Obama should help workers, not union bosses

For decades, unions have perpetuated the myth that the interests of Big Labor’s bosses and of American workers are identical. A tenuous case for that proposition could be made decades ago when unions represented one-third of all private-sector workers. But doing so today requires a studied refusal to acknowledge reality when fewer than 7 percent are union members.

Nevertheless, President Barack Obama often seems concerned primarily with serving the interests of the union bosses who are among his most frequent White House guests. Meanwhile, recent economic news has gone from bad to worse. Unemployment is back up to 9.1 percent (more like 20 percent when the count includes the millions who have quit looking for work), manufacturing activity is weakening, housing prices are still falling, job creation is all but stopped except in Texas, and banks are slashing growth forecasts. The American economy, in short, is in desperate need of a jolt.

Yet Obama is refusing to send free-trade agreements already negotiated with South Korea, Panama and Colombia to Congress for ratification, even though they would expand overseas sales opportunities for American businesses and create thousands of new jobs here at home. The holdup is that Obama demands renewal of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which provides help — often funneled through unions — to Americans who claim to be adversely affected by such deals. And he wants TAA funding made permanent at the artificially high levels established under the failed stimulus legislation. Under this formula, in 2010, the program spent $975 million to aid 228,000 people at a cost of nearly $4,300 per beneficiary.

In another development, the National Labor Relations Board, which Obama has packed with union activists, was bad enough last month when the board’s general counsel, Lafe Solomon, sued Boeing for building a nonunion facility with 1,000 workers in South Carolina — a move that even a former Democratic chairman of the NLRB called “unprecedented.” But this past week, when three South Carolina Boeing workers sought to intervene in the suit, Solomon opposed them, arguing that they had “no cognizable interest” in whether Boeing will actually be able to employ them. That’s the same position taken by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The union wants NLRB to force Boeing to shut down its new production line in South Carolina and instead build a new facility in Washington state. So what if 1,000 or more South Carolinians were offered jobs in the new plant Boeing just finished?

As outrageous as these actions may be, none of them should be surprising. Obama told the Service Employees International Union as a candidate during the 2008 campaign, “I know how much more we can accomplish as partners in an Obama administration. Just imagine what we could do together. Imagine having a president whose life work was your work.” Sadly, the work of the Obama-Big Labor alliance is harmful to actual American workers.

he does not care

That sums up his attitude about pretty much everything.

Unemployment? (I'm not unemployed)
Troops/War? (It is not me)
Economy? America? (Really just too stupid to even understand the question..uuuh not my country..i don't care)
Debt to China? (Not my money)

He is the wreckin-ball president. All the Libs should pat themselves on the back. You finally got what you wanted. The destruction of evil-America. (BTW...uuuuhhh...what are you going to do now? just asking, not that I really care)

The thing about being so fanatical to 'crash America' is, that it is very much like taking a dump in your own bed. You kill the bed, but then where do you sleep?

Nasty old bed...I got you good!!!

It is always fun to watch when Liberals have to face real reality. It is always a surprise to them. Like a 5 year old child...

Unless we are facing imminent threat from a foreign aggressor, Americans will vote in national elections on the basis of the state of the economy. Inflation is a major factor in this, but the most important issue is jobs. Unemployment is now chronically high.

We all now know that Obama is a socialist and his intent is to expand government at the expense of private enterprise. We also know that government never generates capital. It only consumes wealth; never creates it. We also know that the single greatest aspect of the economy affecting how people vote is employment. If I have have had my job eliminated, my hours cut back, have been furloughed from my job, I am more likely to vote against the incumbents.

Small and mid-sized businesses know that higher corporate taxes and government regulation, which Obama loves, destroys our free market system of prosperity. Small and mid-sized business owners know that the Obama administration must be defeated in 2012. Their contributing to the elections of those who run against Obama is not enough, however.

The best way for business to insure the defeat of Obama is for them to begin now to cut back their employment rolls even more - even if it means temporarily sacrificing their companies’ profitability. Putting people out of work temporarily in order to insure Obama’s defeat in 2012 will mean a healthier business climate in the years to come. Once we get government off the backs of business and the working middle class of this country, we will be on better footing to grow our economy once again.

It might sound like a draconian measure to lay people off in order to insure Obama’s defeat, but let’s face it Obama is out to destory our country and we are in dire straits. What’s needed, as in time of war, are drastic measures.

In the past, when our country was under a threat from external forces, men (and now women) have been called upon to leave their normal means of employment to join the armed forces to insure the security of our nation for our families and posterity.

Now our country is under a different kind of threat - a threat from within - a threat from our own government which has hijacked our Constitution and has concentrated power in the hands of a few elitists. The threat is no less real than when our enemies have been external to us.
So the call for all of us to make sacrifices in a time of war is no extreme measure but is patriotic. And just as in a time of war when families, communities, friends and churches pull together to get through the crisis, so this should be the same response to those who find themselves out of work. If we all pull together, in the end our collective security will be insured and that of our children as well. Obama must not be re-elected for the good of all.

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