The Manufacturing Czar

[Yavin4]

Knowing Bush, he'll probably go for a business media star, probably Jack Welch, and this is what he'll recommend to get American manufacturing going again:

1.) Need to end the unions
2.) Nationwide right to work laws
3.) Greater de-regulate of all businesses
4.) An end to the 40-hour work week and overtime
5.) Weaken workman's compensation laws
6.) Weaken employment discrimination lawsuits
7.) Greater free trade

And last but not least,

8.) Give the wealthy another huge tax cut

Folks, this list will be echoed throughout the conservative talk channels. We'll hear them over and over. We'll be told that if we do all of this, then manufacturing jobs will flood the country. It's just a huge load of b*llshyte. Everyone on the planet knows that we are losing our mfg. jobs to China because the corporations only have to pay the Chinese worker $3.00 a day for 12 hours of work.

This is the predominate theme of the Bush administration. Create misery and then use that misery to push through a radical right wing agenda.

[bleedingheart]

1. Why don't we just resurrect Carnegie, Frick, Rockefeller

and Ole Mellon from their graves...

Robber Barons...all of them.

[David Zephyr]

2. Not to Forget the Astors.

Yeah, maybe Robert Bork was right and Teddy Roosevelt was wrong about monopolies.

[alcuno]

3. This is the first job I've heard of Bush creating since Tom Ridge.

That makes two.

[David Zephyr]

4. Excellent! Pass That On!

Alcuno, I love the way you think.

Let's see that's 3 million jobs minus two.

:hi:

[Torgo]

5. Bush's biggest problem in finding a Czar...

will be to get some mogul who will accept the title of "Assistant Secretary" in the Commerce Dept.

I suspect he'll find some nondescript CEO of an equally nondescript manufacturing company or trade organization to warm the office chair for a few months until we are rid of this incompetent administration.