EX-ACTLY! No way the unions would stand for 40,000 per year jobs.Remember Davis-Bacon? The union thugs would crack the skulls of anyone who undermined their fat wages.
Funny you should bring that up was just reading...
September 12, 2011
The Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards highlights a controversial new decision by the Labor Department to apply pro-union Davis-Bacon rules to the CityCenter development project going up in Washington, D.C. “While Democrats in Congress are demanding government action to fix the nation’s supposedly crumbling infrastructure,” Edwards writes, “here the Obama administration has thrown up a new hurdle to investment.”
http://reason.com/blog/2011/09/12/davis-bacon-in-dc-the-obama-ad