…but won’t get. Iain Murray describes what will be necessary for a successful auto industry:
…the best way to save the auto industry remains a deregulatory bailout, reducing government-imposed burdens on the industry, and in particular Congress backing off on its destructive CAFE requirements.
One of those government-imposed burdens is the Wagner Act and the NLRB that enables the UAW to maintain a stranglehold on the industry. Unfortunately, all of the above, while the most needed, are also the most unlikely things to be had from the new regime. If anything, as I’ll note in a Pajamas column tomorrow, they’re only going to make things worse.
No, no, that’s not democratic at all. We need a Congress of Czars, to make responsible democratic decisions about the Czars, after holding public hearings and giving press conferences. Each Czar Congressman will need a complete staff, of course, unionized and with good pay and benefits.
Furthemore, since implementing stuff is beneath the people qualified to the very important task of Deciding Stuff, we’ll need a Czar Executive, who implements whatever rules the Czar Congress decides.
If the Czar Executive misbehaves, or the Czar Congress gridlocks, then we can talk about the Czar Congress appointing a Czar Czar to direct the Czars.
Really, Rand. Direct supervision of Czars by one Czar Czar is the kind of undemocratic, elitist, efficient solution favored by Rethuglicans. How much public employee salary money is there in that? We can do much, much better by paying close attention to our Democratic principles.
I imagine Czar Czar would be about as popular as Jar Jar, “Mesa giving em da’ great biggest bailouts of dim alls.”
Carl, we already have a worldwide czar organization. It’s called the U.N. We should just turn the problem over to them.