T-Paw on NLRB overreach: No time to go back to the USSR

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Twenty years ago yesterday Mrs. Marathon Pundit emigrated from the Soviet Union. She doesn't want to go back to those days, nor do I care to experience them.

Meanwhile, the NLRB, which claims to represent "the people," just like the USSR, wants to plan our economy. Such plans are doomed to failure.

More from The Hill:

GOP White House contender Tim Pawlenty is ramping up his attacks on the National Labor Relations Board for its complaint against Boeing over the company's decision to open a non-union airline production plant in South Carolina, allegedly retaliating against unionized workers in Washington state.

"The NLRB decision and what they are saying to an American economy as to where and how they can do business is outrageous. This is not the Soviet Union circa 1970s or 1960s or '50s," Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor, said on Fox News Friday.

"The idea that we have a federal agency telling an American business in a supposedly free market that it can’t grow a business or start a business in another state is one of the most outrageous things I have seen," Pawlenty said.

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