As is well known, Mr. Summers possesses that important life skill which the John Cusack character in "Grosse Point Blank" referred to as "moral flexibility."
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Naiman wrote: >>> >>> From the speech at Brookings: >> >> "If we want to propel this economy forward [and] have a sound >> expansion, it has to be an expansion whose benefits are more broadly >> shared," he said. That involves tax policy and education, he said, but >> also "goes to the question of having a healthy and well-functioning >> trade union movement. . . . It is hard to avoid the conclusion that >> the way in which our labor laws have functioned, and have been >> enforced and been acted on over many years, have not been constructive >> from the point of view of having a healthy trade union movement. And >> an attempt to redress that balance seems to me something that is >> appropriate at such a time." >> >> Who knew? > > Actually, the scumbags that put a full page ad in the NY Times last week > opposing EFCA had a Larry Summers quote at the top: > > "Another cause of long-term unemployment is unionization. High union wages > that exceed the competitive market rate are likely to cause job losses in > the unionized sector of the economy. Also, those who lose high-wage union > jobs are often reluctant to accept alternative low-wage employment." > > http://fmpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/01/summers-on-big-labor.html > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
