We Don't Appreciate Them

Former Secretary of Education and conservative commentator Bill Bennett is the latest to rail against Congress' exempting itself from Obamacare:

Imagine the horror when these elected officials, who make $174,000 a year, realized that not only must they and their staffers be subject to inferior-quality health exchanges like the millions of ordinary Americans, but they might also have to shell out thousands of dollars for increased premiums if they exceed the subsidy income cutoff. [snip]

Heaven forbid Congress suffer the same fate as private companies like UPS, which recently had to cut health-care benefits entirely for employees' spouses; or labor unions, like the 40,000 International Longshore and Warehouse Union workers who recently left the AFL-CIO citing as one factor ObamaCare's tax on their "Cadillac" health-care plans.

It's also a shame that Congress and its staffers must pay income taxes, serve on juries, and abide the traffic laws. Let's hope that they're working on exempting themselves from those, too. The poor dears work so hard for us, and we don't appreciate them enough. © 2013 Stephen Yuen