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45263. concerned - 11/14/2012 1:49:53 AM Well, here, Wombat - add this into your mix:
Darden Restaurants has announced that its scaling many of its employees' workweeks back to 28 hours. They employ 185,000 people, and Kroger, which employs 350,000, will limit existing part timers and new hires to 28 hours a week also to avoid the $3,000 0bama Care Insurance penalty.
Yes, these people will technically still be employed, but total compensation for many of them will probably be half of what it would have been pre-0bamacare, and they will have to purchase their own health insurance without the benefit of receiving a group rate.
Tell me how this isn't a step backwards. 45264. Wombat - 11/14/2012 5:22:52 AM Well here, Concerned - work on your reading comprehension:
"Darden Restaurants, the company that operates Olive Garden, Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse restaurants in Atlanta and nationwide, is experimenting with limiting hours of some employees to avoid health care requirements introduced in the Affordable Care Act.
The pilot project is only occurring at a “select number” of restaurants, the Orlando Sentinel said, while the restaurant company determines whether it is a viable option. Under a provision of Obama Care that will take effect in 2014, all large companies must offer health care to employees who work 30 hours or more per week.
Orlando, Fla.-based Darden is the world’s largest casual dining company and has about 185,000 employees, the Sentinel said. If widely implemented, according to observers, the plan to limit worker hours could result in less-skilled workers and a higher turnover."
It isn't a step backwards. It's bait for morons who appear to read at a fourth-grade level. Note the terms "pilot program," "select number," and the last sentence of the article. Also note that the provision doesn't kick in until 2014, so Darden will have plenty of time to figure out whether this particular game will work. 45265. Wombat - 11/14/2012 5:28:31 AM At least the Darden story is from a reputable source, which is more than can be said for the Kroger story. 45266. concerned - 11/14/2012 9:29:56 AM Best not cast stones regarding 'reading comprehension', Wombat. 'Some' employees could easily be 'some' tens of thousands and certainly thousands - plenty enough to make my point.
It's a step backwards - only a tool would aver differently. 45267. concerned - 11/14/2012 9:42:12 AM
Look Who's Refusing To Compromise To Avoid The Fiscal Cliff
Look who's willing to damage the economy and hurt Americans to wage cultural war on capitalism: The Daily Kos, The Huffington Post, Paul Krugman and many other scumbags and their mouthpieces. As I've always maintained, it's all about power, nothing else, with the Left.
This is the type of crime against humanity that the Left always claimed only a conservative would perpetrate, btw.
Well, it turns out the amoral, ethics free Left was projecting all along here. It is Lefties who want to destroy the American economy in order to play scorched earth politics. They should at least have the honesty to own up to it in public if they do, but these liars won't.
45268. Wombat - 11/14/2012 3:27:49 PM Get back to me when they actually start doing this, Concerned. Until then, it is speculation and wishful thinking on your part.
The other alternative, of course, would be to actually obtain and help pay for health insurance for their employees. Some might see a competitive advantage in a workforce that feels their employer is looking out for them, as opposed to treating them as disposable parts. Like Starbucks, for example. 45269. judithathome - 11/14/2012 6:05:19 PM God, I don't know how much more of this stuff I can take...I've seen more gracious losers in a sandbox of three year olds.
Conn'd, you can't honestly think it is better for working people to be gyped out of their health insurance, can you? Do you think WalMart is a prime example of how to treat people working for their famlies? 45270. Ms. No - 11/15/2012 12:37:49 AM Corporate America and the wealthy have more money and lower taxes than they've had in the last 70 years and yet, here we are in a fiscal hole with high unemployment, high debt, and the constant refrain from the supply-side charlatans that we can only get jobs if we give more breaks to the 1%
Jobs are created by small business owners, 97% of whom make less than $250,000 per year. That's who needs the break, not Donald Trump.
45271. iiibbb - 11/15/2012 1:16:05 AM 
45272. judithathome - 11/15/2012 1:52:11 AM He ought to spend more time in trying to improve his lousy product than in carping about how many breaks he needs to get by...he makes the worst pizza on earth.
Screw him and the Republican party he rode in on. 45273. arkymalarky - 11/15/2012 1:55:21 AM I can't afford Papa Johns pizza. Or any other asshole CEO who tries to screw employees out of health care. May be time to quit Walmart again. 45274. judithathome - 11/15/2012 1:56:05 AM Remember when Romney went to Papa John's castle, swanned around the grounds, and said to all his cronies that were there that he wanted everyone to live like this? He was lying when he said it and I am so glad that we, the 47%, saw through his ignorant bullshit and dumped him on the ash heap of his completely, totally inept campaign. 45275. arkymalarky - 11/15/2012 1:56:25 AM Never had PJ pizza. 45276. arkymalarky - 11/15/2012 1:58:15 AM Like his pollsters, he was off by a few percent. Sucks to be him. 45277. concerned - 11/15/2012 2:13:50 AM re. 45269 -
You seem a little confused. It's your guy that's doing this with this oh-so-wonderful 'health' plan. I didn't vote for it. 45278. concerned - 11/15/2012 2:21:08 AM Re. 45274 -
..and voted for somebody with zero economic experience. I don't include flushing at least $5 trillion dollars down the toilet in 4 years applicable experience. And now 0bama's gearing up to flush another 4-6 trillion down the toilet the next four years. What's America going to be able to say about that? 'We spent $10 trillion dollars and all we got was this wad of toilet paper with 'FU' scribbled on it.' ?
And now 0bama and his minions are gearing up for total war on Republicans regarding the fiscal cliff. Screw the people who voted for him.
45279. concerned - 11/15/2012 2:22:28 AM And now 0bama and his minions are gearing up for total war on Republicans regarding the fiscal cliff and screw the people who voted for him in the process.
45280. concerned - 11/15/2012 2:24:17 AM And no matter what happens, 0bama is counting on good little 0bots to blame Republicans for everything. He's been pushing 'revenge' here, so he wants his 0bots to go crazy with the hatemongering. 45281. concerned - 11/15/2012 2:39:15 AM In the final analysis, totalitarians are depressingly the same. Why does the Democrat Party insist on bringing that crap to the US? 45282. iiibbb - 11/15/2012 2:56:02 AM For a chain, Papa John's is fairly decent, but his excueses are lame.
Message # 45274
Republican do realize that not everyone can be a millionaire... don't they? It's basically impossible.
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