That truly is wrong-headed. It suggests that the government is the boss of business, and that is corporate socialism. The government owns the businesses and tells them what to do.
I have no love lost on many of our businesses, however, when they undercut the free market by bringing in illegal immigrants and undercutting prevailing wages. That is just as big an attack on workers as is the government forcing a minimum wage.
The truth is that we have a group of free market small businesses that are trying to make it on their own, but the government kills them with wage laws and competition kills them by hiring illegal help to undercut prices on them.
Combine that with the so-called 'free trade' deals that also enables foreign companies to undercut their prices, and American businesses trying to do it the right way are between a rock and a hard place. Workers get hurt from those same directions.
Whatever it takes to support a true free market is the direction we should be going. That's what's best for our economy.
I thought the ‘we turned the corner’ or however he phrased it was insidious: WHO turned WHAT corner!?!