Y’all know how I feel abbout Barack Obama and Obamacare. But before you head off to other places on the Internet let me just tell you a little story…

So I have to drop my 1999 Saturn off at the local car repair place because my “service engine” light has come on. Two days earlier, I dropped off our 2002 Saturn at the same place for the same reason. In the case of the 2002, it was just a little finicky in its old age – there’s $3K of work needing to be done on the car but it can wait until the New Year. As for the 1999, the only reason the service light came on was because a few months ago I mistakenly left my gas cap on top of the pump and drove away. What a stupid I am. It apparently took the car that long to realize there was a lack of compression in the gas line, hence the service light.

But that’s not my point.

Back on Monday when I took the 2002 in an elderly gentleman drove me back to the house in a shuttle van. Yesterday, upon bringing my 1999 into the shop, the owner asks me to wait a few minutes until one of his techs drops what he’s doing in order to drive me back to the house. I ask him where the regular guy is, and he tells they had to let the two elderly part-time shuttle drivers go because the shop’s insurance costs under – you guessed it – Obamacare – increased so much that the owner had to make a decision between keeping his full-timers employed and insured, and a couple of non-essential part-time workers. Costs and margins being what they are, he simply couldn’t justify keeping a couple of old-timers around part-time. He told me they are also closing on Saturdays as a way to cut operational costs and salary.

Now this may not seem much to you or to anyone, but to me this is simply not right. You liberals can blather all you want about the needs of (gasp!) the uninsured, but are the needs of the uninsured any more important than that of a couple of elderly gentleman feeling useful and making a difference for a small business? We’re all worthy of respect and the right to supplement our living. You want to know the truth? The uninsured could give a sh*t about who loses their jobs and who pays more for insurance on their behalf; if they didn’t feel any obligation to buy insurance prior to Obamacare exactly what about this ongoing clusterf**k is going to make them want to buy insurance now? And in the meantime a couple of elderly gentlemen lose more than a little bit of their sense of their well-being, usefulness, and – yes – dignity.

I think it is a disgrace. I could say more, but then again, by Medal of Honor Oprah Winfrey’s measure I’d be a racist.