Elaine’s Always Skewed Priorities
As we’ve noted, it seems Elaine is more interested in giving handouts to businesses than promoting decent labor policies. With unemployment on the rise and the housing market in a slump, you’d think Elaine would speak to America’s workers about these difficult times, and how she plans to help. Nope.
It should come as no surprise that there were more “important” things on her mind. After she met behind closed doors with George W. Bush and his economic team, Elaine gave a speech to the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce meeting in Washington, DC, once again ignoring her role as Secretary of Labor to promote business interests instead. She even bragged to the audience about the millions of taxpayer dollars doled out through non-competitive grants to big business.
While workers suffer in an economy on the verge of recession, Elaine’s priorities remain, as always, seriously out of whack.
