And The ObamaCare Train Wreck Continues On And On And On

From the Best of the Web: Remember when Obama said "the private sector is doing fine"? It was at a June 2012 news conference, and here's the context:

The truth of the matter is that, as I said, we've created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months, over 800,000 just this year alone. The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government--oftentimes, cuts initiated by governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don't have the same kind of flexibility as the federal government in dealing with fewer revenues coming in.

Last week the New York Times reported on an example of unhelpful behavior from Washington: "Cities, counties, public schools and community colleges around the country have limited or reduced the work hours of part-time employees to avoid having to provide them with health insurance under the Affordable Care Act."
That's right, ObamaCare's employer mandate applies to the public as well as the private sector, and although it's been delayed until next year, "many public employers have already adopted policies, laws or regulations" to avoid its costliest effects, the Times reports.
That means making sure part-time workers don't reach 30 hours a week, the threshold at which the mandate kicks in: "Among those whose hours have been restricted in recent months are police dispatchers, prison guards, substitute teachers, bus drivers, athletic coaches, school custodians, cafeteria workers and part-time professors."
Local officials from across the country describe the dilemmas ObamaCare has forced upon them. "Are we supposed to lay off full-time teachers so that we can provide insurance coverage to part-time employees?" asks Mark Benigni, schools superintendent of Meriden, Conn. "If I had to cut five reading teachers to pay for benefits for substitute teachers, I'm not sure that would be best for our students."
In suburban Cleveland, Mayor Dennis Hanwell of Medina (population 26,678), tells the paper his city had to reduce the hours--and thus the pay--of office clerks, sanitation men, park inspectors and police dispatchers to 29 hours from 35. "Our choice was to cut the hours or give them health care, and we could not afford the latter," the mayor says.  http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304709904579407261250790736?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304709904579407261250790736.html
ObamaCare is hurting the nation and cutting hours of the common working man.
People have been laid off and others have had their hours cut.
The next big shoe to drop may be Wal-Mart.  The store I work at have cut the vast majority of workers hours to under 30 hours.  By doing this, they are hurting some of the employees where Wal-Mart is there only job.
While some people will blame Wal-Mart, the true culprit is Obama/Reid/Pelosi/Titus and the Democrats.  They put this law on the books and businesses are reacting to it.
If it weren't for ObamaCare, these Wal-Mart workers would be putting in more hours and getting more pay.