Republicans showed they was very upset that according to the CBO report the ACA aka Obamacare would result in what would appear to be 2 million less jobs a year rising to 2.5 million jobs a year. Of course, the CBO should have used hours worked instead of "jobs" as it was actually hours that the CBO was talking about.
Some on that first. A 40 hour work week (a full time job) would be 2080 hours worked a year by 1 person. By 2 million people that would be 4.16 billion hours a year starting out, and rising to 5.2 billion hours by 2024.
The CBO report could have said 2.5 million more people would be employed as those working less hours because of Obamacare would be replaced by those currently looking for work, but it did not say others would take the hours of those working less.
Why? Shouldn't a person moving out of the workforce by retiring early or taking less hours be replaced by somebody coming into the workforce? Wouldn't this mean 2 million more people per year employed or 2.5 million more people by 2024?
If you read between the lines, the answer is a big NOPE. Instead of asking why somebody else would not work these hours instead, the Republicans become outraged.
So why are Democrats not pointing out that the report is identifying 2 million to 2.5 million hours and why are the Republicans fake outrage a hypocrisy?
It is because the Democrats and Republicans are reading between the lines of what the CBO report is not saying.
Continue to find out please.
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