{"id":16091,"date":"2014-02-10T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16091"},"modified":"2014-02-10T21:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T02:27:56","slug":"cnn-breaks-mold-and-tells-truth-about-cbo-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/02\/10\/cnn-breaks-mold-and-tells-truth-about-cbo-report\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN breaks mold and tells truth about CBO report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> has the article <a title=\"The Daily Kos article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/02\/06\/1275624\/-CNN-breaks-mold-and-tells-truth-about-CBO-report-this-time?detail=email\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CNN breaks mold and tells truth about CBO report<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Cb3cSVJ9tSQ?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>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 businesses\u2019 demand for labor, so it will appear almost entirely as a reduction in labor force participation and in hours worked relative to what would have occurred otherwise rather than as an increase in unemployment (that is, more workers seeking but not finding jobs) or underemploy\u00adment (such as part-time workers who would prefer to work more hours per week).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>What the Republicans don&#8217;t say is that the people who decide to leave their jobs because of the ACA can do so because they are no longer trapped in jobs they don&#8217;t like with employers they don&#8217;t like because they need the employer provided health care insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a strong hold that employers have over workers reduces one more power they have to hold salaries down.<\/p>\n<p>People who have been delaying retirement because of the need for health care insurance for a younger spouse can now retire.\u00a0 They leave open a job for younger workers to take probably at a lower salary.\u00a0 You&#8217;d think companies would be happy for this part.<\/p>\n<p>The people who have a creative idea for a start up company can now leave their jobs and strike out on their own because they can afford their own health care insurance.\u00a0 This is the kind of movement we have always depended on to get us out of past recessions.<\/p>\n<p>Why are the Republicans so dead set against the 99% getting a fair shake for once?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the article CNN breaks mold and tells truth about CBO report. 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 businesses\u2019 demand for labor, so it will appear almost entirely as a reduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16096,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16091\/revisions\/16096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}