Obama's New Bailout: Government Workers

The Washington Times reports:

President Obama is taking a mulligan after the Democratic-controlled Senate decided not to pass his American Jobs Act last week. The commander in chief hit the campaign trail Monday in his taxpayer-funded luxury bus to drum up support for what he thinks will be a more palatable package.

From Asheville, N.C., Mr. Obama mocked congressional Republicans, saying, "Maybe they just couldn't understand the whole all at once. So we're going to break it up into bite-size pieces." The first morsel goes to bail out big-city mayors and state governors who created unsustainably lavish compensation packages for public-sector employees, including teachers, firefighters and police. He said the next vote should be on "putting construction workers back to work" - under pro-union Davis-Bacon rules, of course. He then wants more money for unemployment benefits. Nowhere in this new strategy does he call for spending stimulus funds to pay for any nonunion, private-sector jobs. He does, however, call for paying for the new spending with a tax hike on job creators and investors.

Just a reminder. No wonder why the 14,048 Illinois public school teachers ,who make over $100,000 a year in salary , view Barack Obama as (Democrat-Teachers Union).