Part-Time Job Rush?

You hear it everywhere.  The Affordable Care Act is going to lead to a part-time job avalanche, as employers maneuvers to avoid the provisions requiring them to participate.

It's all bullshit.  I have known for some time now that the increase in part-time jobs peaked in 2008-09, and has been declining ever since.  Period.  What we are witnessing is nothing more than the latest form of scare tactics to convince us that comprehensive health care coverage is the end of civilization as we know it.

The same argument we heard about Social Security, Medicare and, more recently, Medicare Part D.

As I have said many times, the people most often wrapping themselves in the flag are those trying to hide what is underneath.

The Los Angeles Times joins the fray today, in an attempt to set the record straight:

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-obamacare-20131022,0,5237220.story

No, I haven't read it.  I don't need to.  I already know what it says.

Common Sense

"Regarding Second Amendment rights, I think we should have symmetry with First Amendment rights in the legal protections/exceptions to those rights - that is, we protect free speech, freedom of worship, and free association, with lots of BUT's - you're not allowed to incite a stampede by shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater, you can be sued for libel or slander (despite your free speech), we can prohibit human sacrifices or smoking peyote even as part of religious services (despite your free exercise of religion rights), and we can arrest you for participating in a criminal conspiracy (despite your right to free association). These seem like reasonable boundaries for First Amendment rights, minimally intrusive for most reasonable people, and I think we could tolerate a similar level of boundaries for Second Amendment rights."