It’s all ab your friends in Washington…

It will just make Obamacare’s repeal that much easier.

When men are caught in the trap of non-objective law, when their work, future and livelihood are at the mercy of a bureaucrat’s whim, when they have no way of knowing what unknown “influence” will crack down on them for which unspecified offense, fear becomes their basic motive, if they remain in the industry at all—and compromise, conformity, staleness, dullness, the dismal grayness of the middle-of-the-road are all that can be expected of them. Independent thinking does not submit to bureaucratic edicts, originality does not follow “public policies,” integrity does not petition for a license, heroism is not fostered by fear, creative genius is not summoned forth at the point of a gun.

Non-objective law is the most effective weapon of human enslavement: its victims become its enforcers and enslave themselves.

Ayn Rand

I find it completely irresponsible that the GOP candidates are not touting ads about this. Unbelievable.

The biggest exemption went to the 350,000 strong United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund, the union providing coverage for city teachers.

The bottom line: the government now has great power to reward favors to whoever they wish to reward, such as labor unions. Toe the party line and your company may be okay. This will only get worse.

Shocking right? Union gets the biggest waiver! Those that probably voted for the big zero and health care now get a waiver.

What’s more shocking is the media reports. Most stories mention McDonalds and nothing about the union waiver being the largest.

Bloomberg’s Headline:
McDonald’s, 29 other firms get health care coverage waivers

In the LAST paragraph the bloomberg article mentioned, oh yeah, the teachers union of 350,000+ got a waiver too.

Umm, wouldn’t the LARGEST recipient be the most headline newsworthy?

that McDonalds and Jack in the Box are not exactly the darlings of Obama’s caloric Stasi.

So McDonald’s lobs this story out there about cutting loose health insurance for hourly workers, not really in-your-face, but an iron fist in a velvet glove. They sort of retract it, and a couple days later, voila, the back channel corporate cronyism brings it home.

and picking winners. That’s how these thugs see government. If the Dems can break the back of small business, conservatives are done.

Are the ones placing requirements and restrictions on individuals.

I thought the Dems were uut to “get” Wall Street? Doesn’t this rather let them off scott free?

. . .from a functional, helpful system? The only sort of system companies would demand to be excluded from would be a damaging system, which clearly will do no good for anyone.

Whatever could they be thinking.

…..didn’ they get a waiver? Isn’t that favoring a religion? Can’t seem to find a definitive statement about Muslims anywhere. Don’t know if not having to buy health insurance is a great recruiting tool for religious groups, but notice more and more young people whose parents don’t have insurance are starting to grow beards and wear those black hats, or to wear burqas. Is there an exemption if you are a New Black Panther?

Obamacare is nothing but power grab. Obama is following the third world political model. The first thing is to create programs that are dictated solely by the fancy of the government. Then use that power to control the market, fund raising, lining the pocket and so on.

Get it America.

IN A RELATED STORY:

McDonald’s announced today that they will recall over 12 million “Shrek” glasses under intense pressure form the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for supposedly containing the metal cadmium, which according to USCPSC makes Happy Meals not so happy.

This announcement comes a week after it was leaked that Micky D’s cut a deal with Kathleen Sebelius of Secretary of HHS that would grant McD’s a “waiver” after the WSJ leaked McD’s was threatening to drop healthcare coverage for its employees.

What’s next? FLOTUS’s Anti-Fatty-Fat Fast Food regulatory legislation? Can’t wait to see how McD’s weasels out of that one. Carrot sticks instead of french fries? Or maybe they’ll change their store colors to purple and yellow.

Ain’t union thuggery grand?

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Its all quite standardless and subjective. Who are you are matters more than what you want to do, because if you don’t have connections, there is always a basis for turning to you down. Whenever the law is filled with pure discretion and unfettered exceptions, its a legal and moral morass.

Those issues are also relevant in evaluating the propriety of the GZM.

I.e. the GZM is just a McD’s health plan waiver that no mom and pop shop is ever going to get.

WHY aren’t the GOP candidates singing loudly and more loudly about this. If the government allows opting out, it’s called a waiver. If a small company who isn’t favored by the administration does opts out on their own accord, it will land them into huge fines because they “broke the law.”

Give us a break already. Do the Republicans have the testosterone to call this as it is loudly, and often?

is how much money did the MikyD’s PAC (or whatever it is called) commit to dumping into Dem candidates’ campaign coffers in exchange for this waiver?

And the main point, that Micky can get a waiver and the lone entrepreneur, Joe’s Burgers, can’t, is beyond infuriating. Way beyond.

I just sent this to McDonald’s through their corporate contacts web page. I assume I’ll hear nothing in reply but we’ll see….

“I would like to know what commitment(s) McDonald’s (and any group(s) or individual(s) affiliated with McDonald’s) made in exchange for the recently publicized federal healthcare waiver(s) granted to the company. Did McDonald’s commit money to Dem candidates’ campaigns? Commit to withholding money to Rep candidates’ campaigns? Promise verbal support to some or all of the Obama agenda? Promise silence on some topics?

What exactly was the quid pro quo agreement?

Thank you for your time and attention.”

You support out opponents…you’ll never get out from under our thumb.

Oh…and we’re just doing it all in the name of the “Common Man”

Such is the rule of the despot. Huey Long could only dream of such power!