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Alan Krueger, Obama’s pick for head of the Council of Economic Advisors? Wanted to unionize prisoners. Not only that, but according to Bill Wilson, President of Americans for Limited Government, Krueger “has even supported paying the minimum wage and overtime to prisoners. This is the man that is supposed to turn our broken economy around?”

Allow me to answer that for you, Bill. That’s not the objective.

Once you understand that, everything suddenly makes sense. Like you’ve had an epiphany, even!

— Whereas the left, for their part, has an army of unionized erstwhile prisoners at the ready to “dictate social interactions” and “prescribe the contours for civic engagement in urban spaces” — prisoners whose health care and pensions the taxpayers will end up funding.

18 Replies to “Fathers of sons of bitches”

  1. Ernst Schreiber says:
    September 7, 2011 at 10:58 am

    Welcome to the Island. You’ll be happy here.

    You will be. You will.

  2. sdferr says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:16 am

    Sometimes watching our politics feels more like “Welcome to the Enlightenment. Didn’t work out? Tough,” it seems to say.

  3. LTC John says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:19 am

    Howzabout unionizing the Armed Forces? Nothing screams power like a good long look at the Dutch Home Army.

    Maybe I shouldn’t be giving them ideas…

  4. happyfeet says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:25 am

    that link to the pdf isn’t working for me

  5. Vinny Vidivici says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:29 am

    And how do hothouse-flower theoreticians like Krueger think an army of ex-convicts will be controlled? As if this were a remake of The Dirty Dozen . . . with a dean of gender equity in Lee Marvin’s role.

  6. sdferr says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:29 am

    It’s in here as an attachment hf.

  7. happyfeet says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:34 am

    thank you

  8. happyfeet says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:37 am

    so if they do the micro union thing we could have the rapists union and the pedophile union and the murderous fiend unions an the thieving bastards union and on and on…

    and I guess people could be members of more than one union depending on what they were convicted for

    There’s gotta be some flaw with this plan though or someone would’ve already done it.

  9. B. Moe says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:42 am

    Thieving bastards union is redundent.

  10. sdferr says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:43 am

    To the extent that unions are merely guilds trying to suppress competition, would a criminal’s union have the ultimate unintended result of lowering crime as a function of the population growth over time?

  11. happyfeet says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:49 am

    did we ever hear from Mr. Reed nobody tells me anything

  12. sdferr says:
    September 7, 2011 at 11:52 am

    no

  13. happyfeet says:
    September 7, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    I don;t like that it makes me feel worry and dread

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  15. serr8d says:
    September 7, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    This guy makes me tired.

    Here’s what Professor Krueger is famous for:

    A thoroughly debunked (and thus infamous) study asserting that raising the minimum wage caused employment to increase. Not only was this “finding” contrary to all common sense and normal economic analysis, it was rebutted several times by several different research economists.

    Another study asserting that public school students who transferred to private schools through the use of a voucher program showed no discernible educational improvement, and that “the provision of vouchers in New York City probably had no more than a trivial effect on the average test performance of participating black students.” Again, this is contrary to virtually all other research on the impact of moving disadvantaged students from dysfunctional public schools to private schools.

    Championing a 5 percent value-added tax (VAT) on top of the existing income tax system that he thinks would raise $500 billion in new revenue on top of the existing system, as if somehow the entire economy would continue to produce output at the same level regardless of such a significant increase in the marginal tax rate on labor and capital.

    Designing the “cash for clunkers” program wherein $3 billion in taxpayer dollars was spent (borrowed?) for the purpose of advancing car sales forward in time by a few months.

    Advocating that governments stop measuring performance by GDP and instead measure by National “Well-Being” Accounts (NWBA), which would attempt to quantify things like how tired Americans are, or whether they feel happy, worried, or hostile.

  16. Ernst Schreiber says:
    September 7, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    Perfect! A make-believe economist giving advice to a pretend President about a make-believe economic recovery.

  17. Seth says:
    September 7, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    That’s a really good idea. We should also let prisoners vote, and give them work release to do community service so long as they’re under the supervision of someone…some kind of community organizer.

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