Obama to Boeing: Drop Dead

Ricochet.com ^ | 4/21/2011 | Claire Berlinski

[BfloGuy]

This could well be the most outrageous insult yet to the free market economy:

In what may be the strongest signal yet of the new pro-labor orientation of the National Labor Relations Board under President Obama, the agency filed a complaint Wednesday seeking to force Boeing to bring an airplane production line back to its unionized facilities in Washington State instead of moving the work to a nonunion plant in South Carolina.

Do I need to explain how many kinds of wrong this is? Not only is the federal government saying to Boeing that it gets to decide where it puts its production lines, it's telling South Carolina it may as well not enact laws designed to attract investment. All that's missing are the words "Five Year Plan."

Remember those two recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board? The guys making these decisions about the commanding heights of the American economy have never even been confirmed by the Senate.

[2ndDivisionVet]

If I were looking for work in another state, I’d use that as a rough guide as to which ones to move to, nicht wahr?

[dennisw]

Obama sez-—>>>

Washington State = Obama voters/ Female Democrat Governor and same for both US Senators
South Carolina = conservative red necks, screw ‘em they won’t vote for me anyway in 2012

[crazyhorse691]

pro-labor

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There we go again letting the media define a word for us. The Grifter-in-chief and his thugs are pro-union, which in todays world means that they are anti-labor. Same number of skilled jobs would be at the SC plant as at the Wa. plant with the only difference being that the workers in SC don't belong to a union. And as far as I know the Madison, Wisconsin union riots, er peaceful demonstrations, were done by union workers not performing the job they were hired to do.

[Logical me]

America is under communists control now and the election in 2012 may put the communists black Muslim King Obama in for another term. The corrupt organization is showing the power they have..

[wiggen]

This is horrifying. Theres no decision beyond their grasp.

[re_nortex]

If I were looking for work in another state, I’d use that as a rough guide as to which ones to move to, nicht wahr?

It wasn't a hypothetical for me. I'm a Pennsylvania native and long wanted to flee because of the iron clench of big labor on the Keystone state, especially in the western region. Plus a DemonRAT machine (in cahoots with the unions) has controlled Allegheny County since the 1930's.

Among the metrics I put foremost in my evaluation of where to relocate was that it absolutely had to be a right-to-work state. I was forced to join a union in Pennsylvania against my will and play dues to local. Although I did lead a successful campaign to decertify the union and get it kicked out (to the joy of both the management and we workers), the battle was tough and led me to look elsewhere for a place more attuned to my Conservative Christian views. The result?

Right to work and no income tax! (Now we just have to get the illegals back over the Rio Grande).

[Cementjungle]

I guess now Boeing will have to move out of the country instead. Way to go Obama.

[BfloGuy]

Instapundit calls it enforcing the anti-dog-eat-dog law.

[kabar]

WA is a blue state and SC is a red state. Case closed.

[Publius]

Actually, it is one of the provisions of Wesley Mouch’s list of directives at the end of Part 1, Chapter 10.

[Brilliant]

What self-respecting company would do business in the State of Washington anyway?

[re_nortex]

And move corporate out of Illinois.

We thought we had them locked up here in Texas for the relocation (with Plano and Irving on the short list). Everyone here was astonished when Boeing announced the move was from Seattle to Chicago?!?!?

The bumbling fool Ron Kirk Dallas mayor at the time and, in 20/20 hindsight I blame him for botching what was surely a cinch. (Ping to windflier for an opinion on this).

[stockpirate]

This is what marxists do, we don’t own any property they do via controling the means of production, Hitler used this very same meathod in Germany.

It will continue to work here until we get off of our lazy, fat asses.

[vvpete]

Yeah, they did. I don’t remember Obummer or any of his minions complaining when that happened.

They moved, not to get to Chicago, but to get out of the state of Washington with its crappy business climate. Not real sure how they figured Chicago, or Illinois, would be better. They probably got some tax relief for a couple of years or something.

[reg45]

Do a safety recall on Air Force One and make 0bama go back to a prop winder.

[Menehune56]

Interesting that Boeing chose to relocate their corporate HQ from Seattle to Chicago, both RAT strongholds. I read recently that was because the executives' wives considered Chicago to be culturally superior to the DFW metroplex.

[chimera]

I can find in the Constitution words to the effect that Congress has the power to regulate commerce between the states, but no where do I see such power delegated to the Executive, nor do I see any reference to a National Labor Relations Board, much less it having any authority over interstate commerce. Constitution? What Constitution? Obama don't need no stinking Constitution... (/sarc)

[reg45]

One of the reasons that Boeing picked Chicago is that the Boeing CEO is a big fan of The Lyric Opera and The Chicago Symphony. Those were two assets that Dallas could not match.

[Windflier]

We thought we had them locked up here in Texas for the relocation (with Plano and Irving on the short list). Everyone here was astonished when Boeing announced the move was from Seattle to Chicago?!?!?

Thanks for the courtesy ping. I wasn't aware that Boeing had DFW on their short list of destinations, nor that we lost out to South Carolina, but the news that they're going to move their plant to Chicago is pretty scary.

There's no doubt in my mind that they're being forced to do this. They set their sights on greener pastures (like a lot of US companies are doing - Lord knows a lot of them are coming here), but Chicago is hardly a place that will improve the fortunes for that company.

If the Obama administration can force a huge company like Boeing to do this, then what's next? Are they going to put a padlock on the exodus out of California and other high tax, union dominated states, and tell the businesses there to like it or lump it?

This must not stand.

[Kickass Conservative]

It’s not ObamaNomics, it’s Obamunism.