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AFF: No Car Czar
American Future Fund believes that there should not be an appointed “car czar,” believing instead that the free market should sort out winners and losers - not a bureaucrat appointed by the federal government.
While we support a more stringent oversight whenever our tax dollars are used, the bailout in its current form fails to identify the key problems with automakers’ management styles, and a lack of important union concessions. Until these items are addressed, U.S. taxpayers should not be on the hook for propping up a failed system.
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All Voters Dislike ‘Card Check’
By Barbara Comstock for Human Events
The bailout business is the fastest expanding industry these days. Who will be next in the bailout line? Could it be big labor bosses?
Unions have been losing membership over the past several decades under a level playing field that provides for secret ballot elections. So in an effort to bolster their membership rolls, the big labor bosses have come up with a solution, bail them out by eliminating the secret ballot through passage of the misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act” and forcing unions on millions of American workers.
This legislation — which should really be called “The Employee FORCED Choice Act” would allow a union to be formed through the presentation of signed cards of a mere majority plus one of employees indicating support for a union. This new system is known as “card check” and by law would eliminate the secret ballot process. Former Democratic Presidential candidate George McGovern, a strong labor stalwart, has called this unprecedented grab for power a “disturbing and undemocratic overreach.”
Poll: Americans Oppose Forced Labor Votes
A majority of both Republican and Democratic voters oppose The Employee Free Choice Act, according to a new poll by Public Opinion Strategies of 800 general election voters.
Better known as the “card check bill,” the proposed act would give workers the right to unionize if a majority of employees publicly sign cards in favor of forming a union. Because it does away with the secret ballot, employers fear that such a law would allow unions to identify and coerce workers who otherwise would not vote to unionize. (more…)
Americans overwhelmingly oppose bailout
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A majority of Americans oppose a bailout of the troubled U.S. auto industry, according to a poll released Wednesday.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, conducted by telephone on Dec. 1-2 with nearly 1,100 people, showed that 61% of those surveyed oppose government assistance for the major U.S. automakers.
The poll comes at a critical time for the American auto industry. Ford Motor (F, Fortune 500), General Motors (GM, Fortune 500) and Chrysler LLC are requesting up to $34 billion in emergency loans from the government amid the weakest auto sales in 25 years and persistently tight credit. (more…)
Filibuster-proof majority averted with Chambliss win
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss handed the GOP a firewall against Democrats eager to flex their newfound political muscle in Washington, winning a bruising runoff battle Tuesday night that had captured the national limelight.
Chambliss’ victory thwarted Democrats’ hopes of winning a 60 seat filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. It came after a bitter month long runoff against Democrat Jim Martin that drew political luminaries from both parties to the state and flooded the airwaves with fresh attack ads weeks after campaigns elsewhere had ended. (more…)
