"Job Lock" ? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

Not surprising. Didn't she say something like freelance poets and photographers now won't have to worry about making ends meet thanks to Obamacare (total paraphrase)??

eta: yep knew I wasn't crazy

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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

-Nancy Pelosi

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You are being force fed a crazy suppository too big for your rectum to swallow without some complaints from it. That will require another pill to be swallowed. Good Luck!!

i love when they try to establish the new catch phrases

however, the problem with their argument is that "job lock" is a function of government policies. if "job lock" is an issue, then they should have addressed the policies that lead to "job lock" and not create more government to create more perverse incentives

more government trying to fix the failures of government

These people are suffering from brain lock. Although tbh, Nancys job ain't that much harder or different than an unemployed poet.

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Heard the perfect summation of the liberal mindset on the radio yesterday evening. Liberals desire total freedom....from responsibility.

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Right for them. But, they want others to be responsible to pay for everything and do everything. They are the ultimate infants and they want to be taken care of from birth to death.

Someone has to be responsible and if you are not responsible for them, then you are evil.

Oh, as long as you don't tell them what to do. Just pay for everything.

Every Liberal is, in essence, an 18 year old college freshman at a Northeastern Ivy League college who has Daddy paying for everything while they take classes on Marxist-Feminist poetry and have sex with whoever they want with no consequences while they fight the man using Daddy's credit card. That is Liberalism in a nutshell and, for them, it is the essence of salvation. And, they want everyone to have the same experience and promote their "religion" with missionary zeal trying to convert the whole world.

It is disgusting.

it is true that employer-based insurance is an incredibly powerful incentive to work and to keep your current job, if your only other options are either no insurance or maybe medicaid.

that incentive has been weakened, and now we see an estimated reduction of ~2 million jobs (per CBO) over the next several years because of it.

that might be great news for an aspiring poet, but that doesn't make it good policy

I'd like to have one of the resident Liberals justify this shite....

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only that it was incentive for current workers to remain where they are

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this is true. the part of your post i was contesting was this:

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reduction of ~2 million jobs

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Which is GOP spin.

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if it's spin, it's CBO spin. not GOP.

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incorrect sir.

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The CBO was very clear about what this means: “The estimated reduction stems almost entirely from a net decline in the amount of labor workers choose to supply, rather than from a net drop in business’ demand for labor, so it will appear almost entirely as a reduction in labor force participation and in hours worked relative to what would have occurred otherwise rather than as an increase in unemployment.”

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Here's another example of conservative spin:

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The conservative Washington Times, for instance, featured this headline: “Obamacare will push 2 million workers out of labor market.” That has the distinction of being not only untrue but also the very opposite of the truth. Workers are choosing to cut back hours -- not being pushed to do so.

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Both parties do this... its no secret. you just gotta do a little work to understand the truth.


here's the link to the Yahoo aricle where i found this info. LINK