Michael Moore Was Right: Card Check Was a Ruse

Mockumentarian and far-left spokesperson Michael Moore was right in saying several months ago that you could strip card check from the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and still have businesses where you want them--on their knees and begging government to bail them out.

That's because the mandatory arbitration clause in EFCA lives on without card check, and it's those faceless bureaucrats running arbitration who are the unions' best friend. They'll be more than happy to split the difference between a 3,000-percent pay raise demand and a 3-percent pay raise offer--and come up with 30 percent or more.

That's why it's not surprising that the Democrats pushing EFCA are now more than willing to jettison card check and instead mandate elections within five or ten days of getting 30 percent of employees to sign up for a union. That's the current state of "compromise" in the Senate. Card check, it turns out, was just a Trojan Horse to get contracts dictated by bureaucrats to Mom-and-Pop businesses, to say nothing of the ultimate goal, the total take-down of Wal-Mart.

"First, Detroit, and now Benton, Arkansas" may as well be the union battle cry.

They won't stop until there is no private enterprise left--and government runs everything.

Oh, sad, sad day.