WE’LL SEE YOU TOMORROW.
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LARRY: WELCOME TO "KUDLOW."
I’M LARRY KUDLOW.
TEMPERS ARE FLARING ON BOTH
SIDES OF THIS.
THE YOUNGS JUMP INTO BED WITH
JOE BIDEN IN ORDER BEFORE THE
ELECTION TO SAVE DEMOCRATIC
SCALPS BUT SCRAMBLING OUT FROM
UNDER THE SHEETS TO GET OUT AS
FAST AS THEY CAN PRESIDENT BIDEN
IS ALONE IN THE BED.
CALLING FOR THE LAME DUCK
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS TO SAVE HIS
BACON OF THE POLITICS ARE PRETTY
UGLY.
I ALSO KNOW IT IS NOT THE
RAILROAD WORKERS UNION FAULT
THAT THE BIDEN DEMOCRATS SPENT
WILDLY, THE FEDERAL RESERVE
PRINTED ALL THAT MONEY,
THEREFORE INFLATION SKYROCKETED,
THEREFORE WHAT WOULD NORMALLY
PASS AS GOOD WAGE GAINS HAVE
BEEN DROWNED OUT BY FOUR DECADE
HIGH INFLATION.
SO ON THE MARGIN I FIND MYSELF
SYMPATHETIC TO THE RAILROAD
UNIONS IN THIS ONE.
REMEMBER, THEY WERE DOOMED
ESSENTIAL WORKERS ON CALL 24/7
DURING THE WORST OF THE
PANDEMIC.
THEY DID THEIR DUTY.
THE BIDEN DEAL IN SEPTEMBER
PROVIDED THEM WITH NO PAID SICK
LEAVE DAYS, NONE, DOESN’T SOUND
RIGHT IN COMMON SENSE TERMS.
I DON’T WANT TO BE OVERLY SIM
HEAD TICK TO PRIVATE SECTOR
UNIONS.
AS YOU KNOW I’M COMPLETELY
UNSYMPATHETIC TO PUBLIC SECTOR
UNIONS.
JOE BIDEN WHO LIKES TO CALL
HIMSELF THE MOST PROUNION
PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
BIDEN STACKED THE NATIONAL LABOR
RELATION BOARD WITH PRO-UNION
ACTIVISTS ALWAYS TRYING TO RIG
ELECTIONS AGAINST EMPLOYERS IN
FAVOR OF UNIONS.
JUST THINK AMAZON.
NOT GOOD.
ONCE MORE, THE UNIONS HAVE
GOTTEN ALL KINDS OF FINANCIAL
BREAKS FROM ALL OF THE BIDEN
SPENDING BILLS.
THAT IS COMPLETELY WRONG.
AND, I AM A STRONG ADVOCATE OF
WORKER CHOICE INCLUDING BY THE
WAY RIGHT-TO-WORK STATES.
THAT IS A POPULATION THAT HAS
BEEN GROWING RECENTLY.
I MEAN WHY SHOULD UNION MEMBERS
HAVE TO PAY HEAVY DUES TO
SUPPORT THE LEFT-WING POLITICAL
AGENDAS OF THEIR UNION BOSSES?
THE WORKERS USUALLY HAVE GOOD
VALUES WHILE SO MANY OF THE
BOSSES HAVE TURNED SOCIALIST AND
GREEN NEW DEAL EVEN THOUGH MOST
OF IS GOING TO COST THEIR VERY
MEMBERS A LOSS OF JOBS.
THERE IS A LOT OF CRAZINESS
HERE.
COLOR ME VERY SKEPTICAL THAT THE
CONGRESS SHOULD INTERFERE WITH
PRIVATE SECTOR COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING IMPOSING A SOLUTION,
THAT BORDERS ON DENYING THEIR
RIGHT TO STRIKE.
IT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE STRAIGHT UP
UNION BUSTING.
CONGRESS IS FALLING BACK ON
SOMETHING CALLED THE RAIL LABOR
ACT 1926.
THAT HAS TO BE A REEF.
IT HAS ONLY BEEN USED TWO OR
THREE TIMES THE LAST 100 YEARS.
I WOULD SUGGEST USING A
TAFT-HARTLEY INJUNCTION, THAT
WOULD PROVIDE AN 80-DAY
COOLING-OFF PERIOD, MUCH BETTER
THAN CONGRESS IMPOSING ITS OWN
WILL.
ANOTHER POINT BACK TO THE IDEA
THAT THE RAILROAD WORKFORCE WAS
NOT THE CULPRIT BEHIND BIDEN’S
40-YEAR HIGH OF INFLATION.
REPUBLICANS GOING BACK TO
RONALD REAGAN AND JACK KEMP
TRIED TO MAKE THE POINT THAT
PRO-BUSINESS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
TYPES OR EVEN COUNTRY CLUB RINOS
SHOULD NOT BE SO FAST TO ALWAYS
BLAME BLUE-COLLAR WORKING FOLKS.
DONALD TRUMP HELPED PUSH THE GOP
MORE AND MORE AS THE BLUE-COLLAR
PARTY OF WORKING FOLKS OF ALL
SHAPES, SIZES AND COLORS.
PERHAPS THE CHAMBER OF CON MERS
TYPES -- COMMERCE TYPES TURN
FIRE ON THE BIG SPENDING BIDEN
DEMOCRATS WHO BROUGHT INFLATION
ON IN THE FIRST PLACE INSTEAD OF
CONTRIBUTING TO THEIR CAMPAIGN
COVERS.
FINALLY THERE IS A BILL IN THE
SENATE COSPONSORED BY
BERNIE SANDERS AND JOHN CORNYN,
SUPPORTED BY MARCO RUBIO, TED
CRUZ AND JOSH HAWLEY, THAT WOULD
SIGN OFF ON THE ORIGINAL BIDEN
AGREEMENT PROVIDED THERE ARE
SEVEN PAID SICK DAYS IN IT FOR
THE RAILROAD WORKERS.
I KIND OF LIKE THAT COMBINATION.
ONE SOCIALIST WITH A COUPLE OF
FREE MARKET CONSERVATIVES.
WELL POLITICS DOES MAKE STRANGE
BEDFELLOWS.
I WILL SAY LET’S KEEP THE
ECONOMY OPEN AND GIVE THE
RAILROAD FOLKS THEIR PAID SICK