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Leisure Studies Prof Rebukes Republicans For Liking Jobs, Lauds Obama For Unemployment

Eric Owens of the Daily Caller has this little nugget:

A professor of leisure studies at the University of Iowa has written a 1,278-word essay excoriating Republicans for criticizing both unemployment caused by Obamacare and unemployment generally. Also, there is such a thing as a leisure studies major at taxpayer-supported American universities.

The essay by Benjamin Kline Hunnicut, entitled “Why Do Republicans Want Us to Work All the Time?” appears in Politico Magazine.

Hunnicut begins by admitting that the Congressional Budget Office has forecast that the Affordable Care Act “will effectively reduce the U.S. work force” by 2.5 million jobs “over the next decade.”

He then criticizes Republicans for calling 2.5 million lost jobs undesirable

“The president’s critics, in high dudgeon, are fulminating about lay-abouts and scofflaws actually choosing to work less than what God intended, predicting a host of ills that will supposedly befall the nation, from moral turpitude to economic ruin,” Hunnicut writes.

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