The Case of Jobs v Card Check
Monday, January 11th, 2010 by adminThe “Mean Street” column from the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Newmark suggests that the president and his economic team have some tough decisions if they are to make jobs a top priority. As we’ve noted here many times, jobs and the Employee Free Choice Act’s card check provision simply don’t match.
Newmark:
If you pull the plug on the remaining billions of dollars in the stimulus, the nation’s governors will hate you. If you drop cap-and-trade legislation, the environmentalists will hate you. If you put the kibosh on employee card-check legislation, the unions will hate you.
But at least, you’ll get job creation. The alternative of course is to stick with Plan A and hope for the best. But the December jobs report is an indication that hope may not be enough.
Jobs, not card check, should be the nation’s number-one priority. Unemployment in the construction sector, for one, is painfully high.
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