Obama Can't Even Stand Up To Union Goons

And it's costing us dearly.

There's a bunch of money in Obama's "stimulus package" that was supposed to pay for weatherization. But the government can't disperse it because it has to be handed out in compliance with the Davis-Bacon act that is a pure payoff to union bosses.

According to the GAO report, the Department of Labor spent most of last year trying to determine the prevailing wage is for weatherization work, a determination that had to be made for each of the more than 3,000 counties in the United States. [E.A.]

As a result, the Department of Energy apparently weatherized only 22,000 homes under the program. Another pre-existing program, which doesn't have to comply with Davis-Bacon, appears to have weatherized about 100,000 homes, if my math is right.

That's OK. It's not as if speed was important last year in terms of putting people to work. ... Oh wait, it was. [Insert now-embarrassing Obama quote here]

"If you allocate money to weatherize homes, the homeowner gets the benefit of lower energy bills. You right away put people back to work, many of whom in the construction industry and in the housing industry are out of work right now. They are immediately put to work doing something," [E.A.]

What happened to that guy who had "steel in his spine?"