Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.

factories and the right of the union to nominate someone to sit on the company’s Board of Directors. From February 2011 to August 2011 Bloom served at the White House as the Assistant to the President for Manufacturing Policy.

President for Manufacturing Policy. From February 2009 to August 2011 Ron Bloom served as a senior official in the Obama Administration.