Obamacare offers firms $3,000 incentive to hire illegals over native-born workers

Under the president’s new amnesty, businesses will have a $3,000-per-employee incentive to hire illegal immigrants over native-born workers because of a quirk of Obamacare.
President Obama’s temporary amnesty, which lasts three years, declares up to 5 million illegal immigrants to be lawfully in the country and eligible for work permits, but it still deems them ineligible for public benefits such as buying insurance on Obamacare’s health exchanges.
Under the Affordable Care Act, that means businesses who hire them won’t have to pay a penalty for not providing them health coverage — making them $3,000 more attractive than a similar native-born worker, whom the business by law would have to cover.

News Hawk wrote:Romney's fault...

WHL wrote:So do you think Romney really wanted it  or was it just that he knows how Democratic Mass. is and he felt he needed to "compromise" to maintain his popularity?

"When the government routinely violates its own laws for political ends then everything begins to fail. People start hoarding wealth instead of trying to create it. If everything boils down to favoritism and which politicians you can bribe or buy, when the politicians buy votes by forcibly redistributing wealth from the makers to the takers, then the makers simply stop making. Or they give up and become takers themselves. Then you have just another banana republic".

Two million fewer overseas travelers visited the United States in 2007 than in 2000. The decline in overseas travel since 9/11 has cost America 46 million visitors, $140 billion in lost visitor spending and $23 billion in lost tax revenue. If the United States had simply kept pace with global travel trends, the U.S. economy would have created an additional 340,000 jobs in 2007 and the total U.S. unemployment rate would have dropped from 4.6 to 4.4 percent.

Al Jazeera provided an interactive breakdown on how much 9/11 has cost  to the American economy in 10 years.

Outlined below; further down is the longer version with explanation details for each main and sub-category. It is stated that many of these categories are conservative calculations and that many categories are certain to rise in cost.

Note: $5 trillion dollars is equal to 5 million millions.

Counting the Cost:   $5,000,000,000,000   ($5 Trillion)

DEBT - $983 billion:
•Interest to Date.................$183 Billion
•Future Interest..................$800 Billion

MILITARY - $1.73 trillion:
•War in Iraq.........................$758 billion
•War in Afghanistan............$416 billion
•Pentagon Base Budget.....$425 billion
•State/USAID: ....................$67 billion
•Health Care........................$31 billion
•Operation Noble Eagle.....$29 billion

ECONOMY - $278 billion:
•Tourism .............................$163 billion
•NYC Economy...................$52 billion
•Insurance..........................$39 billion
•Property Damage.............$18 billion
•First Responders..............$5 billion
•Aviation.............................$1 billion

FUTURE MILITARY - $1.38 trillion:
•Disability............................$586 billion
•Future War Spending......$441 billion
•Future Health Care .........$348 billion

DOMESTIC - $540 billion:
•DHS Base Budget..........$311 billion
•Intelligence.....................$168 billion
•TSA..................................$57 billion
•State/Local.....................$3 billion
http://911blogger.com/news/2011-09-03/911-and-economy-counting-5-trillion-costs-america

News Buzzard wrote:Too many facts for this forum, Obervantone. Bush: negative 500 thousand jobs; Obama plus 9 million jobs; There is way to much truth in that graph to be accepted around here. The strategy is to blame Obama for all of Bush's shortcomings!!!

Outerlimits wrote:

News Buzzard wrote:Too many facts for this forum, Obervantone. Bush: negative 500 thousand jobs; Obama plus 9 million jobs; There is way to much truth in that graph to be accepted around here. The strategy is to blame Obama for all of Bush's shortcomings!!!

You have been forcefully promoting Obama and his policies since his handlers called Hillary a racist and won the nomination. You put your heart and soul into telling everyone how wonderful Obama is for years. You defend him unconditionally, often in the face of intense opposition and facts.

Then you find out the truth.  (You were Grubered)

To admit that you were wrong in that situation would be nearly the same thing as admitting that you're an idiot, and that you weren't just duped (nobody's immune from being scammed), but you actively and passionately promoted the lies.

Who's going to do that?

No, it's much easier to keep on doing what you're doing, even though you know it's not right. It's a compromise of integrity to save face, nothing more, and it's done because you let yourself get too invested in the cause to ever turn on it.

News Buzzard wrote:Yeah right, Obama really screwed up. He only got 20 million people signed up for Obamacare, and he only got the unemployment rate down to 5.8%. What a dork!! 

Another thing, Outerlimits: Green Bay-26, New England-21 You can't even pick your football teams either!!!  

Outerlimits wrote:Its’ only one non-conference game.  The Superbowl will be Patriots/Seahawks.

Under President Obama’s new program to protect millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, many of those affected will be eligible to receive Social Security, Medicare and a wide array of other federal benefits, a White House official said Tuesday.

News Buzzard wrote:Anyone who pays FICA taxes should be eligible for the benefits. Isn't that how the system works?

News Buzzard wrote:Anyone who pays FICA taxes should be eligible for the benefits. Isn't that how the system works?

"But over the longer haul, he added, they are likely to draw more out of the system than they contribute — as is the case with nearly every Medicare recipient and with many Social Security recipients who worked low-paying jobs."