Editorial by Stephen Frank—We are becoming a nation of Part Timers

Editorial by Stephen Frank—We are becoming a nation of Part Timers

Stephen Frank, California Political News and Views 11/30/12

Thanks to ObamaCare, restaurant workers are becoming part time workers. Lower wages, no benefits, no health care. They will be forced to receive welfare and government assistance.

Now, the same push is being made on retail workers and many “professionals”. Unions are killing jobs at Los Angeles area ports and manufacturers like Hostess. Money stolen from honest workers, by extortionist unions, is used to elect legislators that protect unions, raise taxes.

Yet, there is one policy that is doing the following: making us a nation of part times, making us a nation where we can only “afford” government healthcare, making us a nation where bureaucrats—not medical professionals—make medical procedures and medicinal decisions. Obamacare.

I learned two lessons in Economics One. First, that government is the leak in the economic garden hose.

Second, EVERY DOLLAR OF TAXATION IS A DOLLAR LESS OF FREEDOM.

Thanks to the California “Exchanges”, mandated by Obamacare, the cost of private insurance has gone up by 25%-so far. In the past when insurance companies raised rates the Democrats yelled and screamed, demanding investigations and arrests. This time, not a single word of protest.

As the cost of insurance goes up, more firms are dropping coverage for their employees. These employees still must, under Obama’s terms either pay a large “fine” for not having health insurance (the insurance must meet the standards of the government NOT the needs of the policy holder) or pay an outrageous price for private insurance. Since they are only part time folks, they will pay a fine and go on the government dole—allowing government to determine what medicines they are allowed to take and procedures to be undertaken.

Already Barack’s War on Women Death Panel has stopped women with certain types of breast cancer from receiving life savings drugs. The Obama War will take their lives—unless they go to another nation to get the needed medicine.

Starting in a month Medicare will add a 3.8% surcharge on your taxes—that is money you would use for food, private education, housing and to build a better life for your family.

A dollar of taxation is a dollar less of freedom.

When Obama, like Arnold and Jerry, institutes a form of cap and trade, the cost of business will go up—to pay for the credits—with the government taking its cut before the winners get lucky, the losers are poorer and families’ standard of living continues to drop.

President Obama is looking to increase taxes by $1.6 trillion over ten years and “look” for waste and cuts of $400 billion—a net of $1.6 trillion since government never cuts real money, just cuts increases.

This means that he wants $1.6 trillion transferred from businesses and families to government. Government is bigger, families poorer and business cut back expansion and jobs to pay for the tax increase. Oh, he wants larger taxes on the very rich—the same folks who invest their money to create businesses and jobs. In otherwise, Obama wants to tax the “seed grain” of our economy.

All of this shows that government is taking away our rights via taxation. The more money government takes, the less freedom you have. Angry yet?

The way to a better, more secure life is through economic freedom. Lose that and you lose choice of education venues for your children, health care quality for yourself and the basic human right to live life as you want—as long as you harm no one. Government is the enemy of freedom. We need a limited government, not a Nanny State government.

Which do you choose and why aren’t you working hard to get it? If you don’t work for your own freedom, why expect anyone else to do it for you?