{"id":2578,"date":"2011-01-11T15:11:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2011-01-11T15:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:11:46","slug":"the_u_s_chamber_of_congress_vo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":"The U. S. Chamber of Congress Vows To Fight Overregulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Daily Caller<\/a> reports that U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue is vowing war on Obama’s “regulatory tsunami.”  <\/p>\n

According to the article:<\/p>\n

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“…Obama is poised to advance an agenda that includes unilateral global warming regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency and, critics fear, a version of union-promoting “card check” by administrative fiat.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In case you are wondering why the unions are pushing so hard for members, there are a number of reasons.  First of all, more members means more power–more dues to inject into political races, more influence in Washington, more money to play with, and secondly, union pension funds have not been required to meet the cash-on-hand requirements of private company pensions, and union pensions are about the run out of money.  They are in a position similar to Social Security–if they can recruit a number of new members to pay dues and money into retirement funds, they may be able to avoid the embarrassment of bankrupt pension funds.  Social Security would accomplish the same thing if suddenly millions of illegals became legal and began paying into the program.  It wouldn’t solve the problem in either case, but it would push the problem down the road so that the people who actually caused it wouldn’t look responsible for it!<\/p>\n

Two particular areas of legislation were cited in the article:<\/p>\n

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“”The new health-care law creates 159 new agencies, commissions, panels and other bodies,” he said. “We see the upcoming House <\/em>vote [on repeal] as an opportunity for everyone to take a fresh look at health-care reform.”<\/o:p><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“On the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, Donohue cited the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as his top concern.<\/o:p><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“”We are particularly concerned that” the new agency “not use its broad authority in ways that deny small businesses and consumers the credit and financial products they need,” he said.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This could be a very interesting Congressional session!  I heard a comment today that Bill Gates would not be able to start Microsoft in today’s regulatory environment.  If that is true, it is very sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Daily Caller reports that U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue is vowing war on Obama’s “regulatory tsunami.”  According to the article: “…Obama is poised to advance an agenda that includes unilateral global warming regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency and, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}