Obama Care will it hurt the economy?

[low drag]

I think Obama care will crush our economy however I will gladly eat crow if it does not. I'm trying to get my friends and coworkers to save their receipts. Keep a power bill, grocery receipt and gas receipt. Note the cost of a unit of electricity and gas, a gallon of milk along with other basic items and gasoline. I'm putting it in my income tax folders so I can find them to compare against receipts a year or two from now. If I'm not paying considerably more for all those basic items I'll gladly eat crow.

[Colorado Osprey]

You bet its gonna hurt the economy and make unemployment worse too.

Companies that didn't provide health care who were keeping some employees on to streamline efficiencey, but weren't essential; these employees are at great risk of loosing their jobs. Unfortunately many of the employees don't even know they fall into that catagory!

How about all those companies that keep employees at 36 hours so they didn't have to pay beni's. I bet a lot of those loose their jobs as well if they are required to now provide health insurance for them too!

Any change in employment numbers will hurt the economy.

[Troublco]

I see a number of small businesses that have just been hanging on through this economy folding unless the economy comes back in a big way, which I doubt will happen very soon.

[Pistol Packing Preacher]

I hear crow meat is cheap...

Pass the bowl...

[Irving]

Does the bill say anything about companies being required to pay for employees health care?

[ronaldrwl]

Does the bill say anything about companies being required to pay for employees health care?

I thought that was the good part? Business won't have to pay for health care. The governement will.

[Troublco]

I thought that was the good part? Business won't have to pay for health care. The governement will.

Okay......and where does the Government get its money?

Taxes.

Or if you live in Colorado, I guess they call them "Fees" now.

[Batteriesnare]

Okay......and where does the Government get its money?

Taxes.

Or if you live in Colorado, I guess they call them "Fees" now.

Yup.

[Zundfolge]

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

The cost of this healthcare law is going to be severe. Once the debt and deficits pile up to the point where the US looses its AAA credit rating our economy WILL collapse.

In all seriousness, this new law will likely bring America to the same condition as Germany in the late 1920s ... if we're lucky.

Chances are if America gets too weak we'll end up at war with the Chinese or Russians ... or we'll end up their slaves.

Obama's goal is to destroy America. I fear he has laid enough ground work that he will succeed regardless of the elections in November and 2012.




Some here will poo-poo what I've said as paranoid hyperbole. I hope you're right, but I doubt you are.

Maybe we'll get lucky and Christ will return before things get too bad ... that or we'll be invaded by aliens (that always seems to bring folk together)

[Hoosier]

Maybe we'll get lucky and Christ will return before things get too bad ...

Trade me a gun now, and when the rapture happens I promise to come rescue your pets (and your other guns) to keep them safe in the lawless world to come.

H.