Obamacare spurring
increased demand at food banks
Thomas Lifson
There is a group named "Thanks Obamacare" that is running
advertising in highly questionable taste encouraging young people to join up in
order to be able to be promiscuous thanks to "free" birth control
pills, among other dubious bits of advice. Well, here is something else we can
thank Obamacare for: more people needing the assistance of food banks. This
comes not from any right wing source, but from the Salvation Army in ultra-blue
Seattle, via MSM mainstay there, KIRO TV.
John Nicely writes:
The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is now being
linked to a new group of people depending on food banks. In the past
three months the already stretched-thin Salvation Army Food Bank in Renton has
seen an influx of a new type of client.
"What we're seeing is a lot of people
who've had their full-time hours reduced to less than 30 hours," said
Capt. Chris Aird of the Salvation Army.
That coincides with companies reducing workers'
hours in anticipation of the new health care law. The list of companies
reducing hours to less than 30 hours a week includes Trader Joe's, Dupont, IBM,
UPS, Walgreens, Home Depot, and Time Warner Cable, according to Reuters/Wall
Street Journal.
Well, we can cut President Obama just a little
bit of slack here. After all, he never promised that "If you like your 40
hour a week job, you can keep your 40 hour a week job," now did he? In
fact, nobody but us "right wing crazies" was warning the American
people that putting in a huge extra cost on giving people jobs for 30 hours a
week or more was going to result in people losing such jobs, and the inevitable
growth of part time work. That fully predictable outcome was something nobody
in the mainstream media wanted to hear. And we were called racists for pointing
it out.
So, if you've lost your 40 hour a week job and
are understandably having a hard time making ends meet on part time wages, you
can Thank Obamacare.
Hat tip: Roy Wilson
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