William Tucker: Put Men Back to Work

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William Tucker, author of the new book on nuclear power, Terrestrial Energy, proposes a theme for the inevitable Republican revival to come -- putting men back to work. He says that renewing America's long dormant nuclear energy industry is a good place to start, and Sarah Palin is the right person to carry the message:

I'll float this up here on The American Spectator in the hopes that the prevailing winds can carry it up to Alaska. I say this because I think Palin would be an excellent representative of the GOP to promote this issue right now. If it comes from any of the male faces of the party, it will sound too caustic and resentful.

The message is, "Put men back to work." Seventy-five percent of employees thrown out of work in the current recession have been men. We're about to pass the point where there are more women than men in the workforce. Obviously this idea is going to have a constituency. But it's not just men who will respond. There are millions of women out there who would like to see their men back working again as well.

The reason men are out of work has nothing to do with feminism or "feminazis" or any of that stuff. The problem is we don't build anything in this country anymore. The reason is the twin towers of bureaucracy and environmentalism. The main products of our economy are now lawsuits and environmental impact statements. This creates a lot of jobs, but they're all for pencil-pushing bureaucrats -- male or female -- who sit around telling other people what they can't do.

Read the full William Tucker opinion piece here.

- JP