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Champ visits Amazon 6 days before Bezos buys WAPO
Yes, we remember his rare trip south of the Mason-Dixon and visit to Amazon and Mr. Bezos. Nothing escapes political necessity and the need to bolster positive media coverage of the Unaffordable Care Tax Act and at the same time pat the LGBT community on the head for the upcoming Hildebeast run.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2013 02:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Forbes: The Golden Age of Activist Investing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2013 10:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Only question is what Bezos got in return for bailing out WaPo.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/06/2013 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  ..waivers, of course.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2013 11:18 Comments || Top||


Government
We're taking up a little donation over in the breakroom, completely voluntary of course
About Amazon.com employee enthusiasms and Boss Bezo's political projects.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Small Businesses Can't Avoid ObamaCare by Switching to Part-Time Workers
[Breitbart] You knew this was coming. Don't miss the comments.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama care was defunded, so it's moot.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 08/06/2013 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Tax slaves.
Posted by: newc || 08/06/2013 0:15 Comments || Top||

#3  From Big Government and Big Business:

Suckers
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/06/2013 0:54 Comments || Top||

#4  And therein illustrates the problem ...

"Part-Time" = New "Full-Time", "Less-than-PT" = New "Part-time".

The Bammer Admin + aligned love to talk about "reducing unemployment" + "affordable health care", BUT NO ONE IN WASHINGTON WANTS TO MENTION OR ASK HOW IS THE BAMMER ADMIN GOING TO SPECPIFICALLY FOSTER + PROPAGATE SMALL BUSINESS = PRIVATE ENTERPENEURSHIP IN AMERIKA, OR GIVING $$$ BACK TO THE PEOPLE OR MAINSTREAM WHICH CAN BE USED FOR SMALL BUSINESS OR HEALTH CARE???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/06/2013 0:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Just split a business across multiple companies.
Posted by: phil_b || 08/06/2013 1:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Phil beat me to it.

Since Henry Ford vertical integration has been the thing, at least as far as business schools teach about business. The result has been a trend towards huge businesses which ultimately became complicit in propping up the Blue State model well beyond its utility, even into it becoming deadly to the republic (see Detroit).

Yes, there are times when economy of scale makes sense, but innovation seems to evade a business in proportion to its size.

There will be ways of organizing businesses to avoid this Obamacare thing. In the end, the population that comprises the public sector just isn't as smart or hard working as the one that makes up the private sector.

Posted by: no mo uro || 08/06/2013 5:25 Comments || Top||

#7  That won't guys the law has something called a "controlled group" provision. If those multiple corps are controlled in common they are lumped together.

That being said, this article doesn't bring up anything new. You always had to count the hours of full time, part time and over time to determine Full Time Equivalents or FTEs. If that number is over 50 the employer mandate applies, and the fine is paid based on employees that work more than 30 hours a week. So cutting hours to below 30 does avoid the fines.
Posted by: Beavis || 08/06/2013 6:04 Comments || Top||

#8  That won't *work guys

Bleh
Posted by: Beavis || 08/06/2013 6:51 Comments || Top||

#9  Unless they raise premiums, insurance companies can't affort to cover kiddies up to age 26 either. Includes the jobless, unmarried ones, shacking away from home....having babies, etc. But that was the plan all along, wasn't it ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2013 9:31 Comments || Top||

#10  If subject to the mandate, what is the employer's responsibility to the part-time workers?
Posted by: KBK || 08/06/2013 11:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Beavis nailed it.
Posted by: Iblis || 08/06/2013 12:04 Comments || Top||

#12  Companies perform peripheral activities to the point it is just cheaper to do so than to outsource.

Any increase in costs, will result in more outsourcing and hence more companies overall in the economy.

I happen to know that in mining, large companies like Rio, in fact, comprise hundreds of companies.

Any attempt to have one set of rules for large companies and another for small companies, is futile.
Posted by: phil_b || 08/06/2013 17:54 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2013-08-06
  Clashes between Military, Insurgents Kill 35 in North Nigeria
Mon 2013-08-05
  Thirty killed in heavy fighting in Syrian mountains
Sun 2013-08-04
  9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate
Sat 2013-08-03
  22 Police, 76 Taliban Killed in Afghan Battle
Fri 2013-08-02
  At least 40 killed in Syrian weapons depot blast
Thu 2013-08-01
  Qaida Chief Says Syria Exposed Hizbullah as Iran 'Tool'
Wed 2013-07-31
  Pakistan Elects Mamnoon Hussain President
Tue 2013-07-30
  Manning Acquitted of Aiding the Enemy
Mon 2013-07-29
  US drone kills 6 suspected militants in Yemen
Sun 2013-07-28
  Report: Hizbullah Wired Money To Bulgaria Bomb Suspects
Sat 2013-07-27
  Muslim Brotherhood claims its supporters massacred in Cairo
Fri 2013-07-26
  Officials: Cafe Bombings, Attacks Kill 42 In Iraq
Thu 2013-07-25
  Hezbollah commander killed in Syria
Wed 2013-07-24
  Reports: Top Syrian Army Commander Killed In Battles With Rebels
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