{"id":218982,"date":"2021-04-05T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/biden-plan-spends-more-building-unions-than-roads-bridges\/"},"modified":"2021-04-05T00:10:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T21:10:13","slug":"biden-plan-spends-more-building-unions-than-roads-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/biden-plan-spends-more-building-unions-than-roads-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden plan spends more building unions than roads, bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Biden plan spends more building unions than roads, bridges<\/strong>”
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President Joe Biden \u2014\u00a0and his media<\/a> allies \u2014 are touting his latest $2 trillion spending push as a plan to rebuild America\u2019s crumbling infrastructure. But the single-biggest line item has nothing to do with roads or bridges or even green-energy plants: It\u2019s a ploy to vastly enlarge and unionize the ranks of home health-care aides.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s millions of low-skilled workers getting far more than now, so they can pay hefty dues to hard-left unions such as the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, which can use that windfall to elect more left-wing Democrats.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s plan, unveiled in Pittsburgh last week, calls for $400 billion over eight years (a full fifth of the $2 trillion total) to create jobs and raise wages for these workers \u2014\u00a0while ensuring that they unionize. <\/p>\n

He does it with another expansion of Medicaid, specifically its funding of caregivers for the elderly and people with disabilities. In the last year with available data, 2018, the feds spent $71 billion on home care via Medicaid. Biden\u2019s \u201cCOVID relief\u201d law already boosted the federal matching rate for state spending on such services by 10 percent for a year. Now he\u2019d add $50 billion a year.<\/p>\n

And Medicaid is an entitlement program: Such spending (which is already the central driver of the nation\u2019s vast annual budget deficits) is immune from normal fiscal restraints. As long as \u201cneed\u201d grows, so does the spending, automatically, with no new vote in Congress to expand it. <\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s largesse comes with a big string: A White House fact sheet<\/a> says the money will be tied to care workers getting \u201cthe ability to collectively bargain.\u201d In other words, states will have to let them unionize \u2014 and Biden\u2019s labor allies will see that it happ<\/a>ens. (Overall, the fact sheet on the plan mentions unions 24 times, specifically vowing the $2 trillion in outlays will \u201cpromote union organizing and collective bargaining.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The home-care proposal \u201cwas incorporated in part due to a push by the SEIU, which represents close to 1 million caretakers and lobbied White House officials for its inclusion,\u201d The Washington Post reports<\/a>. The White House also consulted labor activist Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. The Nation notes<\/a> Biden\u2019s plan \u201cadopts the language of advocates\u201d \u2014\u00a0for example, by calling it \u201ccare infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SEIU, which endorsed Biden for president, noted on its 2020-election Web site<\/a> that a Biden-Harris administration would \u201cput 3 million Americans to work in new care and education jobs.\u201d Biden\u2019s own campaign site<\/a> said he\u2019d spend $450 billion on home-care workers, expanding \u201cthe caregiving and community health workforce by roughly 1.5 million jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s 1.5 million to 3 million (counting his education boost, which will likely add unionized pre-K staffers) newly unionized workers under the umbrella of unions that form a key part of the Democratic hard left. It\u2019s unions like these that have helped ensure that AOC-style progressives dominate the New York state Legislature and the Big Apple\u2019s City Council.<\/p>\n

Naturally, a coalition that includes the SEIU and the National Domestic Workers Alliance will spend $20 million advertising and advocating Biden\u2019s proposal. Then they\u2019ll spend even more ensuring that the new workers, and the hundreds of thousands who now aren\u2019t unionized, sign up with the SEIU or a similar union. And with Biden\u2019s nominees dominating the National Labor Relations Board, none of those workers will have a choice.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just a small amount compared with the dues the unions will collect if Biden gets his way \u2014\u00a0money the president\u2019s team expects will help turn more states into Democratic strongholds like New York, California and Illinois, ensuring permanent Democratic control of Congress and the White House, and a never-ending stream of new schemes like this.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s not joking when he says he aims to transform the nation \u2014\u00a0he\u2019s just not leveling with the voters about what that transformation really means.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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