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Obama’s New Delay of Employer Mandate Violates Plain Language of Law


February 10, 2014 - 6:14 PM

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By Terence P. Jeffrey
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President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama’s Treasury Department issued a new regulation today that for the second time directly violates the plain and unambiguous text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by allowing some businesses to avoid the law’s Dec. 31, 2013 deadline to provide health insurance coverage to their employees.

Initially, on July 2, 2013, the administration unilaterally delayed the deadline for the employer mandate until 2015. Now, the administration is unilaterally delaying it for some businesses until 2016.

In its official summary of PPACA, the Congressional Research Service said: “(Sec. 1513, as modified by section 10106) Imposes fines on large employers (employers with more than 50 full-time employees) who fail to offer their full-time employees the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage or who have a waiting period for enrollment of more than 60 days.”

The text of the law itself describes an “applicable large employer” as follows: “The term ‘applicable large employer’ means, with respect to a calendar year, an employer who employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees on business days during the preceding calendar year.”
The final words in the section of PPACA mandating that employers with more than 50 full-time employees provide their employees with “minimum essential coverage” imposes a specific statutory deadline for doing so. It says: “EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to months beginning after December 31, 2013.”

Last summer, the administration unilaterally moved this hard statutory deadline back one year to 2015 for all employers with more than 50 full-time employees. Now, without any action by Congress, the administration is moving it back again for some employers—despite the plain language of the law.

The Treasury Department has issued a fact sheet explaining how the Obama administration’s new declaration changes the meaning of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The fact sheet says:
“To ensure a gradual phase-in and assist the employers to whom the policy does apply, the final rules provide, for 2015, that: The employer responsibility provision will generally apply to larger firms with 100 or more full-time employees starting in 2015 and employers with 50 or more full-time employees starting in 2016.”

The fact sheet goes on to say:
“To avoid a payment for failing to offer health coverage, employers need to offer coverage to 70 percent of their full-time employees in 2015 and 95 percent in 2016 and beyond, helping employers that, for example, may offer coverage to employees with 35 or more hours, but not yet to that fraction of their employees who work 30 to 34 hours.”
It further says:

“While the employer responsibility provisions will generally apply starting in 2015, they will not apply until 2016 to employers with at least 50 but fewer than 100 full-time employees if the employer provides an appropriate certification described in the rules.”
And also:

“Employers that are subject to the employer responsibility provisions in 2015 must offer coverage to at least 70 percent of full-time employees as one of the conditions for avoiding an assessable payment, rather than 95 percent which will begin in 2016.”

In sum, the law says that employers with “at least 50 full-time employees” must provide “minimum essential coverage” in the “months beginning after December 31, 2013” or pay a fine. The new declaration from the Obama administration’s Treasury Department says this part of the law no longer applies. It says employers with between 50 and 99 employees need not provide coverage until 2016 and larger employers need only provide coverage to 70 percent of their employees next year.

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Pelosi thinks it's great that ObamaCare is costing people jobs February 11, 2014

You Lost Your Job, Now Party

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Tad Cronn


Leave it to Democratic politicians to suggest that not only is the record number of people leaving the labor force not a bad thing, but that the continuing loss of jobs and reduction of hours because of their policies is "a great opportunity" to finally kick back and relax.

Not only has the vernacular being thrown around Washington circles changed from talking about people being fired to people being "freed" from a job, but we're being told that the policies created by the Obama Administration and the Democrat-led Congress are important to American society because they allow parents to come home and "actually be able to cook dinner."

I don't know about you, but whenever I've felt a burning need to relax and cook dinner, I managed to do it outside of work hours. Apparently, Democrats don't know how to do that without being fired or having their work hours cut. That's not a bad idea in the case of Democratic members of Congress, but for most of us, it raises a question about being able to afford the food to cook during all those fancy family meals.

Rep. Keith Ellison, on "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," defended Obamacare, which according to the Congressional Budget Office is going to eliminate millions of jobs in the next few years, saying, "We are going to have parents being able to come home, working reasonable hours. People are going to be able to retire. People might actually be able to cook dinner rather than have to order out and get some takeout."

Reality check, Keith: If people are cooking at home more often, it's not because of the "great opportunity" you've given them, it's because no one can afford fast food, which is already overpriced and is only going to get more expensive when you morons raise the minimum wage.

Of course, Ellison didn't have this brilliant bit of brain flatulence alone. The entire party is taking its cues from the reptile queen, Mrs. "Unemployment Checks are Stimulus" herself, Nancy Pelosi, who last week said, "What we see is that people are leaving their jobs because they are no longer job-locked. They are following their aspirations to be a writer; to be self-employed; to start a business. This is the entrepreneurial piece. So it’s not going to cost jobs. It’s going to shift how people make a living and reach their aspirations."

(Take it from a self-employed writer: All you people who populate Pelosi's fantasy world need to get real jobs, because you're driving my wages down.)
Multimillionaire Pelosi continued opining on the state of America's unemployed: "This 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."

Straight from the horse's mouth: One of the goals of Obamacare was to reduce the number of people working so that we could become a nation full of writers.

Ellison also pushed this notion, saying we shouldn't fret over the lack of jobs due to Obamacare because "if you look at international comparisons country by country, Americans work way more that the average of industrialized countries around the world."

It's interesting to note that President Obama, in discussing his plans for usurping Congress' powers in his recent State of the Union address, brought up a proposal to reorganize federal job training programs. Evidently the White House feels not all of the unemployed are cut out to be self-employed writers.

(In fact, the current government programs, at least in California, have been pushing the long-term unemployed to train as teachers. Now there's a shortage of available teaching positions. More government planning in action.)

The Democrats' response to the continuing deterioration of the employment landscape is schizophrenic. It has to be. On the one hand, they'll boast about the low unemployment percentage (obtain through the magic of statistics), then blame the GOP for the shrinking labor force participation rate. They'll boast about the couple of dozen people who have successfully signed up and paid for their Obamacare plan, then turn around and claim the millions of job-hours it will cost Americans are a "great opportunity" to have a backyard barbecue.

If the Democratic Party ever started dealing in the plain, unspun truth, its members would probably implode like the Nazgul in "Return of the King."
The day the president and every Democrat in Congress loses his job -- now that will be a day to party.

http://godfatherpolitics.com/14310/lost-job-now-party/


I think she should lose hers first, she is a dimwit!!!!

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WND Exclusive

Will Obama not leave office after 2016?

Fear stoked that president will violate constitutional term limit

President Barack Obama

For the second time this year, talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh has expressed his fear that President Obama may not step down when his term ends in 2017.

To make his point on his national broadcast Tuesday afternoon, Limbaugh cited Obama’s three-year extension of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate.

video at link below

This extension, said Limbaugh, is a cynical ploy to “make sure this law doesn’t harm him and his party politically.
It’s also is “impossible to implement, and “proof that [Obamacare] is a disaster, it’s an albatross.”
So, not surprisingly, Limbaugh continued, “they’re delaying [the full implementation of Obamacare] until Obama’s gone.”
“Although what evidence do we have that Obama’s leaving?” Limbaugh added provocatively.
Adopting a whining, skeptical voice, Limbaugh mimicked naysayers: “‘Well, Rush, the Constitution says … .’
“But the Constitution also says he can’t do what he’s doing here. The text of Obamacare specifically prohibits what Obama is doing. But very few people are talking about that. ”
To those who fail to acknowledge the true seriousness of the matter, and grumble about Obama’s “political maneuvers,” Limbaugh scoffed “he’s making illegal maneuvers. This is not legal. This is not permitted.”
However, Limbaugh added, the average person doesn’t seem to care about whether or not the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer is himself a lawbreaker – or even violating the Constitution he swore under oath to defend.
In January, Limbaugh had mused on the air that after Obama leaves office in 2017, he would still be treated as if he were still president by most of the media.
After all, Obama had declared his intention to stay in Washington, D.C. after the next election.
“Can you guess why that might be?” Limbaugh had asked. He speculated that the ex-president will want to “stay in town to make sure that whatever he accomplishes is not unwound,” specifically, Obamacare.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/will-obam...K6GcHljDxz2.99

Wake up Wake up Wake up

Companies Can't Fire People Because of ObamaCare Costs

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Gary DeMar

“Obama officials made clear in a press briefing that firms would not be allowed to lay off workers to get into the preferred class of those businesses with 50 to 99 employees. . . . Firms will be required to certify to the IRS – under penalty of perjury – that ObamaCare was not a motivating factor in their staffing decisions. To avoid ObamaCare costs you must swear that you are not trying to avoid ObamaCare costs.”

Once again, power has been deferred to the IRS where the Fifth Amendment does not apply and the agency is lawless with the tacit approval of the President. Try pleading the Fifth when you sign your tax return.

Then there’s the EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. People who are fired for whatever reason will have cause to appeal to the EEOC. I can tell you from personal business experience, it’s an expensive and time consuming enterprise, even if you win like my company did.

You know it had to happen. Once the government got control of our healthcare (we were warned), there wouldn’t be any area that it would not be involved in. Once people get used to the idea of government regulating their lives in small areas where they do not believe the law will adversely affect them, they will acquiesce in more significant areas where they will be negatively affected.

“The paternal state not only feeds its children, but nurtures, educates, comforts, and disciplines them, providing all they need for their security. This appears to be a mildly insulting way to treat adults, but it is really a great crime because it transforms the state from being a gift of God, given to protect us against violence, into an idol. It supplies us with all blessings, and we look to it for all our needs. Once we sink to that level, as [C.S.] Lewis says, there is no point in telling state officials to mind their own business. “Our whole lives are their business.”[1]

“The paternalism of the state is that of the bad parent who wants his children dependent on him forever. That is an evil impulse. The good parent prepares his children for independence, trains them to make responsible decisions, knows that he harms them by not helping them to break loose. The paternal state thrives on dependency. When the dependents free themselves, it loses power. It is, therefore, parasitic on the very persons whom it turns into parasites. Thus, the state and its dependents march symbiotically [in close union with one another] to destruction.”[2]
It was President Obama who said, “That's the good thing about being president. I can do whatever I want.”

Read more at http://godfatherpolitics.com/14334/companies-cant-fire-people-obamacare-costs/#kxcdimrcHeFoAhuK.99


The King rules!!!!! If it were my company, I would say Watch Me !!!!!!!!!!