A Reason for Hope?

How Europeans Invented the Modern World.

(It's a wonder American Thinker isn't afraid to even print those words in that order..
....oh....the RACISM of it all!)

What's most interesting to me is the following sentence at the very end of the article:

"Thus the world was transformed -- not by philosophers, scientists, or politicians, but by engineers, craftsmen, and entrepreneurs."

Since there is nothing less practical or able to deal directly with the material world as it really is than a Progressive, and since they are over-represented in exactly those areas that are less successful in actually "transforming" worlds: philosophy, science, politics, academia, media, and almost not represented at all in those fields that have proven to be the most effective in transforming the world: engineers, craftsmen and entrepreneurs....I am filled with something like hope.

Nice for a change.

The Gunslinger

What if...

If the monstrosity that is ØbamaCare, the power grabbing, prosperity destroying, privacy ending, individual independence crushing, nation "transforming" psuedo  "healthcare" bill passes....

....what if every employer instantly fired all their employees, and then hired them back as "independent contractors"?

They could pay those former employees all the money the companies currently spend on "benefits"...and the independent contractors could buy their own health care policies, and invest for their own retirement.

Since companies will be punished and fined and taxed for any number is issues regarding health insurance for "employees", what if they had no employees?

I have no idea what the law is, or what the rules are...but I think if I was an employer, and this shit-storm was coming my way, I'd divest myself of "employees" as fast as I could.

(Given how the gummint works, and how good this would be for business, I suppose any such arrangement would somehow be illegal.)


The Gunslinger EOTIS
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