The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Did Google’s Pac-Man Logo Gulp Millions of Hours of Lost Productivity?”–headline, FastCompany.com, May 25
News You Can Use
“Skipping Jury Duty? Not a Smart Idea”–headline, Orlando Sentinel, May 24
They Were Hoping We Wouldn’t Notice at All
“About one-third of employers subject to major requirements of the new health care law may face tax penalties because they offer health insurance that could be considered unaffordable to some employees, a new study says,” the New York Times reports:
The study, by Mercer, one of the nation’s largest employee benefit consulting concerns, is based on a survey of nearly 3,000 employers.
It suggests that a little-noticed provision of the law could affect far more employers than Congress had assumed.
Consider that phrase, “little noticed.” Blogger William Jacobson does, and he comes up with 20 more examples of news stories referring to ObamaCare provisions as “little noticed,” most of them published after ObamaCare became law. Jacobson apologizes, sort of: “I didn’t intend on this post being so long.”
But this is tongue in cheek, for the length of the list is what makes the point: The lawmakers who enacted this monstrosity were almost completely heedless of what they were doing to the people who elected them. When Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,” she wasn’t kidding. Seriously, she wasn’t.
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