Posted on 08/20/2009 6:11:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
Big Government: Ron Bloom, who heads the government's auto task force, may soon have a new job. As Bloomberg reports, the White House wants him to become a new de facto manufacturing czar. What next?
So it is with the possible appointment of Bloom, a former United Steelworkers union adviser who now heads the U.S. auto task force, to be a kind of national industrial policy czar.
The manufacturing sector has indeed been hit hard by the downturn. But so has the rest of U.S. industry. The only real growth sector, as the Rockefeller Institute reported Thursday, is government. While private jobs have shrunk 6.9 million since the start of the recession, state and local governments have added 110,000 positions.
Problem is, President Obama signed a $787 billion stimulus bill in February and vowed to create 3.5 million jobs over the next two years. And a major part of his support comes from unions.
His "stimulus" isn't working, and he must be seen as "doing something." Thus, Bloom gets named factory czar.
The question naturally arises: Do we really need a factory guru, especially one whose expertise is in advising labor unions — the cause of much of the U.S. steel and car industries' woes?
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I so look forward to a czarless Sarah Palin presidency.
These pathetic clowns are so in over their heads it would be funny...if it weren’t so destructive.
Exactly
Hmmm, factory czar. Obvious mandate it to fully unionize all factory jobs. (Obvious outcome, the rest of the manufacturing jobs move to Asia.)
Mr. Obamaczar... I would like to be considered for the Babe Czar please. Thank you.
Why not call them Dukes. Then you could have, like, the Duke of Hip, or Duke Lowrider. I’m still waiting for The Tzarina of Practical Shoes For Potato Harvest.
Government in business is a disaster waiting to happen — and not very far away.
For all time the left spends calling us Fascists, they show their ignorance by not recognizing this kind of thing as the real deal; private ownership but government control.
I think they should be called “Commissars”.
Dictionary definition:
“An official of the Communist Party in charge of political indoctrination and the enforcement of party loyalty.”
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