GrokBite: Obama has decided that paid leave is mandatory - you only get to decide how to do it. - Granite Grok

GrokBite: Obama has decided that paid leave is mandatory – you only get to decide how to do it.

A rather astonishing remark by Obama’s Rasputin (the power behind the throne), Valerie Jarrett on today’s Meet The Press:

I think what the President said was “look, let’s start with the premise that every American should have paid leave and then let’s have a conversation on how to get there.”

The assumption left here is that this is no assumption at all; that she holds that this premise (that all Americans should have paid sick leave for themselves, paid leave to care for family members or other “important people in their lives” and paid leave for maternity / paternity leave) is reality, that the President has the authority to merely declare that this is set policy.  All that is left to the rest of us is how it is to be implemented – and with these communitarian / socialist / redistributionists, the only “discussion” that we in our formerly Constitutional Republic are now allowed amongst us formerly sovereign citizens is who is going to be gouged.

This is an unconstitutional outlook that the Proper Role of Government is to tell citizens which set of citizens is going to be forced to work, under penalty of Government, for the benefit of others and have no choice about it. This is a Royal Decree worthy of George III.  Remember him?  If not, the hint was that he was a big deal here in the colonies around the 1770s….

For the record – if a company wishes to extend such a benefit to its employees voluntarily, part of the private contract between it and its employees, so be it.  Government should have NO role in deciding this at all.  Private companies exist to conduct business and make profits – not to be either “forced charities / social organizations” or to be mere extensions of an overreaching Government.

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