How Democrats Hurt Jobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/opinion/nocera-how-democrats-hurt-job-creation.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=nocera&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:43 PM
Subject: re: How Democrats Hurt Jobs
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

     In the eighteenth century, Adam Smith taught us how nations and people can build wealth by letting resources, labor and capital flow to the demand. By the turn of the twentieth century however it was clear that a brutish fundamentalist adherence to such free-markets spurred a race to the bottom, in which states and nations compete to offer the laxest regulations industry.  In the twenty-first century, Americans largely agree that child-labor laws, workplace safety laws, sick-leave and collective bargaining are good things. It is entirely proper that our federal government should enforce these values.  It's hard enough to maintain our standards against the international race to the bottom. We don't need to be running that race among our United States.

Barry Haskell Levine