“Mother, May I?”

Remember when Jack-in-the-Box sought and gained a waiver of requirements of the Healthcare Bill (Obamacare)?

We discussed it on this blog, noting that to have complied would have required laying off many workers and hurting the economy. A waiver was granted.

Subsequently, MacDonalds got a waiver, then Aetna, then Regis, then…

MORE THAN 100 COMPANIES (and unions), AND GROWING!

Obviously, there is a problem in the Healthcare bill if so many companies, large and small must seek relief.

But here is the REAL problem: Companies must go, hat in hand to a federal bureaucrat to play “Mother, May I?” You can bet that each and every company that seeks a waiver must employ at least a lawyer or two, or a lobbyist – and it is up to some unnamed and unidentified bureaucrat to say, regally, YEA or NAY.

It should not be the function of government to decide who survives and who falters in an economy – but that is just the sort of an economy we have come to under both Republicans and Democrats.

(O.K. Democrats are much worse…)