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RUSH: I just got this story off the TIME Magazine <\/a>website. Headline: “Labor Leader Admits Obamacare Woes.” Awwww. Let\u2019s all grab the violins. “The head of the nation\u2019s largest federation of unions admitted ‘we made some mistakes\u2019 in writing Obamacare Thursday at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in downtown DC. The head of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, said he was surprised that employers have reduced workers\u2019 hours below 30-a-week to avoid an employer penalty scheduled to go into effect in 2015.<\/p>\n

“‘That is obviously something that no one intended.'” You know, when are you people gonna realize there are unintended disastrous consequences to everything practically that you do? “Oh, we had no idea!” Yeah, you had no idea either when you raised taxes on yachts. You had no idea that the people that built them would get fired, did you, because people would stop buying them. You just had no idea.<\/p>\n

You had no idea when you raised taxes that you get bigger deficits, did you? Because you kill jobs. You had no idea any of this, do you. “We had no idea that employers would try to get below 30-hour work weeks to avoid the…” What, you think they\u2019re just gonna sit there and bend over, grab the ankles, and take the hit? You think you people just diagnose and proscribe liberalism on everybody and we\u2019re just gonna sit here and take it? <\/line><\/p>\n

Many of us, Sir Richard, devote our entire lives to avoiding what you people do. Many Americans spend their entire waking day trying to figure out how to not be negatively impacted by the things that you people do, be it your regulations, your taxes, or your silly social changes that you make that cost everybody an arm and a leg. That\u2019s why there\u2019s no productivity in this country anymore, because everybody\u2019s just trying to figure out how to not be damaged by you people. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s an entire industry of people in this country who are getting along by finding ways to not be damaged by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and their policies. What did you think people were gonna do, Richard? Just sit there and pay these onerous penalties and fines and go out of business? You\u2019re not foolish enough to really believe that every business has a pile of trillions of dollars that they\u2019re just hoarding rather than giving you, that if you come up with the right law you can separate them from that money. <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t really believe that, do you? <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you understand how most businesses are themselves one version of paycheck to paycheck? They\u2019re just one Democrat regulation from going bankrupt. They\u2019re just one Democrat tax increase from going out of business. Who do you think they are? “Oh, we had no idea! Sorry, we didn\u2019t intend this. We didn\u2019t anticipate this consequence.” Let me tell you something, Richard. You bought it, you broke it, you own it. I don\u2019t have any sympathy here. <\/p>\n

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“Labor Leader Admits Obamacare Woes.” You\u2019re not gonna get sympathy here, Mr. Trumka. You fought for it, you helped write it, you had your thugs help beat up people at Town Hall meetings who are opposed to it. You were perfectly fine using force on Tea Party people, one black guy in a wheelchair in order to make sure this thing signed into law. Now all of a sudden, when your workers are losing their jobs, “Oh, gosh, we didn\u2019t intend this!” <\/p>\n

This is what\u2019s wrong with you people. If you really didn\u2019t know — and I don\u2019t believe this. You really don\u2019t understand the consequences of what you do, and you think there\u2019s just an endless pile of money out there somewhere, and no matter how many times you dig into it, it\u2019s always gonna be there. Richard, we haven\u2019t had any money in this country 20 years. The national debt is $17 trillion. This guy\u2019s running around now complaining.<\/p>\n

“Labor Leader Admits Obamacare Woes,” and he says, “That is obviously something that no one intended. No one intended the [health care] act to result in people working fewer hours just so they [employers] don\u2019t have to pay for health care. So that\u2019s something that needs to be addressed.” Not by you people! You have already messed this up. You have already taken the greatest health care system in this country and practically destroyed it. <\/p>\n

The only hope now is to defund the thing and repeal it. <\/p>\n

If you really want to do something, Richard, you\u2019ll join that effort. If you really care about your rank-and-file, Mr. Trumka, you\u2019ll join everybody in trying to stop this before it is unalterably implemented in this country. You didn\u2019t know this was gonna happen? Do you not remember when you guys sat there and just celebrated massive tax increases on the sale of luxury goods, including yachts and high-priced cars and so forth?<\/p>\n

Do you not remember what happened? The union members who make the yachts got laid off because people stopped buying the yachts in this country. They went elsewhere where they were cheaper. If I can remember that, surely you can. What do you mean, you don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen when you impose massive penalties, massive financial penalties on businesses for doing nothing? <\/p>\n

This is exactly what happens, Mr. Trumka, when you treat American businesses as criminals, when you look at \u2019em as suspects. When you treat them as criminals and come up with legislation that gets even with \u2019em, what do you think they\u2019re gonna do? They\u2019re gonna do whatever they have to do to stay in business — and that\u2019s what this country has become: The United States versus the policies of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

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We\u2019re in the midst of an effort oriented toward the greatest survival since the Donner Party tried to get over the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Every day, rather than be productivity, people in this country are simply trying to find out ways to avoid the damage that you have inculcated everywhere in this country. People get up and productivity is figured out and based on, “What we can avoid?” not, “What we can do?”<\/p>\n

And then you come along.<\/p>\n

“Oops! You know, we didn\u2019t expect this to happen. Well, we maybe made a mistake there.” Well, you can fix it, Mr. Trumka. You can join the effort to repeal it. I mean, it\u2019s that bad? It can\u2019t be fixed. “When asked if he would accept a change in Obamacare\u00c2\u2019s definition of full-time work, as some legislators have suggested, Trumka responded, ‘Of course we would,\u2019 but didn\u00c2\u2019t elaborate on what the change would be.”<\/p>\n

You really think changing the definition is the answer? This is the way they think. Okay, let\u2019s take what happened. Obamacare says that you do not have to provide insurance or pay a penalty for anybody working fewer than 30 hours a week, so businesses have converted full-timers to part-timers working less than 30 hours. So what Trumka\u2019s saying here is, “Well, let\u2019s now just say 25 hours is full time, and let\u2019s fix it that way!” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not specifically what he\u2019s saying, but when he\u2019s “asked if he would accept a change in Obamacare\u2019s definition of full time,” all that means is: Let\u2019s change definition of full time so that under 30 hours means you have to pay the penalty or cover \u2019em. You fought for this, Mr. Trumka. You literally fought for this. You had people beat up for this at town hall meetings in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

Maybe not you specifically, but the Widow Carnahan\u2019s kid, at one of his town meetings, sent was union thugs. Maybe SEIU came in there and beat up some people. You fought for this. You wrote it. You helped write it. You did everything you could to help this law become the law of the land because you thought it was great socialism. It\u2019s amazing how it never works, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m gonna tell you what Trumka is really after. Trumka wants the same thing Congress got. Trumka wants a waiver. That\u2019s exactly it. What Trumka is trying to get is a waiver for his union buddies, and he wants the penalties to be delayed \u2019til he can get those waivers. Just like members of Congress said, “We can\u2019t afford this! We can\u2019t afford this!” So Obama came along and is gonna give them subsidies from the Office of Personnel Management.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s what Trumka\u2019s angling for. It\u2019s why he is whining and moaning, “We can\u2019t afford it. Oh, my God, we didn\u2019t know! We need a waiver! We need a waiver!” Once he gets his waiver, then everything will be fine, and you will be stuck with this — and that\u2019s what these leftists are all gonna do. They\u2019re always gonna be trying to find ways to exempt themselves from this as they do. <\/p>\n

They write laws for all of us and then they exempt themselves from it, and that\u2019s why Trumka\u2019s whining and moaning. He doesn\u2019t want the thing repealed. He just doesn\u2019t want to have to abide by it. What he\u2019s really saying to Obama is, “Look, man, we\u2019re responsible for you being elected. You give us a break. If you\u2019re gonna give these members of Congress and their staffs a break, think about us.” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what he\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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