Roy Edroso of the Village Voice has a round-up of all the ugly and frequently dishonest right wing attacks on Obamacare after the Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that Americans would reduce their work hours by enough to equal 2.3 million full-time jobs because of it. After it became clear that they wouldn't get very far with the lie that these jobs would be "lost"---because the hours cut back would be workers choosing on their own to work part-time or retire early---conservatives switched their tune, painting Obamacare as a "handout" that discouraged people from an honest day's work. This was no surprise, of course. If there's one position that will always be consistent in conservatism, it's the position that holds that capitalists should be able to do anything in their power to undercut labor's bargaining power. Squeezing as much work out of people as humanly possible for the lowest cost possible is possible the first rule of conservative ideology. So of course they're against this. Being able to cut back at your crappy job where you're drastically underpaid to maximize your greedy boss's profits so you can do other things---include, perhaps, go to school or pick up freelance work so that you can get a better and better-paying job---runs against everything that the right holds dear. We're talking about people who resist even the tiniest raise of the minimum wage. This is no surprise.
