Morning Briefing
For August 22, 2013
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1. Delta Airlines and the $100 Million Costs of Obamacare
Republicans
in the United States House of Representatives and Senate claim they
will vote to defund Obamacare, but they won’t actually fight for it.
What they want to fight for is just a delay of the individual mandate.
That’s it. But there is so much more that is so much more onerous about
Obamacare. Delta Airlines, in a letter it prepared back in June,
outlined just how onerous Obamacare would be to the airline.
In the
past twenty-four hours, during my radio show in Atlanta, numerous Delta
employees called in to tell me Delta is now telling its employees their
healthcare will be radically changed because of Obamacare. A handful of
them said the June 2013 letter from Delta to the Obama Administration is
being circulated among employees.
The
letter is stunning. According to Delta, in 2014 Obamacare will cost the
company at least $38 million in direct costs and that is only the
beginning. With added medical inflation, Delta claims “the cost of
providing health care to our employees will increase by nearly
$100,000,000 next year.” A $100 million increase thanks in large part to
Obamacare and ancillary cost increases derived therefrom. Yes, I have
the letter. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. If Obama Had A Son He Would Not Look Like Christopher Lane
Last Friday a young Australian was gunned down in Duncan, Oklahoma.
The
facts are terrifyingly banal. Lane, who was in the United States on a
baseball scholarship to East Central University in Ada, OK, was visiting
his girlfriend in Duncan, OK, and decided to go for a jog. At some
point he passed a house containing three young men: James Edwards, 15,
Chancey “Baby Drake” Luna, 16, and Michael Jones, 17. They were bored –
bored is what they told police — and decided to kill him. With Jones at
the wheel they followed Lane in a car and, police charge, Edwards shot
him in the back with a .22-caliber revolver. Edwards and Luna have been
charged with murder, Jones as an accessory.
The critical part of this story involves the race of the killers. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. IRS Gets Rid of Obamacare Penalties
Hey,
guess what!! The Internal Revenue Service has decided to get rid of all
the employer and self-employed penalties under Obamacare for those
without insurance.
That’s right. The penalties are gone. Well . . . at least now they are called “shared responsibility payments.”
Not kidding. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. SEIU’s Fast-Food Strikers May Legally Be Replaced, Perhaps Even Permanently
They’re loud. They’re boisterous. They’re the SEIU…and they’re not as bright as they think.
The
fast-food workers who are being pushed by the SEIU to take to the
streets in a “nationwide” strike on August 29th, as part of the SEIU’s
four-year old plan to collect union dues from the fast-food industry’s
workers, have placed themselves in a precarious position legally. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Terrible Side Effect of Detroit Bankruptcy: 50,000 Homeless Dogs
IThere
are many sad stories coming out of Detroit in the wake of its
bankruptcy. Entire neighborhoods abandoned, thousands without jobs, a
city without services, it’s a depressing and deserted place, a shadow of
the the once great Motor City it used to be. Today a story in Bloomberg
shines some light on a terrible side effect of Detroit’s economic
collapse that many are unaware of: a massive homeless dog population.
As
human residents of Detroit have suffered, so too have their canine
companions. Nearly 50,000 stray dogs are roaming the city’s streets,
abandoned by their owners when they fled town or could no longer afford
to care for them. Innocent dogs left to fend for themselves on the
streets of an empty city are traveling in packs, some 20 strong,
struggling to survive. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. Life on the margins
Early
in his 2012 run for the presidency, Newt Gingrich remarked, “I don’t
think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing
social engineering. I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.” He
was referring specifically to Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform proposals,
which led to a bit of tension between Gingrich and Rep. Ryan. But
taken as a general observation, Gingrich’s comment was intriguing…
noble in principle, but utterly wrong-headed, at least in the early
Twenty-First Century. He would have been on firmer ground if he had been speaking a hundred years earlier. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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