New book: Union rules undermined stimulus

President Obama's $862 billion stimulus was a failure. If you need proof--here it is: Obama didn't mention it in his State of the Union address last week.

New York Post reporter Michael Grabell explores the flop in his book, "Money Well Spent?" He summarizes it in the Post today. This sentence jumped out at me:

Public transit advocates expected a windfall for bus companies like New Flyer in St. Cloud, Minn. But the transit money took longer to get out the door because every grant had to be reviewed by the Labor Department to ensure that it wouldn’t have a negative impact on transit unions.

There are two lessons here. The first is that like the radicalized-National Labor Relations Board, the Labor Department is a shill for the unions. Secondly, the Obama administration is so beholden to Big Labor that it undermined one of the major initiatives of the White House. If the union rule was part of the stimulus bill, well, the department could have asked for a waiver. Many of them were issued for ObamaCare.

We can't wait!

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