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Posted on 04/21/2011 10:54:52 AM PDT by Bob Leibowitz
The Obama administration has a real affinity for Alice in Wonderland interpretations of the law. According to both Mr. Obama and Humpty Dumpty, the law means what they say it means, the writings be damned.
We've seen this with their defense of Obamacare. Seeking a constitutional grounding for taking over the medical payments industry, Obama's lawyers are claiming authority under a power to regulate interstate commerce. Fair enough, but it stretches language to its limits, and turns it completely upside down to define my decision not to participate in the program, perhaps instead napping in the afternoon, doing nothing at all, as commerce.
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Now comes news that according to the Obama mandarins running the National Labor Relations Board, to move a company from a heavily unionized state to a right to work state is illegal. Lafe Solomon, the NLRB's chief lawyer, has adopted the position pushed by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers that Boeing should be required to abandon its efforts to build its new 787 in North Carolina and instead manufacture the plane in Washington State. Boeing has already hired 2,500 North Carolinians to build the plane.
According to Mr. Solomon, a corporate decision to not manufacture in a location because of a history or work stoppages and delivery delays, high costs or unfriendly labor environment is against the law. Only if the purpose is political payback from Mr. Obama to his organized labor supporters, by far his largest contributors, can this decision be other than insane.
As unions have become ever more thuggish over the decades, employers and their employees have voted with their feet, fleeing the inhospitable for the welcoming. Here, with a h/t to Forbes, is a graphic illustration of the thousands of people who fled union-controlled Detroit for friendlier climates:
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(Excerpt) Read more at Canticle4Leibowitz.com ...
America is reaching a critical mass on this President’s disrespect for working taxpayers.
We have all reached the gag point with this stone-age, unholy system of indentured bondage which Liberals and Labor have forced on American enterprise.
“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.” Winston Churchill
Kohler did exactly that..argued w/ stupid unions for over a year about a new plant they wanted to build in Wisconsin, and the union wouldn’t budge.
Sooo, the Kohler folks built the new facility in South Carolina.
They’ll be wanting to watch the Boeing case closely, as they may be next.
They’ll be wanting to watch the Boeing case closely, as they may be next.
Easily explained by:
1. Critical Theory, ala Adorno, ad nauseam.
2. Cloward/Piven.
The lesson of Eastern Airlines has not gone forgotten in the boardroom.
It was not just a disaster for the company, it was a disaster for the stockholders and officers, it was a disaster for the employees, the industry.
All for what? Money? Power?
In the end, nobody had either. Especially the union.
“The Obama administration has a real affinity for Alice in Wonderland interpretations of the law.”
The author gives Obama, and his administration, too much credit.
Consider that the USSC, in 2005 [Keelo v. New London], ruled that ‘projections’ of increased tax-revenue are sufficient to qualify for “public use” as is required by the 5th Amendment.
That ruling sets precedence for the repudiation of any property rights. Period.
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