Category: Business

EEOC Sues ACA Wellness Programs

The Quisling crony capitalists who gave aid and comfort to the passage of the Obamacare disaster have been stabbed in the back and are as angry as wet hornets.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)  is suing them — well Honeywell International and two smaller firms anyway but all are in its sights — for the “wellness programs” that were instrumental in getting the bossy-types on board for the “Affordable” Care Act.

It should be understood that the EEOC is under the auspices of the President.

Wellness programs give corporations a chance to question workers about the details of their personal lives, make them undergo screenings, and force them to attend weight-loss or smoking-cessation programs.

Obamacare allows huge incentives for those taking part in workplace wellness programs of up to 50-percent of their monthly premiums, deductibles and other costs. This means smokers and heavy people and people with pre-existing conditions face major financial discrimination, not to mention the invasions of privacy.

The also remarkably stupid American Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits employers from discriminating against those with disabilities including blindness and mental retardation. This means they can’t require medical testing of employees. Further, the EEOC considers obesity a disability with regards to the act.

Oh, just watch the train wreck.

And this does not even attempt to address trying to get those with dangerous sex lives to change their ways.

The wise and simple solution is to completely ban the practice of employer-provided health care. Give raises to compensate for the loss of the benefits and let the workers buy their insurance in the same fashion they do their homes and food.

Most employers — the successful ones, the ones you want to work for — don’t care about your personal life. All they want from you is for you to show up on time and do what you are paid to do.

They don’t care about your skin color either or, generally, sex.

Get government out of hiring decisions.

EEOC Sues ACA Wellness Programs

EEOC Sues ACA Wellness Programs

Small Business Saturday Is Nov. 29

Saturday, Nov. 29, is Small Business Saturday, an initiative by the U.S. Small Business Administration that encourages consumers to shop at local, small businesses during the Christmas retail season, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

Keeping spending local encourages local economic development.

Cox said that the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus continues to focus on ways to help small businesses by reducing regulatory burdens; eliminating the inheritance tax for small, family-owned establishments; and providing tax credits for small business start-ups.

For information on Small Business Saturday, click here.

Small Business Saturday Is Nov. 29
Small Business Saturday Is Nov. 29

Sliced Bread, Don’t Take It For Granted

Man has eaten bread for 3,000 years but the slicing was DIY until July 7, 1928. That’s when the first commercially sliced loaf was sold in Chillicothe, Mo., by the Chillicothe Baking Co.

Yes, it was revolutionary. The biggest obstacle was in keeping the pieces tight together after the cutting in order to preserve freshness.

The inventor of the Kleen Maid slicer was Otto Rohwedder who overcame many setbacks to see his dream become reality.

For a great story about it visit Priceonomics.com

Oh, and the phrase the greatest thing since sliced bread? It was an evolution from the phrasing in a full-paid ad in the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune for the product saying “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped”

Sliced Bread, Don't Take It For Granted

Sliced Bread, Don’t Take It For Granted

Sabotage Pipeline Plan Says Dem

A Democrat Pennsylvania state senator is telling opponents of energy to take legalities out of context to sabotage the  Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline plan.

The proposed pipeline would transport natural gas liquids from the shale fields of western Pennsylvania to the Marcus Hook refinery complex on the Delaware River.

Andrew E. Dinniman, who represents the 19th District in Chester County, told members of the Chester County Sierra Club to use  Section 27 of the state constitution to encourage local municipalities to harass construction of the line.

Section 27 reads “the people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment.”

Well, yes. And it has been accepted that the state Public Utility Commission is the agency to ensure that the air and water et al are protected else if left  to every zoning hearing board between Marcus Hook and Houston, Pa., the project would be nickle and dimed into non-existence.

Refinery workers whose jobs and standard of living depend on the natural gas must be made to understand that it is their automatically deducted union dues that fund the campaigns of guys like Dinniman.

Sabotage Pipeline Plan Says Dem

Sabotage Pipeline Plan Says Dem

Apollo-M Sells Music Lesson Via Subscription

Noted Australian musician Gary Turner tells us that we can now get music lessons online via a new Netflix-type subscription service called Apollo-M.Com, which is based just down I-95 in Wilmington, Del.

“Roughly 300 million people in the world play, teach or are learning to play a musical instrument,” Turner said.

Turner is the founder of Koala Music Publications which morphed into LearnToPlayMusic.com.

An Apollo-M subscription goes for $4.95 a month.

An excellent idea.

Apollo-M Sells Music Lesson Via Subscription

Apollo-M Sells Music Lesson Via Subscription

Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Helps Delco

Sunoco Logistics, announced Sept. 6 that it will build a new, larger pipeline to carry natural gas liquids from Marcellus and Utica shales to the company’s Marcus Hook industrial complex where it will be refined.

Meanwhile, the existing Mariner East 1 line will be expanded from Delmont, Pa. to Houston, Pa.

The new line will have a capacity of 275,000 barrels per day and will run from Ohio, through the West Virginia panhandle to Houston where it will then parallel Mariner East 1 to Marcus Hook.

Mariner East 1 has a capacity of 70,000 barrels per day.

Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Helps Delco

Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Helps Delco

Netflix Invades France

Netflix started service in France on Sept. 15.

eMarketer.com notes that fewer than a quarter of the French had ever heard of it.

They are going to have a hard time of it we fear.

Hardly any Jerry Lewis movies.

Netflix Invades France

Netflix Invades France

Kyj’s Bakery Gets Deserved Kudos

Kyj’s Bakery at 2702 W. Third St. in Chester is the subject of a well deserved article in The Delaware County Daily Times by Kathleen Carey.

The Ukrainian bakery is 60 years old.

It was founded by Wasyl and Lydia Kyj and is now operated by their daughter Christina Pluta.

It has affiliates at 23 E. Brookhaven Road, Brookhaven which opened in 1973 and at  3372 Chichester Ave. Boothwyn (Upper Chichester), which opened in 1993.

Yes, it really does have the best babka.

When you get a chance, check it out. You won’t regret it.

Kyj's Bakery Gets Deserved Kudos

Kyj’s Bakery in Chester Pa Gets Deserved Kudos

Mobile Tracking Wanted By 27 percent

eMarketer.com reports that  27 percent of US smartphone owners would allow mobile in-store tracking in order to receive relevant, real-time information and offers especially information and offers involving price.
It noted that 24 percent don’t have a strong opinion and just a little bit less than half are totally creeped out by the idea.
If merchants can make 27 percent of customers happy with the new tech expect it to happen.
Mobile Tracking Wanted By 27 percent

Airbnb End Of Hotels?

Airbnb, a digital marketplace enabling travelers to rent and share private accommodations, is taking business travel spending according to eMarketer.com
eMarketer  notes that the service is popular with the young and has made an impact in the hotel business. It speculates that once Millennials enter the business world they are going to take the habit with them.
We’re not so sure. Hey kids, two words: expense accounts.
Airbnb End Of Hotels
Airbnb End Of Hotels