2 months (roughly).
Do you plan on keeping the 70% alive (and feeding them) until processing time?
$500 per month is the initial price what if it is $800/month one or two years from, a not unlikely possibility or you have to use that health insurance and now have a $3000 deductible to pay and...no job? This is mindless optimism from a Obama retard.
Of course Gramma is just gonna get the deductable from her Daughter for whom She actually now baby-sits for in order to receive her health. The 'insurance' is basically devoid of value and the deductable is effectively an out of pocket payment for care as would be in a case of NO 'insurance'.
Economies would work just fine if we did not have to send everything upstream to the elite through fractional reserve banking. How insane is it to give the power to print money to a psychopathic elite who charge interest to print it out of thin air and loan it to us?
We would not need all the social programs, as wealth would remain in the hands of the people, and families would have enough wealth to help their own. Things are so upside down and inside out, its staggering.
An ant hive is clearly more intelligent than the Washington Post...
Boy do I have mixed feelings about this...
I have no doubt that Obamacare will be bad for the economy.
However, in the last 30 years, I've probably only had "real" jobs for about 5 - the rest of the time I've been a contract worker/entrepreneur, working for myself. I got healthcare either through 1.) my wife's job 2.) part time teaching gigs at various colleges and 3. taking real jobs for a year or so, till I couldn't stand being told what to do by some moronic middle manager, and then doing COBRA. It's always been a scramble. My wife has been working contract for 10 years now so #1 is no longer an option. #2 is also out as I once I found out the college I was working for was owned by Goldman Sachs, I burned my bridge. Right now I'm on COBRA, and will switch to Obamacare when it runs out.
I hate "real" jobs. Jobs are for suckers, and for those who don't have the smarts and balls to make their way in the world.
I've done very well for myself as an independent contractor, despite some rough times - some of them health related so yeah, so thank god there's no longer such a thing as "pre-existing conditions."
So, despite loathing Obama, and the mess that is Obamacare, I must admit that I am one of the ones that actually WILL be freed by this. I am ecstatic that I will never have to take a "real" job ever again.
For all the poor bastards who will get laid off at Walmart or wherever, my condolences.
Flame away mofos!
I know what you mean. Having been an independent contractor Fo20 years I have lived it also. Thank goodness my wife carried the ins.
There's no winning. Like Vegas, all ties go to the house.
Sorry, that kind of nuanced observation isn't allowed on ZH. If Ayn Rand wouldn't have approved then it's not allowed to be expressed here.
It's allowed just like me calling you a lazy piece of shit who encumbered the country in a shitty law by proxy which furthers our decline while making It tougher via rising taxes for the productive. Enjoy your health care asshole. Read up on dying empires and what occurs afterwards to the citizenry. Healthcare will take a back seat to feeding yourself.
tangent : there's an interesting battle going on right now with the Freelancers Union & Issa over Obamacare.
http://nypost.com/2013/06/12/escaping-obamacare/
The political irony is thick enough to cut with a knife: One of New York’s leading Democrats is seeking to spare a successful small-group insurance plan from the devastating impact of President Obama’s “affordable” health law. By extension, of course, that law is just as devastating for the numerous other small-group plans in New York (and across the country) — plans that won’t rate special treatment once ObamaCare takes full effect next year.
http://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/2014/02/05/obamacare-co-ops-plagued...
Documents obtained by the Committee show that Freelancers Union sought to further the group's "power in markets" and "power in politics" through the CO-OP program. Freelancers Union, by transferring CO-OP funding through one of its subsidiaries, received approximately $25 million of taxpayer funds.
'tis a pity ya got join a gang to get anything done in this country. 'tis also a pity that an independent contractor has to defend a deeply corrupted piece of legislation just for the sake of being able to receive some reasonably-priced healthcare. straight through the Overton Window we go.
When single payer comes along, I'm sure you'll fare just fine.
I know three people who have quit their jobs and retired thanks to ObamaCare. They have the money to retire, but not to pay what the medical industrial complex demands. That is three job openings for younger people. It is a mixed bag for sure.
Those three jobs won't be restaffed because it's easier and more lucrative to sit on your ass and collect goodies, healthcare, and other handouts from Barack.gov. Why is this so fucking hard for some people to grasp???
Those jobs have been restaffed. The one couple I know the best are paying for ObamaCare what husband and I paid for Cobra when we retired. I have never understood why insurance companies jack the price up for "individual" policies with all kinds of we won't pay if rules and selll to corporations for a fraction of the cost. As to sitting on their asses, they are following a dream they had. I know of no other programs they are on. Too young for SS, Medicare and are not eligible for Medicaid.
If I am so "free" and "unleashed", why is the government, at all levels, still telling me what to do?
What ever happened to fucking your way to the top?
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more!
Well, he hands you a nickel
He hands you a dime
He asks you with a grin
If you're havin' a good time
Then he fines you every time you slam the door
As usual, some brilliant minds on display on this Sunday Comment Board...good lord, if this is what we have to work with after the Grand Reset, then you might as well stay in your bunker.
"One really can't make this up"
Oh, of course one can.
There's an entire campaign of Obamacare Success Stories that used to crow about how easy it was to enroll, how the process was not that painful, how helpful the people on the phone were. It was amazing to read how some poster's husband or son or third cousin once removed was able to get better coverage for less money. Well written and organized well.
The current iteration is 'give it a chance' or 'it's better than it was' or 'they'll have to make it better'. None of which are true.
They're pushing the federally subsidized private health insurance, which can only go down from here. The subsidy that they're taking out of the Medicare trust fund will, of course, come out of senior's care, and the general fund tax money from Medicaid will have to be 'borrowed' from the Fed.
The Scary Clowns will huff and snarl about citizens taking federal money, covering up that it goes into the insurance companies' increasing profits.
The Well-meaning Dolts will follow Barry is saying 'give it a chance.'
Which would be a great signal to go long insurance corporations, except bonus. Much bonus.
1976 Weather Underground movie. The gang gets together in a safe house and makes a movie glorifying Socialism, drinks coffee and brags about being professional revolutionaries. I threw up I to the back of my mouth when they started quoting Mao. How they got out of jail time for slinging bombs is a mystery
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Drcnp3ik4Tc
Um, what about that pesky little thing called a paycheck? How is losing that a good thing?
Next you can be unthethered from your house or apartment! And then the repo man will unleash you from your car! Enjoy the freedom of not having to eat three meals a day!
Truly unbelievable.
Section 8 housing, what car? SNAP card!
This is the new normal.
The small public transit bus will take you to all your appointments at no charge. Who needs a car?
Voluntary unemployment is a wonderful thing. If you have a stash of money you can explore the world. I've done it repeatedly and highly recommend it if you have the ability. The first step is to become debt free.
Fuck waiting to be debt free, Barry's got your back homey. Perpetual vacations for all!
Krugman on board, say it ain't so... http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/432919/february-0...
Can't we just skip the collapse part and move straight the revolution part?
FUTURE BREAKING HEADLINE:
WaPo Praises The Joy of Being "Conscripted" And "Drafted" From A Jobless and Depressed Economy, The "Freedom" of Global War.
LOL
Fuck em'. Fuck em' all.
I have nothing else.
Yeah, but can you eat your healtcare!...I'd rather have my "EBT" card!!
can I have both?
a workers paradise without the workers
Skullfuck all these editors who with their scribble are sounding boards for their masters who test whether the despair at this country's condition has sunk in.
Motherfuck them and all they hold dear.
Three out of five jobs in USSA look a lot like digging holes and filling them back in. Or playing on Facebook. So who gives a shit really?
Hmmmm, if we do not need to work anymore, then why do we need all of those "immigrants" to work for us? There is too much circular logic going on here. BTW, I will never order anything else from Amazon again.
This country is cooked, done, put a fork in it.
the "Blame Obama" meme is pretty played out by now, wouldn't you say fellas?
the guy's a fucking instrument, and anyone with an IQ above 120 should be able to see how obvious that is.