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Title: Lost My Appetite for Olive Garden
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URL Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog ... appetite_for_olive_garden.html
Published: Sep 17, 2011
Author: Charlotte Cushman
Post Date: 2011-09-17 09:35:03 by CZ82
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Views: 12229
Comments: 35
Lost My Appetite for Olive Garden Charlotte Cushman Looks like I won't be eating at Olive Garden anymore. In addition I won't be eating at Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze or Seasons 52, all Darden Restaurants. I have now added them to my list of government suck-ups. (And I normally can't stand the expression "suck-ups", but in this case no other one will do.) On September 15, 2011 Darden Restaurants decided to collaborate with Michelle Obama's childhood anti-obesity campaign. They have announced that they will reduce the amount of calories and sodium in its menu by 20% over the next ten years. It just so happens (I am just positive that this is no coincidence) that Darden Restaurants received a waiver on October 26, 2010 that allows them to avoid some of the insurance mandates of ObamaCare. Darden Restaurants most likely know that the handwriting is on the wall. They must know that the increased health insurance costs due to ObamaCare will greatly hurt their profits and that they must do something. So they decide to buddy-buddy up with Michelle in order to get themselves excused from it. But it won't work. Giving consent to government intrusions, only paves the way for more. Further invasions become easier each time they are sanctioned. ObamaCare will have such devastating consequences for the economy that very few will be able to afford to go out to eat anymore anyway, so getting some waivers now will only delay the inevitable. As a friend of mine, said, "You shouldn't empower your own destroyer by negotiating with him. That's slitting your own throat." Some people have said to me that other first ladies have had their causes, so this is no different. Michelle is just looking out for us. And anyway, eating less sodium and fewer calories should be good for us. My answer is that no one in the government, let alone first ladies, should be taking on "causes." The only purpose of government is to protect our individual rights and it should protect our right to make free choices, not take it away. We are not minions of the state. The government is not supposed to be telling us or advising us what to eat, how to live or breathe. We can decide that for ourselves. This is not an issue of nutrition, it is an issue of who gets to control your life -- you or the government. Businesses have the right to offer us a product without government interference. And we, the consumers, have the right to buy it or refuse it without government interference. Let us decide for ourselves what we want. After all, what if the government is wrong about nutrition? Then what? Michelle Obama visited an Olive Garden restaurant in Hyattsville, Maryland when this announcement was made. I have this to say to them: "You have kissed the feet of the government in order to get special favors. Knowing where your lips have been I have lost my appetite for the food at Olive Garden."
Poster Comment: But I thought ObozoCare was supposed to be a great thing, I mean that's what the sheeple are being told.... hhmmmm guess not!!!
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#1. To: CZ82 (#0)
Q: Has the Obama administration allowed corporations to "opt out" of the new health care law? A: No. The government has granted more than 200 waivers, but these merely give companies a temporary delay before being required to improve the coverage of cheap, bare-bones plans they currently offer. http://factcheck.org/2010/12/health-care-law-waivers/ More details at the link for those who think truth matters.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
wow, that's terrible.
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A: No. The government has granted more than 200 waivers, but these merely give companies a temporary delay before being required to improve the coverage of cheap, bare-bones plans they currently offer. So where does it say "opt out" in the article??? Or is this a question you are posing??? Actually the government has granted over 1000 waivers, and quite a few of them are unions..... hhmmmmmm.....
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!! -----------------------------"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Why don't you do a little research beyond your usual sources and see what you can come up with.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
There does that make you happy????? Now I suppose you're going to tell me that because your sources refute my sources that mine are no good.... right!!!!! Can I go ahead and laugh now??? Why did Unionized Companies Get so Many Obamacare Waivers? by Tom Fitton If you need evidence of the turmoil created by Barack Obama’s socialist health care overhaul, you could certainly look at the myriad of legal challenges currently working their way through the courts. (A date with the Supreme Court is a certainty.) Or you could look at the massive influx of applications from unions and companies scrambling to get out from under the law’s oppressive requirements by obtaining waivers from the Obama administration. The Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced an arbitrary September 2011 cutoff for waiver applications, but right up to this deadline these exemptions continue to proliferate. According to The Hill, 106 new waivers were granted in July, bringing the total to 1,472 unions and companies that have been granted exemptions from Obamacare. And yet, the Obama administration continues to be super secretive regarding just how these waiver applications are evaluated. But here’s one thing we do know. Approximately 50% of the waivers granted cover employees of unions even though union workers represent about 12% of the total workforce according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics! Why are unions seemingly getting a disproportionate number of waivers? That’s just one of many questions at the center of a Judicial Watch investigation. Recently, for example, we obtained 3,497 pages of Obamacare documents from the Obama HHS pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed on January 4, 2011. The records include internal HHS email correspondence and strategic documents, as well as email communications with Medicare and Medicaid, and with unions and companies applying for waivers. The records also include preliminary drafts and multiple versions of the health care plan itself, along with comments from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other agencies with concerns and suggestions for revising the plan. The majority of the email communications relate to the waivers granted by HHS exempting companies and unions from the minimum annual cap on the amount payable to an individual in benefits. (Many companies argue these caps will force them to either drop coverage or raise premiums.) The Obamacare waivers enable these companies and unions to keep their existing plans in place until January 1, 2014, when covered expenses will no longer be limited by a cap. (Just wait and see the chaos that occurs should Obamacare somehow withstand judicial scrutiny and become the law of the land.) In a general sense, Judicial Watch simply wants to know the criteria by which a company or union is granted one of these waivers. We want to know who got them and who didn’t. We want to know what conditions mandate approval and which mandate rejection. But HHS is mum on these questions. This first batch of 3,500 pages is, believe it or not, just the tip of the iceberg of the thousands of other documents the “transparent” Obama administration continues to withhold from us in contemptuous violation of the Freedom of Information Act. Which is an especially troubling problem considering the fact that Big Labor seems to be getting big favors from HHS in the form of these waivers. You may recall Judicial Watch previously obtained documents from HHS regarding closed-door health care meetings between Big Labor and Vice President Joe Biden, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and then-Obamacare Czar Nancy-Ann Min DeParle. The documents include a list of all of the labor union leaders who attended a meeting with President Obama, along with brief biographical information on each participant. The list included: Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO; Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union; and Jim Hoffa, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, among other Big Labor leaders. What assurances did the Obama administration give to labor leaders in exchange for their support of the plan? The documents we previously uncovered suggest that the key provisions of the Obamacare law were written solely to address the concerns of union interests. (And now we see Big Labor getting 50% of the waiver haul.) Speaking over Labor Day Weekend, at a rally for organized labor attended by Barack Obama, Hoffa attacked the Tea Party and urged attendees to get out the vote for Democrats: “President Obama, this is your army…Everybody here has got to vote. If we go back and we keep the eye on the prize, let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to America where we belong.” So the unions appear to be getting what they want, a reprieve from Obamacare. And the Obama campaign is getting what it wants, union cash and support. And where does this leave the rest of America? In the dark. The Obama administration continues to push forward with Obamacare under a veil of secrecy, especially the details of these Obamacare waivers. Waiving the law for 3.4 million Americans is unfair and an affront to the rule of law. And it seems corrupt when political supporters in Big Labor are getting a disproportionate number of waivers from Obamacare. Unions helped write Obamacare and then get exempted from it! And now Big Labor is paying back these waiver favors with campaign support for Barack Obama. Judicial Watch is committed to bringing as much transparency as possible to the thoroughly corrupt Obamacare, especially this ongoing abuse of the “waiver” process.
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!! -----------------------------"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
It is. Just ask Nancy Pelosi about the concept of reading the contents of a legislative bill after voting for it's approval and signature through formal governance processes and procedures. It is unquestionable that this is the thought process characteristic carrying America into the abyss into further decay by government.
If you weren't a loony liberal you could comprehend the simple arithmetic of 1+1=2 and calculate that the waivers to Obama's cronies postpone the unpleasant consequences of ObamaCare on their employees until after the 2012 election and if loony liberals had a little more ability than a box of rocks to comprehend abstract thought they would be able to understand why that's important to the Politburo political planners. Lenin didn't call you people his "Useful Idiots" for nothing.
You got that right.....
When asked by a Liberal what I bought my Granddaughter for her 1st birthday I replied, "MORE AMMUNITION"!!!! -----------------------------"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Yeah, restaurant food should taste like hospital food, right?
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
Because their medical plans don't meet the new criteria, and the new system created by the law will not be up and running until 2014. It is a transitional provision to allow workers to have some coverage, even if inadequate, rather than no coverage at all. "...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
Between LP and here you'[ve been posting how long? Do you believe that they care about facts? Boofer is bitching that his "accountants" the new health care law is going to increase his taxes by ~40%...he has 3 employees...he's exempt from the law... I told him to get new accountants...sounds to me as if they want to embezzle...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Call me optimistic - I still like to believe the truth matters. Boofer is bitching that his "accountants" the new health care law is going to increase his taxes by ~40%...he has 3 employees...he's exempt from the law... Something's fishy there.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
Do you believe that they care about facts? Boofer is bitching that his "accountants" the new health care law is going to increase his taxes by ~40%...he has 3 employees...he's exempt from the law... I told him to get new accountants...sounds to me as if they want to embezzle... It seems to me Willie, that the common gossip, cheap shots, smears, and felonious accusations you're making towards Badeye says a lot more about your character and the sort of person you are, and you couldn't have picked a better partner to help spread your lies and smears, miss low and common trailer park trash herself, she's perfect!
Fuck off, Mammy...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
It actually has a relatively easy explanation... He's a liar...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Hmm - do you think there are any "cheap shots, smears, and felonious accusations" in your post? I know there are.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
Sometimes the fumes from the still fog Mammy's brain, then she decides to post.
Whatever it is, her posts often leave me in awe.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
I posted because I know Badeye personally, and as a friend I had every right to correct the slander against him, I don't think anything can be lower than trash who come on here and LIE about another person, it's evil. What's your excuse for posting here, felt a little left out?
Again, you leave me awestruck.
"...all of the equations in neoclassical economics are rubbish. The differential equations describe nothing. Economics is not about mathematics, it is about the human being." Sandeep Jaitly
THAT isn't much of a bar moron, flowing water leaves you awestruck.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
The correct term is libel, Mammy. Write it down so you'll remember when you sober up.
Fuck off Louise...no one here cares about you and your cyber sex buddy. He's been caught in so many lies that are too numerous to list - ironically, several by you... That said, everything that I put into that post is 100% true. He claimed his taxes would go up ~40%...first off, if he WAS subject to the provision then the max he would pay for being cheap - he's already admitted he pays slave wages - would be a 6% penalty...secondly, he's too small of a business to be subject to HCR's provisions... PS: Written = LIBEL...SPOKEN is slander, doltessa...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Chuckles...2015?
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
I think Mammy has a crush on BE because he still has most of his teeth.
He finally trimmed his mustache?
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Ask Mammy. She says she knows him "personally", if you get my drift.
Don't worry about the dwarf, Murron. As we now know, he has to change jobs approximately every 41 months. Gee, I wonder why.... What is amusing is he can't keep his myths about me 'straight' lmao. That and the fact he tells himself I don't filter him (laughing). The lil guy's ego is so fragile, and so dependent on this forum, its pathetic.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
I appreciate the thought, Murron. But in the end they are just tiny dogs barking incessantly from behind the fence.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
You nailed him...&;-)
LOL! I know, guess it's a habit I can't kick I suppose...
That said, everything that I put into that post is 100% true. He claimed his taxes would go up ~40%...first off, if he WAS subject to the provision then the max he would pay for being cheap - he's already admitted he pays slave wages - would be a 6% penalty...secondly, he's too small of a business to be subject to HCR's provisions... Love, America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Its okay, I understand why. Badeye posted on 2011-09-19 8:03:37 ET Reply Trace Private Reply What's good for the Boof...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
have you ever eaten at olive garden? It's not exactly fine dining (but my kids love it).
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The salad and breadsticks are good.
Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president
Darden Restaurants most likely know that the handwriting is on the wall. They must know that the increased health insurance costs due to ObamaCare will greatly hurt their profits and that they must do something. So they decide to buddy-buddy up with Michelle in order to get themselves excused from it. But it won't work. Giving consent to government intrusions, only paves the way for more. Further invasions become easier each time they are sanctioned.
#2. To: CZ82 (#0)
They have announced that they will reduce the amount of calories and sodium in its menu by 20% over the next ten years.
#3. To: lucysmom (#1)
Q: Has the Obama administration allowed corporations to "opt out" of the new health care law?
#4. To: CZ82 (#3)
Actually the government has granted over 1000 waivers, and quite a few of them are unions..... hhmmmmmm.....
#5. To: lucysmom (#4)
Why don't you do a little research beyond your usual sources and see what you can come up with.
#6. To: CZ82 (#0)
But I thought ObozoCare was supposed to be a great thing, I mean that's what the sheeple are being told.... hhmmmm guess not!!!
#7. To: lucysmom (#4)
Why don't you do a little research beyond your usual sources and see what you can come up with.
#8. To: buckeroo (#6)
It is unquestionable that this is the thought process characteristic carrying America into the abyss into further decay by government.
#9. To: go65 (#2)
#10. To: CZ82 (#5)
Why did Unionized Companies Get so Many Obamacare Waivers?
#11. To: lucysmom (#10)
(Edited)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#12. To: war (#11)
Do you believe that they care about facts?
#13. To: war, lucysmom, Badeye, A K A Stone (#11)
Between LP and here you'[ve been posting how long?
#14. To: Murron (#13)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#15. To: lucysmom (#12)
Something's fishy there.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#16. To: Murron (#13)
It seems to me Willie, that the common gossip, cheap shots, smears, and felonious accusations you're making towards Badeye says a lot more about your character and the sort of person you are, and you couldn't have picked a better partner to help spread your lies and smears, miss low and common trailer park trash herself, she's perfect!
#17. To: lucysmom (#16)
#18. To: Skip Intro (#17)
Sometimes the fumes from the still fog Mammy's brain, then she decides to post.
#19. To: Skip Intro, war, lucysmom, Badeye, A K A Stone (#17)
Sometimes the fumes from the still fog Mammy's brain, then she decides to post.
#20. To: Murron (#19)
...I don't think anything can be lower than trash who come on here and LIE about another person, it's evil.
#21. To: lucysidiotmommy, Murron (#20)
Again, you leave me awestruck.
#22. To: Murron (#19)
#23. To: Murron (#19)
(Edited)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#24. To: Skip Intro (#22)
Write it down so you'll remember when you sober up.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#25. To: war (#24)
#26. To: Skip Intro (#25)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#27. To: war (#26)
He finally trimmed his mustache?
#28. To: Murron (#13)
#29. To: Murron (#19)
#30. To: Badeye (#28)
The lil guy's ego is so fragile, and so dependent on this forum, its pathetic.
#31. To: Badeye (#29)
I appreciate the thought, Murron. But in the end they are just tiny dogs barking incessantly from behind the fence.
#32. To: Badeye, Murron (#28)
He's been caught in so many lies that are too numerous to list - ironically, several by you...
The Mean Nasty Dwarf...
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#33. To: Murron, Badeye (#30)
Not surprising you'll use any topic for mindless personal attacks Biffy.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#34. To: no gnu taxes (#9)
Yeah, restaurant food should taste like hospital food, right?
#35. To: go65 (#34)
have you ever eaten at olive garden? It's not exactly fine dining (but my kids love it).
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