Early next month we’ll exercise our vote in what Walt Whitman called “America’s choosing day.” But is there much difference to choose from between how Republicans and Democrats run the very small agency OSHA?
There is the rhetoric, and then the reality. Since 2008, with the U.S. economy unable to pull itself out of the muck of the deepest and ugliest recession since the Great Depression, Republicans have pounced on regulations of almost any sort as jobs killers. And OSHA boss David Michaels has spent the past three years on the defensive, claiming over and over that “OSHA doesn’t kill jobs; it helps prevent jobs from killing workers.”