Obama Tries To Block Boeing Move To SC

Why does the government keep making mistake after mistake??

 

I don't like the subsidy competition between states any more than I like states and cities taxing citizens to build ball parks for zillionaire owners. But it is legal, and can be said to enhance economic efficiency in the same way that off shoring facilities does. And I do think the fact that SC, as red a state as there is, was involved and had used subsidies to get what had been union jobs from blue state Washington was far more of a factor than any issue of labor law.

The real problem here is that obama has used raw political power to create enormous costs for one of our few competitive exporters. No one has ever suggested obama understands economics beyond marxist class theory, but even he should be able to appreciate that this is not mayor Daley or Jesse Jackson shaking down a chicago grocery store or real estate developer. Boeing 's next factory will certainly not be built in the US, and who could blame them.

Obama's corruption is costing us jobs, good, hihg paying jobs. He cost thousands of jobs in the offshore oil industry, but of course those were jobs in red states along the gulf coast. His ridiculous EPA order stopping shell's alaskan permit willocst thousands of jobs too, but in red state Alaska. He pulled out all the stops to subsidize union jobs at GM and Chrysler, but they were in blue state michigan. He piled on a couple of trillion in debt to subsidize unionized governmetn drones through the fraudulent stimuls bills, but of course public sector unions are his biggest backers after blacks.

He is inflicting tremendous damage on our economy and our legal system, but other than Donald Trump, no one seems to care or be able to find the backbone to criticize him.

 

"According to IHS Global Insight and Moody’s Analytics, U.S. manufacturing jobs are expected to grow by 330,000 or 2.5 percent this year. Thomas Runiewicz, an economist with IHS Global Insight recently told the Wall Street Journal that the economic rebound is being driven by three factors:

• Quality - - U.S. workers produce superior products
• Onshoring - - U.S. manufacturers are rediscovering the value of producing goods in America
• Excess U.S. Capacity and Infrastructure - - Unused plants and real estate exist throughout the United States that can be retrofitted for specific purposes.

The Logistics Management article highlights three companies (e.g. Whirlpool, Dow Chemical and Caterpillar) that are expanding production in America. The plunging U.S. currency is also providing a boost in revenue for many U.S. based exporting companies. The 15 percent decline in value of the U.S. dollar over the past nine months is reigniting export sales.

Vincent Delisle, Scotia Capital Strategist said a combination of healthy economic growth and a weak greenback represent “a sweet spot” for U.S. profit growth. An article in the April 22 issue of the Toronto Globe and Mail highlights the fact that IBM receives 64 percent of its revenues from non-U.S. sources. Their 2010 non-U.S. revenues were up 4.4 percent as compared to 2009. Similarly Johnson & Johnson’s 2010 non-U.S. revenues represent 52 percent of their business and were up 3.6 percent over 2009."

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703778104576287290266016016.html

By NIKKI HALEY

"In October 2009, Boeing, long one of the best corporations in America, made an announcement that changed the economic outlook of South Carolina forever: The company's second line of 787 Dreamliners would be produced in North Charleston.

In choosing to manufacture in my state, Boeing was exercising its right as a free enterprise in a free nation to conduct business wherever it believed would best serve both the bottom line and the employees of its company. This is not a novel or complicated idea. It's called capitalism.

Boeing has since poured billions of dollars into a new, state-of-the art facility in South Carolina's picturesque Low Country along the Atlantic coast. It has created thousands of good jobs and joined the long tradition of distinguished and employee-friendly corporations that have found a home, and a partner, in the Palmetto State.

This a win-win for South Carolina, for Boeing, and for the global clients who will see Dreamliners rolling off the North Charleston line at the rate of 10 a month, starting with the first one next year. But, as is often the case, a win for people and businesses is a loss for the labor unions, which rely on coercion, bullying and undue political influence to stay afloat.

South Carolina is a right-to-work state, and we're proud that within our borders workers cannot be required to join a labor union as a condition of employment. We don't need unions playing middlemen between our companies and our employees. We don't want them forcefully inserted into our promising business climate. And we will not stand for them intimidating South Carolinians.

That is apparently too much for President Obama and his union-beholden appointees at the National Labor Relations Board, who have asked the courts to intervene and force Boeing to stop production in South Carolina. The NLRB wants Boeing to produce the planes only in Washington state, where its workers must belong to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

Let's be clear: Boeing is a great corporate citizen in Washington and in South Carolina. The company chose to come to our state because the cost of doing business is low, our job training and work force are strong, and our ports are tremendous. The fact that we are a right-to-work state is an added bonus.

The actions by the NLRB are nothing less than a direct assault on the 22 right-to-work states across America. They are also an unprecedented attack on an iconic American company that is being told by the federal government—which seems to regard its authority as endless—where and how to build airplanes.

The president has been silent since his hand-selected NLRB General Counsel Lafe Solomon, who has not yet been confirmed by the United States Senate as required by law, chose to engage in economic warfare on behalf of the unions last week.

While silence in this case can be assumed to mean consent, President Obama's silence is not acceptable—not to me, and certainly not to the millions of South Carolinians who are rightly aghast at the thought of the greatest economic development success our state has seen in decades being ripped away by federal bureaucrats who appear to be little more than union puppets.

This is not just a South Carolina issue, and President Obama owes the people of our country a response. If they get away with this government-dictated economic larceny, the unions won't stop in our state.

The nation deserves an explanation as to why the president's appointees are doing the machinist union's dirty work on the backs of the businesses and workers of South Carolina.

Ms. Haley, a Republican, is governor of South Carolina. "

 

Great article.

This is off topic but along the same theme of the political thuggery this admin is about:

"Texas Governor Rick Perry slammed the Obama Administration for ignoring requests for disaster relief from the federal government. Fires have scorched over 2 million acres in Texas and left two firefighters dead.
Reuters reported:

Texas Governor Rick Perry criticized the Obama administration on Thursday for not responding to a request for a disaster aid for the parched state, where wildfires have scorched nearly 2 million acres.

“You have to ask, ‘Why are you taking care of Alabama and other states?’ I know our letter didn’t get lost in the mail,” Perry, a Republican and frequent critic of the federal government, said after addressing a Texas emergency management conference.

President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency for Alabama, where storms — including a tornado that ravaged Tuscaloosa on Wednesday — killed nearly 200 people this week.

The White House said Obama will visit the state on Friday.

“There is a point in time where you say, ‘Hey, what’s going on here?’” Perry said.

Perry had requested a federal declaration of emergency for Texas as the wildfires began to rage across the large state. The request has not been answered, although several federal agencies are supplying firefighters.

“They watch TV, they know what’s going on here, they can recognize that there is going to be a request for assistance, a request for help,” Perry said.

Two volunteer firefighters have died battling the Texas wildfires, which have destroyed more than 900 buildings.

A federal major disaster declaration could reimburse Texas and local governments 75 percent of the cost of their response. Local departments and the Texas Forest Service have spent more than $60 million since September 1 responding to wildfires, state forest service spokeswoman Linda Moon said."

 

Obama isn't a President. He is a partisan manipulator. If the press covers protesters at the White House you get punished by taking away your press pool privileges. If a company tries to move operations because it is economical and the White House friends don't like it you get the hand of the government coming down on you. If your state didn't support me I won't give you equal protection with government assets. The list goes on and on.

The community organizer is one of the worst presidents in the history of this country.

 

You know, it is a damn shame what he is doing to the US. Cowards are afraid to criticize BO for fear of being called racists, and he uses this tactic with the skill of a demagogue. brain-dead Americans falling for it. The simple fact is, he is making Bush look like a Rhodes Scholar.

 

+1

 

We are seeing the Chicago-mob style politics being applied to the US. He didn't wait very long to do it either, running up a huge debt to fund his union-bailouts at GM and Chrysler and the government-worker union bailout fraudulently described as the stimulus bill.

He has managed to run up more debt than all other presidents combined. He doubled the amount of debt that Bush produced.

It would be one thing if we were actually making the "investments" he is constantly lying about, but this money has been pissed away and everybody knows it. That's why the Tea Party is so popular.

His reaction is to make divisive, bitterly partisan attacks on anyone trying to get a handle on his wild spending. The republicans seem totally intimidated by his demagoguery and the media's cheerleading of it. The only republican willing to stand up, Trump, is now being subjected to the sort of all-out character assault and campaign of personal destruction reserved for figures like Sarah Palin.

 

OK.. lets slow down for a second.

Boeing is subject to a NLRB complaint for retaliating against its labor unions. Here is a copy of the NLRB Complaint: Complaint

This hearing is scheduled for June 14th.

"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. (b) Other than as set forth in paragraph 13(a) above, the relief requested by the Acting General Counsel does not seek to prohibit Respondent from making non discriminatory decisions with respect to where work will be performed, including non-discriminatory decisions with respect to work at its North Charleston, South Carolina, facility. "


The relief requested is not to shut down the SC operations but to preserve the second line operations and supply lines in Washington.