It seems that Democrats have no clue what it takes to run a business.  Free Market Principles absolutely escape them.  I work for a Non-Profit company which teaches job skills to underprivileged and disabled adults.  We have a program that places individuals in real-world work environments and under close supervision they are taught what it is to be a responsible employee.  After their training they are taught interview skills and are helped through the process of finding and applying for jobs. We also offer these Trainees an hourly wage.  

Now this to me sounds like a pretty good idea.  They get jobs, rely less on taxpayer funded social welfare programs (although they still do get some assistance), and most important I think, they get to have some independence, independence I know that I all too often take for granted. 

Right now my company is trying to figure out a way to continue providing these services now that Health care Reform is looming over us.  According to the legislation, since we pay these trainees hourly, they ARE in fact employees.  Since they are employees they must be given Health Insurance.  Providing health insurance for these trainees increases the costs to my company to a point where our only real option would be to cut other services we offer in order to pay for this insurance or, the more likely scenario, completely stop the program. 

I’m sure that Liberals would see my company as “Big Business”; therefore “bad” and they would have you believe that we have some secret slush fund of money out there that we are just too cheap, greedy and uncaring to spend. 

Being a non-profit company, every dollar I spend is felt throughout the company.  There are months where I need to choose between getting pens or ink cartridges.  We don’t have any money, hence the moniker “non-profit”. 

I know for a fact that my company is not the only facing this dilemma.  What I’m wondering is…Is subsidizing the health insurance of 5 million people worth all these costs and consequences?