Restaurant Chain Charges Customers Obamacare Surcharge

A Florida group that that manages several restaurants is already banking money for when the Obamacare employer mandate takes effect in 2015, and is charging customers a 1 percent surcharge on food and drinks. ✧ Currently only management employees of the eight Gator’s Dockside restaurants receive health insurance, but starting in December, in order to comply with the employer mandate, about 250 full-time employees will also receive health insurance, according to CNN Money. ✧ Sandra Clark, director of operations for the Gator Group that manages the restaurants, “is not sure how much the company is spending on compliance, but estimates that it will cost $500,000 a year to extend insurance to its full-time hourly restaurant workers,” CNN Money reported. “The surcharge may bring in about $160,000 a year, she hopes.” Read More......

FBI Reports Huge Decrease in Murders as Firearms Sales Soar

NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS ALERT, Vol. 16, No. 51, 12/30/09 (Via email) - FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders As Firearm, Ammunition And "Large" Magazine Sales Soar ∴ Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963 - a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI next year. Read more at NRA-ILA...

"According to gun control supporter dogma - 'more guns means more crime'..." Nope! --bc Read More......