We’re going from a country where people are proud to be self-sufficient to a land of takers.
Via Politico:
The Obama administration is going all out to turn the Congressional Budget Office’s latest Obamacare report into a positive — and they’re confident they can convince Americans that it’s a good thing if the health care law means they can work less.
In a White House blog post Thursday, Jason Furman, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, will flesh out the administration’s defense against a wave of publicity over the CBO report that said the health care law will lead to a reduction in work hours.
Democrats were livid that the report immediately got turned into a Republican talking point — “2 million lost jobs” — even though the “2 million” figure was really just an equivalent of the reduced work hours, not actual jobs.
So they’re getting more aggressive in their efforts to push two counter-arguments: Obamacare will actually help employment in the short term, and if some people voluntarily work fewer hours, this is the kind of relief overworked families actually need.
In Thursday’s blog post, Furman writes that the report proves the Affordable Care Act will help ease a longstanding problem — people working longer and harder than they want to, at great sacrifice to their quality of life, because they’re afraid of losing health coverage if they don’t.