Republicans showed they was very upset that according to the CBO report the ACA aka Obamacare would result in what would appear to be 2 million less jobs a year rising to 2.5 million jobs a year. Of course, the CBO should have used hours worked instead of "jobs" as it was actually hours that the CBO was talking about.
Some on that first. A 40 hour work week (a full time job) would be 2080 hours worked a year by 1 person. By 2 million people that would be 4.16 billion hours a year starting out, and rising to 5.2 billion hours by 2024.
The CBO report could have said 2.5 million more people would be employed as those working less hours because of Obamacare would be replaced by those currently looking for work, but it did not say others would take the hours of those working less.
Why? Shouldn't a person moving out of the workforce by retiring early or taking less hours be replaced by somebody coming into the workforce? Wouldn't this mean 2 million more people per year employed or 2.5 million more people by 2024?
If you read between the lines, the answer is a big NOPE. Instead of asking why somebody else would not work these hours instead, the Republicans become outraged.
So why are Democrats not pointing out that the report is identifying 2 million to 2.5 million hours and why are the Republicans fake outrage a hypocrisy?
It is because the Democrats and Republicans are reading between the lines of what the CBO report is not saying.
Continue to find out please.
So, what the Democrats and Republicans read in the CBO report but what is not actually said explicitly in the CBO report is that 4.16 billion hours which equals 2 million jobs is unproductive hours or the hours when employees are "milking the clock".
Democrats don't point out that people who may be currently unemployed would take those hours and so the jobless rate would go down even more in the coming years thanks to Obamacare. They don't because they know the CBO report is saying it is unproductive hours or hours when an employee is on the clock but when nothing is really being accomplished during those hours.
The Republicans fake outrage at the people refusing the "dignity of work" is something to call out though. So "diginity of work" means "milking the clock"? Of course, this is the Congress that has earned a reputation of working the least of any congress in recent history, so maybe they are in favor of "milking the clock",
But then, if Republicans are in favor of "milking the clock" or "dignity of work" then they are in favor of income redistribution? That is what "milking the clock" really means, a person gets paid for doing nothing aka income redistribution or welfare.
So let's see those ads run against Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and all other republicans outraged at the 2 million in "lost jobs", that show the GOP in favor of unauthorized employer welfare.