Posted on 11/19/2006 2:52:19 AM PST by xtinct
Representative Barney Frank has proposed in a series of meetings with business groups a "grand bargain" with corporate America: Democrats would agree to reduce regulations and support free-trade deals in exchange for businesses agreeing to greater wage increases and job benefits for workers.
Frank, the Newton Democrat who is in line to chair the House Financial Services Committee, has struck a conciliatory posture with financial-industry leaders in recent years. But since the morning after Election Day, he has moved quickly to lay out an ambitious plan to try to end the political stalemate between Republicans and Democrats on broad economic issues.
"What I want to do is break that deadlock," Frank said in an interview. "A lot of policies that the business community wants us to adopt for growth are now blocked. On the other hand, the business community is successfully blocking the minimum wage [increase] and created a very anti union attitude in the Congress."
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That attitude may be the best thing ever to come out of any congress anywhere, anytime.
Further along in the article, one of the things he wants is... govt adminsitered healthcare. SS & Medicare will ruin the country. Let's add another entitlement for ALL... Ugh.
Just wait until the country realizes it has put Barney Frank, John Conyers, Alstee Hastings, and Nancy Pelosi in charge of the legislative branch.
The media did not focus on these folks for obvious reasons before the election. Sorry, MSM people are gonna notice now.
It was in many ways a stealth election.
The media won, but now it's going to lose.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Yep, the nazis basically controlled the German corporations, and what would happen if say a corporation or business does not promote homosexuality.
Can anybody say the iron limp wrist of barney frank.
I don't think it would be government health care for all. Consider these quotes:
"A starting point could be health care. Many businesses are trying to shed high health care premiums. Frank hopes that workers and businesses can agree on a government-administered plan paid for by workers that would reduce burdens on businesses, which would pass on savings to employees through higher wages."
"I think employer-paid health care is a mistake," he said. "I think it depresses wages."
"Stephen J. Collins , president of the Automotive Trade Policy Council, which represents Detroit's Big Three automakers, said business leaders would welcome such a discussion with Frank. "Our companies are very open about the fact that they are facing massive competitive challenges of a global nature that need big answers," Collins said. "There has to be a partnership between government and industry to solve some of these problems, and health is one of them."
Looks to me like Barney has in mind the government taking over health care for the auto industry or maybe just those industries with union workers. You know the ones that have bankrupted their employers and now want the government to bail them out in order to be competitive.
that means better paying jobs with great benefits for even less American workers...these people are stupid
This emperor has no clothes. The next two years could be great for business if the GOP does not start voting with the rats. The stalemate in congress will insure the impotence for two years.
Yeah. This sounds like economic fascism to me.
And payroll taxes (SS, Medicare DON'T depress wages? Does he think that people are so stupid as to believe if there were government administered paid health care, nothing would be taken out of their paychecks for it? Well, maybe so.
I heard Rush quoting Thomas Sowell about the very issue you mention. Mr. Sowell is supposedly calling this the "ultimate election fraud" - hiding their real agenda.
Beware, corporate America! Barney's deal sounds like a trojan horse (uh, pardon the pun).
I don't think I want to get out ahead of Barney on this one.
"Democrats would agree to reduce regulations and support free-trade deals in exchange for businesses agreeing to greater wage increases and job benefits for workers.
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Greater wage increases? Why does this moron think that business is off-shoring so much of the labor intensive parts of a corporation? A business is never gonna agree to pay more for expensive local labor. Not unless there is a major, and I mean major net increase as the result of other activity.
Isn't that the truth???? Prior to the election, we heard nothing from these people (Pelosi, Frank, Durbin, Reid, Byrd, Leahy, et al)? We heard from decoc rats who were supposed to be moderate. The voters voted that way, not for hard left liberalism......
Bingo! Barney Frank is playing the roll of Wesley Mouch.
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