A fast-food chain is slashing employee hours so franchise owners don't have to pay health benefits. Around 100 local Wendy’s workers have learned their hours are being cut. A spokesperson says a new health care law is to blame.

The company has announced that all non-management positions will have their hours reduced to 28 a week. Gary Burdette, Vice President of Operations for the local franchise, says the cuts are coming because the new Affordable Health Care Act requires employers to offer health insurance to employees working 32-38 hours a week.

http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Fast-...-185827392.html

We will see a lot more people with reduced hours this year! I would bet that a lot of them voted for Obama.

Any employer could predict this outcome. If the threshold for benefits is 10 employees? then there is little incentive to cross that barrier. If the threshold is 32 hours? there is no good reason in this economy to hire anyone for 33 hours or more.

Welcome to a permanent underclass working several jobs but unable to make ends meet and no hope for change.

This was SO UNNECESSARY!!!!

We have millions of fast food workers and others that will have their hours cut to stop Obamacare. In this economy, how are they ever going to buy homes and raise a family?
It's no wonder there's a dollar store on every corner. Most middle class Americans will be reduced to a much lower standard of living which will make the Obama's very happy!

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We have millions of fast food workers and others that will have their hours cut to stop Obamacare. In this economy, how are they ever going to buy homes and raise a family?
It's no wonder there's a dollar store on every corner. Most middle class Americans will be reduced to a much lower standard of living which will make the Obama's very happy!

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Viewing capitalism as an economic system that is inherently harmful to the natural environment, Holdren and Ehrlich (in their 1973 book Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions) called for “a massive campaign … to de-develop the United States” and other Western nations in order to conserve energy and facilitate growth in underdeveloped countries. “De-development,” they said, “means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.” “By de-development,” they elaborated, “we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.” The authors added:

"The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being."

On another occasion, Holdren, when asked whether Americans would "need to reduce their living standards," said:

"I think ultimately that the rate of growth of material consumption is going to have to come down, and there’s going to have to be a degree of redistribution of how much we consume, in terms of energy and material resources, in order to leave room for people who are poor to become more prosperous."

In 1977 Holdren and Ehrlich quantified their anti-capitalist philosophy in a mathematical equation, I=PAT, where a negative environmental impact (I) was the product of such undesirable factors as population growth (P), increasing affluence (A), and improving technology (T). In an effort to minimize environmental damage, they prescribed “organized evasive action: population control, limitation of material consumption, redistribution of wealth, transitions to technologies that are environmentally and socially less disruptive than today’s, and movement toward some kind of world government.”

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http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/indiv....asp?indid=2368

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My son. He serves at a high end rest and actually earns good money. He voted Romney.

Maybe now the little knucklehead will finish his education.

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A Taco Bell franchise in Guthrie, OK, is doing likewise.

Olivia commented, We have millions of fast food workers and others that will have their hours cut to stop Obamacare. In this economy, how are they ever going to buy homes and raise a family? The Huffington Post has an article about a woman affected by this new policy entitled, Taco Bell Franchise Cuts Single Mom Johnna Davis' Hours Because Of Obamacare which is a rather good summary of the impact of ObamaCare on fast food restaurant employees.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08..._n_2433947.html

He only works weekends and says he can make well over $2K easy during that couple days. Hell. That is better than I do some years.


FC, some years you don't make 2K for the entire year? How do you survive?