Obama Jobs Bill Piece Providing Assistance to States and Local Governments Unconstitutional

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Since Obama's Jobs Bill died as a whole proposal when the Senate rejected it, the Narcissist in Chief decided to cry, whine, and prove his narcissism by attacking the Republicans. In North Carolina, Obama said, "We're going to break up my jobs bill. Maybe they [Congress] couldn't understand it all at once," as if Congress is stupid little children, and he is somehow the adult in the room.

Typical narcissism.

It is bad enough Barack Obama thinks he is a light being, or something like that, here to save us all with his brilliant teleprompter reading (which will be hard since those things were stolen). But what is even crazier is he thinks his bill is worth a damn, when it is nothing more than another failed stimulus bill, filled with unconstitutional provisions.

The first piece of his fragmented proposal is a provision calling for $35 billion in assistance to states and local governments to hire or prevent laying off teachers and first responders. This money would pay for those services for one year, at which time the States would be required to pick up the tab they don't have the money for after that.

Uh...where in the Constitution does it give the federal government any authority to be involved in any way, shape, or form with local issues like fire and police services, much less teachers?

It doesn't.

The thing is, Obama knows that the House of Representatives, under GOP control, will reject every piece of his fragmented Jobs Bill. He did not propose it because he expected it to become law. The bill is being pushed because he knows the Republicans will reject it, and that opens up the opportunity to accuse the GOP of not wanting Americans to work, throwing granny over the cliff, and whatever else they can come up with.

The jobs bill is not designed to put private sector workers back to work. There is a way to create an environment for that to happen, but government does not create jobs. Well, at least not private sector jobs. Creating jobs is not done by the government interfering, but by government getting out of the way.

Either this bill doesn't pass, or if it does it increases taxes, increases spending, and worsens an already destroyed economy.

And that piece that is supposed to help for one year paying for teachers, firefighters, cops? After the one year, it's up to the local municipality to keep paying them or laying them off. In the meantime, they're all members of unions, they all pay dues, and they thank Obama for their job. What a coincidence that it all stops funding right after the election.

Oh, as for those union dues, those will all wind up in the Democrat Party. Buying votes, laundering money, and then screwing all of those people after the year is up.

That's liberalism for ya.

And since when is tax hikes and increased spending the way to create jobs? Ever have a business person tell you they were waiting for more taxes and regulations before they'd hire?

So, Obama buys votes with a successfully passed bill, or it gets rejected by the Republicans and the liberal left can tell everyone that the GOP doesn't want cops, firemen, or teachers to have jobs, and that Republicans don't want new roads, new airports, or new schools. It doesn't matter if it is all lies and propaganda. . . that is how the liberal left works.

That's the plan for re-election. The Jobs Bill is not supposed to pass. It is all a campaign move for Obama and the Democrats. They want to demonize the Republicans as much as possible, and what better way than to do as they always do, and portray the GOP as mean ol' politicians that want the people to suffer, firemen and police officers out of work, teachers eating cat food, dirtier air, dirtier water, and no health care. It doesn't matter that things have been getting worse for the last three years, proving that wherever liberalism is tried, it fails.

Oh, by the way, watch the unions use the money for pension funds, not hiring more people, if somehow the provision was to pass.

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