More Bloomin’ Czars

Once in power, Democrats love nothing more than finding a problem so they can create a new level of government to deal with it. Even if there's no problem, they will — pardon the phrase — manufacture one.

So it is with the possible appointment of Bloom, a former United Steelworkers union adviser who now heads the U.S. auto task force, to be a kind of national industrial policy czar. The manufacturing sector has indeed been hit hard by the downturn. But so has the rest of U.S. industry. The only real growth sector, as the Rockefeller Institute reported Thursday, is government. While private jobs have shrunk 6.9 million since the start of the recession, state and local governments have added 110,000 positions. More...

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