What good is Obamacare if your house burns down.

[DaBoz]

'A public safety disaster': Obamacare could force THOUSANDS of volunteer fire departments to close

• The Affordable Care Act forces companies with more than 50 workers to buy them all health insurance or pay hefty fines
  
• The IRS says volunteer firefighters are 'employees,' even though the Department of Labor says they're 'volunteers'
  
• Out of more than 1 million fire departments in the U.S., 87 per cent are staffed entirely or mostly by life-saving volunteers
  
• Members of Congress are weighing in, but the Obama administration hasn't taken any action yet to carve out a fire-fighting exception
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By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520979/Obamacare-mandates-set-shutter-THOUSANDS-volunteer-departments.html

[Sadie402]

I worked for a township with a VFD for 23 years. All the volunteers had jobs or were retired. So put your bullshit flag back in your pocket.

[duke_john]

That was then, sadie.   This is now. 

[caserio1]

the right doesn't understand community giving

unless it's someone else doing the giving

and even then it's mystifying

[DaBoz]

yer an idiot