Socialist Power Grab II

I think the "Employee Free Choice Act" is the most absolutely wrongheaded policy advocated by Obama. There are simply no good arguments for it. With most of his other policies, at least some semblance of a reasoned argument can be presented. But, this one is a purely ideological strategy to expand the number of people who feel dependent upon the government, who believe their relation to the free market system is necessarily adversarial, who will be victimized by union corruption and incompetence and unaccountability and intimidation. It strikes at the liberty of workers and employers, transferring it to union officials and bureaucrats. And this will certainly have the effect of making America less competitive and productive, both through the usual counterproductive union tactics and due to the insidious long-term negative psychological consequences of this form of social organization. Instead of focusing on growing the economic pie, we end up squandering our energies upon redivisions of it.