4 more years! And I cannot wait!!!

[death dealer]

FWIW, I have always liked DD. Hell, there isn't anybody on this board I don't like. I like everybody.

I like you too CMan! If I'd known your new identity I'd have never gone off on you so hard. Sorry dude! Peace?

[Ibanez]

death dealer has met me ONCE, yes just ONCE and yet everything I say sends him into the stratosphere on the emotional scale. Even to the point of wishing me death. All facades or whatever aside, I am a pro-choice Catholic able to think for myself with the brain God gave me. hey dd, you stay classy okay. One time and he hates my guts. People WISH they could make that big of an impact!

OMG!! You're Catamount Man? I honestly had no idea! CMan, IIRC, i could never keep up with your crazy ass swings in allegiance. One thread it was conk this, the next it was donk that. Weren't you a libertarian at one point in there too? I wondered what happened to you! Pulled a *****/syntax error, eh?

Man, this is a shocking. I thought his temper reminded me of someone.

[psychoCAT]

FWIW, I have always liked DD. Hell, there isn't anybody on this board I don't like. I like everybody.

I like you too CMan! If I'd known your new identity I'd have never gone off on you so hard. Sorry dude! Peace?

You're cool DD. No ill feelings.

[UD77]

Restaurants to mitigate health care costs by cutting hours
Restaurant News ^ | 10/17/2012 | Erin Dostal

In light of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, restaurant companies and franchisees are looking into ways to lower costs to save money, including cutting employee hours.
“What we’re seeing is that this health care law puts unique challenges on chain restaurants,” said Rob Green, executive director of the National Council of Chain Restaurants. “The law will have cost implications on a lot of different business sectors, but restaurants and retail are in the bull’s eye.”

Specifically, two parts of the PPACA may raise costs for restaurant chains: The definition of full-time employees as those who work 30 or more hours per week, rather than the traditional 37-40 hours per week, and the fact that the law applies to any business with more than 50 employees — a number some say will discourage franchise growth.

“These are going to be costs, and companies have to figure out how to manage them…the options are limited,” Green said. Many restaurant companies don’t know exactly how the health care law will impact them, he added, so this early analysis may be crucial.

Orlando-based Darden Restaurants Inc., which operates more than 2,000 restaurants under the Olive Garden, Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse and other brands, is currently testing limiting some employees to 29.5-hour work weeks in some markets.

Unintended consequences of laws will always bite you in the ass. In the EU it was pretty uniform that the governments converted from a 40 hour to a 35 hour week with the belief that companies would then hire more people to make up the five hour short fall. Unfortunately, the required benefits package for any worker is very high. So what do companies do? The ones that were able to automate their processes did. Less workers needed for the same amount of production. The others just didn't hire and reduced what they made. I do not think that anyone planned on the outcome of making home ownership available for one and all, even those that would not have qualified for it in the past.

[death dealer]

I like you too CMan! If I'd known your new identity I'd have never gone off on you so hard. Sorry dude! Peace?

You're cool DD.

Well, that's a given.