Teamsters Chief Says ‘Public Option’ Not Vital to Healthcare Reform
-By Warner Todd Huston
James P. Hoffa is now saying that if Obama pulls the “public option” out of his healthcare bill, it is not a deal killer as far as union support is concerned.
Hoffa said that he was only interested in what was “doable” and that they need to “get something done… and declare a victory.”
Now let’s take a look at these quotes from Mr. Hoffa, shall we? What does it mean if we aren’t seeing obliged union support without integrity for Obama’s healthcare coming from Hoffa’s Teamsters? Hoffa is saying that he doesn’t care at all what healthcare “reform” will look like as long as they can get it done with and “declare a victory.”
This is unprincipled support of Obama’s healthcare purely for political reasons. What would Hoffa and the unions get from such unprincipled support of Obama’s socialist take over of one sixth of our nation’s economy? Why is Hoffa so disinterested in the actual outcome of the healthcare debate as long as they win it? What will Hoffa get out of this?
It’s all a gambit leading to what the unions really want: the Employee Free Choice Act.
You see, if Hoffa and the unions can be seen by the administration and the Democratic Party as having had a major hand in helping to pass healthcare reform and if the administration can claim a great victory in passage of healthcare “reform,” then when the EFCA comes to the plate Obama might still have enough juice to get the EFCA passed. And the EFCA is all the unions care about. They don’t care a whit if healthcare really passes or not. They just want a feather in Obama’s cap to help give him the power to pass the EFCA later on. If Obama loses his healthcare fight or if he only gets something passed in a materially weakened form, then the EFCA might be endangered.
So, because the unions want the EFCA to succeed later, they are willing to lend unprincipled support to Obama’s healthcare policies now.
It is a sad commentary, but it does show how unprincipled unions really are when all is said and done.
(Cross posted at TheUnionLabelBlog.com.)
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on September 7, 2009 2:39 pm
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If we could only put this Hoffa right next to his father I would be a very, very happy man…
…as far as union support is concerned.
Obama could sodomize Hoffa (and every member of every union that holds any power) on national TV and the unions would still back him.
Linked to your post from Jeremiah Films Obama Proxies • 40 Days for Health Care
I am sure Hoffa feels better that he does not need to sell the “Public Option” and will still get funds for a union health care Cadillac program. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aDvu77pZr7k4
So let me get this straight. You can keep the insurance you have? Sure!! Every company in America will drop their employee benefits to the bare minimum required by BO. This creates wind fall profit for corporations as they make employees pay more for the coverage they have. Forcing them into the gov’t plan…which is cheaper and will never be as good.
Coming to a hospital near you! Foreign doctors with substandard “degrees” will “help” offset the volume of 45 Million people.
Sure you can keep your insurance…if you can afford it.
Lets help the 10 Million or so that really need it.
BO is like a kid with a credit card.
Our Manchurian candidate meets another thug. Obama’s network soon will leave taxpayers no choice but to switch on one line to another. The line that works for a living to the one with hand out.
Happens under every nation that adopts socialist based economics. Obama’s father took his radical butt home to Kenya and helped introduce Kenya-sian economics that utterly demolished that countries hopes. Now the sins of the father are lapping on America’s shores.
Both Kennedy and Reagan would be arming America against an enemy nation that promised to do this stuff to America. Oh they did!
I am near the end of my work career. Savings are diversified, have been shifting out of US assets and into global, plus Au and Ag for a number of years now.
Back to Kennedy and Reagan. Both Presidents positioned the US to be the best place in the world to invest at a time technologies appeared to push the next economic boom.
Within a year if Obama has his way America’s higher end investors will face effective 70% taxation on profits and income. Upcoming Chapter S small businesses that create 70% of all new jobs and products in this country similar penalties on risk.
Not only that but Card Check pro union policy means a new high risk enterprise could face the worlds highest labor and related work force cost on the planet.
How may Asmio’s, Bollard flying cars, Micro surgical Device factories will be located here? Answer none, for the reason why I’m looking to India to manufacture an invention of mine.
England starting in the 1930’s with a pause for WWII followed by Labor’s reign of socialist economic terror post, destroyed its Empire doing exactly the same thing.
Obama, a clear and present danger to the United States before the election, masked for public consumption by the media, has as Reverend Wright put it: Come home to roost.