Okay, I know I am making light of this, but the spin is fascinating. The CBO report states that Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act will result in at least a 2.3 million job loss. Oops, realizing that Obama wouldn't like that, they immediately "clarified" that what they meant by "job loss" wasn't "lost jobs" or that workers would lose their jobs or work hours. They really meant that at least 2.3 million workers will be able to "transition" out of jobs that they would no longer need just to get their health insurance. They called it "job lock" and that is bad.
Now for the "contest" section: Just for fun, quit your job...no, really, Nancy Pelosi said you could. Okay, I know, you can't do that because you've grown accustomed to electricity and indoor plumbing, but let's play a game just for laughs and get in touch with your inner-Eloi. What would you do if you no longer had to worry about the mundane things in life and could do anything?
Oh, and great works that are already taken and are off-limits:
1. Gregorian chant
2. The Flying Buttress
3. The Sistine Chapel
4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
5. Kama Sutra
6. The Gettysburg Address
7. Saving the Delta smelt and/or the spotted owl
8. Twitter
9. Curling
Oh, and Tryanmax already called dibs on The Bible 1 3/4 - The Middle Testament, Mount Rush-even-more, and all the Dante's Inferno sequels from DI2: Hell Rising through DI5: Burnout. I call dibs on The Bible 2.0 - The Newer Testament.
In honor of the Sochi Olympics - On your marks, get set.......GO!!
Bev, I have definitely grown accustomed to indoor plumbing. It change my life.
ReplyDeleteSo what would I do? Well, if Uncle Sam is footing the bill, I'd probably become a revolutionary. That would be fun. I could blow things up and issue insane proclamations and then the government would need to send me a check each week to support my efforts to destroy them. :D
Poetry....
ReplyDeleteHad a job.
Obama helped me.
Ain't got no job now.
Mmm, Obama.
Oooooh, a Haiku, but someone took 3 syllables. Dang that IRS!
ReplyDeleteBev, Yeah, taxes are harsh on Haikus now that they need to pay for our job freedom.
ReplyDeleteObama is now
ReplyDeletePresident of the U.S.
We are unemployed.
There was a WSJ interview of an economist who has warned of job losses by ACA even before it was passed. He was ignored and only now is the CBO acknowledging it. He also states that 2.3 million job losses is on the low end of estimates. Look for that number to slowly rise.
ReplyDeleteHobbies:
ReplyDeleteCure cancer
Write poetry
Force schoolchildren to read my poems in school
Bring back the codpiece
Harness fusion energy
Win gold in downhill skiing
Frack the crap out of Vermont
Win staring contest with Putin
Give wife back rub (without reciprocation)
Find Biden's brain
Write a great American novel about gay morman cowboy waiters
It's Haiku Day on Commentarama!!
ReplyDeleteKit, as Andrew has already learned, the IRS will be contacting you shortly to deduct 3 syllables from yours. But otherwise, excellent until they remove at least one "Obama" of course.
Koshkat - Warnings, schmarnings...What do anti-Obamacare so-called"economists" know anyway. We were all warned all along. What we weren't warned about was the change in the definition of "unemployment" to the much more palatable and optimistic "optional employment". It's a change that only Orwell could truly appreciate.
ReplyDeletePardon me while I fire up the old quill and ink well. I feel a song coming on...
Just to clarify, that was The Bible 1⅔. If someone else wants to tackle ¾ they are welcome to it.
ReplyDeleteMy film school friends and I can finally make our sequel to The Passion of the Christ, titled 2 Passion 2 Christ. :-)
ReplyDelete(Some kids joked about this at the time - it wasn't my idea!!!)
But if I could do anything right now? Road trip! (Though if others quit their jobs, there wouldn't be anyone to work the roadside diners and gas stations.)
Sorry, Tryanmax, I stand corrected. But it's that 1/12 more Bible that could change the course of human history though...you might want to reconsider.
ReplyDeleteMST3K marathon?
ReplyDeleteSee, Scott, there is a downside to "optional employment"...no one to sell Stuckey's pecan log rolls.
ReplyDeleteT-Rav - You reach too high, too high indeed! It's better that you start smaller maybe just the first season to begin...
ReplyDeletepresident inherited a mess
ReplyDeletepromised to fix it with some finesse
he spent and he spent
and golfing he went
but his only advise was work less
^
ReplyDeleteWin!
Koshcat - EXCELLENT!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I was stuck on the last line for about an hour and then it just came to me out of the blue. Inspired by the Muse?
ReplyDeleteBev and Kit, Don't forget that "Obama" is a made up word so they could copyright it... like Propecia or Xanax. I believe David Axelrod holds the copyright.
ReplyDeleteKoshcat, That's brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI also love your list. LOL'd at that. :)
Scott, 2 Passion 2 Christ... a road trip movie. LOL! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteShouldn't that be 2 Passion 2 Christ - The Resurrection? [Are we going to hell for this?]
ReplyDeleteBev, Not for this, but for all the other stuff... yeah.
ReplyDeleteI would like to direct a movie with Keanu Reeves that doesn't bomb...that should keep me busy.
ReplyDeletePoint Break: The Matrix
ReplyDeleteFinally, the time and opportunity to build a four-field little league baseball park with fences (so kids can have the options for genuine in-the-park AND over-the-fence home-runs), and placing the stands behind first and third (so kids don't have to hear anyone but their coaches talking to and instructing them). Now about the money ...
ReplyDeleteP.S. I have it on semi-decent authority that Bob Loblaw, Esq., is willing to represent anyone who feels unjustly affected by "job block."
EricP - Do you have Loblaw's semi-decent contact info? I would like to sue someone for "Unjust Employment".
ReplyDeleteSounds right up his alley. Lemme get back to ya ...
ReplyDeleteFind Biden's brain
ReplyDelete@ Koshcat... I know everyone needs to dream big but reality must be accepted as a starting point. Maybe just re-think this one in light of reality.