April 2010 Archives

So last Saturday, my wife went to Traffic School. She came home with an amazing story that put this whole Immigration thing Arizona is doing in perspective.

We live in Flagstaff, Arizona, which is about 2 hours north of Phoenix in the mountains.

So we hear about Phoenix, but only obliquely. So we know more about what’s going on PHX then the rest of the country, but not so much that “everyone knows that, so no one talks about it”. So we understand why Phoenicians like Sheriff Joe, and now, we understand why Arizona just passed this seemingly extreme immigration bill. So hopefully, I can use our unique position to explain it to you, as it was explained to my wife, and then me.

What she found out in Traffic School is that murder-in-progress or rape-in-progress is no longer the top priority for police in Phoenix. The number one call that will cause every policeman in miles to scramble is “Truck Full of Drunk Mexicans”. They will leave an active “situation” in order to swarm to stop said truck.

I know, I know, that sounds racist. Bear with me. It’s not what you think.

What’s been happening in Phoenix and Tucson is that the drug cartels have been slowly invading our state. When I say invading, I am not exaggerating. We’ve begged for help from the federal government, and been rebuffed. If you knew anything about Arizona, you’d have to realize that we’d rather ask for help from Satan than the Feds.

On Friday and Saturday nights, the young-dumb-and-full-of-cum members of the drug cartels load up in pickup trucks, stoned, drunk and heavily armed. They then proceed to drive around crazed, purposefully causing accidents. They shoot at schools, schoolchildren, other mortorists, and even police stations. When the cops corner them, they all pile out of the truck and run in a zillion different directions, while laughing hysterically. They do this all over Phoenix in all kinds of neighborhoods, rich or poor, white, black, Hispanic, or Native American.

So the reason Truck Full of Drunk Mexicans will gather every policeman for miles in a swarm in order to stop them is that the people in said truck are about to commit wholesale murder, rape and property damage; the police want to stop them and prevent it. Because its really a Truck Full of Drunk Murdering Cartel Members.

We have lots of people of Hispanic descent in Arizona. We have lots of illegal aliens who are good, hard-working, law-abiding people. They’re not the problem, and everyone knows that. No one really wants to go after them.

But we have to do something, and this law is it. Its unfortunate, and we’re seriously hoping that the police won’t go too far, or be abusive. But the cartels have just gone too far. Basically, this law was written so that we can stop these trucks and send the people in them to jail.

So the way that ObamaCare works, if a single employee files for a government subsidy for health insurance, the government bills the company for all employees at $2,000-$3,000 a head if the company has more than 25 employees. (Part-time workers count as half a person so I guess you could have 50 fully part time employees).

So lets say you’re a company with a lot of part-time employees for whatever reason. If you offer health insurance for your full time employees, and a part-time employee applies for the government plan, well now you’re going to be billed not just $3,000 for that employee, but $3,000 for all employees.

So the logical choice? Don’t offer health insurance at all. I mean, why pay twice?

Now some people think the Democrats are stupid for having stuff like this in ObamaCare.

I disagree. I think its pure genius.

First, the Democrats complain that all corporations care about is making money.

This is, of course, true.

Then, the Democrats promise to protect the populace from the evil corporations, and they do it in such a way that the only practical way for the corporations to proceed is to to screw the populace.

Then the Democrats complain that all corporations care about is making money, and that they will protect the populace from the evil corporations.

It’s genius.

But it pisses me off that my taxes are going to go up down the road because Walmart is going to dump all of their employees, both full and part time onto the government plan.