What Democrats are thinking Part 2

This post at Chicago Boyz is disturbing in several ways. Fundamentally, this is a naked attempt to gain political advantage by pretty much destroying businesses. This type of craziness could only be proposed by someone who has never had the responsibility of growing and managing a business.

Links to this story in The Nation.

Next, and this is rather ingenious, Geoghegan says repeal the ancient common law rule of employment at will, which means that the basic rule is that an employee can be fired without cause. Have Blue State legislatures pass a law that says simply: "Nobody can be fired, except for just cause." The purpose:

Any law in a Blue State that knocks out employment at will would do more for organizing in that Blue State than eking out a win over Bush and the right. How? Simple. It bulletproofs the people who want to join a union. When the boss tries to bust a union by firing Norma Rae without cause, she can go to court. Get a jury. Damages. Even an injunction. Contempt. With this law, if we had organizing drives, we could get some cover for our people. If poor Norma Rae is fired now, all we can do is file charges with the NLRB. If we prove antiunion motive, maybe the board will act. There are no sanctions and no discovery, and it takes forever. Believe me, it would be much easier, and worse for employers, to go into a court under a state law and take depositions. As we lawyers like to say, let's poke around their house.

So, let me see if I get this right. This guy wants to insert his liberal political agenda into the workplace and, in effect, bribe wage earners to support the Democratic Party by "making it much worse on employers" if they need to fire someone.

Can you say disincentive for hiring? Can you say nirvana for Trial Lawyers? This is nuts. Part of me hopes they try it because I think it will either backfire on the front end by illustrating how destructive these people's lust for regaining political power is or it will create devastatingly negative results on the back side by destroying employment base and causing accelerated flight of employers from states that put this type of regime in place to states who retain respect for basic business logic.... or to China or India or Mexico.

Why can't people see that this type of person is not the least bit interested in the true interests of the wage earners much less the owners of companies - which increasingly are wage earners and average peoople through pension plans and/or mutual funds.

In a period in which our nation is facing the most brutal international business competition in history this is a recipe for economic and political suicide.