The really stupid thing about the Hobby Lobby debate is that the liberals and progressives are arguing that HL shouldn't force their religious views on the employees. But when did GIVING someone something, ie: a company GIVING healthcare, become mandatory? They already PAY the employee. Let the worker use their pay to buy whatever they wish, including insurance.
There is no "right" to get healthcare from your employer. Does your employer HAVE to GIVE you a monthly supply of socks? Or maybe hairspray? The premise that healthcare should be tied to employment is ludicrous. The ONLY reason it is offered is to attract better employees. It is a PERK that some smart employer thought up to draw the better employee away from his competitor. It has never been a condition of employing people (healthcare insurance, not unemployment or workman's compensation insurance) before.To answer my question from above about when did companies get forced to provide healthcare, the answer is, when Pelosi got her mindless minions to vote for the bill in order to find out what is in the bill (ACA). Obamacare in and of itself is unconstitutional, whether or not the Supremes were twisted into allowing it for some perverted reason.
The "for profit" debate being whined about on the left is asinine. It has absolutely no tie-in to any logic anywhere. What does profit have to do with having to provide anything but a wage to a worker? The Left seems to have a compunction to throw up in their mouths whenever making money is mentioned, yet this if what provides the very handouts that they cry for at every turn. Profit is good. Making money so that you can employ people is good. Hating profit-makers and entrepreneurs and thus wanting everyone to be equally poor is the evil in this debate. If you don't like that Hobby Lobby makes a profit or has a corporate belief in a deity, don't shop there. But don't tell me that I can't shop there, because I want to do my arts and crafts and buy nice decorations for my home. It is none of your damned business if HL and I agree to exchange money for legal goods.
This should be a slam dunk for HL, except that there are four ideologues sitting on the SCOTUS that want to use it as an activist body to force radical change on the society. Maybe the radical change that we need is a return to common sense instead of pushing change for change's sake.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
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