Posted on 02/07/2009 1:23:58 PM PST by LoneStarC
Edited on 02/07/2009 3:56:27 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele today released the following statement concerning the executive order quietly signed by President Barack Obama on Friday ordering the use of union labor for federal construction projects:
“President Obama’s executive order will drive up the cost of government at a time when we should be doing everything possible to save taxpayer dollars. Federal contracts should go to the businesses that can offer taxpayers the best value – not just the unions who supported the Democrats’ campaigns last year. Quietly signing executive orders to payback campaign backers undermines Obama promise to change Washington. It is a disappointment for Americans hoping for more transparency and less politics as usual in Washington.”
My entrepreneurial spirit is leading me to sell cigarettes on the black market.
"How incredibly prescient of Abraham Lincoln to be born 200 years and change before the nation's first African American president took office.
"Sometimes, it seems as though Lincoln's bicentennial and the Obama presidency were somehow preordained, not just because Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation but perhaps more importantly because Obama has so often cited his fellow Illinoisan as a role model..."
BARF
“How incredibly prescient of Abraham Lincoln to be born 200 years and change before the nation’s first African American president took office.
“Sometimes, it seems as though Lincoln’s bicentennial and the Obama presidency were somehow preordained, not just because Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation but perhaps more importantly because Obama has so often cited his fellow Illinoisan as a role model...”
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These statements make NO logical sense whatsoever. What drivel.
I only ran across this because I wanted to get to the movie listings section. That’s the only reason I bought a paper SF Chronicle. It’s unbelievable. I tried hard to convince myself it was satire or farce.
Add to it that there is some evidence that “his oratorically stunning and deceptively simple message of deliverance from their oppression” may have delivered using NLP/hypnosis techniques, which would be mass manipulation of the highest order. How transparent!
In addition, he spoke of “changing American”; “remaking America”; “creating a new Declaration of Independence”, “ridding ourselves of old ways of thinking and outdated ideologies”, etc. Given the history you cited, it is hard to see these statements is mere political rhetoric.
On an unrelated note How really interesting
we might as well build the bridge to nowhere ;-))
Low bid goes to the contractors with the most illegals.
I’m curious...are you in one of those fields? I think you’re right on the nose with this."
Engineers and Architects are not in the building trades, so no union conflict, there are many union environmental engineering companies , union surveyors and Soil engineering companies as well as union inspection contractors, most employ higher educated execs, licensed professional engineers and technical consultants. Most union public works projects will have a dozen or so management types in freshly ironed orange vests watching 5 laborers dig a hole. Often a mega contractor who wins a bid requiring hiring union will have management and labor working and meshing together, Also there is competition for union jobs, ( and it is difficult for illegal aliens to get in BTW) so the craftsman quality and caliber of worker is most often top notch and efficient, able to stay in budget and on schedule. On the converse most non union contractors on public work projects are low bidders, ill equipped and using low waged low performance workers with bad attitudes.
I hope I don't sound like I'm defending the unions, just talking from my experience in construction management
Oh?
“Move from SSocialism to fascism”
Don’t need a big “MOVE” because they are so close to each other!
It’s one thing to dig a hole for a swimming pool, or put some shingles on a roof or plant some shurbs along a driveway...
It’s quite another to build a bridge or a power plant...
Americans need to rise up with one voice and demand to see the birth certificate of the Kenyan-born interloper in the Oval Office who issued this executive order.
thank you.
Couched in terms of protecting the project from labor unrest. You can’t make this stuff up.
Wrong, when you misstate historical fact you hold yourself out to the world as a misinformed fool, you are laughed at and ridiculed, you do not promote anything.
Friday, February 6th, 2009 at 12:00 am EXECUTIVE ORDER: USE OF PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS FOR FEDERAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 6, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER
Where is it. Wait, let me guess... Fremont?
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