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not even for free, Papa.
don't forget this putz threatened all his employees with less hours so he wouldn't have to cover their insurance costs.
Putz.
Papa John is a scumbag.
What? He tried to get around some government rules?!?! What is this country coming to?
The crappiest of the big chain pizza joints.
Don't blame papa, it's obamadoesn'tcare killing businesses!
Elections have consequences. Do what you gotta do, Papa. I'll order one for dinner tonite.
I do support Papa stance on Obamacare, but do I like those crappy pizzas, no.
Their cardboard is good
He may be a scumbag, but at least get the facts right. He didn't threaten his employees with hour cuts. He was trying to articulate the point that some employees hours may be cut to avoid a substantial increase in compensation if those costs, as higher prices for pizza, would render his business less competitive. Also, Papa Johns is a publicly owned company. So, it's not like he just digs into his pockets to pay for extra benefits. If investors bail on lower profit margins, the company can contract and some employees will be out of a job, not just healthcare.
Don't like him? Then also don't like Taco Bell, and several other fast food joints doing the same thing. My job's onsite service techs did the same thing and they lost 20% of their work force across the country.
As the costs start being realized, expect more of the same. Or We'll start losing more than twinkies. * Note that they went under for bad business decisions and Labor costs, not the new health care costs.
If papa john's costs go up as a result of this so does every other business that fall into that particular category. The loss of income and making investors happy are not ever directly related unless there is dividends involved and even then the percentages are very loss. Costco is one company that caters to it's business model regardless of what the investors think and it is growing in leaps and bounds and customer as well as employee satisfaction.
There is strength and value in numbers when buying health insurance. A country that doesn't have a national medical system, for better or worse, has to depend on the business's that hire people to negotiate and get a better deal on healthcare because there is no other way to do it. The companies will pass on the costs of those to their customers just like they do any other costs and eventually it will come out of all of us consumers pockets. However if it costs me a buck more to buy a Papa John's pizza due to healthcare costs, then it should cost me the same extra buck whether I get domino's or any other pizza.
I, for one, would not mind paying at extra buck for a pizza if I know that the 100,000 or whatever numbers that work for them are going to have healthcare.
Shitty pizza's notwithstanding.
We all lose when the goverment meddles in the private sector in the name of "progressivity." Take "pre-existing conditions," for instance. By mandating that they be covered by private insurers, with no regard to consequence, it's akin to telling people that they can wait until their home is ablaze before they purchase fire insurance. With the election as a claimed "mandate," the heavy hand of government is slowly going to squeeze the life out of the private sector; let there be no doubt. But it's all about "good intentions." With good intentions, one need not worry about consequences in the progressive world view. It's the thought that counts.