Boeing Case: How Unions are discouraging companies to set-up business in America

It is hard for most of us to understand why the Obama Administration thinks their hardline attack on Boeing through the NLRB is going to create jobs in this Country.   Boeing has spent millions of dollars to get the plant in South Carolina ready to operate full time and along comes Obama and his union thugs through the NLRB filing a complaint against Boeing.  Maybe Boeing should have opened their plant out of the Country so not to have to deal with the union thugs.  After striking Boeing for three years, why would Boeing ever want to do business having to use those thugs?
This article details what is going to continue to happen if the NLRB gets their way -- jobs will fly out of the Country so the companies don't have to worry about  work stoppage.  Like so many of the Obama Administration groups, the NLRB is out of control this time in favor of the unions who fund the democrat campaigns. 

Boeing Case: How Unions are discouraging companies to set-up business in America

by CampaignsReport

There is no point in coming back to the chronology of the IAM-NLRB-Boeing case nor to the underlying interests of some stakeholders in the SEIU – Sodexo case anymore than we already did. What we would like to do in this article is to open the debate on the consequences of these events on the American business.

Entrepreneurs (both Americans and foreign ones) know that our American principles have been based on two pillars: free enterprise and a free country. Recent events in our country could change this perception. In the IAM-Boeing case, the NLRB filled a complaint against the airplane manufacturer on the basis that the company’s decision to locate its second production line had not been made on rational arguments (e.g.: diversifying its production centers) but had been a retaliation against past strikes led by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers at Boeing’s plant in Everett, WA. Following the fuss made by the complaint, the NLRB felt obliged to explain that it did not order Boeing to relocate the second production line to Washington – yet this explanation was hardly convincing. A state agency that tells a company where and what to manufacture was the model adopted by some countries but had never been in place in America until now. 

The NLRB and the unions do not think on a long-term basis. The impact of the IAM-Boeing case is huge. If a company cannot choose where to locate its production in the US, the question will be raised whether to locate it abroad. Boeing could have chosen to locate the second production line in Mexico but they picked up South Carolina, creating 1,000 jobs by the way. 

In the SEIU-Sodexo case, the union has been going after the company to become the representative union of its 120,000 employees (which means collecting the 120,000 annual memberships). To do so, the union has tried to tarnish the company reputation, to make it lose contracts and put it under increasing pressure. What they do not tell is that when a client decides to terminate its contract with Sodexo, employees’ contracts are also terminated or they are put under a probationary period as this is going to be the case for all non-managerial employees of Sodexo at the Western Washington University in the coming weeks. In the end, the SEIU is weakening American workers, putting them at risk of losing their jobs. 

In both cases, American jobs are being jeopardized at a time when the economic crisis is not over yet and unemployment rate is still high. We should rather fight for our jobs instead of destroying them and our economy as unions are doing, for their short-term profits. 

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Sen Inhofe Hints ‘Arrogant’ Obama Might Need Mental Diagnosis to Explain Timing of 1967 Borders Speech

We agree 100% with Senator Inhofe and in fact, brought up that same point yesterday as much of what Obama is doing makes little sense.  Maybe it is an Oklahoma thing!

 

Source:  Breitbart TV

Obama "Declares War on American Energy Workers" -- Pro-Energy President in 2012!

Obama might as well be yelling 'Drill Brazil Drill' since that is where he wants $2B to be 'loaned' for drilling off shore. Chances of getting paid back from Brazil are probably nil to non-existent. Yet when it comes to drilling off American shores, Obama and his Administration keep withholding permit approval. There has been ONE new permit issued for a new well drilling in the Gulf since the BP disaster. Thirteen well permits have been approved to reopen but what about all the rest. They are being held hostage by this Administration while he encourages Brazil to drill. Will Brazil even sell us oil is in question.

While leaving U.S. oil and jobs in the ground, our itinerant president tells a South American neighbor that we’ll help it develop its offshore resources so we can one day import its oil. WHAT?!?
We will help Brazil develop its offshore oil so we can one day import it.
We have noted this double standard before, particularly when — at a time when the president was railing against tax incentives for U.S. oil companies — we supported the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s plan to lend $2 billion to Brazil’s state-run Petrobras with the promise of more to follow.

If you were in court, all the documentation would favor the oil drilling companies going back to drilling the Gulf.   Wait, a federal judge did rule against the Obama Administration on their moratorium so what do they do? Slow down the permit process to basically keep the moratorium in place. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has been an outspoken Senator against the Obama Administration on their oil drilling policies in the Gulf as seen in the video below.

President Obama "Declares War on American Energy Workers"
May 25, 2011 Posted by John at 7:44 PM
This video, produced jointly by the Heritage Foundation and the Institute for Energy Research, exposes the fiction that the Obama administration has been anything other than a disaster for America's energy industry. There is no conceivable explanation--no rational explanation, anyway--for Obama's encouragement of Brazil's drilling for new oil in the Atlantic, and promising to be Brazil's best customer, at the same time that he is condemning energy workers here in the United States to unemployment.



All presidents deal with tough circumstances; it is the nature of the job. But we expect them to try, at least, to make things better for the United States and its citizens. When a president favors Brazilian workers over American workers, and puts American taxpayers' dollars behind that preference, what are we to conclude?
Source: Power Line Blog

We need a President who understands American energy development including oil and gas drilling as  Obama is harming the oil producing states of the Gulf and others like Oklahoma with his energy policies. Every time you turn around the EPA is suing our oil and gas industry. In the Permian Basin of West Texas is some lizard that they want to use to stop drilling in one of the riches oil areas of the United States.

It is time for Americans get off the dime and eject Obama from the White House in November 2012 and elect someone like Governor Rick Perry from Texas who would promote our own energy resources instead of sending money to Brazil to drill off shore. Governors Perry and Jindal have been the leading voices against the oil moratorium put on by the Obama Administration that has harmed the Gulf Coast oil and gas employment and devastated some companies.

Does Obama hate oil and gas producing states? Looking more and more like it by the day!

CNN Breaking News: SCOTUS Upholds Arizona Law Punishing businesses that hire illegal immigrants!

Finally Arizona one of our border states is getting a break with this ruling by SCOTUS. Now other states can pass the same law as it has been ruled Constitutional. The question becomes whether the Obama Administration will stop their harassment of the states when they want to make sure that employers hire legal immigrants and citizens:

U.S. Supreme Court upholds Arizona law punishing businesses that hire illegal immigrants.

The 5-3 ruling is a victory for supporters of a crackdown on illegal immigration. Opponents of the law, including the Obama administration, say it steps on traditional federal oversight over immigration matters.

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.

Obama's England Trip Shows Out of Touch President

This is how President Obama signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey earlier today, where he got a tour from the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall and laid a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior.

It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice.
Barack Obama
24 May 2008

White House is claiming jet lag for signing the wrong date? But since he chose 2008, makes you wonder if he is going back to the 2008 campaign.

What is the White House staff excuse for his toast to the Queen where he forgot to wait for the band to play "God Save the Queen?" 

 

From Hot Air: Protocol, apparently, requires the toastmaster to wait until after “God Save the Queen” plays and then begin the toast. But the almighty O waits for no sovereign, so he launched straight into his shpiel. To which I say, good for him. What else was the American revolution about, if not the right of the president to half-ass some formulaic niceties about the British monarch? He should have punctuated it with a weary “whatever” and downed the glass in one gulp.

More and more people are starting to question if Obama is having some memory problems. Without a teleprompter he has real problems with his communication skills. Since the American people have no knowledge of his medical records or any other records, it is hard for anyone to know. Is this what his staff is covering up?

After being around someone with decreased memory, it sneaks up on you and most times you don't realize it is happening as it starts out small but I am seeing the same pattern with Obama. It is much easier to see when you are looking from a distance. Signing 2010 could be explained but 2008? It is like he is reliving his glory days of the 2008 campaign.

If Obama is truly having memory or medical problems, then we would think it is time for some staff to step forward and tell the truth.  They need to stop protecting and making excuses for all his gaffes that keep happening.  If it is not a memory or mental problem that keeps happening, then he is far from the smartest man in the world.  Without a teleprompter he has trouble putting words together without 'ummm' and then we always have the many "I's" that he uses.  It is not a normal speech pattern unless he reads from the teleprompter or from a piece of paper like the toast.  Why would the President need to read the toast when it is so short?

Some of us have believed there were signs that President Reagan's Alzheimers started when he was still President.  At the beginning, the symptoms start out as small lapses and then it gets more and more to where it is very noticeable. 

We are not saying that Obama has the beginning of a memory disease, but we believe something is really wrong and being covered up.   He gives a speech one day and next day tries to change what he said. 

Obama is oblivious to the wind:

Sen Harry Reid Publicly Rejects Obama's decision on Israel

This video of Senator Harry Reid's remarks at AIPAC distances himself from Obama's plan for Israel. This is shocking that he would make this speech but for years he has been a strong support Israel in the Congress. We didn't expect this out of Reid but it does show how out of touch Obama is with Congress and the majority of the America people when it comes to Israel.

The most powerful Democrat in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), on Monday night publicly rejected President Barack Obama’s decision to use a recent speech to lay out aspects of a potential peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

“The place where negotiating will happen must be at the negotiating table – and nowhere else,” Reid declared in a speech to an annual gathering in Washington of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). “Those negotiations … will not happen – and their terms will not be set – through speeches, or in the streets, or in the media.”

When the Senate leader added, “No one should set premature parameters about borders, about building, or about anything else,” the lights quickly came up on the vast audience and most in the crowd at the Washington Convention Center rose to their feet and applauded.

Source: Read more: Politico

Looks like Reid got the standing ovation that Obama didn't get.  Guess Reid's people didn't have to tell the crowd not to 'boo' either like Obama's people did. 

American 'Black' President finds White Irish Roots in time for the Campaign

In 2008, we were called racist for having the audacity to say that he was 50% white. Some blacks were threatened by his supporters for pointing out his Mother was white. His being half white was a non-starter then but fast forward to the 2012 campaign and now Obama is finding his white Irish roots for photo ops for the campaign. All the while his wife does not look happy in the video at the Pub.

Can we safely say that we are no longer racist when we criticize Obama as we no longer have the first black President as now he is has found his Irish roots like so many of our presidents? This is almost too ludicrous to write after years of people being called 'racist' but this is the latest chapter in the leopard changing his spots to get elected. Is he now going to want it both ways with 'no criticism allowed' from whites or blacks because he is both which we knew all along. Wonder how all this 'Irish lovefest' is sitting with the people of South Chicago?

Don't forget in July 2009 when Obama said Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. He wrongly assumed without getting the facts that a white policeman was wrong and this was a typical white cop arrests black man stereotype.

If Obama thinks the American people are as dumb as the media, he has a wake-up call coming. This is also the candidate that talked about his grandparents when he was a teenager over some black negative comments after his grandmother had to walk through some black thugs. Then he threw his grandmother who raised him under the bus as a racist in the 2008 campaign. We have always said he will say and do anything to get elected and this trip to Ireland proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt.

We could care less if he was black, purple or whatever, but the number of times any criticism of Obama is met with racism calls is astounding. If he thinks finding his white roots is going to erase away all of that, he is not living in reality.

This trip on the taxpayers nickle is all for show for his campaign and as someone with British roots including Irish, it is beyong disgusting at how the media is treating this. Their memories are short, they are flat out clueless or are intentionally disregarding all the racist calls Obama and his staff made during 2008 and beyond.  We believe it was the latter as they are the same reporters that didn't blink an eye when Obama called us 'racist' for daring to disagree with him.  Is Obama going to stop calling us racist now he has found his 'white Irish roots?'  What part of Obama being half white has not been evident all along?

If he thinks going to Great Britain is going to erase the stain of his dissing our closest ally for several years, he needs another dose of realilty. Obama is the same person who has shown dislike of Great Britain by his comments starting with sending back the Churchill bust at the beginning of his term in office, but he is now playing up to them? What's he afraid of that they might release the real information on him since he was a British citizen when he was born because of his Father?

Obama says Irish roots could have helped early in career
By LYNN SWEET
May 24, 2011 05:07AM

President Obama, in Ireland on Monday, after a visit to his maternal grandfather’s grandfather’s town, praised Chicago’s Irish and said it would have been “handy” earlier in his political career to have known about his Irish roots.

In a Dublin speech, Obama played up his Irish heritage — and said he would have probably had a better spot in Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day parade if he could have claimed Irish ancestory and marched as O’Bama. Chicago’s Irish political clans — Daley, Hynes and Madigan — were a powerful political force when Obama came on the political scene.

Obama only confirmed his Irish roots during his run for president.

“Until recently, I could not unequivocally claim that I was one of those Irish-Americans.”

He thanked the genealogists who traced his family tree.

“Now, I do wish somebody had provided me all this evidence earlier, because it would have come in handy back when I was first running in my hometown of Chicago because Chicago is the Irish capital of the Midwest, a city where it was once said you could stand on 79th Street and hear the brogue of every county in Ireland.

“So naturally a politician like me craved a (spot) in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. The problem was, not many people knew me or could even pronounce my name. I told them it was a Gaelic name; they didn’t believe me.

“So one year a few volunteers and I did make it into the parade, but we were literally the last marchers. After two hours, finally it was our turn. And while we rode the route and we smiled and we waved, the city workers were right behind us cleaning up the garbage.”

Source: Chicago Sun Times

Cafe Hayek: Bill “Chicken Little” McKibben

The climate change 'sky is falling' crowd is coming out once again following a deadly tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday. When the deadly tornado hit Ohio taking dead aim at Xenia in the early 70's, the climate change crowd was non-existent. All we heard then was the climate goes in cycles which we still believe today and the facts and figures say the same thing.

We found this article from Cafe Hayek short and to the point that once again the climate change crowd in the media is bringing out climate change once again after a disaster.

Bill “Chicken Little” McKibben
by Don Boudreaux on May 24, 2011

Writing in today’s Washington Post, Bill McKibben blames deadly recent weather events on climate change. And he snarkily dismisses as naive the argument that humankind can adapt well to such change.

Let’s look at data from the National Weather Service on annual fatalities in the U.S. caused by tornados, floods, and hurricanes from 1940 through 2009. Naturally, these data show that the number of such fatalities varies from year to year. For example, in 1972 the number of persons killed by these weather events was 703 while in 1988 the number was 72. On average, however, the trend is clear and encouraging: the number of such fatalities, especially since 1980, is declining.

The average annual number of such fatalities over this entire 70-year span is 248. In each of the four decades prior to 1980, the average annual number of fatalities was higher than 248; in particular:

1940-49: 272

1950-59: 308

1960-69: 282

1970-79: 296

The average annual number of such fatalities over the full 40 years 1940-1979 was 290.

But in each of the three decades starting in 1980, the average annual number of fatalities caused by tornados, floods, and hurricanes was lower than 248; in particular:

1980-89: 173

1990-99: 171

2000-09: 238

The average annual number of such fatalities over the full 30 years 1980-2009 was 194. (This number falls to 160 – just over half of the 1940-79 number of 290 – if we exclude the deaths attributed to hurricane Katrina, the great majority of which were caused by a levee that breached a day after the storm passed.)

This decline in the absolute number of deaths caused by tornados, floods, and hurricanes is even more impressive considering that U.S. population more than doubled over these 70 years, from 132 million in 1940 to 308 million today.

Seems that McKibben’s apocalyptic prognostications about humanity’s future are as fact-based as are those of the Rev. Harold Camping.

Source: Cafe Hayek.com

London Telegraph: O'Bama? Oh puh-lease!

The British writers know exactly how to portray Obama as this article is 100% correct. The Obama media traveling with Obama on another vacation are all gushy, gushy as usual. How they continue that with a straight face is beyond me.

Mr. Delingpole captured the true Obama and is not fooled at all. Our thanks to him for showing the American media how to write a real story since they don't seem to get it as they spin for Obama. This British writer is smart enough to know that the Obama's cannot stand Great Britain and are just there for video/pictures for his campaign in the US. Obama is not going to fool America like he did the first time and frankly the Obama media continues to lose what little respect they had left as they breathlessly report on Obama.

During the 2008 campaign, Obama made perfectly clear he was black and as far as he was concerned did not claim the white side. Now all of a sudden he wants to go back to his roots which is nothing more than a campaign ploy and our media with their short memories go gaga.

Tip of the hat to the London Telegraph for this article!

O'Bama? Oh puh-lease!
By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: May 23rd, 2011

Ah Bejaysus and Begorrah! Oi’ll be swearin’ boi the auld shrine to the Vorgin with the shamrocks growin’ round it next to the hill where Cuchullain slew the Great Leprechaun of Kildare on St Patrick’s Day that Barack Seamus O’Toole Flaherty Joyce O’Bama is the most Irish US president that ever set foot on the Emerald Oisle, so he is, so he is.

Except, when he’s in Africa, of course, when he disappears into the dry ice and re-emerges with a grass skirt and a bone through his nose and declares himself to be Mandingo, Prince of the Bloodline of the Bonga People, Drinker of Cattle Urine, Father of A Thousand Warrior Sons, Keeper of King Solomon’s Mines, Barehanded Slayer of Lions, Undaunted Victim of the Evil Colonial British Empire.

And in the Middle East, where he is Al-Barak Hussein Obama, Protector of the Holy Shrine, Smiter of the Kuffar, Lion of the Desert, Tent-Loving-Aficionado-of-the-Oversweetened-Coffee, Chomper of Sheeps’ Eyeballs, Restorer of the Caliphate.

Etc.

Tony Blair used to do this trick too, his accent mutating from broad Glaswegian to genteel Edinburgh to Mummerset to Estuary to Richard E Grant to Sarf London Grime – often in the course of one Downing Street reception – the better to persuade his target audience that he was their kind of guy. And it is, of course, the hallmark of an unutterable charlatan.

I’ve argued before that Tony Blair and Barack Obama have an awful lot in common. Both are lawyers; both are snake-oil-salesman; both claim to be post-partisan, and Third Way and consensual; both play the acceptable, moderate-seeming public face of a regime chock full of Communists, class warriors, single issue rabble rousers, malcontents, communitarians and eco-loons hell bent on destroying every last vestige of what once made their country great. And both do (or did) the things dodgy political leaders always do when the going gets tough at home and their domestic audience finally wises up to how totally useless they are: they hop on the plane and pose as international statesman instead.

My colleague Damian Thompson appears to be under the impression that Obama is a great guy because he said nice things about the Queen. Look, I think the Queen’s great too, but did it really not occur to my distinguished colleague (and editor) that there might have been a hint of an ulterior motive here? Obama can’t stand Britain (his wife likes us even less): he made that clear enough when he sent back Winston Churchill’s bust and dissed our Prime Minister with those dodgy DVDS. He blames us for what happened to his grandfather during Mau Mau. He doesn’t believe in the Special Relationship. Are we honestly supposed to believe in that during the subsequent year in office, Obama has since acquired such wisdom and insight that he suddenly realises how special we are?

Of course he hasn’t. Obama is just doing now what all bullies and losers start doing when they realise how unpopular they are and that everyone is abandoning them. They suck up to anybody and everybody. They whore themselves piteously before enemies they once considered beneath their contempt. Fain will they fill their bellies with husks that swine eat – but which no man will give them: and serve them jolly well right, too!

By all means let us enjoy watching Obama smarm and grovel and ingratiate himself like some presidential Uriah Heep. But for heaven’s sake let us never give him the benefit of the doubt. He’s a cold fish and would certainly never show any mercy towards us were the roles to be reversed.

To see the picture of Obama planting a tree in Ireland (bet he has never done that before), please visit this article at London Telegraph

Decided not to ruin this article by putting up a picture of Obama planting a tree so hope you don't mind going to the link if you want to see the picture.