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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (34327)	11/13/2012 11:54:20 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Kroger to Slash Hourly Workers to Avoid Obamacare Penalties Doug Ross: Operative Faith reveals that Kroger will soon join the ranks of Durden Restaurants and slash the hours of its non-exempt (hourly) workers to avoid millions in Obamacare penalties. To give you a sense of Kroger’s size and importance, its sales last year were $90 billion and it employs nearly 350,000 people. Most of its jobs are hourly and the vast majority of workers are neither millionaires or billionaires. Faith is a mid-level manager at Kroger and reports the dire news: Last week we found out that, beginning in January, any employee who is not full-time at that point,will be limited to 28 hours per week and all new hires will be subject to the same policy. Currently, part-time employees can work as many hours as needed. Many Kroger employees, I believe, will be shocked to find out about this new policy. What this means is that Obamacare will stop tens of thousands of Kroger employees — most of whom depend on and need the money — from working more than 28 hours! Kroger is doing this to avoid paying for full-time healthcare for employees who currently only receive part-time benefits. And they will not get hit with the $3000 penalty. My own area is a good example. I work with four people who currently get about 36 to 40 hours a week, but they are considered part-time by Kroger and receive limited benefits. Now, they will either have to find another part-time job or they will quit and find a full-time job.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (34327)	11/13/2012 12:06:10 PM
From: Paul Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

That means the widest availability of contraceptives across the board! So the issue is "availability?" Hmmm....... If true, then I guess AIDS was due to a lack of *availability* of condoms?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (34327)	11/13/2012 1:23:37 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

>> Because of the cost of single parents on society, we should discourage every single single mother to NOT have children. That means the widest availability of contraceptives across the board! You might want to start by not paying them to have more kids.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (34327)	11/13/2012 3:13:47 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

we should discourage every single single mother to NOT have children. How? You're against financial disincentives. Maybe you want to stigmatize those who bear children out of wedlock, but I'd bet not. Contraceptives are inexpensive and widely available ... anyone who hasn't led a chaste life during their child-bearing years knows this from personal experience. Bearing children out of wedlock is a choice. A popular choice. Abortion has been the law of the land for 4 decades but 2/3 of children born to women under 30 are born to single mothers. So what you see as the abortion prescription isn't working either. That means the widest availability of contraceptives across the board! We already have that. People choose not to use them and choose to have children out of wedlock. Pretending otherwise is intellectually dishonest.