By John Ransom
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
MSNBC, the Houston Chronicle and other mainstream media
outlets are saying that Republican intervention in the union vote at the
Volkswagen plant in Tennessee helped to tip scales, like somehow the GOP
committed a crime.
And in doing so, they provided the GOP with an important
campaign focus group: The liberals are deathly afraid that Americans will
discover that, yes, the Republicans aren’t afraid of helping to create jobs in
the private sector.
“It was as ferocious an anti-union campaign as anything
Americans have seen in a while,” says the MSNBC Rachel Maddow blog. “Indeed,
the Republican effort, bolstered by inside-the-Beltway lobbying activists like
Grover Norquist, featured both carrots and sticks: GOP policymakers not only
threatened to kill tax incentives for the plant if workers joined a union, but
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said he had secret knowledge that if employees turned
down the UAW, the plant would be rewarded with a new product line.”
Then thank God for Bob Corker.
The GOP governor and members of the Tennessee
legislature, along with Sen. Bob Corker combined to warn workers at the
Volkswagen plant that acceptance of the UAW representation would cost jobs and
cost job creation in the future, as it always does when the UAW is involved.
“The German automaker's CEO, Martin Winterkorn, announced
at the Detroit auto show last month that the seven-passenger SUV will go on
sale in the U.S. in 2016,” says the Chronicle. “Winterkorn said the new model
will be part of a five-year, $7 billion investment in North America.”
Now that the union vote is out of the way Tennessee might
be in line for that investment.
$7 billion multiplied by 50 states is $350 billion, or a
third of the money Obama wasted on stimulus spending to create no jobs.
So that begs the question: Can the GOP hurry up and do
for the rest of the country what they did for Tennessee?
Yes, we can. Sí, se puede.
Because there has never been more money available for
jobs and investment.
Ever.
And companies are stuck doing things like buying back
their own stock in the open market and increasing cash dividends because the
administration treats the private hiring of workers in this country like a
crime against humanity.
It’s easier to qualify for food stamps than it is to find
a job. It’s so bad that immigrants are crossing back to Mexico to find
opportunity.
Last year the liberal Atlantic Monthly said that “the U.S.
becoming a less attractive destination” for Mexicans. “[Mexican] GDP growth
rivals Brazil's, and economically, some economists think the country is doing
even better than the United States.”
And all this time we thought the administration didn’t
have an effective plan to combat illegal immigration.
All this at a time when Obama is telling us: “The private
sector is doing fine.”
Only a group of myopic, academic, ideologues, like the
ones who have seized control of the Democrat wing of the Democrat party, would
have fumbled the opportunity to create record jobs in the U.S. that has been
available the last six years.
They can feel doubly rewarded by the fact that instead of
attending to the peoples’ business and fueling job creation, they chose instead
to pass the still-born “Obamacare Monument to That President We Would Rather
Not Talk About in 2014.”
The irony, as Democrats rush to divorce themselves from
the consequences of the law, is that they have done everything to let people
know that they are 100 percent for Obamacare, and Republicans are 100 percent
against it.
Like in the Tennessee union vote, you don’t need a
scorecard to know where everyone stands.
That makes the election focus in 2014 really easy.
G.O.P. equals J.O.B.
Thanks, Maddow, for the assist.
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