The AFL-CIO finally gets it (something regular readers have known for a long, long time): employers are cutting hours to 29.5 hours to avoid ObamaCare. It will take an act of Congress to change that part of the bill. That cannot be done with an executive order. Employers better watch out. My hunch: employers will be responsible for all employees -- regardless of hours. Employers will outsource as much as they can. They will go to individual contracts. It will be a mess. Train wreck. Can you imaging Wal-Mart hiring each employee on individual contracts? There's no reason why it can't be done. A lot of folks work on contracts. Maybe it would be a "positive" for high school students working for McDonald's to learn to read contracts, become individual contractors. They could work as many hours as the two sides agreed upon. I could see fairly simply contracts.
Just when the AFL-CIO finally gets it and EVERYONE finally seems to get it, when the president should be devoting 24/7 to saving O'BamaCare, he now has a much bigger war than he had planned. He says it will be brief, limited; but wars never go as planned. My hunch: Vladimir Putin won't let Syria go easily. We might very well see a replay of the Cuban Missile Crisis over Syria. Putin has his own problems at home, and there's nothing like a war to improve your ratings. It's scary to think that John Kerry is one of the best and brightest masterminding this impending debacle.
There is every possibility there is no more agenda for this administration once the war starts.
I think the president might be hanging on to the tail of a tiger.
Here is an interesting link from Motley fool about ND Oil. I personally am underwhelmed w/Motley Fool because they want you to buy their services, but it did pop up on Yahoo/Finance. oops...didn't include the link:
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Thank you. I had missed that one. (I agree with you; generally I do not care for Motley Fool, though I link a number of their articles.) Occasionally Motley Fool has a great article, this is one of them.
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