Right Wingers eating crow on price of gasoline. $1.39 in Indiana.

[Ray From Cleveland]

No, what I wanted was government to stay out of my life so I could have health insurance. I had health insurance all 55 years of my life until the Commies came to power. Thanks to them, now I have none.

You had employer based health insurance until your boss told you that you are nothing to him so given an opportunity he cut your salary for no other reason than to be a greedy Republucan pig. Yet you keep working for your Uncle Scrooge instead of finding some pride and self initiative and searching for s new job.

I have had three business owners screw me over three times in my life so I went and found a better corporation to work for or modified my employment skills.

One time it was not about money - the Republican Reagan loving prick forced me to cancel a week's approved vacation between Christmas and New Years to be with family in Ohio? He said I had to bid a job that week. Then we did not bid it.

For three months I searched for a better job and moved from Chicago to Huntsville Alabama for less money but I didn't work for a prick and added more skill sets to my resume. Then something real good came along in Southern California and for the second time I was working in the best place in the country.

You've been walked on by your boss and it certainly looks like you are content to be his rug.

You had health care for 55 years - are you counting 18 years insured by your parents

Yes I am. Been covered (now) most of my life.

When you get older, see how easy it is for you to find another job slick.

But even if I were younger, thanks to Commie Care, any employer can pull the rug out from under you in a moments notice. It happened to two other people that I know of.

So you go out, get another job which might not be as nice as the one you had before. Now that employer decides he too is going to drop health insurance a year or so down the road, and then you are right back to where you started, just at the bottom of the ladder instead of the top. So what are you supposed to do, keep switching jobs? Yeah, employers love that on a resume.

Health care benefits were a must for employers to get half-way decent employees because they knew most people didn't have a choice with the exception of those who were on their spouses plan at their job. Other than those people, no good worker would accept any job that didn't have that benefit.

Commie Care changed all that. Now potential employers just tell people they have to get their own insurance on Commie Care, and it's no longer their problem. As I said, providing health insurance was a big pain in the ass for employers, but they had to provide it or do without good workers.

My employer did the same as many others, and the same as many who will in the future unless we can get conservative leadership to reverse all the damage this big eared Commie has done to this country and our people.

 

[Mertex]

Ray 13169042

Well congrats, according to the White House, Commie Care made 10 million more government dependents, so I guess you have some celebration to do there.

What ten million are you speaking for?

Don't expect links.........they get all their info from Faux News!

 

[Mertex]

No, what I wanted was government to stay out of my life so I could have health insurance. I had health insurance all 55 years of my life until the Commies came to power. Thanks to them, now I have none.

You had employer based health insurance until your boss told you that you are nothing to him so given an opportunity he cut your salary for no other reason than to be a greedy Republucan pig. Yet you keep working for your Uncle Scrooge instead of finding some pride and self initiative and searching for s new job.

I have had three business owners screw me over three times in my life so I went and found a better corporation to work for or modified my employment skills.

One time it was not about money - the Republican Reagan loving prick forced me to cancel a week's approved vacation between Christmas and New Years to be with family in Ohio? He said I had to bid a job that week. Then we did not bid it.

For three months I searched for a better job and moved from Chicago to Huntsville Alabama for less money but I didn't work for a prick and added more skill sets to my resume. Then something real good came along in Southern California and for the second time I was working in the best place in the country.

You've been walked on by your boss and it certainly looks like you are content to be his rug.

You had health care for 55 years - are you counting 18 years insured by your parents

Yes I am. Been covered (now) most of my life.

When you get older, see how easy it is for you to find another job slick.

But even if I were younger, thanks to Commie Care, any employer can pull the rug out from under you in a moments notice. It happened to two other people that I know of.

So you go out, get another job which might not be as nice as the one you had before. Now that employer decides he too is going to drop health insurance a year or so down the road, and then you are right back to where you started, just at the bottom of the ladder instead of the top. So what are you supposed to do, keep switching jobs? Yeah, employers love that on a resume.

Health care benefits were a must for employers to get half-way decent employees because they knew most people didn't have a choice with the exception of those who were on their spouses plan at their job. Other than those people, no good worker would accept any job that didn't have that benefit.

Commie Care changed all that. Now potential employers just tell people they have to get their own insurance on Commie Care, and it's no longer their problem. As I said, providing health insurance was a big pain in the ass for employers, but they had to provide it or do without good workers.

My employer did the same as many others, and the same as many who will in the future unless we can get conservative leadership to reverse all the damage this big eared Commie has done to this country and our people.

That's a lot of hooey.......conservative candidates claim they are going to repeal Obamacare but they won't....they know that many people are satisfied with their new coverage and will not let them...they're just feeding you the slop you're used to getting from them. Employers who have more than 50 employees are required to provide Obamacare and will pay a bigger fine if they don't.......those smaller companies that have less than 50 employees aren't required to provide health insurance, but you now don't need them to, you can afford it on your own. Your employer is not too smart if he is dropping health coverage for no good reason....get a job with a smart employer.


BUCHMUELLER: The Affordable Care Act distinguishes between large and small employers, where large employers are defined as those with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees. For smaller firms, there’s no requirement to offer health insurance but there are some incentives. There’s SHOP exchanges, which are a new insurance option for small employers run as part of the state exchanges. Small employers with low-wage workers can qualify for premium tax credits if they purchase through the SHOP exchange. And so both of those factors would lead to tilting the needle in the direction of more small employers offering health insurance.

Indirectly, there’s going to be an effect through employee demand. And here, there are effects going both directions. Some workers from small firms will see that they’re better off getting a premium tax credit if they go through the exchange. And they’re going to prefer that their employer doesn’t offer health insurance — that they offer cash wages instead and then they go off to the exchange and buy coverage.

On the other hand, other workers that aren’t eligible for large exchange tax credits will decide that they want their employers to offer insurance because of the individual mandate. As the penalty for individual mandate over time becomes more significant, you’re going to have more employees taking up coverage offered through work and more employees wanting their firm to offer coverage so that they won’t be subject to the penalty.

Large firms will face a penalty if they don’t offer insurance at all or if they offer insurance but it’s not considered affordable to their employees. But most large firms now already offer insurance. Over 90 percent of firms with 50 or more employees offer coverage. So for most large firms that currently offer coverage, these new penalties are not going to be binding.

NEWSHOUR: Let’s talk about how employer-sponsored coverage has changed over time even before the law. Exhibit 1 in your analysis shows the percentage of private sector workers receiving offers of health insurance in both 2000 and 2011.


Will Your Employer Drop Coverage Under Obamacare? | PBS NewsHour

 

[NotfooledbyW]

Yes I am. Been covered (now) most of my life.

When you get older, see how easy it is for you to find another job slick.

But even if I were younger, thanks to Commie Care, any employer can pull the rug out from under you in a moments notice. It happened to two other people that I know of.

So you made it to 55 years old and don't have any marketable skills and you were so naive that you thought your small company boss would take care of you for the rest of your life. It's hilarious that you reject organized labor for unskilled workers and believe that your greedy small business owner would reward your hard work and job loyalty just because he cares more about his employees than he cares about fattening his own personal family fortune.

Did you ever confront your boss as to why with such low fuel prices he had to cut your wages? Or are you afraid of him/her whatever? I changed jobs at fifty - told my employer to take his job and shove it. Been doing real good ever since. Real good.

Your 'poor me' story doesn't cut as an anti/union crybaby Republican. Instead you should support the party that will do some good for the working class. If you are able bodied and willing to work hard - Republicans will do nothing for you but Democrats will. Republicans favor the pricks like your boss.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Yes I am. Been covered (now) most of my life.

When you get older, see how easy it is for you to find another job slick.

But even if I were younger, thanks to Commie Care, any employer can pull the rug out from under you in a moments notice. It happened to two other people that I know of.

So you made it to 55 years old and don't have any marketable skills and you were so naive that you thought your small company boss would take care of you for the rest of your life. It's hilarious that you reject organized labor for unskilled workers and believe that your greedy small business owner would reward your hard work and job loyalty just because he cares more about his employees than he cares about fattening his own personal family fortune.

Did you ever confront your boss as to why with such low fuel prices he had to cut your wages? Or are you afraid of him/her whatever? I changed jobs at fifty - told my employer to take his job and shove it. Been doing real good ever since. Real good.

Your 'poor me' story doesn't cut as an anti/union crybaby Republican. Instead you should support the party that will do some good for the working class. If you are able bodied and willing to work hard - Republicans will do nothing for you but Democrats will. Republicans favor the pricks like your boss.

That's the problem, people did vote for the "party of the working class." That's why I don't have health insurance anymore. Now if people were smart and voted for the party of the so-called wealthy, I would still have my insurance today.

You leftists are so duped. You don't examine what your leaders are doing, just what they say they are doing. Yeah, party of the working class that's allowing illegals and legal immigrants in undercutting pay for real Americans. The party that is still responsible for record poverty, record number of government dependents, a median income that actually lowered throughout your leaders near eight years in office. A party where the rich have never gotten richer.

Just let me remind you of what your party is all about: taking from the producers and giving to the non-producers. It's what Socialists and Communists believe. And when they act on their platform, you say blame the productive individuals that were attacked in the first place.

You are a typical liberal if there ever was one.

 

[Mertex]

That's the problem, people did vote for the "party of the working class." That's why I don't have health insurance anymore. Now if people were smart and voted for the party of the so-called wealthy, I would still have my insurance today.

You leftists are so duped. You don't examine what your leaders are doing, just what they say they are doing. Yeah, party of the working class that's allowing illegals and legal immigrants in undercutting pay for real Americans. The party that is still responsible for record poverty, record number of government dependents, a median income that actually lowered throughout your leaders near eight years in office. A party where the rich have never gotten richer.

Just let me remind you of what your party is all about: taking from the producers and giving to the non-producers. It's what Socialists and Communists believe. And when they act on their platform, you say blame the productive individuals that were attacked in the first place.

You are a typical liberal if there ever was one.

You don't have insurance because you don't want to pay for something worthwhile........I thought right-wingers didn't like free stuff? The ACA is there for everyone to take advantage of....and if we had voted for Romney, you might not even have your job....unless you like moving to China.

 

[KissMy]

Wages rising & prices falling creating more disposable income instead of having to live paycheck to paycheck & going bankrupt over doctor visits. Thank you Obamaocrats for helping the working class instead of subsidizing the Rich job destroyers.

 

[Synthaholic]

Republican healthcare plan: Don't get sick.
If you do get sick: Die quickly.

Thank you, Rep. (soon to be Senator) Alan Grayson.

 

[Vigilante]

What Obumble policy brought the price of oil down?

 

[NotfooledbyW]

Ray 13218140

Now if people were smart and voted for the party of the so-called wealthy, I would still have my insurance today.

Your boss cut your wages. You must not be worth keeping or he knows you are a sheep. That's why you don't have health insurance. millions more are now insured and the rate of increase for US health care costs and federal outlays for healthcare has fallen dramatically. Prior to the ACA health care costs were rising much faster than all other costs. The rate of increase was not sustainable. If your boss was on such a thin margin he couldn't afford to stay in business. If your boss was not on a thin margin he should not have cut your paycheck and he is nothing but a greedy prick.

With gas prices falling your prick boss ought to pick up some group insurance for his less than fifty employees. But he won't as long as his employees are so eager to blame Democrats for being screwed.

 

[NotfooledbyW]

Vigilante 13223984

What Obumble policy brought the price of oil down?

Solar produced energy is up 2000 percent under Obama. Higher fleet mileage for cars sold in the U.S. means demand for fossil fuels is down which contribute to lower prices. The Iran nuclear deal provides another producer contributing to the global oversupply. Oversupply keeps prices down.

 

[Vigilante]

Vigilante 13223984

What Obumble policy brought the price of oil down?

Solar produced energy is up 2000 percent under Obama. Higher fleet mileage for cars sold in the U.S. means demand for fossil fuels is down which contribute to lower prices.

What is that .04 of the energy we need? Is that like if we INFLATE OUR TIRES TO THE PROPER TIRE PRESSURE and got regular tune ups (We haven't needed tune up since the 1990's!) we could save just as much!...You are a TROLL aren't you?

 

[NotfooledbyW]

Ray 13218140

Yeah, party of the working class that's allowing illegals and legal immigrants in undercutting pay for real Americans.

Cite, please. Some solid statistics that you must have at your fingertips.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Ray 13218140

Yeah, party of the working class that's allowing illegals and legal immigrants in undercutting pay for real Americans.

Cite, please. Some solid statistics that you must have at your fingertips.

You obviously know me very well:

Report: Immigrant workers account for all employment growth since 2007

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Vigilante 13223984

What Obumble policy brought the price of oil down?

Solar produced energy is up 2000 percent under Obama. Higher fleet mileage for cars sold in the U.S. means demand for fossil fuels is down which contribute to lower prices. The Iran nuclear deal provides another producer contributing to the global oversupply. Oversupply keeps prices down.

And that over supply was due to Fracking which DumBama and Democrats hate. It has very little if anything to do with what you listed above. And BTW, Iran reneged on their agreement with us.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Ray 13218140

Now if people were smart and voted for the party of the so-called wealthy, I would still have my insurance today.

Your boss cut your wages. You must not be worth keeping or he knows you are a sheep. That's why you don't have health insurance. millions more are now insured and the rate of increase for US health care costs and federal outlays for healthcare has fallen dramatically. Prior to the ACA health care costs were rising much faster than all other costs. The rate of increase was not sustainable. If your boss was on such a thin margin he couldn't afford to stay in business. If your boss was not on a thin margin he should not have cut your paycheck and he is nothing but a greedy prick.

With gas prices falling your prick boss ought to pick up some group insurance for his less than fifty employees. But he won't as long as his employees are so eager to blame Democrats for being screwed.

Actually my boss increased my wages in an attempt to provide me with sufficient funds to buy my own plan. However, Commie Care never made any provisions for such a change.

You see, Commie Care was designed for one reason and one reason only: to create as many government dependents as possible and screw the people who once made sure they had coverage through work.

So the only way my employer could transfer the money he used to pay for medical insurance was a wage increase. However, in doing so, my employer had to consider all the additional costs with such a wage increase and deduct that from what he used to pay for coverage.

He had to deduct the additional money he had to match for my SS contributions, the additional money he had to match for my Medicare contributions, the additional money he had to pay for unemployment insurance, the additional money he had to pay for my workman's compensation insurance, the additional money he had to pay into my retirement plan.

Now after all those deductions, I ended up with shit. On top of what was left over was taxed because it is considered wage. Then you add in the change in medical deductions under Commie Care which means you need a minimum of 10K in medical payments before you can claim any deductions.

In short, our medical benefits are now greatly taxed meaning it's not nearly enough money to provide what I had before. What I had before was pre-tax money dedicated to my health insurance exclusively.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Republican healthcare plan: Don't get sick.
If you do get sick: Die quickly.

Thank you, Rep. (soon to be Senator) Alan Grayson.

Democrat healthcare plan: force people to buy health insurance they can't afford, and when they don't buy it because they can't afford it, take money out of their income tax income refund that many depend on.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Wages rising & prices falling creating more disposable income instead of having to live paycheck to paycheck & going bankrupt over doctor visits. Thank you Obamaocrats for helping the working class instead of subsidizing the Rich job destroyers.

So do tell: how do we have more disposable income when the median family income is lower than when DumBama took office?

 

[Jackson]

Ray 13218140

Now if people were smart and voted for the party of the so-called wealthy, I would still have my insurance today.

Your boss cut your wages. You must not be worth keeping or he knows you are a sheep. That's why you don't have health insurance. millions more are now insured and the rate of increase for US health care costs and federal outlays for healthcare has fallen dramatically. Prior to the ACA health care costs were rising much faster than all other costs. The rate of increase was not sustainable. If your boss was on such a thin margin he couldn't afford to stay in business. If your boss was not on a thin margin he should not have cut your paycheck and he is nothing but a greedy prick.

With gas prices falling your prick boss ought to pick up some group insurance for his less than fifty employees. But he won't as long as his employees are so eager to blame Democrats for being screwed.

Actually my boss increased my wages in an attempt to provide me with sufficient funds to buy my own plan. However, Commie Care never made any provisions for such a change.

You see, Commie Care was designed for one reason and one reason only: to create as many government dependents as possible and screw the people who once made sure they had coverage through work.

So the only way my employer could transfer the money he used to pay for medical insurance was a wage increase. However, in doing so, my employer had to consider all the additional costs with such a wage increase and deduct that from what he used to pay for coverage.

He had to deduct the additional money he had to match for my SS contributions, the additional money he had to match for my Medicare contributions, the additional money he had to pay for unemployment insurance, the additional money he had to pay for my workman's compensation insurance, the additional money he had to pay into my retirement plan.

Now after all those deductions, I ended up with shit. On top of what was left over was taxed because it is considered wage. Then you add in the change in medical deductions under Commie Care which means you need a minimum of 10K in medical payments before you can claim any deductions.

In short, our medical benefits are now greatly taxed meaning it's not nearly enough money to provide what I had before. What I had before was pre-tax money dedicated to my health insurance exclusively.

What????

Then you add in the change in medical deductions under Commie Care which means you need a minimum of 10K in medical payments before you can claim any deductions.

I am so grateful I did not have to go on Commie Care! I pay $20 for any Dr. visit, tests, xrays, etc. and surgeries are like $40. and the rest is paid by insurance. What's more, is that prescriptions that cost $1,100, I pay $90 and the rest are $10.00. No minimums, I'm in a union that had a waiver like so many lucky others, like congress.

 

[Mertex]

Ray 13218140

Yeah, party of the working class that's allowing illegals and legal immigrants in undercutting pay for real Americans.

Cite, please. Some solid statistics that you must have at your fingertips.

You obviously know me very well:

Report: Immigrant workers account for all employment growth since 2007

The Washington Examiner is a "conservative" rag that obscures facts to propagate their own views.

If Republicans were so concerned about illegals taking over the jobs, they would move a little faster toward "immigration reform" - instead they just drag their ass and work on repealing Obamacare, over and over, as if eventually their repeals will pass.

(Definition of insanity.....doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results)!

The real reason that Republicans don't work on immigration reform....

Why, then, do many House Republicans oppose comprehensive immigration reform, as presented in the Senate bill?

It’s because House Republicans aren’t motivated by true conservatism. Rather, they represent constituencies haunted by anxiety associated with the perception that they’re "losing their country" to immigrants from south of the border.

The Republican Party is 89 percent white, and 97 percent of Republican House districts in the 113th Congress have white majorities. Moreover, 67 House Republicans won seats with the support of the Tea Party. And people who are highly identified with the Tea Party are anxious about Latino immigrants taking over “their”country. In some instances, Tea Party groups are leading the charge against comprehensive reform.

Nativism enjoys a strong presence in the Tea Party Caucus among House Republicans. Indeed, according to the most recent data gathered by the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR), approximately 70 percent of the House Tea Party Caucus overlaps with the anti-immigrant House Immigration Reform Caucus.

If opposition to immigration reform is motivated by conservatives' concern with law and order, as House Republicans claim, we should observe no differences between Tea Party and non-Tea Party conservatives in the mass public on immigration policy, but that’s not what’s happening.

A national survey I conducted revealed significant discrepancies between Tea Party conservatives and non-Tea Party conservatives, especially when it comes to “illegal” immigrants and immigration policy:

• When asked whether or not "restrictive immigration policies are based in part on racism," 40 percent of non-Tea Party conservatives say that racism has something to do with restrictive immigration policy versus 18 percent of Tea Party conservatives.
• Almost two-thirds (66 percent) of Tea Party conservatives want to eliminate birthright citizenship (part of the 14th Amendment) versus 46 percent of non-Tea Party conservatives — a 20-point difference.
• Only 30 percent of Tea Party conservatives support the DREAM Act versus 50 percent of non-Tea Party conservatives, another 20-point difference.

It’s clear that Republican constituents are fraught with anxiety induced by the perception of a cultural threat. To verify this point, I probed how Tea Party identifiers felt about “illegal” immigrants’ presence in America. When asked about how they feel about “illegal aliens,” it turns out that 82 percent of Tea Party identifiers are either anxious or fearful of them.

The (Real) Reason Why the House Won't Pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform