I am not a big fan of unions. While unions played a constructive role in building up the middle class last century, the union movement today is a job killer. It gains higher wages for a few, at the expense of the many,including the taxpayer, and corporations, which have become less competitive to the degree they are more unionized. Fred Barnes lays out the damage they have caused and will cause, now that the Obama administration sees as one of its highest priorities the effort to increase unionization in the country. Obama says his top priority is increasing the number of jobs. His pro-union agenda won't help in that area, and will in fact work against his stimulus plans. But unions, a powerful arm of the Democratic Party, will be paid back by Obama and Congress for the help they gave to create the Democratic majorities that now exist. The same is true for the coming wave of regulations and laws favored by global warming hysterics, who populate the environmental groups that heavily...(Read Full Post)