Quote:The National Treasury Employees Union, a labor group that represents IRS workers, has set up a form letter for union members to send to their congressional representatives urging legislators not to pass legislation proposed by Rep. Dave Camp (R-Michigan) that could shift tax workers out of their current federal benefits and into the exchanges.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/26/irs-un...ors-into-o

From the day the House passed the bill (219-212) on March 21, 2010, I honestly believed that the 2012 presidential election would be the last meaningful opportunity to put people into office who would repeal it. I thought if Obama was re-elected, then ObamaCare would be with us for the rest of our lives.

I still think that might be the case, but more and more it seems the whole scheme may just collapse of its own weight. It was obvious from the start that the law was poorly and vaguely drafted, and that there was no serious way for the federal government to finance the spending without exploding the debt, devaluing the currency, or both. But I have to admit, even someone as skeptical as I was (and am) had no idea the law would turn to be such a clusterf*ck, or that the inherent flaws would come up to the surface so quickly. The public pleas by Hoffa and some other unions (a couple of weeks ago) to let them out of this trap, is really one of the last chances Obama will have to back down. So far it doesn't look like he's willing to do that.

I was going to post this story but GTS got it first.

I'd entitle the thread 'Irony alert' since the folks of the enforcement arm of Obamacare don't want to have to live by the same rules they are tasked with enforcing on everybody else.

I really do love to see liberals skewered by liberal policies and legislation. Make no mistake, this union is overwhelmingly left leaning. If we, the public must suffer under this disaster, so should government employees - and that includes congress. But congress is the only group that can and did exempt themselves from the disaster they themselves created.

Federal Workers should never be unionized anyway.
At least they are smart enough to know that they do not want any part of this monstrosity.

(07-27-2013 11:35 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Federal Workers should never be unionized anyway.
At least they are smart enough to know that they do not want any part of this monstrosity.

It is the unknown on what will happen at the state level

(07-28-2013 02:22 PM)dcCid Wrote:  

(07-27-2013 11:35 AM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Federal Workers should never be unionized anyway.
At least they are smart enough to know that they do not want any part of this monstrosity.

It is the unknown on what will happen at the state level

No, it's really not.

With all these groups wanting out of Obamacare who is going to fund it?

You and me who don't get to opt out of it.

(07-28-2013 02:34 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  With all these groups wanting out of Obamacare who is going to fund it?

The exchanges will go bankrupt in a short amount of time unless the government forces everyone to purchase insurance with no exceptions. As Obamacare is written right now, you don't have to buy insurance, you can just pay the fine. And then when you get sick, due to insurance companies not being able to refuse those with preexisting conditions, then you buy insurance to cover.

Obamacare, in order to begin to be solvent, must have young, healthy people to buy into the exchanges so that the fees paid by the young and healthy offset the weighty expenses incurred by the old and sick. Every single healthy person who opts out of Obamacare or is given a waiver is one less payer to cover the expenses of those who can not pay and those who pay but exceed the amount they pay in with their usage costs.

It's a ponzi scheme and won't work unless the government FORCES everyone to buy insurance.

It's a tax.
Not a solution.