Posted on 01/15/2015 2:00:12 PM PST by jazusamo
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said today that President Obama knows how to run small businesses better than small business owners.
Asked what the White House message to small business owners who are concerned Obama's proposed new mandatory paid sick leave policy could hurt their bottom line, Earnest replied, "I think the president would have a different view which is to say that this is good business and I think there are any number of examples I can site for you where businesses have chosen to put in place these policies and it's served to reduce the turnover associated with their employees, but also increase their employees productivity."
In his State of the Union next Tuesday, Obama will call on Congress to pass new legislation mandating that all employers give all employees seven paid sick days a year.
Also on Thursday, Obama also signed a Presidential Memoranda, directing all federal agencies to give federal workers six weeks of paid paternal leave for parents with a new child. Obama's own Council of Economic Advisers estimates that this policy will cost taxpayers at least $250 million in just the first year .
Obama also will call on Congress to pass similar legislation forcing all American companies to offer the same six weeks of paid paternal leave, although the White House did not say how much money this would cost the nation's employers.
Obama's humble view of his own skills at running other people's businesses is perfectly in line with his assessment of his political skills. Obama famously told his speechwriter Patrick Gaspard in 2008, "I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director."
It is the nature of liberals to believe they can run your whole life better than you can. So give up all your freedoms and report to the nearest re-education center and you will see how much better off you are.
He;s never ran even a hot dog stand, or had a proper job in his life.
He signed the memorandum to give federal workers with new babies 6 weeks paternal paid leave today.
When I initially glanced at the headline, I thought it said, “I know how to RUIN your company better than you do.”
Here, here!
He is trying to push us closer to communism without anyone saying the word.
communism includes complete government control of all the means of production.
That would have been the first correct statement coming from that turkey.
Yes and I was going to say this guys’ arrogance is only exceeded by his ignorance. I was a small business owner for 17 long hard years. Barack Obama would not have had a clue as to how to take $1,200 and a credit card and start up a Mortgage Broker business and run it successfully through thick and thin. But he and his crony buddies in Congress did manage to regulate us out of business. That’s what Barry is really good at. Chaos and destruction. He wants all small business gone. That’s his goal. Everybody working for the man.
Nicely done...
“... I think there are any number of examples I can site for you where businesses have chosen to put in place these policies and it’s served to reduce the turnover associated with their employees, but also increase their employees productivity”
Yer Joshin’ me?
No!
Josh, there are NO such examples!
And the employer can demand a signed note from the doctor in order to be paid for those sick days. It will take at least seven days to SEE a doctor if they are on Obamakare.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So if Obama wants to run businesses, big or small, then he must first do the following. He must lead Congress to propose a business amendment to the Constitution to the states. And if the states choose to ratify Obama’s amendment then the feds will have the constitutional authority that they need to regulate intrastate businesses and Obama will be a hero.
Maybe Obama will bring back a good old USSR saying , “We pretend to work and the government pretends to pay us “
Back away from the crack pipe duuude.
only thing he knows how to run is his MOUTH...
congress ought to reverse eacha nd every exec /memorandum and IMPEACH THE TRAITOR....
FOR SUPPORTING isis “SYRIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS” ..
FOR RELEASING 5 TOP TALIBAN AND GIVING AWAY $5 BILLION SIMULTANEOUSLY TO QATAR TO FURTHER SUPPORT ISIS
FOR failing to notify congress...
for waging war without congressional approval
he is a walking talking bad joke....
The FSA doesn’t work anyway so it won’t affect them.
Six weeks of paternal leave is the part I have trouble with. Dad needs six weeks of paid time off too? Sure it would have been nice I suppose, but what exactly would I have done during that six weeks? Bond with a sleeping child? That’s what newborns do...sleep, eat, poop, and sleep some more.
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