DOJ Advises Gibson Guitar to Export Labor to Madagascar

RedState.com ^ | 31 Aug 2011 | Ben Howe

[Sarajevo]

It sounds like Gibson Guitar didn't grease the right palms in the DoJ.

Some of the comments at the link are pretty good!

[Para-Ord.45]

Economic terrorism .

NOT an exaggerated term.

[SumProVita]

Why aren’t the other guitar companies that use the SAME wood getting the SAME treatment?

[ClearCase_guy]

I know that unemployment levels for African Americans are terrible, but sending jobs overseas is not a good solution.

Does the Obama Admin know that the people of Madagascar are not actually African American?
Somebody should let them know.

[mreerm]

looks like 0bama really is focusing on jobs!

shipping US jobs out of the USA

[Palter]

I'll wait for the documents to come out. And more information.

If the law was so bad, Bush should have vetoed it in 08.

[The Wizard]

The doj should move to Madagascar

[blackdog]

I live in Memphis. Almost all the workers producing products at Gibson are black and middle aged. They used to wear Obama tee-shirts.

[andy58-in-nh]

Why aren’t the other guitar companies that use the SAME wood getting the SAME treatment?

Gibson is located in a Right-To-Work state (Tennessee) and uses non-union labor. It all makes sense now, doesn't it?

[Campion]

This needs to get wide, wide play.

[blackdog]

Maybe Boeing should move it’s South Carolina plant to Madagascar. That would solve the problem.

[Dawgreg]

I heard Glenn interviewing the CEO this morning and this is scary stuff. Holder and his minions in the DOJ are just as dangerous as the B O in the White House. We’ve GOT to get these people out next year......our country and our lives depend on it. I’m contacting my Rep and Senators about this.

[JrsyJack]

Wow, more Repub. campaign material. It was just yesterday that The DOJ blocked the ATT, T-Mobile merger...a little known part of that merger was the repatriation of 5,000 call center support positions back from overseas. I guess The WH is more interested about punishing big business and US manufacturers than it is about jobs and job creation.

[spawn44]

Obama has infested our government with communist appointees. After we boot his rear end out of office in 2012 we clean house of these vermin and prosecute accordingly.

[JrsyJack]

Almost all the workers producing products at Gibson are black and middle aged. They used to wear Obama tee-shirts.

Stop over and ask them how that Hopey Changey thing is working out /sarc

[Dawgreg]

blackdog I hate to say this but I do wonder how many of them will be wearing those tee shirts next year. So sad.....:(

[Made In The USA]

President Urkel ought to talk about this brilliant decision during his big jobs speach. Can’t call this the blind leading the blind, these retards have been causing wholesale destruction of our economy.

Also.. isn’t Gibson an iconic American brand? Isn’t the Les Paul, along with Fender’s Stratocaster and Telecaster) a guitar that musicians worldwide respect and seek to own? I happen to be proud of America, and trashing anything that is great about our country pisses me off. The Socialist-In-Chief doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism and fails to honor all that’s great about the USA.

[Dawgreg]

I hope our next president will totally clean out the DOJ and every department with new blood......not like Bush who kept most of the previous administration on.....remember that “new tone”?

[agere_contra]

Gibson has broken no law. The DOJ is acting fraudulently.

[blackdog]

Memphis is black. The blacks are in charge of government, schools, municipal workers, etc.....

It's their city. This was not a smart move on the part of Obama, because it's their music and their culture here. I enjoy it by large.

Gibson even has a section of the plant which is a tourist museum and gives plant tours all day long. Memphians are proud of their heritage.