Whatever the reason, the reality is that any politician that supported these job-killing agreements backed by Wall Street and America's most notorious job-offshoring corporations and opposed by American workers, small business and consumers will face a reckoning as the damage of these pacts hits home.
It has also worked to strengthen the penalties for companies that violate job-retention agreements.
By tethering employees to their current jobs, the agreements reduce workers' bargaining power.
We need Congress to do its part to establish a process to pass new, higher-standard, job-supporting agreements.
"In this case, how do you know if the controller is doing a good job?" The agreement also ends a standoff over who should represent the DWP on the nonprofits' boards, by designating that the utility's general manager or other utility managers should fill the positions.
Nothing will do more for growth and jobs than agreement in those talks.
The United Auto Workers union is also reportedly looking at dropping the "jobs bank" agreement that pays sacked employees for 48 weeks - a totem for some members of Congress who are loth to rescue the industry.
Romney's economic plan, which revolved around an underwhelming set of policy ideas that would do little to spur job creation (trade agreements, school choice, cutting the deficit, boosting small business and energy independence) was remarkably threadbare.
There are fresh voices everywhere who can take on the corporate Democrats, like the Clintons, who work with Wall Streeters and espouse crony capitalism and with neocons to advance militarism abroad, along with corporate-managed, job destroying trade agreements and off-shore tax havens?
And, using the instruments of his power — jobs, payoffs, nondisclosure agreements, expensive lawyers and private investigators — he sought to keep them silent.
