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Old 08-21-2009, 01:44 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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Big Government: Ron Bloom, who heads the government's auto task force, may soon have a new job. As Bloomberg reports, the White House wants him to become a new de facto manufacturing czar. What next?

The question naturally arises: Do we really need a factory guru, especially one whose expertise is in advising labor unions — the cause of much of the U.S. steel and car industries’ woes?
Excellent question. Another is - can you imagine what the press would have done to a republican president?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » My God, it’s full of czars!

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It’s a good question, but a better one is this: what authority does the federal government have to set up commissars for private industry at all? This question becomes even more urgent when these “czars” have no accountability to or oversight from Congress, whether they choose to exercise it or not.
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Is anybody else "troubled" by this?
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Old 08-21-2009, 01:51 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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I am deeply troubled by this. Almost all of them have questionable ideologies and pasts.
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Old 08-21-2009, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Marion, IA
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How else do you think he's going to get healthcare implemented? Constitutionally, it's dead in the water. That's what czars are for.
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Old 08-21-2009, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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I am deeply troubled by this. Almost all of them have questionable ideologies and pasts.
And answer to no one except the President.
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Old 08-21-2009, 01:53 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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And answer to no one except the President.
That too...
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Old 08-21-2009, 01:54 PM
 
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Its not....it circumvents all of the checks and balances..and it is no accident...wake up America...how about the "green jobs czar being an admitted Communist...how can that be right??
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Old 08-21-2009, 01:55 PM
 
Location: Nashville
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Specialization? What a horrid and dangerous notion. Seriously, Read the Constitution!
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Old 08-21-2009, 01:58 PM
 
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Is anybody else "troubled" by this?
No, not at all.
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Old 08-21-2009, 02:02 PM
 
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No, not at all.
as a libertarian why are you not troubled by this usurption of power?
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Old 08-21-2009, 02:04 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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I am not troubled that he has advisors. All presidents do, they just call them different things.
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