Not hiring full time employees is not a new thing caused by obamacare. It's what the retail and food industries have been doing for ages to avoid having to give their employees health coverage and other benefits. Cutting hours so that someone is working part time hours does the same thing. It's a money making technique. They milk you for all of the work they possibly can at minimal hours and as low of pay as they can. That ensures that the company makes more in profit than it pays out to its employees. Wal-Mart is a really good example of this. Before Sam Walton's death Wal-Mart was a good place to work. Workers got good hours, good pay, benefits. After his death they're lucky to get their discount card without being fired for bullshit reasons.
It is rare for a major corporation to do what is in their employees best interests. The way our capitalism works is companies are charged with ensuring that their investors and share holders get paid by any means nessicary. This means that greed is easy to come by in corporations. Corporations cannot function well and make the money they want to if they have to pay people a livable wage.
In order to combat not making enough to live on the government created what we now call welfare assistance, and food stamps. The official title for these programs are Temporary Assistance for Need Families, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program respectively.
Many republicans want to cut spending on these programs as well as medicaid and medicare, both funded by the government. Doing so would drop thousands, if not millions, into poverty. Men, Women, and Children would go without food, homes or healthcare. They want to cut funding to them, or cancel them all together. What about military spending? The mere mention of cutting the billions that we spend on military spending and the government goes, "Woah! Wee need that money to keep us safe!"
So they keep us safe by invading other countries to look for one man and his cronies who are hiding at home? Right, and I'm the rightful king of scotland. Where do we draw the line? When do we realize that it is time for the people to do our duty and empty the government of everyone in it and start over? When are we going to realize that unrestrained capitalism is what is destroying this country? Not the liberals. Not the conservatives. Not those who have relying on government assistance programs. Not even the bloody terrorists. Companies who make billions and contribute nothing to society or to helping people are the worst problem we face here because they have a long leash.
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