Denver Post: Obama Is Playing Politics With WARN

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From the Denver Post:
The law on layoffs by defense contractors seems pretty straightforward.
The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires advance notice of impending layoffs.
While the letter of the law may be clear, the politics surrounding it have become unfortunately complicated by a heated presidential campaign.
The Obama administration must stop its meddling in an effort to restrain potentially unfavorable defense contractor layoff news just before the presidential election.
The catalyst for this episode is the so-called fiscal cliff — the automatic federal budget cuts scheduled to begin Jan. 2.
It's important to note the automatic cuts were cemented into law by the inability of a bipartisan congressional committee to come to terms on a deficit reduction plan.
So, here it comes — $500 billion in defense cuts and another $500 billion in reductions to domestic programs....
 Here is the Obama administration meddling part: On Sept. 28, the White House Office of Management and Budget issued guidance, urging contractors not to send the notices and saying the government would cover the cost of defense layoffs if they happened as a result of sequestration.
In essence, the administration was attempting to keep an election-eve flood of worrisome notices from being dumped on states heavily dependent on defense contracting, such as Virginia. That's wrong.
Republicans, understandably, were outraged, but Democrats should be as well. And we all should be disgusted by lawmakers so paralyzed by ideology that they cannot compromise in the name of the nation's fiscal future.


Read more: Editorial: Wrong way on WARN notices - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_21709080/editorial-wrong-way-warn-notices#ixzz28mHaQdAZObama is telling these defense companies to break the law and then telling them that the U.S. taxpayer will pay them for breaking the law.  Further, while the Obama administration may promise the money, there is no guarantee the government will even pay- for instance, where is Obama going to get the money to pay these companies to break the law?Comrade/Dictator Obama: just another Chicago street thug.