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Originally Posted by Minte
It's right there on the Congressional Budget Report. I could take a screen capture of it and post it. If he had posted the entire page, you would've picked one statement and argued it. Completely ignoring everything else.
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Vendzilla - and Fox News - took a single sentence out of context. They took a long and detailed report that was over all good and desperately tried to turned into an opportunity to bash Obamacare yet again.
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The reduction in CBO?s projections of hours worked represents a decline in the number of full-time-equivalent workers of about 2.0 million in 2017, rising to about 2.5 million in 2024.
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But if you read the entire paragraph you find...
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The estimated reduction stems almost entirely from a net decline in the amount of labor that workers choose to supply, rather than from a net drop in business's demand for labor, so it will appear almost entirely as a reduction in labor force participation and in hours worked relative tow hat would have occurred others rather than as an increase in unemployment...."
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People will be working less not because they will be unemployed, but because they will be able to work less to get healthcare.
I'm sorry, but at this point the Republican party is nothing more than sore losers who are kicking a dead horse. The Republican party has put a huge amount of effort trying to get Obamacare shut down, and failed at every attempt - They even brought it all the way up to the Supreme Court and failed to get it knocked down.
If only the Republican party had put it's efforts into fixing the problem instead of complaining about....