Re: [Pen-l] Summers finds (trade union) religion

[Gar Lipow <gar.lipow@xxxxxxxxx>]

While generally true, Summers also possesses that important life skill
referred to as "sometimes noticing when events have proven him wrong".
Summers operated on the assumption that unionization was bad for
capitalism. He has now decided that unionization is good for
capitalism as a counterbalance to  certain types of shortsightedness
among capitalists. No moral flexibility required. He has not changed
who he serves, merely what he thinks best serves their interests.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Robert Naiman
<naiman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As is well known, Mr. Summers possesses that important life skill
> which the John Cusack character in "Grosse Point Blank" referred to as
> "moral flexibility."
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Robert Naiman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From the speech at Brookings:
>>>
>>> "If we want to propel this economy forward [and] have a sound
>>> expansion, it has to be an expansion whose benefits are more broadly
>>> shared," he said. That involves tax policy and education, he said, but
>>> also "goes to the question of having a healthy and well-functioning
>>> trade union movement. . . . It is hard to avoid the conclusion that
>>> the way in which our labor laws have functioned, and have been
>>> enforced and been acted on over many years, have not been constructive
>>> from the point of view of having a healthy trade union movement. And
>>> an attempt to redress that balance seems to me something that is
>>> appropriate at such a time."
>>>
>>> Who knew?
>>
>> Actually, the scumbags that put a full page ad in the NY Times last week
>> opposing EFCA had a Larry Summers quote at the top:
>>
>> "Another cause of long-term unemployment is unionization. High union wages
>> that exceed the competitive market rate are likely to cause job losses in
>> the unionized sector of the economy. Also, those who lose high-wage union
>> jobs are often reluctant to accept alternative low-wage employment."
>>
>> http://fmpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/01/summers-on-big-labor.html
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