David Harsanyi on Obama's Reactionary Jobs Plan

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Does it bother anyone else, writes David Harsanyi, that the president of the United States seems to believe that our collective future entails assembling battery parts in a government-subsidized factory for $9 an hour? Is that really what Americans envision for their kids -- an assembly line? Because when you look past Barack Obama's mesmerizingly hollow rhetoric, what he proposed in his State of the Union speech is a return of jobs that progress and prosperity have left behind.