ObamaCare: the gift of Kafkaesque Statist absurdity that just keeps on giving

We needed to pass the law to see what’s in it, and one of the provisions we’re now finding is the compulsory creation of lactation chambers — a surreal provision that has Staples co-founder Tom Stemberg a bit annoyed:

Stemberg […] is questioning an Obamacare provision that discourages job creation by dictating employers funnel their capital into lactation chambers.“Do you want [farming retailer] Tractor Supply to open stores or would you rather they take their capital and do what Obamacare and its 2,700 pages dictates – which is to open a lactation chamber at every single store that they have?” he asked.

“I’m big on breastfeeding; my wife breastfed,” Stenberg added. “I’m all for that. I don’t think every retail store in America should have to go to lactation chambers, which is what Obamacare foresees.

Let me just add, too, that I myself am an enormous fan of the breasts — which, while that fact doesn’t have specifically to do with any argument I’m going to make, should at least come to count in my favor as evidence of full disclosure.

Here, what we have it seems to me is a natural legal extension of, eg., compulsory handicap ramps, with the precedent set now that for each new identity bloc inconvenienced by any physical workplace obstacle (the psychological inconvenience industry is already in full PC bloom) an employer must account, often financially, for the satisfaction of the inconvenienced employee.

And the extension of that argument is the institutionalization of the idea that a job is a right — just as it was in the Soviet Constitution.

To be clear, this is not about women, or women’s health, or the dignity of the handicapped, etc. — who are but the pawns in an extended chess game wherein the left is working to supplant the civil society with a state-dominated system. Meaning, what this is about is the State using emotionalist, egalitarian arguments to expand their power and control over private industry and the individual — forcing people into relationships with the State and then demanding that, as a result of that relationship, the individual surrender autonomy to the state and its increasingly unconstitutional dictates.

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