Obama blames the Republicans for hurting the unemployed

This weekend, Obama has been blaming the Republicans for hurting the unemployed when they voted against the latest spending bill in the senate. Republicans refused to allow a vote on the bill until there was a source of funds other than borrowing for the hundreds of billions of dollars to be spent.

Is it too much to ask that the president of the United States tell the truth? The bill that did not pass is not one that "helps" the unemployed. That would be a bill that helped to create jobs. This is a bill whose single biggest component is to funnel money to states so that they do not have to live within their revenues. The bill will give the states more time to spend more money they do not have so that when the inevitable contraction comes in state spending, it will be all that more severe. Obama is trying to push the state and local spending bubble even bigger. It seems that Obama and the Obamacrats want the state employees to stay on the payroll at least through November so that they can all go out and vote for their benefactors.

The Republicans have not opposed this spending as such, but rather have insisted that the federal government actually have the new money that it spends. No more borrowing just so that the bubble can get bigger. While it makes sense to spend what we have and not what we do not have, it is crazy to keep on subsidizing out of control spending at the state level.

Perhaps the best example here is New Jersey. Governor Christie is in the process of cutting state spending by about 25%. Many of the cuts are already in place, and there has been no noticeable decline in essential state services. Teachers who ranted and raved about actually having to pay for some of their own healthcare like every other worker in America, are still teaching. Police and firemen are still on the streets. And taxes will not be raised in NJ for the 152d time in four years.

I guess that Obama can't come out and blame Republicans for not allowing the passage of a bill that is basically designed to help the Democrats in the fall, but it has little to do with helping to solve unemployment. The extension of unemployment benefits could pass in a flash if the Dems took the rest of the crap out of the bill. They know this. We know this.

So why don't we just tell Obama to cut the crap