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Saturday, May 14, 2011

MORE GANGSTER GOVERNMENT BROUGHT TO YOU BY BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA


As you may or may not know, Barry’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is now busy attempting to “dictate” to the Boeing Company how it can, and how it cannot, run its business. In what can only be viewed as an obvious abuse of power by any rational or responsible person, the NLRB is telling Boeing that it cannot open a plant in business-friendly South Carolina. What prompted this blatant attack on a private business is the fact that South Carolina is a right-to-work state, meaning that it has “a law against compulsory union membership,” so under orders from Barry the NLRB is now retaliating on behalf of labor. More “Hope and Change?” I cannot believe that a majority of Americans, minus the blacks of course, are in agreement with this Brownshirt mentality currently on display. The arrogance, dare I say the audacity, of these seems to know no bounds. It’s their way or the highway.



This group called the National Labor Relations Board, is a small, independent agency whose chief mission in life is supposed to be to adjudicate disputes between employers and labor unions. Somehow Barry likes to utilize it more as a weapon, something to be used to intimidate those who dare cross Barry and his union allies. Its acting general counsel, some clown named Lafe (Laugh) Solomon, nominated by Barry in January, but not yet confirmed by the Senate, wants to stop the Boeing Corporation from using its new aircraft manufacturing plant in South Carolina. Construction began in November 2009 and is now almost complete. If the Labor Board finds for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, it goes without saying that higher unemployment will be a permanent facet of the American economy for the very simple reason that more manufacturing plants will simply relocate overseas. Firms will be less likely to build plants in America if the unconfirmed acting general counsel of an obscure regulatory agency can rule that their use is illegal. But then, such is the goal of Barry who is determined to destroy our present economy by any and all means necessary. I think it now safe to say that Barry is pulling out all the stops.


This not so funny progressive, union loon, Solomon, has made the idiotic accusation that Boeing's decision to build a new plant in South Carolina in order to expand production of its Dreamliner 787, was made solely as a form of retaliation for strikes that occurred at its Everett, Washington plant. Solomon's charge was brought after a complaint from, of course, the IAM, which represents Boeing employees in Washington State. The acting general counsel's complaint is that Boeing was transferring a second 787 Dreamliner production line of 3 planes per month from Washington to a non-union site in North Charleston, and that this was apparently being done for no other reason than to punish workers who had gone on strike. But there is no evidence to support this nutty theory, and as of yet no transfer has occurred. The fact of the matter is that Boeing has a backlog of 850 planes. Seven planes a month are being built in Everett; three per month would be built in North Charleston. As demand for the Dreamliner increased, Boeing had to open a second production line someplace. It explored Washington State and other locations, and decided that costs would be lower and production much more reliable elsewhere. Hence the decision to build in North Carolina.


If Boeing does end up being penalized for a purely business decision to locate their new plant where costs are lowest and production most reliable, then the precedent will have been set for many other companies to also be charged. The NLRB, a little group which many are saying has outlived its usefulness, is of the opinion that Boeing should build all of its Dreamliners in Washington State and nowhere else. It’s just that simple. Solomon wrote in his complaint and notice of hearing, "the Acting General Counsel seeks an Order requiring Respondent to have the Unit operate its second line of 787 Dreamliner aircraft assembly production in the State of Washington, utilizing supply lines maintained by the Unit in the Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, area facilities." That this group of thugs should not now be allowed to insert itself into the decision making process in a private business enterprise out to make a profit and to provide jobs to those in need of one, and it cannot be allowed to go unchallenged, LOUDLY. I think it very safe to say that this administration can now safely be considered as being absolutely out of control as it continues to do more damage to our economy on nearly a daily basis.


Enter some bimbo by the name of Connie Kelliher. This dim bulb of an imbecile is the spokesman for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751, and has made the claim on that Boeing is actually breaking the law by threatening the workers and trying to chill negotiations. "You threaten the workers for federal protected activity, and it's against the law in all 50 states," she said. Have you ever heard less intelligent drivel spew from anyone? Ms. Kelliher, who apparently knows more about building airplanes than does Boeing, denied that the Everett plant was running at capacity, and said Boeing had added surge capacity that it plans to remove after the South Carolina plant is fully operational. Everyone agrees that Boeing has not closed its plant in Everett, nor has it laid off any it its workers. But that seems to matter very little to this absolute moron. But what’s really at issue here is whether Boeing has the “right” to open a new plant in a place other than Washington for any reason, such as lower costs of production and geographic diversity.


South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley believes, as does any freedom loving American, that Boeing has every right to expand and to chose any state that it wishes to do so. As she said on Tuesday, "This is a direct assault on everything we know America to be. I will stand with any governor who is dealing with this issue." I could not agree with her more. It is a continuing assault on our way of life and on our economy. If the NLRB upholds the acting general counsel's complaint, American and foreign companies will be discouraged not just from expanding in other states, but from doing any business at all here in America. Flexibility to move operations, something that is needed in the business world to insure that a business remains viable, profitable, will be sharply curtailed. With a ruling against Boeing, companies would have to do due diligence not just on the likelihood of strikes, but the possibility that strikes would preclude future expansion in other states.


The biggest losers in this whole fiasco would be the unemployed in states that require workers to be union members if unions win representational elections. Ohio and Michigan, with unemployment rates of 10 percent, and California, with a rate of 12 percent, will have a far more difficult time attracting plants. Their unemployment rates will stay high. New plant and investment is far more likely to come to right-to-work states. And the biggest winners? Why, that would be our foreign competitors. Had Boeing decided to produce more Dreamliners in Mexico or China, it would not have encountered such problems. But it didn’t, it wanted to keep jobs here at home. And what did it get for its efforts? A sharp stick in the eye, that’s what. Boeing's hearing responding to the allegations will begin in mid-June, in Seattle, before an agency administrative law judge. Appeals could last up to two years and will cost millions of dollars in litigation-funds that could have been used to produce more airliners and hire more workers.


One Republican senator, South Carolina's Jim DeMint along with RINOs Lindsey Graham, and Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, are introducing legislation this week that would, if enacted, prevent the NLRB from ordering employers to relocate jobs from one state to another. An aide to Senator DeMint has that the bill makes it clear that companies should not be afraid to locate in any state that they see as being advantageous to their business. Congress has to decide how to lower our deficits and curb out-of-control spending. But the Treasury can't collect individual tax revenue if workers are unemployed and jobs flow overseas. The attack on Boeing harms America's economy by using its workers. Which is what this corrupt administration is all about. It’s all about using people, intimidation tactics and lies in a continuing effort to move forward an agenda that is harmful, to say the least, to America. They are determined in their assault on private companies which inflict even more damage upon our already weakened economy. The is all a very purposeful attempt by a group of individuals who hate this country and all that it stand for. We must work to bring about some real change, some positive change come 2012 and at the same time rid ourselves of this most corrupt administration.

1 comment:

  1. Well maybe my previous comment on your blogpost earlier isn't so far off the mark after all, eh Dan? Great summation here. Hope the Governor has a pair big enough to settle this matter. (and SHE is making the other "men" look like ... well you fill in the blank.)

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