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how will he boost america's exports while dealing with the ever resistent constituency of called the AFL CIO.

how does he get them to streamline thier business how does he keep the union heads in line prodcut inferiority? how does he tell them? they clearly avoid the statistics.

etc

any ideas (this is an economics question, not a legal reform one)

Re: one great challenge for obama

i saw a video of him talking to the UAW a few months ago, and he was basically telling them, listen, if you want to have higher wages, the companies will not be able to afford you, and they'll hve to cut some workers. i'ts a trade off.

i'll see if i can't hunt that video down, (and i may be misquoting him, but I thought he said some startling things for a presumed liberal to say....it made sense). Anyways, i'm not sure about the rest.