How Obama Has Destroyed American Jobs

He has appointed regulators who were willing to go viral, he approves of their actions, and this MUST be stopped before we hemorrhage to death.

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By Philosopher Gary Jason is a senior editor of Liberty and the author of the new book Dangerous Thoughts (available through Amazon).

Imagine a governor of Nevada appointing as chief of the Nevada Gaming Commission the past head of the National Coalition against Legalized Gambling, or a past head of the Culinary Workers Union. In both cases, the citizens would have as much right to suspect biased, agenda-driven rulings as if the agencies were headed by past casino owners.

We have in the Obama administration a surfeit of illustration of reverse regulatory capture. Obama has placed virtually every regulatory agency in his power in the hands of the devout adversaries of industry. These adversaries of industry -- unions and environmentalist activist organizations -- just happen to be his most lavish financial supporters.

Early on in his reign (April 2009, to be precise), Obama signaled his intention to reverse-capture the NLRB by nominating to the governing board one Craig Becker, the leftist associate general counsel of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The SEIU was a huge donor to Obama's 2008 campaign, and its then-head Andy Stern was a major FOO (friend of Obama), and frequent White House visitor. Becker was so obviously extreme that even the Democrat-controlled Senate wouldn't confirm him. No matter -- Obama put him in on a recess appointment.

Becker behaved as Obama intended him to. He pushed to reverse the decades-long decline in private industry unionization by every mechanism he could think of, constitutional or not. In one of his more egregious rulings, he shoved through a new rule allowing the aptly named "quickie" or "ambush" union elections, where unions could secretly gather workers' signatures and then push companies to have elections within two weeks. This tactic is designed to deprive companies of any chance to research the issues being covered and prepare a defense. This is no merely abstract debate: unions win 87% of quickie elections, versus just 58% for those held after five to six weeks.

This country is war-weary in many ways. One of these wars is the endless regulatory war against industry. It is time to declare a truce, by putting impartiality first in regulation.
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While the left whines about those cruel, mean, nasty businesses who provide jobs, their President is doing everything he can think of to destroy businesses/jobs. The left's complaints about business have no credibility as long as they allow this "president" to get away with decimating those very businesses in exchange for campaign contributions.