- Somehow I Knew Disco Frank Was Involved

Taking the "Failed Policies of the Past" to an absurd New Level.

I kid our recently revived Senator Frank Lautenberg for wanting to put NJ on the cutting edge of 1970's thinking with careful top down central planning. But I was wrong. He must be having one of those 'senior moments' because he actually seems to think it's still 1935.

On his lucid days he's not a smart man. He's managed to be on the losing side of history on virtually every policy back to the Magna Carta. And now this idiot would like to see us re-embrace one of the most destructive polices of the New Deal:

The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) Activists is an Internet-centric “community service project” of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) — one of the country’s largest industrial trade unions.

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The group is currently pushing passage of New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s recent “21st Century WPA Act” to reinstate the New Deal employment program, and Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s attempt to rejuvenate another New Deal program with her “21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Act.”

Because nothing leads to full employment like a policy of national slavery. Half the people dig the holes, the other half fill them in. Presto: huge annual GDP growth. What fools.

I think it would be better for everyone if whoever it is assigned the task of keeping Frank on his meds and making sure he wears pants to his office every morning, would simply keep him home. Let him be the Senator in absentia for NJ. As we saw yesterday at the Finance Committee hearings, Bob Menendez is certainly capable of embarrassing NJ enough all on his own.

But if he really insists on sleeping at the Senate offices rather than at home, then his staff should keep him from proposing any new business of state. It never works out well. And it's hard enough being from NJ without having to continue apologizing for this guy's senility.