I know there are a lot of pressing matters in this world right now: radical Muslim extremists continue to chop the heads off people at home and abroad; bizarre health threats like that respiratory illness and the Ebola virus has freaked everyone out right now; atrocious abuses of power committed by the IRS and NSA remain unprosecuted; and Common Core is dumbing down our children faster than anything they watch on TV.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
But one subject I hope does not leave the minds and lips and keyboards of the American people anytime soon is how bad Obamacare is for this country. I know it’s largely slipped off the front pages, and calls for repeal have died down. But it remains one of the worst government mandates to ever be created and it continues to wreak havoc on millions of Americans, including and frequently college students.
Here’s the latest headline, just one of many that cross my desk every week: “Obamacare Limits Student Employee Hours.”
It was published by the student newspaper at Oswego State University in New York and reports that “State University of New York recently updated and revised its student employment policy, which by result of the Affordable Care Act, will limit students employed by their college to work a maximum of 20 hours per week during the academic year and 29 hours per week during the summer.”
Thousands and thousands of colleges across America have done the same.
I am not going to go into how Obamacare has not lived up to its promises, blatantly misled the American people, and has been a boondoggle and a disaster for so many, just type “Obamacare” in our search engine and you’ll see dozens of stories that detail all that.
But the sliver of hope I had held onto that perhaps somehow this national nightmare could be repealed is diminishing. And that’s a shame, for our country and its future.
Jennifer Kabbany is editor of The College Fix (@JenniferKabbany)
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