Ha. Ha haha haha. Haha.
In Ohio, instructor Robert Balla faces a new cap on the number of hours he can teach at Stark State College. In a Dec. 6 letter, the North Canton school told him that “in order to avoid penalties under the Affordable Care Act… employees with part-time or adjunct status will not be assigned more than an average of 29 hours per week.”
Mr. Balla, a 41-year-old father of two, had taught seven English composition classes last semester, split between Stark State and two other area schools. This semester, his course load at Stark State is down to one instead of two as a result of the school’s new limit on hours, cutting his salary by about a total of $2,000.
Stark State’s move came as a blow to Mr. Balla, who said he earns about $40,000 a year and cannot afford health insurance.
“I think it goes against the spirit of the [health-care] law,” Mr. Balla said. “In education, we’re working for the public good, we are public employees at a public institution; we should be the first ones to uphold the law, to set the example.”
His mistake is in believing the public story that Democrats told was the “spirit” of ObamaCare. That spirit was not about reducing costs or even expanding access. It was about federal control along with shifting our entire political dialogue far to the left of where it was. It was about settling questions firmly in favor of statism over individual liberty.
The above is an excerpt of a WSJ article, posted by Walter Russell Mead. He adds:
Universities are citadels of blue model thinking and most faculty members are relentlessly liberal in their politics. But the reality is that these same universities are some of the nastiest and most exploitative employers in America. The exploitation of adjuncts is an ugly feature of contemporary American academic life, and the smug complacency about it among many beneficiaries of the two tier system should remind us all that moral hypocrisy can co-exist with impressive degrees.
Indeed. Universities exploit their adjuncts at one end and exploit parents and students at the other. Look at it this way: Now that the universities will save money on pay and on their healthcare costs, will they pass those savings on in the form of reduced fees?
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Somehow this comes to mind.
From “A Fish Called Wanda”.
Wanda: I’m sorry about my brother, Ken. I know he’s insensitive. He’s had a hard life. Dad used to beat him up.
Ken: G-g-good.
I had my moment of schadenfreude with a physician who also loved “the spirit” of Obamacare. Worshipped it, really.
But last month, he told me his salary would be cut by a third due to the enormous IT costs of converting his practice to an electronic medical record as required by his precious and ironically-named Affordable Care Act.
Hahahahahaha.
I see an opportunity for online education models. There are a lot of adjunct professors who probably would gladly leave their current positions if the online schools offered better pay and comparable status.
B>“In education, we’re working for the public good,[to indoctrinate the little darlings you unwittingly send us] we are public employees[and our union will see to it that your kneecaps are broken if you don't do what we say]B> at a public institution;[that is, we take your tax money and waste it] we should be the first ones to uphold the law, to set the example.”[except for the 2nd Amendment and any others we don't like, in which case we'll be the first ones to violate it.]
Essentially this isn’t about healthcare, it’s about control. This act has been in a demoncrat staffers drawer for years and now it’s the law. At $40,000 a year, this professor is way above the poverty line, whether he knows it or not.
My question is who’s going to be saddled with keeping the economy up when business owners really start laying off employees because of the penalties of the act. The clock started ticking Jan. 1st for employers to begin calculating the full time equivalency for the determination of where they fall come Jan 1st, 2014.
Take this example below of a person not earning much to begin with and you tell me what the end game is.
Part time employee currently averaging 35 Hours:
Current Wage – $10.00
Annual Hours – 1,820
Annual Income – $18,200
Same employee capped at 28 Hours:
Current Wage – $10.00
Annual Hours – 1,456
Annual Income – $14,560
We’re only seeing the beginning of this and the act has so many clauses of “to be determined”. Who knows how were going pay for this let alone recover from the recession that ended 3 years ago.
“This act has been in a demoncrat staffers drawer for years and now it’s the law.”
Whoooaaaa there hoss! Only, this site would let you get away with such an inaccurate statement!
Actually, most of the obamacare act’s ‘framework’ was conceived by republicans and through the Heritage Foundation going as far back as the 80s. Even the famous ‘individual mandatory’ insurance buy-in which failed constitutional commerce clause muster was ‘soley’ a GOP/Heritage Foundation born idea.
Heritage Foundation explored the idea but rejected it.
The fact that it was conceived by Republicans is meaningless- Republicans conceive a lot of things. That’s how you brainstorm. You toss out stuff, and see where it leads. This one was thought through, and tossed out.
Then the liberals got a hold of it.
So what you are saying is, liberals don’t generate ideas, they just go dumpster-diving in the ideological trash bin.
I’d agree.
Poor baby. The wannabe prof. should have known what Obamacare was really about just by observing his nasty liberal co-profs.
It is funny watching all these Democrats who drank the Kool Aid getting a dose of reality. From part time workers losing hours so their employers won’t have to give them insurance to premiums going up and up.
The only thing keeping this from being hysterical is that those of us who saw it all coming are getting clobbered, too.
well isn’t exploitation what “liberalism” is all about? why would anybody be even slightly surprised?
reference: Al Gore and any other Democratic politician.
PPACA is all about expanding the power of the leviathan in DC.
Everything else is just a side issue.
Anyone who didn’t recognize that fact the moment that the ink was dry wasn’t paying attention.
The prof should have know more about the spread of socially transmitted diseases.