tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post2257352296418818706..comments2023-09-15T08:07:28.542-06:00Comments on Western Hero: OBAMACARE...LESSSilverfiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-3022760705877138672012-12-31T04:51:46.067-07:002012-12-31T04:51:46.067-07:00Liberalmann has been living under the bridge too l...Liberalmann has been living under the bridge too long. Yep! He's another one. BEWARE! ;-)FreeThinkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-30629974014372553722012-12-31T04:49:25.985-07:002012-12-31T04:49:25.985-07:00SHAZAM! ZOWIE! BINGO! ZOTZ! and HURRAH!SHAZAM! ZOWIE! BINGO! ZOTZ! and HURRAH!FreeThinkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-62488945071643480132012-12-30T06:21:27.822-07:002012-12-30T06:21:27.822-07:00You notice those are all things that have not mate...You notice those are all things that have not materialized yet. We'll see. It's already established that Obama robs $800 billion from medicare, so right now it looks like a shell game.<br /><br /><br />As for your other comment that didn't make it through, try it without the potty mouth.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-7763440929121805852012-12-29T22:35:26.663-07:002012-12-29T22:35:26.663-07:00Are you really that naive?
Let me know when Walma...Are you really that naive?<br /><br />Let me know when Walmart tanks.<br /><br />http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/12/09/walmart-bails-on-obamacare-sticks-taxpayers-with-employee-healthcare-costs/Finntannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-86708763485051703952012-12-29T18:42:19.307-07:002012-12-29T18:42:19.307-07:00Bravo! Bravo! FreeThinke. I am in full agreement w...Bravo! Bravo! FreeThinke. I am in full agreement with you. Wishing you and everyone on this blog many blessings in the New Year.Teresamericanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-37181767918907067242012-12-29T15:36:34.729-07:002012-12-29T15:36:34.729-07:00"Aw....look and the widdle wingnut and his ne...<i>"Aw....look and the <b>widdle wingnut</b> and his need for <b>ad hominems</b>"</i><br /><br /><br /><br />Oh, the irony!Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-82389088489007364602012-12-29T15:34:10.711-07:002012-12-29T15:34:10.711-07:00Really? It's no coincidence that Olive Garden,...Really? It's no coincidence that Olive Garden, Red Lobster See Sharp Drop In Profits After Anti-Obamacare Campaign Backfires. <br /><br /><br /><br />I'd say a loss of 37% below whatever declines other restaurants have shown.Lester Liberalmannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-17218591440254578692012-12-29T15:30:08.545-07:002012-12-29T15:30:08.545-07:00Aw....look and the widdle wingnut and his need for...Aw....look and the widdle wingnut and his need for ad hominems. This reports is from June. Papa Johns, Longhorns, etc have all dipped well below this trend. Nice try, though!Lester Liberalmannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-10576319173475229652012-12-29T14:34:38.000-07:002012-12-29T14:34:38.000-07:00A person who posts frequently is not a troll if he...A person who posts frequently is not a troll if he (or she!) holds and expresses a point of view unpopular with the majority at a given blog or website -- as long as he (or she!) is honest and not merely taunting and deliberately disruptive for the sake of attracting attention to him, her or itself. Persistence may be irritating, but it's not a criminal act, and doesn't deserve to be prosecuted.<br /><br /><br />Maintaining a sense of humor helps enormously if only to keep things in perspective. There are times when every one of us takes him, her or itself MUCH too seriously. <br /><br /><br />Time to get over THAT once and for all.<br /><br /><br />Cheerio!FreeThinkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-17298304233063636082012-12-29T11:29:44.867-07:002012-12-29T11:29:44.867-07:00Really?
http://www.qsrmagazine.com/competition/f...Really? <br /><br />http://www.qsrmagazine.com/competition/fall-pizza<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/business/mcdonalds-reports-global-decline-in-sales.html?_r=0<br /><br />http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/10/restaurant-performance-index-declined.html<br /><br />http://247wallst.com/2012/12/12/americas-disappearing-restaurant-chains/Finntannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-66770124298578595872012-12-29T08:38:27.080-07:002012-12-29T08:38:27.080-07:00http://nrn.com/latest-headlines/full-service-resta...http://nrn.com/latest-headlines/full-service-restaurant-sales-recover-june<br /><br /><br /><br />Read the HuffPo piece closer, and then go read the link above. The full service dining industry has been on the skids for years.<br /><br /><br />You need to get out more, Libmann, munching on leftwing cotton candy all day will rot your brain.Kurt Silverfiddlehttp://profiles.google.com/kurt.silverfiddlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-70213718545768393962012-12-29T08:37:05.411-07:002012-12-29T08:37:05.411-07:00I wouldn't call it free. Assets beyond the ho...I wouldn't call it <i>free</i>. Assets beyond the house and a small amount of cash are seized by the state. Good luck having enough money for burial!Always On Watchhttp://twitter.com/Always_On_Watchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-91327671455425635112012-12-29T08:20:44.647-07:002012-12-29T08:20:44.647-07:00Really? So me this.Really? So me this.Lester Liberalmannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-84333267981938466612012-12-29T08:18:19.287-07:002012-12-29T08:18:19.287-07:00Four Reasons Why The Court’s Decision To Uphold Ob...Four Reasons Why The Court’s Decision To Uphold Obamacare Is Good News For The Economy:<br /><br />1) Obamacare will reduce the deficit. The Congressional Budget Office estimated in 2011 that Obamacare will reduce the federal deficit by $210 billion over the next decade. The law is expected to save about $1 trillion over its second decade, according to other CBO analyses. The CBO found that repealing the law, as Republicans attempted to do in 2011, would increase the deficit by $230 billion over the next 10 years. <br /><br />2) Health care costs for young Americans won’t skyrocket. More than 3.1 million young Americans have insurance thanks to Obamacare. Without the law, the cost of acquiring an equivalent health care plan would have risen dramatically at a time when young people are still struggling with the effects of theGreat Recession.<br /><br />3) Millions of jobs will be created. Health reform will help create roughly 4 million jobs over the next decade, according to a 2010 Center for American Progress report, by reducing the cost of health care and making it cheaper for businesses to hire. The law will create between 250,000 and 400,000 jobs a year, and they will be spread across sectors: according to the study, the law will help create more than 200,000 manufacturing and 900,000 in the service sector by 2016.<br /><br />4) It will be cheaper for employers to provide health care.<br /> American businesses are under tremendous pressure thanks to rising <br />health care costs, and these costs are often passed on to customers (one study estimates that each car sold by General Motors contains $1,200 in built-in health costs).The ACA, however, will make it cheaper for businesses to provide care, and not just by reducing the cost of care. Small businesses are already receiving tax credits<br /> contained in the law to help insure their employees, and it has already<br /> offered more than $4.7 billion in reinsurance payments to companies <br />that are providing health care to retirees who aren’t yet eligible for <br />Medicare. <br /><br />http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/28/505510/four-reasons-why-the-courts-decision-to-uphold-obamacare-is-good-news-for-the-economy/Lester Liberalmannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-56680943654407199932012-12-29T08:10:34.724-07:002012-12-29T08:10:34.724-07:00"As the economy improves...". What makes..."As the economy improves...". What makes you think that's going to happen?Some nameless personnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-89868247525559434302012-12-29T07:51:10.902-07:002012-12-29T07:51:10.902-07:00There's that unholy partnership of Big Governm...There's that unholy partnership of Big Government with Big Business again, Hug, effectively <i>conspiring</i> against the best interests of the public (and employees too, of course) to enrich themselves and strengthen their death grip on power.<br /><br /><br />I believe this septic relationship began with TR and the emergence of "Progressivism." Once government -- probably responding to the still-new union pressures -- started to intervene and interfere with the practices of Industry, Business, rightly feeling itself under attack, decided to "join 'em," since no one could "beat 'em." This returned a large measure of control to Business, but at the cost of making both Government AND Business increasingly corrupt.<br /><br /><br />That's what I believe must have happened. Does anyone have other ideas? Sometimes, when you <i>think</i> you <i>know</i> something, yu may be on the wrong track.<br /><br /><br /> I accuse liberals of that all the time. As Ronald Reagan said of liberals, <b>"They know so much that is not true."</b><br /><br /><br />That's probably true of <i>all</i> of us who proceed largely on assumptions and suppositions.<br /><br /><br />The "Parallel Universe" phenomenon is confounding, because each opposing faction claims to have "the facts." <br /><br /><br />If that could be true, then we really have walked straight through the looking glass and are living in Wonderland.<br /><br /><br />I still maintain that [isolated, carefully-selected, agenda-serving] "FACTS" are not "TRUTH." I have to laugh when idiotarians refer to "the true facts," as though they knew there were a whole bunch of false facts out there. <br /><br /><br />If we all learned to think, write and speak better English, we might be able to make <i>genuine</i> progress. That's why I'm a stickler -- <i>and will DIE a stickler</i> -- for good grammar, graceful syntax, rich vocabulary, and proper spelling.<br /><br /><br />I'm also a very poor typist, so I apologize in advance for all the inadvertent errors my arthritic old fingers and weak eyes are bound to commit.<br /><br /><br />HAPPY SCREW YEAR!<br /><br /><br />~ FTFreeThinkenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-41749273192196189762012-12-29T01:26:06.138-07:002012-12-29T01:26:06.138-07:00I partially agree with you Jersey, employers want...I partially agree with you Jersey, employers wanted quality employees, which is why health care was part of a negotiated compensation package. Employers no longer have an incentive to offer better packages than the status quo, they are not going to compete with the government and they no longer have an incentive to compete with each other. Once again, progressives have fostered equality by reducing everyone else to the lowest common denominator, and when the baby-boomers age out of the workforce, the entire system is going to collapse, as there will be insufficient workers to pay for retiree entitlements.Finntannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-9873234473672738582012-12-29T01:17:40.808-07:002012-12-29T01:17:40.808-07:00Unfortunately, due to the economy, restaurant rece...Unfortunately, due to the economy, restaurant receipts are down all over, not just at the chains mentioned.Finntannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-9715231447224594012012-12-29T01:01:03.119-07:002012-12-29T01:01:03.119-07:00No. It's why they're hiding their heads u...No. It's why they're hiding their heads under the sand and waiting for it all to go away. I quality employers want quality workers, and they do not want universal healthcare, and they don't don't want employer health care, than quality workers will seek out quality employers who take better care of them.<br /><br />In very obvious terms: The employer based healthcare system depends on employers providing health care, and if they don't, than how do people get health care? POS doesn't work in the health care market, yet health care is obviously absolutely necessary to a Modern Western way of life. So what do we do?<br /><br />Quality employers will work with government to utilize efficient health care provider pools. It's a decent answer. It's an answer you conservatives and libertarians could live with.<br /><br />If the employers don't? ...Well, then good luck with employee loyalty in the future. <br /><br />Why American employers don't push for universal healthcare, with a private actuary sector, is beyond me. I often accuse you guys of being simplistic, but forgive me for a simplicity here. I say a Swiss-like system (granted, a few major tweeks) would work really well in the USA. <br /><br />JMJJersey McJonesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-36273601894728380332012-12-28T20:17:05.312-07:002012-12-28T20:17:05.312-07:00GOOD!
Olive Garden, Red Lobster See Sharp Drop In...GOOD!<br /><br />Olive Garden, Red Lobster See Sharp Drop In Profits After Anti-Obamacare Campaign Backfires<br /><br />http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/12/20/1365461/olive-garden-red-lobster-see-sharp-drop-in-profits-after-anti-obamacare-campaign-backfires/Lester Liberalmannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-29060654869924902842012-12-28T19:40:04.708-07:002012-12-28T19:40:04.708-07:00Thanks Shaw, and I'm sorry to hear that you we...Thanks Shaw, and I'm sorry to hear that you were plagued as well. <br /><br /><br /><br /> It's our hope that this will allow us to avoid outright 'moderation' and though a bit cumbersome it seems to hold some promise. It does have a feature which, even when on moderation, will allow trusted persons to pass through, relieving some of the burden of scrutinizing every post. You might want to take a look at that.viburnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-84427956365587110852012-12-28T18:55:06.665-07:002012-12-28T18:55:06.665-07:00Don't know if this will publish correctly. I ...Don't know if this will publish correctly. I sympathize with the blog administrators here. I'm on comment moderation [because of, well, you know who--his name starts with "Thers" and ends with "ities"--and was close to coming off of it until the "Steve" troll started spamming my blog as well with disgusting vulgarities. Hope it works for you guys.shawkenawenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-52562762736303084152012-12-28T18:23:50.794-07:002012-12-28T18:23:50.794-07:00We didn't invent the time reductions at CCAC. ...We didn't invent the time reductions at CCAC. ACA caused themviburnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-2477801295319670322012-12-28T18:22:30.086-07:002012-12-28T18:22:30.086-07:00You heard me. We like disagreement here, but plea...You heard me. We like disagreement here, but please check the vulgarities at the doorSilverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-56330107959631505462012-12-28T18:21:34.175-07:002012-12-28T18:21:34.175-07:00And wingnuts like to invent them, lol!And wingnuts like to invent them, lol!Lester Liberalmannnoreply@blogger.com