And Minimum Wage goes boom..

janitorial_servicesThe University of California- Berkeley, is learning about the effects of the minimum wage increases the hard way.  Activists, social democratic economists, and even presidential candidates have claimed that such a boost in the minimum wage would benefit the economy.

Unless of course, you’re a college institution that has budget problems and need to let go a few hundred workers that maybe have to go someplace else to find similar work.

Obamacare Enrollment Party.. or is it too soon?

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The Obamacare numbers are not quite worth celebrating yet..

Yesterday afternoon, the White House tweeted that Obamacare reached 11.4 million signups.

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Personal: How Obamacare Has Affected Me

President ObamaIn 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare) was passed by the Democrat controlled Congress and transformed the US Insurance and Healthcare industries from a free market system with less government control to one of much tighter government control.  Many of its supporters hailed the far sweeping legislation as the next step towards a universal healthcare system (read Single Payer) that would allow all Americans to get the health care they need. Continue reading

And it starts…

Starting LineFirst of all, welcome to my blog.

I am not a professional writer, rather, I work in the IT industry.  I am going to make horrendous grammatical errors, typo’s, and other forehead cringing mistakes.  If you can tolerate that flaw, we’ll be fine.  I’ll do my best to express my points without “murdering the teachings of how to express oneself using the English language.”  Continue reading