(02-19-2014 07:13 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-19-2014 02:07 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  I just want my damn sandwich, not your opinion. I'll find another place that I can get a sandwich without the extra political BS.

Ohhhhh I get it -- you believe in free market competition only when economic reality asserting itself into your own agenda is an inconvenience.

No. I believe in getting a sandwich when I'm hungry.

(02-19-2014 10:31 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(02-19-2014 07:13 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-19-2014 02:07 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  I just want my damn sandwich, not your opinion. I'll find another place that I can get a sandwich without the extra political BS.

Ohhhhh I get it -- you believe in free market competition only when economic reality asserting itself into your own agenda is an inconvenience.

No. I believe in getting a sandwich when I'm hungry.

I'm with you. It's like going to a concert and hearing the lead singer start talking politics. Shut up already and sing a damn song.

(02-20-2014 06:21 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(02-19-2014 10:31 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(02-19-2014 07:13 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(02-19-2014 02:07 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  I just want my damn sandwich, not your opinion. I'll find another place that I can get a sandwich without the extra political BS.

Ohhhhh I get it -- you believe in free market competition only when economic reality asserting itself into your own agenda is an inconvenience.

No. I believe in getting a sandwich when I'm hungry.

I'm with you. It's like going to a concert and hearing the lead singer start talking politics. Shut up already and sing a damn song.

Exactly. I paid for you to sing not be a CNN analyst.

The landlord at one of my offices tried that a few years ago. He draped the building in Romney/Ryan banners. I had to pull him aside and tell him "Look, Obama voters have teeth that need fixing too! You are going to piss off 47% of my clients!"

(02-20-2014 06:24 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  "Look, Obama voters have teeth that need fixing too!

There is a joke in there, somewhere......

I see this as well but opposite - during election season having an Obama placard in your store window was a calling card to the like minded.

Funny story, Tom, the guy who owns the local popcorn and malt shop is an ex-Marine and a gun owner. He has a sign on the front door that says "the owner and employees of this shop are armed." I actually don't know if he is, but his demeanor is such that I wouldn't doubt it for a moment.

This sign is in response to the Creamery across the street that has a sign in the window that says "The Creamery bans guns within these premises."

Doesn't seem to have impacted his business, or increased the Creamery business but it is hard to prove that someone isn't going there because of gun stance. We go to both places about equally.

And another joint is doing it. Seems like Obamacare can potentially raise the cost of everything.



ORLANDO (Reuters) — Diners at a Florida restaurant chain are being asked to pay a health insurance surcharge on their meal tabs to cover the cost for business owners of the Obama administration's new healthcare program.

Customers at eight Gator's Dockside restaurants dotted around central and north Florida are finding a 1 percent surcharge on their bills listed as "ACA," the letters standing for the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.

Lengthy signs on the front door and a plastic-coated letter delivered to tables with the menu warn diners of the fee. "The costs associated with ACA compliance could ultimately close our doors," the letter reads under the company letterhead.

A $14.56 lunch tab for Asian salad and iced tea ordered by a reporter at a Dockside restaurant in the town of Clermont, a short drive west of Orlando, included a 13-cent ACA surcharge.

Dockside said it wants to continue to offer full-time employment so its employees don't have to work multiple jobs to make a living.

"Therefore, instead of raising prices on our products to generate the additional revenue needed to cover the cost of ACA compliance, Gator's Dockside has implemented a 1 percent surcharge on all food and beverage purchases only," the notice adds.

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A price increase is a price increase is a price increase.