You’re right, Obama is making this whole election a battle between the unions and the private sector.
In WA state, the federal government is pushing a giant coal terminal, to ship Peabody coal to China. China doesn’t need this coal, but they are buying it because we are selling it at below market prices and China is paying for it with cheap US dollars. China has already told the developers (Goldman Sachs and Warren Buffet) that the Chinese market for this coal is time limited. So, why are they moving ahead with the project? Because Richard Trumka, as the former head of the UMW need something to offset the hit that the coal miners on the East coast are taking from the Obama administration.
I saw a thing in the Wall Street Journal last week about alternative materials use in aircraft, and how Alcoa is trying to regain market lost to composites.
The picture with the article showed Boeing fuselages being assembled by a contractor in Oklahoma!
A right-to-work state, of course.
You don’t hear about that at all.
Even fox is liberal here. They keep calling it a move. It’s not!
IT IS AN EXPANSION. NOTHING IS BEING CLOSED AND MOVED. THEY ARE EXPANDING!
And yes, I was yelling.
The only good thing for conservatives that has so far come out of this coal terminal issue is that the Progressive greens are furious with Gregoire, Murray and Cantwell. The People for Puget Sound, the Sierra Club aren’t happy either.