Texas Gov. Perry: Security at Border a 'National Disgrace' That's Only Going to Get Worse

This video of Governor Perry from his appearance on Greta last night on Fox is another reason he needs to run for President. He understands the border and what needs to be done -- something Obama doesn't have a clue about!



Transcript:

TEXAS GOV. RICK PERRY: I was very disheartened when the president came into El Paso a couple of weeks ago, had a photo-op out at the city of El Paso and proclaimed that the border was as safe as it's ever been.

And that's just nonsense. You ask these men and women who are putting their lives on the line every night, the border patrol agents, the ICE agents, the Texas Department of Public Safety, folks in that helicopter, our SWAT teams that are out there, the local law enforcement.

All of those individuals know that this border not only is porous, but the people that are coming across this border we have no idea -- well, unfortunately, we do know where some of them are from, and they are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemeni or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: The thing that surprised me today is that I always knew there was drugs and guns and smuggling of humans back and forth here. What I hadn't realized until I talked to your people today is how many different nationalities come across this border illegally. That's what surprised me. And of course, you know, there are some that are red flags -- countries like Pakistan or Yemen, of course. We all -- you know, we don't want to be alarmist, but those happen to be countries that have been most unfriendly, to put it politely.

PERRY: We have now for upwards of five or six years been going to Washington, D.C., explaining to Congress, administrations that we have a real and a serious and a present danger that has to be addressed. Some 12 Democrat sheriffs, people who are not in my political party, went with us to Washington a few years back to share the story about what's happening on that border. And it's only gotten worse.

Labor panel wants union officials in corporate boardrooms

The last paragraph from the Washington Examiner says it all about what is happening. If this latest power grab by the NLRB on the behalf of the unions doesn't sound communist, nothing does:

Soviet Communist Party theoretician Leon Trotsky wrote this in 1931: "The workers need control not for platonic purposes, but in order to exert practical influence upon the production and commercial operations of the employers. ... In a developed form, workers' control thus implies a sort of economic dual power in the factory." Were Trotsky still around, he would no doubt cheer Obama's NLRB.

Unions in many states like Michigan and Ohio have driven jobs to other states and countries with their unreasonable demands and strikes. Grew up with factories striking in the Dayton area for little or no reason. Don't know how many times the unions would decide to strike near the beginning of hunting season over the smallest items or while retooling for the new model year, they would lay off people and senior people took the layoffs to go hunting in the fall of the year. Not sure my Uncle ever worked through the start of hunting season.

What I thought the strangest was he worked for GM and could have bought a GM vehicle at a discount but he always bought Fords. When I asked him why, he said he wouldn't want to buy anything the people around him were making. That was an indictment on the GM union workers in Dayton. In fact Dayton union workers also drove out Frigidaire, NCR, and who knows what other companies. Most unreliable group of union people who would walk out over any dispute.

Now that same mentality wants to run business. As union workers, they have done a good job of running business into the ground and now they want to tell business where to locate and how to run themselves? Is this Department of Labor and the NLRB crazy? We think it is and why the sooner they are all out of jobs the better. America cannot afford four more years of what we have been seeing.

We have noted that most of the Right to Work states are Red States. Oklahoma was added to the rolls in the early part of this century with an overwhelming vote to become a Right to Work state against a ton of money from outside the state plus union thugs. Was a poll watcher to make sure that the election was legitimate as trucks with union workers were going from poll to poll but never saw anything here.

As you can see on the current map of Right to Work states that most are in the south and middle America:

Labor panel wants union officials in corporate boardrooms
By: Examiner Editorial 05/17/11 8:05 PM

The National Labor Relations Board sued Boeing for opening a factory in South Carolina, a right-to-work state. 

Why has private-sector unionization fallen from 35 percent of the work force during World War II to less than 7 percent today? The main reason is that unions raise a firm's labor costs, leaving fewer resources for things like job creation, capital improvements, and research and development. Unions also make it much harder for owners and executives to make practical business decisions. 

A memo leaked from the National Labor Relations Board makes clear that President Obama and the radical labor advocates he put on it are embarked on a calculated campaign to make unionized firms even harder to manage. The NLRB's recent suit against Boeing Aircraft Co. is merely the first step. 

The board sued Boeing for opening a factory in South Carolina, a right-to-work state. Boeing's main plant is in Washington, a state where employees have no choice but to join unions. It's also where the International Association of Machinists has struck Boeing five times in 30 years, most recently in 2008. That strike cost Boeing $2 billion and prompted longtime customers like Virgin Airways chief Richard Branson to make plans to take his business elsewhere. With the new plant, 1,000 jobs were created in South Carolina, but no union jobs in Washington were lost. 

Obama's NLRB doesn't give a hoot what the Supreme Court ruled. Not only is the NLRB standing firm in its Boeing suit, but the leaked memo, which was obtained by the Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky and James Sherk, also shows that the board seeks to elevate union officials to equal partners with executives in corporate boardrooms of all unionized firms.

The memo instructs NLRB regional operatives to flag all cases in which unionized firms made relocation decisions without submitting detailed economic justifications to their unions. The board plans "case-by-case" reviews, followed by prosecutions of selected cases. The intended consequence is that all major business decisions will become subject to approval by unions.

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Read more at the Washington Examiner

While researching to do this article, we ran across the latest on the NLRB action against Boeing as a Freedom of Information request has now been filed:

FOIA Request Filed to Disclose Political Motives Behind NLRB’s Attack on Boeing 

May 16th 2011 

Washington, DC May 16, 2011 – The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act FOIA disclosure request with the National Labor Relations Board NLRB on the heels of the agency’s recent announcement that it will prosecute airline manufacturer Boeing Corp. 

If International Association of Machinists IAM union officials and the NLRB are successful, over 1,000 Boeing employees in South Carolina would be out of work as Boeing will be forced to relocate the aircraft assembly jobs to Washington State which lacks Right to Work protections for employees.

The NLRB’s acting general counsel, Lafe Solomon, issued the complaint against Boeing late last month at the behest of IAM union bosses. In 2009, Boeing opened the new plant to produce 787 Dreamliner airplanes in South Carolina, largely because South Carolina is a Right to Work state that protects workers from being required to join or pay dues to a union just to get or keep a job. 

Foundation President Mark Mix submitted the FOIA inquiry on Monday.
In the request, Mix asks that the agency produce all the documentation regarding communications between NLRB officials and third parties, including communications with Obama administration officials; officials from the offices of the Governors of Washington and Oregon; and any other federal, state, or local government agency personnel regarding Boeing or the IAM union, the opening of the company’s facility in South Carolina, and about the NLRB’s complaint against Boeing itself. 

Source:  LaborUnionReport.com

We want to know why a company doesn't have a right to put their factory wherever they want in the United States without the NLRB becoming involved.  Boeing has a history of problems with their unions in Seattle so if you want to blame anyone for Boeing building a plant in South Carolina, lay it at the feet of the Union Members and their bosses who think nothing of striking Boeing.  The NLRB and Unions are showing their true colors now with Obama in the White House.  Union membership has fallen drastically and if the occupant of the White House thinks this thuggish action is a way to get more members, think again.

All we have seen out of unions in recent years led by SEIU is thuggish activity toward anyone who doesn't agree with them along with voter fraud.  They will attack people and property as we recently witnessed in Wisconsin and don't think anything of the cost to the taxpayers of Wisconsin for their actions:

Protests at the state Capitol over public workers' collective bargaining powers cost more than $7.8 million for police, and damage to the Capitol will cost about $270,000 to repair, a state official said.

Now the taxpayers of Wisconsin have a $7.8M bill for the union protests including repairs to the Capitol.  Typical example of union members from the SEIU.  It is shocking to watch the SEIU public service union operate at the state and local level.  Having been around the Air Force Materiel Command most of my adult life, I find it strange that the state and local unions even have bargaining rights and can strike.  Check out the federal unions and you discover they are not allowed to strike.  We saw President Reagan fire the air traffic controllers when they went on strike.  In Air Force Materiel Command we saw the Commander tell the union at Tinker if you strike, you are fired.  The only reason I can think of for federal unions is for donations to the Democrat political machine as there are grievance procedures in the Federal Government.

If I had one thing to say to states whose economies have been put on their backs because of companies leaving due to union problems, pass Right to Work!

Rick Perry Presidential Push Quietly Gains Steam

We will let the article speak for itself but we cannot think of a better candidate to run for President of the United States than Governor Rick Perry of Texas.  He checks all the blocks I have when supporting someone for President.  He has a backbone and not afraid to stand up to Obama and this Administration as the Country has been witnessing.  He understands State's Rights and would do a great job of returning State's Rights to the States as President.  


We sincerely hope that Governor Rick Perry will throw his hat in the race -- he can count on this Sooner and others from the Sooner State supporting him 100%.  After all the Aggies and the Sooners are both share the color 'red' not orange. 


Governor Perry will be headlining the Southern Republican Leadership Conference again and if his speech is anything like last year, it will get more standing ovations and a chance for him to showcase what it would be like for him to be in the Presidential race.  


May 17, 2011

Rick Perry Presidential Push Quietly Gains Steam

By Erin McPike and Scott Conroy

As many grass-roots Republicans remain in search of a conservative candidate with the pizazz to go toe-to-toe against President Obama, a man from deep in the heart of Texas who was tea party before the tea party was cool appears to be giving the presidential race some thought.

Gov. Rick Perry has insisted on multiple occasions that he has no interest in the presidency, but RCP has learned that political associates have begun to nose around quietly on Perry's behalf.

A Texas pol who is close to Perry has been telling a few key strategists that the nation's longest-serving governor sees a vacuum and is waiting to be summoned into the race. This source believes that could happen by late summer. Without fellow Southerners Haley Barbour or Mike Huckabee in the race -- and with Newt Gingrich's early troubles raising further doubts about the current lineup -- there could be a glaring niche for Perry to fill.

According to another well-connected Republican, at least one Perry confidant has been very quietly making inquiries about the political terrain in the nation's first voting state of Iowa. A third Perry associate, RCP has learned, has been heralding a small contingent of Iowans with the time-tested line that is often used by would-be candidates who are leaving their options open: "Keep your powder dry."

Perry's aides have long made it clear that the tough-talking Texan, who succeeded George W. Bush in Austin in 2000, would not seriously entertain the idea of mounting a White House run before the state's legislative session finishes at the end of this month. That date is now less than two weeks away, and the 2012 presidential field remains fluid.

The Perry chatter has been so discreet that nearly a dozen early-state GOP operatives and consultants contacted by RCP hadn't heard a word about it. But they are unfazed that the buzz exists.

Mark McKinnon, a Republican strategist and Bush administration veteran, said, "I'm not aware of Perry making calls, although it wouldn't surprise me."

Perry would hardly be the first prominent Republican to raise presidential expectations, however unobtrusively, only to later back away -- and his associates remain adamant, in public at least, that nothing has changed.

"The Governor has not called anyone about running for POTUS. I'd like to know of one person who says they received such a call," Dave Carney, a Perry political strategist who now works for Gingrich's presidential effort, said in an email. "He is calling raising funds for the Republican Governors Association, of which he currently serves as chair."

Excerpt:  Read More at Real Clear Politics

Fox News Insider: Trump on Running in 2012: In My Own Mind I’ve Made the Decision

From the Fox Insider comes this telephone interview with Donald Trump. The buzz keeps growing waiting for that formal announcement.

So, does this mean what we think it does? Find out! Plus, Trump (sort of) tells Alisyn Camerota how much money he’d be willing to spend on a presidential campaign.

May 22nd is the last episode of 'The Apprentice' so how about May 23rd for the formal announcement by Donald Trump? We are looking forward to Donald Trump officially getting in the Republican Primary for President. After a formal announcement, a candidate has 90 days to submit their financial statement -- Donald Trump has just said that he will submit his right away maybe even the day he announces. He is organized and now having to wait until after May 22nd, he will be a well oiled machine hitting the ground running the day he announces.

Since he has a lot of assets and little debt, that is exactly the type of person we need running the Country. Think it is time to have a businessman who understands the bottom line be President because frankly Governors or Senators are not doing well. The last non-politician to run and win was Republican General Dwight D. Eisenhower who began the end to segregation in the south starting in Little Rock, Arkansas. After a highly successful career in the Army he ran for President because he didn't like the way the Country was moving. Donald Trump who is a very successful businessman sounds the same way when you listen to him.

If I was betting in Vegas or Atlantic City on whether Donald Trump is running, my money would be on 'Trump is running' -- not one doubt in my mind or that of many others I know. He brings energy to the Republican primary which is sorely lacking right now. Went from the doldrums of who was running to excitement in a short period of time all thanks to The Donald!