{"id":21839,"date":"2014-02-07T21:19:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T02:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21839"},"modified":"2014-02-07T21:19:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T02:19:20","slug":"creative-spinning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21839","title":{"rendered":"Creative Spinning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonah Goldberg<\/a> posted an article at National Review<\/a> today indicating his choice for “word (or phrase) of the year.” He admits it’s only February, but he is convinced that “joblock” will be the winner.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Congressional Budget Office<\/a> issued a politically explosive report this week, finding that Obamacare<\/a> will reduce the number of hours Americans<\/a> work by the equivalent of 2.5 million full-time jobs. This is different from killing 2.5 million jobs, Obamacare defenders are quick to insist. This will be a shortfall on the supply, not demand, side. In other words, people with health insurance<\/a> will opt not to work in certain circumstances if they know they won\u2019t lose their coverage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…House minority leader Nancy Pelosi<\/a> says the CBO report vindicates Obamacare, because \u201cthis was one of the goals: to give people life, a healthy life, liberty to pursue their happiness. And that liberty is to not be job-locked, but to follow their passion.\u201d Pelosi is particularly invested in this view. She\u2019s been mocked for years now for her repeated claims that Obamacare is an entrepreneurial bill because it would let Americans quit their jobs to, among other things, \u201cwrite poetry.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good grief! Mr. Goldberg goes on to point out the irony of wanting people to have the freedom to quit their jobs and write poetry while at the same time forcing them to buy health insurance for conditions they are not physically able to have.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Which is why the real CBO story should be: \u201cThat awkward moment when everyone realizes Obamacare was a huge mistake.\u201d The same CBO report projects that by 2024 the number of non-elderly uninsured will be \u2014 drum roll<\/a>, please \u2014 31 million Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why all of this talk of Democrats<\/a> as the Job-Lock Liberators is pathetic and hilarious at the same time. Virtually every promise has been broken, every prediction falsified. And now, at a time when millions want work that doesn\u2019t exist, Democrats are claiming victory by trimming the amount of work actually being done.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hopefully voters will look for ways to liberate these Democrats from the curse of job-lock come November.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What a wonderful idea!<\/p>\n

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