It seems like some business leaders are publicly appealing to government leaders about Obamacare - or affordable but mandated health care - by making their low-wage employees pay.
This is quite the gamble, as there are so many options with how to spend your food dollars, options that include not going out and eating cheaper and healthier at home (which would drive down national health care costs!). But we Americans love our pizza; some even like or at least tolerate Denny's.
So the Papa John's CEO promises to cut hours to avoid health care.  Guess what, buddy, there's lots of pizza places. It'll be easy for some so inclined to avoid that chain.
Same goes for Denny's, which now has a franchise owner in Florida promising to cut hours and, more importantly, putting a surcharge on the bill so patrons know the price hike is for health care.
I love his quote. He says if they, the customers, want to give a smaller tip due to the surcharge, that's fine. So now, he says, his employees will have to find a second job.
No.
His good employees will find better paying jobs. He will be stuck with the less talented employees and customers will notice.
Again, there are lots of places to eat. And though right-leaning customers will like what he's done, they won't want to pay more. Remember, they hate even paying taxes.

I keep seeing headlines, tweets and FB posts about states, even every state, wanting to secede from the union that makes up the United States.

No, that is not the case.

It is people within the states signing a petition to secede.

It is a very small percentage of the states' populations asking to secede from the union. It's less than a million people so far.

That makes it about one third of one percentage point. Not a big story. Yes, it is different, so that makes it a story, but it's not a big story.

Funnier yet, though, is the follow up petitions asking that cities like Austin be allowed to secede from their state, Texas, or the others asking to strip the signers of their citizenships.

Goodness, the dumb keep getting dumber. Oh, and the US Supreme Court already approved Obamacare, so it's here to stay. Now, if only they could fix it....