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2/4/2014 10:09:35 PM
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Fry cook shifted to part-time work confronts Obama
[i]During a Google Hangout session on Friday, fry cook Darnell Summers told President Obama that his hours were cut due to the Affordable Care Act. “We were broken down to part time to avoid paying health insurance,” he said. Summers explained that he makes $7.25 an hour and has been on strike four times seeking a wage increase. “We can’t survive, it’s not livin’,” he said.
The president responded by urging states to increase the minimum wage. “I am working to encourage states, governors, mayors, state legislators to raise their own minimum wage,” Obama said. “Obviously, the way to reach millions of people would be for Congress to pass a new federal minimum wage law. So far, at least, we have not seen support from Republicans for such a move.”
The president did not address Summers’s comments about the healthcare law.[/i]
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22 Replies in this Sub-ThreadEdited by Le Dustin xLil D: 2/4/2014 10:20:36 PM"So we're going to cut your hours since we can shift the blame onto Obamacare. Let's just hope people don't notice how we blamed Obamacare last year over cut hours before the bill was even enacted. The point it, we businesses always cut hours so we don't have to pay for all the extra benefits, but this time we can do it and not look bad. Let's just hope people still buy into the struggle that rich and powerful businesses are going through due to Obamacare. I mean, who needs healthcare right?"
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That's my point. It has everything to do with greed and nothing to do with 'desperation to cut hours and save the company from going under.' Because the smaller businesses are protected economically by the law so they don't have to come up with the expenses of healthcare. It's the larger ones that are trying to comes of as too poor to afford the expense. But of course these businesses are large for a reason. And yet they still refuse to provide healthcare, despite the overwhelming majority of businesses in the U.S. that already provide it. Needless to say, these large businesses are just using the bill as an excuse to cut hours without getting an uproar from unions. Because they can pay, they just choose not to.
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Except it does hurt the small businesses. Yes the larger businesses are being greedy, they always are. But it hurts the small businesses.
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