Let’s see, does Kathleen Sebelius have any business experience? Hmmmmm…nope.
I guess that might explain how she could say something so monumentally stupid:
Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius told CNSNews.com on Monday that a provision in President Barack Obama’s health-care law that requires small businesses to begin buying health insurance for their workers when they hire their 50th employee–or otherwise pay a penalty to the federal government–“will actually be a great incentive” for businesses to grow.
Not to imply, of course that there couldn’t be other explanations.
[Update a few minutes later]
More from Ed Morrissey.
Shorter Sebelius: “Math is hard.”
The sad thing is, I can tell what she was thinking which was “man, we need to hire more people to offset this cost!”, except what will happen is that companies will essentially load people heavier/pay them more/whatever until they absolutely can’t get along without No. 50.
Her comment is fully in synch with the Socialist view that businesses exist to provide workers with salaries and benefits instead of to make a profit.
You just don’t understand how this works. If something is bad then you can make it less common by taxing it heavily. If something is good, then taxing it heavily has no effect. Why doesn’t everybody know this?
Following this business model, “the more your costs go up, the more you’ll like it”, several companies raised their prices today.
A Big Mac is now $65.95
A new Chevy Lumina is going for $195, 965.54
And a one way, Coach Class flight from DFW to LAX is $12,000.
(price does not include Airport Fees or Baggage Fees, Taxes, Fuel Overages, Fuel Underages, Nuts, Crackers or 1/2 of one flat Sprite / Pepsi / Ginger Ale that got opened yesterday on a flight from RDU to SDF)
You know, I hear about things like this, and I think “maybe women should be kept in the kitchen” — but then I think of all those ladies I know who are proud of their inability to boil water (never mind bake cookies), and I just don’t know what to think.
Kathleen Sibelius was born Kathleen Gilligan.
Where’s The Skipper when you need him?
Sherwood Schwartz died today @ 94.
Keep repeating the lies often enough and they become true.
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
Of a 60s flashback trip,
That started in that Toddlin’ Town,
With Ryan’s taste for whip.
The mate was a brainless Jayhawk tool,
The skipper’s bullshit pure,
300 million souls set sail,
On a hopey changey tour — a hopey changey tour!
The hiring started crapping out,
Despite the $trillions tossed,
If not for the scourge of the Tea Party FUD,
The crisis would be lost — the crisis would be lost!
The shit hit the fan when the debt limit cap
Estopped more Treasuries,
With Gilligan,
The Skipper too,
The SIEU and its goons,
The Noooo York Times,
The Bernanke and Timmy G.,
Selling us same Ponzis!
So this is the tale of the zombie Reds,
You thought were dead yet twitch,
You’ll learn to love the high-speed rail,
And being China’s bitch.
Watermelons and bureaucrats,
Will do their earnest best,
To make you all uncomfortable,
Enjoying Techne’s best.
No gas, no nukes, no motor cars,
Not a gram of untaxed CO2,
Like peasants in 410 AD,
(Except for the ruling crew.)
So sign right up for endless debt,
And slaving for your bettors,
Or mark the date in 2012,
For casting off your fetters.
It’s beatnik Carl! Pham da man. I’m getting my bongos, let’s all play along. I can’t wait to here what instrument Titus brings?
I bring my mellifluous (some would say “historic”) vocal stylings. It ain’t Tupac, but it might play in Topeka…
Marie Antoinette: “Let them eat cake.”
Kathleen Sebelius: “We’ll steal your cake, so you’ll have more of it to eat.”