Obama wants to lavish as much pork as he can on his allies, especially Big Labor, which provides so much money and manpower for Dem candidates. The latest outrage is an executive order mandating what is euphemistically called “high road contracting.” What it means is that the federal government won’t do business with firms that don’t have the high wage and benefit scales of many unionized ones.
In other words, the feds will discriminate against contractors that would save taxpayers money on government work.
If Obama were serious about reducing the prodigious deficit, he’d be scaling back on federal projects, but instead, he’s going the other way and using his power to make them more costly.
Here is an article by Diana Furchgott-Roth explaining the nasty business.
