There's no political corruption or influence peddling associated with Elaine Chao that I'm aware of. The reason I don't like her is because she came up with this stupid proposal to cut off automatic over-time pay for workers earning $11 an hour or less on the basis that they could get more hours if it didn't trigger over-time pay. If anyone deserves over-time pay it is the workers earning $11 an hour or less. It was just so wrong-headed, it was unbelievable. Fortunately, Congress rejected it, why Bush ever let something like that even go to Congress tells you all you need to know about him.

That's why I don't like her. She was trying to get people more hours of work to live on and there may have been some who said more hours at my existing wage would be better than nothing, but that's a race to the bottom and just wrong-headed, it also means they'd never get a raise above $11 an hour so any future wage improvement was destroyed by her plan. Just stupid, totally wrong, on all levels. I attributed it to her Chinese background, more at less is still more kind of thinking. That might work in China, but that won't fly here. And thankfully, it didn't.

Hopefully she'll be okay as Transportation Secretary, keeping costs down, maybe she was in the wrong job at Department of Labor, that all said, I wish he'd found someone else with a business or construction/engineering background.

So, we'll just see what happens and hope for the best. It's still befuddling, I wish there had been some publicity on it so we could have posted about her before the announcement.