Red Lobster, Olive Garden cutting workers hours due to 'Obamacare'

[metsbulls1025]

Hmmmm just thought of something reading the back and forth about if this is a good place to eat.

I wonder if we will see a spike in sales for these places from people who oppose Obamacare. Could this be A) a cost cutting measure but also B) A huge free marketing campaign. hmmmmm



Completely OT, how the heck did metsbulls pay 87 bucks at Red Lobster. I've been there for some reason I had some gift cards to darden and said I haven't had Red Lobster in 15 years I'll go there. I took my wife and a friend and his girlfriend. We ordered everything it seemed like, and about 4 walker blacks and I think I didn't use the whole 100 bucks worth of gift cards. I remember fondly going lobster nacho's how could those be bad and ordered them as an app (newsflash they were very very very bad)

I was exaggerating, but because we are dealing with seafood it is all based off of a market. So because I live in the mountains of North Carolina our seafood prices are sky rocketed.

[behindmydesk]

I was exaggerating, but because we are dealing with seafood it is all based off of a market. So because I live in the mountains of North Carolina our seafood prices are sky rocketed.

Man I would never go to a Red Lobster if I lived that close to the coast with all that fresh seafood at your disposal. MMMMMMMMMMM

[Labgrownmangoat]

Yes. Federal government has no business in education.

Indeed. We need halfwits that don't believe in any of the progress of the 20th century to run our schools. Like these.

Our education system is partially federal for a reason. There are some floors below which we as a nation try not to let our children fall. We try not to allow racial segregation, anti-science bigotry, or overt injections of religion into the curriculum. The nation's children won't just be affecting their own state, after all. They'll be voters, and it behooves us not to let their minds fester in a stew of ignorance based on the ignorance of some of their elders, even if those elders are elected to the state school board.

[homestarunner93]

Why not? I see half the states dropping the ball big time on education. The entire south east, MAYBE excluding Florida is graduating far too few of its children from even the most basic education. If the state refuses to improve its education system, then I see no reason why the federal government shouldn't play a bigger role in that system. This isn't an instance where the experiment is working, it is failing miserably and needs to be stopped before it ruins even more of those children's lives.

Indeed. We need halfwits that don't believe in any of the progress of the 20th century to run our schools. Like these.

Our education system is partially federal for a reason. There are some floors below which we as a nation try not to let our children fall. We try not to allow racial segregation, anti-science bigotry, or overt injections of religion into the curriculum. The nation's children won't just be affecting their own state, after all. They'll be voters, and it behooves us not to let their minds fester in a stew of ignorance based on the ignorance of some of their elders, even if those elders are elected to the state school board.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Maybe you guys should try re-writing the Constitution if you want the federal government involved in education.

[natepro]

Maybe you guys should try re-writing the Constitution if you want the federal government involved in education.

God, I wish I could. You shouldn't have your educated wasted because you were born in Mississippi instead of Mass. It's pathetic that it's allowed to happen.

[homestarunner93]

God, I wish I could. You shouldn't have your educated wasted because you were born in Mississippi instead of Mass. It's pathetic that it's allowed to happen.

There are always people that are going to have their "educated wasted" because they're either too dumb or too complacent to do well (or a combination of the two). If you're that worried about your education, just move. After all, if a ton of people do this, won't the states HAVE to improve their schools? I think the idea that states aren't moving to improve their schools is stupid, as a I know good and well South Carolina is always considering how the public school system here can get better. I don't expect impoverished areas to improve no matter what, based on what I said earlier (combination of stupidity and complacency for a majority of the impoverished, although certainly not all).

[natepro]

There are always people that are going to have their "educated wasted" because they're either too dumb or too complacent to do well (or a combination of the two).

Which has absolutely nothing to do with what I said.

[Patsfan56]

dp

[flips333]

There are always people that are going to have their "educated wasted" because they're either too dumb or too complacent to do well (or a combination of the two). If you're that worried about your education, just move. After all, if a ton of people do this, won't the states HAVE to improve their schools? I think the idea that states aren't moving to improve their schools is stupid, as a I know good and well South Carolina is always considering how the public school system here can get better. I don't expect impoverished areas to improve no matter what, based on what I said earlier (combination of stupidity and complacency for a majority of the impoverished, although certainly not all).

Just move. I love it.

[natepro]

Just move. I love it.

Are you saying people can't just pack up their stuff and move on a whim?

[Wrigheyes4MVP]

making others pay so you can have the RIGHT to have health insurance is immoral and unjust

Health insurance should be a right that you are born with and that you die with. It needs to be protected like any other human right.

One innocent life is more important than any amount of jobs or any amount of money.

[Wrigheyes4MVP]

Red Lobster should stop charging 87 dollars for an average Lobster and maybe more people would show up to eat.

Lol so true LMAO!

[dbroncos78087]

Are you saying people can't just pack up their stuff and move on a whim?

That is what I'm hearing. People can just quit their job and move to a completely new stare with a guarantee of a new one in that state. I think the same thing is true if they are being discriminated against. They can just get out of that state and not expect their basic right (yes you have a right to an education) to be protected.

[IndyFan]

There are always people that are going to have their "educated wasted" because they're either too dumb or too complacent to do well (or a combination of the two). If you're that worried about your education, just move. . .

I don't get the point about people wasting their educational chances. That's true, some do, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with a persons right to a good education.

Don't think many of those elementary or middle school kids that are stuck in bad schools in Mississippi are going to be able to move to Massachusetts to improve their education.

[homestarunner93]

Just move. I love it.

Are you saying people can't just pack up their stuff and move on a whim?

That is what I'm hearing. People can just quit their job and move to a completely new stare with a guarantee of a new one in that state. I think the same thing is true if they are being discriminated against. They can just get out of that state and not expect their basic right (yes you have a right to an education) to be protected.

I don't get the point about people wasting their educational chances. That's true, some do, but it doesn't seem to have much to do with a persons right to a good education.

Don't think many of those elementary or middle school kids that are stuck in bad schools in Mississippi are going to be able to move to Massachusetts to improve their education.

You can't afford to move? Too bad. Guess you're going to have to play the hand you've been dealt. The federal government has zero Constitutional right to be involved in education, and should not be involved in education. This country is based on the ability of the states to govern themselves, and either the states are going to make their states more desirable to live in (improving education, etc.), or they won't be very fun places and people will leave. I think all of you underestimate the strides states are attempting to make in improving their schools, but you don't just instantly improve a poor school system. On top of that, some state is always going to have to be 50th in education if you're ranking states 1-50.