Valerie Jarrett: GOP Forcing Layoffs of Police, Teachers, and Firemen

On yesterday's "Morning Joe" show, Valerie Jarrett re-iterated her attack on the GOP for their blocking of Obama's American Jobs Act by saying that the non-passage of this bill would lead to the layoffs of teachers, police and firemen.

Unfortunately, Ms. Jarrett is too ideologically stupid to understand the consequences of such an action. First and foremost, the federal government is not responsible for local education and police and fire protection. Secondly, handing out federal taxpayer money to the states in order for them to retain public unionized workers only causes those states to stop looking for better ways to get their own budgets under control. As a result, the states will have then become dependent on that funding and the federal government will never be able to discontinue it in the future. Once again, it will have created another "entitlement".

What Valerie is telling the world is that this funding is simply a down payment to the unions for the support that Obama expects to get in the run up to the fall elections. The American Jobs Act is just another way that Obama proliferates big government in this country. The money would be better spent in job training programs so that the millions, already out of work, can match up with the over two million job openings that actually exist in this country but remain open for the lack of qualified applicants.

Obama's Job Plan: Just More Union Jobs

Next week, President Obama will unveil his painfully long-awaited jobs plan. But, my guess is that the only jobs to be created under the plan will be more union jobs. That's because the bulk of Obama's plan will call for federally-funded infrastructure projects; and, based on his "February 2009" executive order #13502, his agencies are "asked" to "seriously consider" union personnel for all Federally-funded projects (Click here to See Story: Fact Check: Did Obama require that all infrastructure jobs in the stimulus bill go to union workers?). Does anyone really think that those agencies, reporting to Obama, are going to ignore his directive to "seriously consider" unions? I think not!

So, once again, the President will help his good friends, the labor unions; while, at the same time, insuring that those unions "shower" him with their much-needed reelection support for 2012. Never mind the fact that he will "only" benefit the 7% of this country's private-sector workforce who are unionized, while totally ignoring the 93% of this country's workers who are non-union and who are highly unlikely to be trained and experienced in any kind of heavy-equipment construction work.