Since taking office in January 2009, Obama has been bad for business. You might even say he’s been at war with business (I bet the president of Gibson Guitars and the untold number of small business owners on the verge of ending healthcare benefits for employees because of federal regulations would concur).
And while I don’t want to diminish the jackbooted nature of the raid on Gibson or the lies surrounding the business killing regulations of Obamacare, perhaps the most egregious attack on business by the current administration has been seen in what they’re trying to do to Boeing. For here we’ve see that Obama’s croanies on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are actually trying to tell Boeing which state they can and cannot operate in on based on whether a given state is strong for unions or whether it is designated as “right-to-work.”
Boeing has historically built their planes in Washington state where the Local 751 of the International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has literally shut the plant down “five times since 1975.” That’s five work stoppages, which equates to five periods of time in which Boeing couldn’t make or deliver the product they’d promised to customers: all because a union was allowed to use its collective powers to bring production to a halt.
Thus, when Boeing was looking for a place to build its new factory, it chose a right-to-work state – in this case, South Carolina – so as to avoid the work stoppages if at all possible.
Doesn’t that just seem like good business sense?
Sure it does.
And maybe that’s why it is so repulsive to the Obama administration and their NLRB, which has filed a lawsuit against Boeing to prevent the new plant from ever producing a single plane.
Although you’d think that after Obama’s Stimulus package failed to put pots of gold at the end of rainbows and Biden’s “summer of recovery” turned into sweaty months of joblessness, the administration would be thrilled that new jobs were going to be created by Boeing in South Carolina. But it’s simply not so. They’re not happy because a successful Boeing plant (that creates jobs) in South Carolina will stand as a testament to the fact that individual states, and individual citizens, actually make wiser choices than Washington DC can.
Moreover, were this plant to come online, the power of Local 751 out in Washington state would be greatly diminished, and Obama simply can’t have that. (After all, some of his best buds are union thugs like the one who, just last week, encouraged union members to “take these sons of bitches out” in a not-so-veiled reference to Tea Party conservatives in the House of Representatives.)
Fortunately, Congressional Tea Party conservative Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has a better idea. And that is to pass a law that disallows the NLRB from interfering with where businesses expand. Such a law will therefore enable Boeing to continue with its plans for opening its plant in South Carolina by late 2013.
Scott’s bill, the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act (H.R. 2587), should come up for a vote soon, and it’s a bill that all conservatives in the House need to support.
Obama is still struggling to create his first handful of substantial jobs some three years after he promised us “hope and change.” Boeing can do this overnight if the government will just get out of the way, and Congressman Scott is trying to get them out of the way with his bill.
We need to rally behind Scott by calling our various Representatives in DC and asking them to support H.R. 2587.
Maybe it is Charleston harbor instead of Boston harbor, but it’s still a good place for Tea Party.
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