Injury to Insult

IRS Warns: Obamacare Tax Must Be Paid with Tax Return

If you like your money, you can keep. . . ahh, no. You can't.

Hot Pants

“There is absolutely no evidence and every economist will tell you this, that there is any job loss related to the Affordable Care Act." - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

To lie like that when we have President Obama's record of always telling the tru. . . Oh. Nevermind.

Today's "The Gift That Keeps On Giving"

The University's AVP for Human Resources is circulating a memo reminding units that come January 2014, a provision of the Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare) will require health insurance be provided for anyone working 30 or more hours a week (assuming 40 hours a week is full time.) If the University system does not offer medical coverage to 95% of all of these “full-time” employees, then there will be an annual penalty of $2,000 for every “full-time” employee or approximately $37,000,000. Thus part-time employees will now be limited to 29 or less hours of work a week and this will be rigorously watched.

Son of Schadenfreude

Further discussion of the cut in teaching hours due to Obamacare:

"[T]his seems to fly in the face of the spirit of the ACA, something odd from a traditionally liberal organization. Not only will this keep more folks from getting health insurance, the pay cut will make it harder to afford it on your own."

Them unicorn farts don't smell as sweet as you thought they would, eh, Spanky? Maybe you're starting to realize that Obamacare was not about getting health insurance to more people but about growing government. But Big Government is Good Government, right? Right?

Today's Schadenfreude

As I've indicated here in my blog, I'm adjunct faculty (among other things) at IUPUI. Yesterday the following was asked on the adjunct faculty mailing list:

Heard a rumor that the University will be limiting part-time faculty to a max of six credit hours per term, so they will not have to offer healthcare benefits under the Affordable Care Act. Has anyone else heard whether this is true or not?

While one of the directors of a program that hires a large number of adjunct faculty looks into the veracity of this, I note that such cuts have been reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Huffington Post and other news sources. Considering the political persuasion of almost all my faculty colleagues and how most of them likely voted in the last two presidential elections, all I have to say is:

Thanks, Suckers!

Just saw this on Facebook:

Mom With Cancer Gets Insurance Help For Transplant

That's what I like to hear! I'm waiting until my deleterious lifestyle results in heart disease and cancer so y'all can pay for my care! Crap, I may take up smoking cig-s again! Yeah! Thank you, Jes. . . .er. . . Obama!

Where's my free stuff?

There seems to be a lot of confused people out there:

Health care overhaul spawns mass confusion for public

"They're saying, 'Where do we get the free Obama care, and how do I sign up for that?' " said Carrie McLean, a licensed agent for eHealthInsurance.com. The California-based company sells coverage from 185 health insurance carriers in 50 states.

. . . .

"We tell them it's not free, that there are going to be things in place that help people who are low-income, but that ultimately most of that is not going to be taking place until 2014," McLean said.

Wait a minute! I thought there was a crisis and that's why this had to be rammed through? Now these poor folks aren't going to get their stuff, much less free, until 2014? My reponse:

André Carson Is A Lying, Race-baiting Weasel

Julia's little grandson was part of the Black Caucus "March for Fascism" on March 20th just before the Obamacare vote. He said:

. . . that as he left the Cannon House Office Building with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a leader of the civil rights era, some among the crowd chanted "the N-word, the N-word, 15 times."

As Gateway Pundit points out:

The Black Caucus members and democratic-media complex STILL have not provided any proof that the N-word was said once, let alone 15 times, as Rep. Andre Carson claimed.

So André, with all the filming that took place around your little march, PROVE that someone called you names. I dare you!

Members of the Community

You know, I think much of the rancor against the Democrat legislators who voted for Obamacare comes from the misapprehension that they're out of touch, that they're not part of the community, that they're not our neighbors. I think this could be corrected by a nice database on the Internet listing their home addresses and home phones. Maybe pictures of their houses as well. Whaddaya think? Hmmmm?

Monday Night Tunes

Apropos.