3 jobs will be needed to work 40 hours a week.

Unemployment will also go up. Question is, how much?

Combined with the fiscal cliff, another recession could be coming. Just like the Roosevelt years...

The dirty little secret of the academic world is that fulltime faculty hold adjunct faculty in low regard, and will stiff them in a new york minute, to preserve their own jobs.
So I don´t expect to see much of a protest in the academic world over this health care mandate.

True, #2. Adjunct faculty are treated like garbage in most colleges. Some of them do as much work as the full-time people for about a tenth of the salary.

To add to #2´s correct observation - ´´Professor´´ Barry Obama was an adjunct instructor whilst at Chicago. And no, he was never offered tenure.

Elections have consequences - maybe at some point in history people will learn this.

Adjuncts do a lot of the undergraduate teaching. The professors are way too busy with research to bother.

"Adjuncts do a lot of the undergraduate teaching." The professors are too busy taking sabbaticals to bother.

I´ve been an adjunct myself--but I´ll still say it in spite, if the article´s author won´t. The idiots voted for the Won en masse, I hope they choke on him.

Gary may not have written this with spite, but I am certainly reading it with overwhelming glee at the thought of such perfect comeuppance.

Bwahahahaha....A rude awakening for those who voted without using their brain.

Adjuncts do a lot more work in the classroom than the tenured faculty. The tenured faculty are too busy playing academic politics, publishing books and articles that no one reads, and latching on the latest left-wing causes. Since they have tenure, they have the work ethic and drive of the average unionized Hostess baker. Henry Kissinger said that the politics of academia are the most fierce because there is so little at stake. I used to be an adjunct but quit when I realized that ALL of academia is just a giant scam. Academia exists primarily to provide cushy, overpaid jobs for far left-wing liberal Democrats and to provide a training ground for future liberal activists. There is no room for a conservative in modern academia.

What goes around, comes around.

You´ll get no sympathy from me for these liberal "beard scratchers!"

Some of these over-rated so-called "perfessers" are so wrapped up in themselves, as a result of being pampered, adored and sucked-up to, that they can get away with saying most anything that sounds good and liberal. Most of these over-educated, white guilt-ridden, Volvo-driving, Birkenstock-wearing, bottled-water-drinking, Politically Correct, Xanax-disabled, Valium-dependent Liberal nincompoops could be standing in the middle of the rubble called Detroit getting the snot beat out of them and they´d still insist they´re right!

Poster #14-- :-)

As they say: You wanted it, now eat it and like it.

Wow, #14. I think your post alone should be a "must read". Loved it.

They voted for it. They need to shut up and pay. The government is printing 40 cents on the dollar, so raise their taxes 40%. Harrisburg and the other cities are bankrupt or going bankrupt, so increase taxes. The government employees need to retire at 55. Those government jobs are hard.

#14 - Oh, I know those ´superior´ people. One asked me if I was going to Canada now that O won - I said, no, I´m just going to hang around to say ´I told you so´ over and over and over and over and over ------

#14 gets the Post of the Day Award! We adjuncts have worked our butts off with no compensation for prep time or correcting papers or anything other than actual class time. That sucks. What also sucks is the way we are looked at and treated by full-time liberal jerk faculty. And dont get me started on applying for full time slots...twice I was passed over by fat black "chairwarmer" lazy women and once my application went into the garbage can(my wife witnessed this) when the person in charge of hiring realized I was Italian and not Hispanic! I am telling you the truth! I could write a book about the inequities of being a white conservative veteran in academia! It sucks! The entire system needs revamping, a complete overhaul....NOW!

Lol #14, don´t sugarcoat. Tell us how you really feel.

A+, #14!

I am afraid there will be no outrage by the moronic constituents that voted for BO a second time. One, because when the bleep hits the perennial fan, they will be too embarrased to speak out, and two, the never-ending lable of being a racist will chill any sort of criticism (even those who did not vote for him).

His racist rant is a thinly veiled suppression of speech and debate, like China, Russia and the ME. And it is being blindly followed by the press, schools, colleges, films and theater.

The World is Changing. With ØDumbø you don´t need a job. Just Food Stamps, your ØDumbø phone, etc. Instead of working for a living they will be mooching for a living. And we are paying for it all.

College professors used to be respected just a few decades ago. ...Now, not so much!

Poor #20, you were just too honest. Granny Warren-Liewatha-the tenured Lily-white Indian Princess has set the standard. Couldn´t you have invented a 1/32 Hispanic bloodline to cash in like she did?

My only consolation in this disaster of an election is that the people who voted for the Kenyan are the ones who will likely suffer the most under his reign. For most conservatives, it mostly will be higher taxes. For BO supporters it will be underemployment or no job, no prospects, and subsistence living for their whole lives.

The most nauseating and greedy of all the public service employees are the members of academia. The private sector is so unaware of the comfortable working conditions and lives these parasites have. Particularly when it´s a husband/wife team. Just imagine what their combined salaries and/or pensions must be.

Any Obamacare costs incurred by academia will just be passed on to the students in higher tuition or paid by the state taxpayers for state schools. The tenured professors could care less about increased tuition.