Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, June 19, 2013


Fitting indeed that on the day Vince Flynn dies I'm reading the latest Tom Clancy novel...

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William R. Barker said...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/16/at-24-pounds-immigration-bill-is-too-big-for-many-/?page=all#pagebreak

At 1,075 pages long, it’s not the biggest bill to come through in recent years — that honor still belongs to ObamaCare — but the immigration legislation pending in the Senate is challenging the ability of voters to get their brains around its complexity.

* NO ONE IS READING THE BILL IN ITS ENTIRETY! NOT ONE SENATOR... NOT ONE REPRESENTATIVE... CERTAINLY NOT THE PRESIDENT.

* FOLKS... I'VE SAID IT BEFORE AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN... BILLS WHICH ARE NOT READ AND UNDERSTOOD PRIOR TO BEING VOTED UPON ARE ILLEGITIMATE IN MY VIEW.

One group has weighed the printed bill and said it comes to 24 pounds. That doesn’t include the 448 pages of amendments that have been filed to try to change the measure.

(*HEADACHE*)

The bill’s authors say the breadth of the bill is critical and that all parts must be considered together in order to keep a coalition in place. That means tying border security, stricter workplace enforcement, a rewrite of the legal-immigration system and a program to legalize 11 million illegal immigrants all into the same bill.

The House, though, is rebelling.

* WE'LL SEE! LET'S HOPE SO!

Late last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, announced that he would begin taking up pieces of the immigration puzzle: a 53-page bill to create a guest-worker program for agriculture and a 174-page bill to bolster interior immigration enforcement.

“For far too long, the standard operating procedure in Washington has been to rush large pieces of legislation through Congress with little opportunity for elected officials and the American people to scrutinize and understand them,” said Mr. Goodlatte. “Immigration reform is too important and complex to not examine each piece in detail.”

* NO LAWS SHOULD BE PASSED ABSENT SCRUTINY AND UNDERSTANDING...!!! THAT'S JUST COMMON SENSE...!!!

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat who has taken the lead on pushing for legalization, said Republicans’ enforcement-only legislation is reversing what had been a promising outreach. “We started so well. January, February, March, April, May, part of June — let’s finish it, let’s not demonize, let’s not pick winners and losers,” said Mr. Gutierrez, pointing to the need to find a majority in the House to get any bill passed. “It takes 218 votes. So what are we going to do, have this fight again?”

* WHAT DOES THIS FUCKING MORON THINK LEGISLATION DOES IF NOT "PICK WINNERS AND LOSERS...?!?!"

Last week, members of Californians for Population Stabilization walked through the Senate office buildings distributing fliers with eyeglasses attached, which they said senators should use to read the bill.

The group specifically targeted Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who was one of eight senators who wrote the legislation and has taken the lead in trying to sell the measure to conservatives.

* RUBIO WROTE SHIT! AT BEST RUBIO MAY HAVE DONE SOME PROOF READING/REVISION OF STAFF PRODUCT AND REVISION!

June 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100825782

* NOTE: CNBC

Small business owners' fear of the effect of the new health-care reform law on their bottom line is prompting many to hold off on hiring and even to shed jobs in some cases, a recent poll found.

* NOTE: A GALLOP POLL. (The poll was taken by 603 owners whose businesses have under $20 million in annual sales.)

"We were startled because we know that employers were concerned about the Affordable Care Act and the effects it would have on their business, but we didn't realize the extent they were concerned, or that the businesses were being proactive to make sure the effects of the ACA actually were minimized," said attorney Steven Friedman of Littler Mendelson. His firm, which specializes in employment law, commissioned the Gallup poll.

* "STARTLED," HUH? GREAT... JUST GREAT...

(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)

Forty-one percent of the businesses surveyed have frozen hiring because of the health-care law known as ObamaCare. And almost one-fifth — 19% — answered "yes" when asked if they had "reduced the number of employees you have in your business as a specific result of the Affordable Care Act."

Another 38% of the small business owners said they "have pulled back on their plans to grow their business" because of ObamaCare.

Those are "some pretty startling answers," Friedman said. "To think that [nearly] 20% of small businesses have already reduced the numbers they have in their business because they're concerned about the medical coverage is significant, and a bit troubling," Friedman said.

* A "BIT" TROUBLING...?!?!

* A BIT "TROUBLING...?!?!"

Just 9% of the small employers surveyed agreed that ObamaCare would be "good for your business," while another 39% saw "no impact."

The prevalent pessimism tracks other answers in the poll, which showed that 55% of small business owners believe that ObamaCare will lead to higher health-care costs. By contrast, about 5% said the law would lead to lower costs.

* OH... AND GET THIS! (READ ON!)

And more than half — 52% — said they expected a reduction in the quality of health care under ObamaCare, while just 13% expected an improvement.

In addition to restricting hiring or cutting jobs, small companies are considering other ways to mitigate the expected financial fallout. Twenty-four percent are weighing whether to drop insurance coverage, while 18% have "reduced the hours of employees to part-time" in anticipation of the ACA's effects, the poll found.

June 19, 2013 at 4:48 PM

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