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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on November 22, 2010
Does President Obama plan to move to the center in response to his
overwhelming rejection at the polls on November 2nd? No way! Instead, he
is moving to implement, through executive action, two of the most
controversial items in his 2010 agenda -- a carbon tax and pollution permit
system and a ban on the use of secret ballots in union elections. Through
executive action by the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) and
the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Obama Administration is
planning to effectuate both policies without asking Congress.
Never mind that he couldn't persuade even a top heavy Democratic Congress to
pass either program. Or that public opinion polls show massive rejection
of both measures. Or that each is a sure job killer by itself -- and
together, they are even worse. This arrogant, ideologically-driven radical
is determined to have his way and the public be damned!
The EPA is currently soliciting public comments for its plan to use the
Clean Air Act of 1970 to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. The Clean Air
Act, as the name indicates, is designed to fight against pollution --
unhealthy chemicals that are belched into the air by smokestacks. It was
passed to fight sulfur dioxide, particulates, nitrous oxides and other
chemicals that cause human diseases. To use it to fight carbon dioxide --
which we all breathe without ill effects -- because of concerns about global
warming -- is a perversion of the law.
Worse, because the Clean Air Act is designed to protect public health by
measuring aggregate pollution in each geographic area, it limits economic
development in communities where the pollution levels exceed prescribed
standards. But carbon dioxide doesn't poison anyone. It makes no sense to
ban factory expansion in areas where the nature of the industries is that
there will be high carbon dioxide levels (like oil area of Texas and
Louisiana). But that's what the EPA plans to do, virtually making economic
growth illegal in large parts of the United States.
Meanwhile, Craig Becker, the former chief counsel of the SEIU (Service
Employees International Union) -- now the head of the NLRB -- has secured a
3-2 majority party line majority to repeal the Dana decision which mandates
secret ballots in unionization elections. The NLRB will rule that if a
majority of workers check off that they want a union on cards then the union
will automatically be approved without a secret ballot vote of the entire
workforce. Currently, if a majority of the workers sign the cards, a secret
ballot vote is then triggered. Frequently, the union loses these elections
, proving that the card check off is subject to coercion and bullying. The
Democratic majority in the Senate wouldn't approve the card check change so
the NLRB is planning to accomplish the same objective administratively,
trapping workers into unionization they would reject if afforded the
opportunity to vote by secret ballot.
Both the pollution permit/carbon tax and the forced unionization proposals
will be job killers. The U.S. has maintained its 25% share of global
manufacturing by replacing workers with energy driven machines. In the past
ten years, the number of manufacturing employees has declined by 33% but
our production has risen by 50%. But automation takes energy -- lots of it |
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