Department Of Labor Gives Away Another $5 Million

The Department of Labor announced Wednesday that it is distributing the next $5 million of a $16,233,360 “National Emergency Grant” to Ohio to help displaced workers.  The reason?  “Ohio  continues to recover from the damage caused by severe storms and floods in the  spring of 2011,” the DoL said.

So a year later after the floods came we have the Department of Labor only still giving out half of the money it promised to give?  What a bunch of cheapskates!  Ok, first of all this is unconstitiutional.  The Constitution gives no authority for the federal government to disperse disaster relief.  But secondly, aren’t these people back on their feet yet?  It has been a year.  You know, in a free market the damage would have been fixed by now.  This sounds more like the Soviet Union where everything in disrepair stays in disrepair.  Some of the money went to “provide temporary  work” for people affected.  Well, isn’t that just the government for ya!  Another make-work project.

Look, if the “temporary work” they were doing was anything that the free markets demanded the government would not need to provide money to get them these jobs.  And they say there is no where to cut spending in the federal budget?  I can think of $16 + million …