New Labor Sec Claims SHE Can ‘Create’ Jobs?
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Hill is reporting that Obama’s newly minted Labor Secretary was “pressed” on the job losses recently reported by the federal government. Oddly enough, Rep. Hilda Solis (D, CA) imagines she is somehow imbued with the ability to create jobs.
Lawmakers quizzed Solis as to how she could best reverse the jobs decline for a number of sectors in the economy, from healthcare workers to those afflicted with disabilities. One solution the California congresswoman recommended was focusing on creating new “green-collar” jobs. That could include retrofitting government buildings to meet energy-efficiency standards and installing solar panels, among other tasks that would develop America’s alternative energy production.
So, when, exactly, did it become the job of the Sec. of Labor to “create” jobs? What magical powder was she given to sprinkle upon the earth for these jobs to rise forth like a spring daffodil?
Government is not the proper place to be “creating” jobs, but the incoming Obama administration is going to use this economic downturn as an excuse to take over as much of America’s business as possible in a fashion little different than the outright theft of private sector businesses in Russia or Venezuela.
Solis also refused to comment directly on the undemocratic “card check” bill absurdly called the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) that Big Labor has been pushing and Obama has promised to champion.
But the question did arise about the fact that Solis sits on the board of the extremist labor group American Rights at Work from which Solis claimed she’d step down if confirmed as Labor Sec.
But, here is the rub: Solis is an extremist representative of Big Labor movements yet she will be placed in a position to negotiate with, work with and oversee the corruption of, the very labor groups to whom she owes her allegiance. This is a recipe for favoritism to extremism that is detrimental to the interests of good government.
It really should be illegal for someone that is a member of high position in the Big Labor movement to be allowed such a high position in government. Unionism is antithetical to good government in all things.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on January 11, 2009 5:52 am
» Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats, Economy, Elections, News, Union Mafias/Thugs
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This is not factual reporting; it is ideologue
RANT RANT RANT and bordering on slander with untruths that have your particular hate-rant
untruths.
Surely you were taught the proper use of adjectives in the grade school from which
you graduated !
Merely because some individuals bend your crank is no no valid reason to spew garbage propaganda under the rubric of BLOG-O-MANIA.
Now, THAT disjointed, spit-speckled reply was funny. Thanks BlandbrainJohnson for the humor this morning. I needed that.
It seems to me that “creating” jobs attached to government out of thin air is rather dangerous and much like asking the treasury to simply print money.
So, tell me when was the last time that businesses created jobs that were ethical and legal? I’m not a big proponent of government creating jobs, but these are not normal times and it seems like businesses these days create jobs that we the taxpayer end up bailing out. What Solis is stating is that if the private sector can’t produce ethical, sustaining jobs that are viable, then the government will step in. If you don’t want Uncle Sam creating jobs, then private sector, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!!
Since you apparently haven’t noticed, let me point out to you that governments have been creating jobs since the Roman Empire (and probably before). Ranting that it should be illegal for someone from Big Labor to serve in government is like saying that someone from a Large Investment Bank should be barred from the Treasury — in a word, absurd. Our way of life is threatened if we do not ensure a large, vibrant middle class in America — that means you, by the way, or you wouldn’t be writing this blog. Think more clearly next time about what is really important about managing job creation from the Labor Department. There is a lot to legitimately critique because Ms. Solis does indeed have a lot to learn about her new role.
this was one of the most idiotic replies I’ve seen yet…
“So, tell me when was the last time that businesses created jobs that were ethical and legal?”
Really? Are you SERIOUS with such a stupid statement? NO jobs created by “businesses” are ethical or legal? NONE? What do YOU do for a living, fool? Are you engaged in illegal and unethical work? If so WHY are you?
sec and wall street just revolving doors
The lemmings on the right never cease to amaze me. Just believe whatever lunacy Beck & Limbaugh tell you & then swear it’s gospel.