South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley blasted President Obama and the National Labor Relations Board today. She called on President Obama to address the NLRB’s unprecedented lawsuit against Boeing during his jobs speech on Sept. 8. The South Carolina governor made the comments during a conference call with bloggers and journalists this morning.
Citing the fact that at least 1,000 jobs and the future of American aircraft manufacturing hang in the balance with the NLRB’s lawsuit against Boeing, Haley called the president’s silence on the issue “cowardly” and “unacceptable.” Haley also cited the fact that the current White House chief of staff and Commerce secretary both served on Boeing’s board at the time the South Carolina plant was approved, and demanded that he speak up and go on the record whether he agrees with the NLRB’s actions or not.
Gov. Haley said she will be the poster child for the right-to-work states as they face off against Big Labor and the Obama administration, and said that Obama is “carrying the unions’ water” in his actions, including the NLRB case. Calling the NLRB a “rogue agency that is doing the most un-American thing imaginable to an American company,” Haley repeatedly called out the NLRB for its refusal to even respond to Congressional inquiries about the Boeing case.
President Obama is now set to deliver his jobs speech on Thursday, Sept. 8, to a joint session of Congress.
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Governor Haley, a word of advice: There is no point in expecting a fool to respond to an intelligent request. Don’t waste your time on
Obama. Ignore him and do whatever it takes to administer your state to it’s best advantage. God Bless you and the USA !!
She is right to say what she did in my opinion. These words aren’t really for Barak Obama. They are for the American people to understand what’s going on.
I agree with you 100%. “His Assholiness” wouldn’t listen anyway. I think that the thing to remember is, and this is my favorite quote: “The problem with doing nothing is knowing when you are finished” ~ John Cory “Plum Island” by Nelson DeMille
At some point individual States have to stand up to this tyranny. Why not pass state legislation that rejects such NLRB rulings and gives Boeing indemnification from any resulting government action. Let them bring in the national guard and start arresting people. The States have more power than they think. Federal overreach is getting so ridiculous that they will become the bad guy in such fights. And it is not just right to work or Republican states. Even in libtard California, the justice department has mandated all kinds of improvements to a prison system that is already by far the most expensive per prisoner in the country. What ever happened to “just say no” .
I agree, but some federal judges will have to go before there’s any hope for freedom any more. Many run interference for the buffoon in the White House and declare anything they disagree with “unconstitutonal”. When Republicans get a chance again they are going to have to find ways to circumbent the way Dumb-o-crats in congress get in the way of the appointment of fair judges. They did this when Bush was president when he tried to appoint judges that would look at cases objectvely but was stimied by the liberals in congress.
Haley nailed it: The NLRB is a “rogue agency that is doing the most un-American thing imaginable to an American company.”
How many other federal agencies have gone rogue under Obama’s watch?
I can name three off the top of my head (ATF, DOJ, EPA), but I’m sure there are more.
Bryan, are you and/or PJM planning to publish a roundup of rogue agencies? It would be a good (as in terrifying) read and invaluable public service.
Dept of education. They have a SWAT team. Why does the Dept of ed have a swat team? THey sent it to some guy’s house who was delinquent on student loans. Or it was his ex-wife’s loans, as in, wrong house. Point is – dept of ed sent a swat team to somebody’s house over student loans.
Fish and Wildlife Agency has a SWAT team, too. Kicked down some doors.
This started back in the Clinton era. Remember “100,000 cops on the street”? This is what they meant. 100,000 militarized police. SWAT teams for everyone. Every police department has them. Judges routinely hand down no-knock warrants for midnight drug busts and other things.
The 3rd Amendment forbade quartering of troops, in order to prevent an army of occupation. SWAT teams is how the Left has gotten around it. They do not have to be quartered there, if they can just kick down your door at any time.
The 4th Amendment forbids this activity without “due process of law”, but all that requires, of course, is a rubber-stamp judge.
We need a “Castle Amendment”. No man can be arrested in his home, unless he is endangering others while there. Included should be an absolute right to self-defense in the home.
What’s really needed is to revive the British common-law doctrine that a policeman attempting to make an unlawful arrest (without warrant or probable cause) is on the same level as a mugger, rapist or other punk, and such unlawful arrest can legally be resisted with deadly force. Only 12 states currently recognize this right.
Funny they have a SWAT team but do not employ a single teacher.
___ALL OF THEM_____
Any federal agency that does not derive its authority from powers granted to Congress via the US Constitution is already a rogue agency from the get-go.
You are so right ! The Constitution will solve the problems ! Return to Constitutional government.
Scenes I would like to see at Obama’s speech:
It is illegal to campaign on federal property (Hatch Act).
When Obama strays from politics and moves into strict campaign mode, Boehner gavels hi out with a point of order that he’s violating the law of the People’s house and violating his oath of office. Obama recovers then gets gaveled out again and again. Obama can only read from a teleprompter and is too dumb to think on his feet
Outstanding. From your lips to God’s ear.
What a sweet dream! Unfortunately, we all know there isn’t a standing Republican in a leadership role that has that kind of backbone. Heck, they’ve been all quivering about a balanced budget amendment but how many times have you seen them say “I have a draft of a balanced budget amendment on my web site that I’m introducing tomorrow. Please send your comments.”? Congressional leaders are more like lemmings that anything else. The entire population is drifting towards the cliff and they’re pround of themselves for noting the edge is approaching but refuse to SCREAM the warning or suggest a detour. Bozos all.
Somebody also needs to raise the issue about what our government is doing to Gibson guitar.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/209104.php
When federal action makes the Jawa report, it’s weird. The federal government is not supposed to do weird.
You want to see weird?
THIS is weird.
I heard that the raid was because they were using the wrong wood. Can you post more? BTW, your video is unavailable.
Hi Chris,
I just watched it in Canada. Is this more of this incredibly STUPID border rights issues? Only certain countries can watch any given video. I have been denied access to videos from Australia or New Zealand.
Here is the story on the UNCONSTITUTIONAL Gibson Guitar Raid ! copy and paste:
http://visiontoamerica.org/3715/obamas-doj-advises-gibson-guitar-to-outsource-its-labor/
They use the same wood that other guitar makers use, this administration has a problem with them because they donate to the republican cause. We saw the same DISCRIMINATION in the shutting down of auto dealerships during the restructuring of the auto industry, primarily republican owned dealerships were the ones shut down.
Apparently the Gibson Guitar company is being bullied by the Obama Injustice department because they didn’t comply with someone’s request or something even though they did everything legally and went out of their way to ensure that it was so. Read the story here:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/8780-feds-raid-gibson-guitar-to-save-endangered-foreign-trees
Doesn’t seem to have anything to do with labor as such.
Gibson guitar gave to the GOP; and another guitar company using the same wood gave the the Democrat party and didn’t get raided. http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=105&series-id=60
I saw on Jawa that if they had used Madagascar labor instead of US labor it would have been a moot point.
More accurately, I heard a radio interview, yesterday, with the CEO of Gibson, and based on what he said, this “wood” issue goes a lot deeper than any of us suspected. Not only do they want Gibson to secure its wood from Madagascar – “They have indicated that, if Gibson would please move its entire operation to Madagascar, all his problems would disappear”. Does this sound like Chicago-style, thuggery politicsa to anyone, other than me?
Hook them all to a horse drawn wagon and drag them through the desert they no longer protect as US soil. Obama along with them. Traitors don’t belong in the Presidency, and as anti-American and anti-Capitolist and anti-Constitution as Obama is, he isn’t one of my American brothers. He belongs down there with Castro. Anybody that would mess with Gibson may as well curse apple pie and the flag.
@4valerie-
All articles to date, on the Gibson raids and over-the-top Federal bureaucratic behavior, fail to examine the tortured details of the Lacey Act on which the gummint tyranny is based. It appears that the Act itself is so constructed as to deprive any company so charged of due process, or presumption of innocence until proved guilty. It is hyper-environmentalism on stilts, with Jacobin intentions, and as we now can see is easily used by authoritarian ‘enforcers’ to selectively punish politically unconnected American companies (and individuals as well) without any steenkin’ indictment nor day in court.
It’s just like how the Soviet Union operated; if you were connected and payed off the right people you could get things done. This Gibson raid is really scary.
Spell that T-Y-R-A-N-N-Y.
I agree that the Lacey act is poorly written. Its legislative intent, however, had to do with limiting trade in endangered species, not selective enforcement of economic protectionist rules of other countries, by targeting competitors of contributors.
Is it just me, or are Republican women WAY hotter than dems’? Yeah I’m shallow.
There’s probably an important point in this, but being shallow, I can’ enunciate it.
Republicans are hotter because they are not USED RADICAL COMMIE LIBTARD BITCHES WHORING FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL PARTY!
No, you are deeply steeped in masculinity. Seriously, don’t be ashamed.
Most definitely correct, sir. Republican/Tea Party women are hotter, smarter, love their country, great mom’s, and just nice people all the way around. They are what comes to mind when you think of the word, American. Liberal women…not so much.
…….democrats are the party of envy and hate ..makes you look ugly.
Patrick;
And they’re now trying to pander to the “UGLY”!!!!
Anyone with a perceived or actual disability, infirmity, or criminal background, is being solicited by the Democrat Party.
But, once they get your vote, you get nothing but lip service.
No wonder anyone that thinks they are normal wants to stay away from them.
They are all either natural born or professional LOSERS.
Pretty is as pretty does, and unfortunately for Dems, the converse is true: ugly is as ugly does. It doesn’t get much uglier than Maxine Waters spewing rabid racism out of over-Botoxed lips.
a HUGE AMEN to that brother,
no Patric its not just you. there are a lot of us who have noticed that. thats why the dems. are so bitter and angry all of the time. hell I’d be bitter too if I had to put up with something like peeloosly or most any of them. YUCK!!!
I was thinking that the most courageous people in the GOP right now are WOMEN! Go Bachman, Palin, and Nikki Haley! Come on guys, step up!
Bo Derek was a Republican…enough said!
So was Gypsy Rose Lee.
I don’t think GOP women are hotter than Dem women. Nearly all Hollywood actresses are Dems, and some of them are very pretty.
A Friend of mine while I was in the Goverment’s “Yacht Club” had said, “She could be the most ‘Beautiful Woman on the Planet’. But, if she hasn’t got a personality, what good is she?” Mark is right.
Why do we have a government agency that sole purpose is to grant favors to labor unions. Without the NLRB, unions would have to serve the interests of workers in order to succeed. Now, not so much. Abolish the NLRB.
Flag of Blue, White and Red
—traditional anti-union song
Come and listen to my song,
Story of a nation wrong(ed)
Idle men and a roving band
Strike the tools from a miner’s hand.
Chorus:
Flag of blue, white and red
Man’s got a right to earn his bread.
Flag of blue, white and red
Man’s got a right to earn his bread.
Children lying in the bed
Crying, “Daddy, please bring some bread.”
Picket line says, “you can’t get through
We’ll beat you up if you try to.”
Chorus
John L.’s* pay is big and fat
I wish I had a tenth of that
I don’t like to sit at home
And hear my wife and young’uns groan.
Chorus
Thought I’d work ’cause I’m almost broke
Dig for Donegan Coal and Coke;
Three hundred pickets came around
Beat me bloody to the ground.
Chorus
I tell you boys, it is a crime
That has transpired in many a mine;
You do the work as best you can
You get beat up by idle men.
Chorus:
Flag of blue, white and red
Man’s got a right to earn his bread.
Flag of blue, white and red
Man’s got a right to earn his bread.
*”John L.” is John L. Lewis, former head of the United Mine Workers (UMW)
Obama is so firmly in the grip of Big Labor, that it’s to be expected he’ll ignore Governor Haley’s request. Also, he’s too awesome to be considered cowardly or do anything deemed unacceptable. Just ask him.
Absolutely LOVE you Nikki Haley. I wish I lived in your neck of the woods, you’d have my helpful hands as well as my heart. South Carolina is a great state, and deserves you.
I had never heard of Nikki Haley before reading this post, but I wet to Wikipedia and checked her out. Methodist- Sikh, talk about multiculturalism.
It might not be Ms Haley, but we will have a woman President, and she will be A Republican,and I would bet the second black president will be Republican as well.What I see here is minorities not as clients, but as unique individuals bringing their talents to bear on the problems facing the nation. The melting pot lives. This is America.
Once the old guard dies off, the Republican Party is well positioned with a bevvy of young talent from all different walks. Haley is a superstar in the making, along with Rubio, Martinez in New Mexico, Allen West, Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, Tim Scott (another South Carolinian), and several others.
The one thing all these people have in common is their unwavering confidence in conservative values and the ability to enunicate to the people how these values lead to a better quality of life for everyone.
I just hope that the old guard dies off before the GOP does.
Since John Boehner doesn’t seem to appreciate Obama’s choice of time/date for his jobs speech, here’s a suggestion: Obama could deliver his speech from the elephant house at the San Diego Zoo. They could put signs on the elephants like “NLRB” and “Solyndra” and “Evergreen” and “Gibson Guitar.”
A very good suggestion Arhooley,and fitting too,
Can she actually tell the state to ignore the NLRB rulings and suits and indemnify Boeing against any government action?
Nikki Haley for President!
#1 L McKinnon
Will Obama listen? No, unless he does so to laugh at us. There are no accidental acts to harm this country from this regime. It won’t stop Obama, perhaps it will only spur him on. But he means us nothing but harm anyway.
But what Gov. Haley, bless her, is doing is standing up, and by that act encouraging others to do so. How often, under totalitarians, do the people hate those who oppress them but are afraid to do anything because they fear that they are alone? Every act of public resistance, encourages others and gets people to unite.
More and more, events bring to mind a quote attributed to James Otis, one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty.
Subotai Bahadur
It is all so much simpler to ???than you think. We give all that we have, lives, property, safety, skills … we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
There’s a crucial word missing from your citation. I’m curious to know what it is. I’m guessing it’s something like “fight back”.
Sorry, it was just my fumble fingers. The “to” should not be there.
Subotai Bahadur
Even the Dems know this Boeing thing is a joke….I bet even in Russia U can move your business where U want it.
In a nutshell; Obama and his regime of misfits, have politicized every governmental department, and some big business, since he’s been coronation.
They punish every entity that does not perform for them.
Man! We need an edit button!
Obama and his government thugs hate non govermental success and productivity. Both big and small companies are being punished including Boeing and Gibson Guitars. The punishment will continue until sufficient payoffs are made. It works for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Obama is a product of the worst of Chicago corruption. Gov. Haley needs to have the support of ALL other govenors marching on the Whitehouse. But she won’t get it. So who are the biggest cowards – the president or those who will not stand with Gov. Haley ?
KRC. the president AND those who will not stand with Governor Haley,
Declare war on the folk with the money to make things happen. Declare war on the folk with the wherewithal to pack up their toys, go elsewhere and ride out the storm. I sense an upcoming blizzard of legislative and regulatory attempts to prevent folk from voting with their feet. And at that point…
Perhaps it is only coincidental that Paccar, another Washington State manufacturing company, just announced their intent to begin constructing a new plant… in Brazil. Not only does Paccar avoid the NLRB and myriad other pernicious Fed foolishness, they intend the plant to be complete in 2013, just about the time the draft EIS would be ready for public, read NIMBY, comment here. Portuguese anyone?
Now there’s a real governor with a spine, guts and smarts. Put her on the ticket with Perry and send them to Washington. Can’t happen soon enough.
Harrison I agree with you 150%,
“Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it…”
If Congress can’t or won’t offer a check to these unaccountable agencies …I don’t know…got a better idea ?
If at first you don’t secede, try, try again!
Pick your target, hold your breath, squeeze gently…
So, if I’m following this correctly, the jobs that are being created in South Carolina, the majority of them will be in the $10-15 per hour. As opposed to an average of $28 an hour for union workers.
I have a hard time seeing how this isn’t the road to serfdom.
Is this the future for manufacturing jobs and labor in general? $10-15 an hour? None of the heads at Boeing who come up in the papers are taking a cut. They probably will get a raise when they can report to shareholders that they’ve cut costs.
I wonder how much money they’ll spend celebrating on the top that they’ve managed to take a $50K dollar job and turn it into a $40K dollar job and gotten out of paying State taxes for years to come.
And you’ll all be cheering because you win. Strange world.
So you believe it is better to force a company to hire particular people at a particular wage, and force them to stay? Perhaps it would be more fair to just revoke the wages of the “heads” and just chain them to their desks? After all, it is only fair to let you make the decisions for the company instead of them, and for them to do *your* bidding, will they or nil they.
I am not sure, by the way, where you got the $10 per hour figure; I don’t mind using that number for the sake of argument, because it is not, as you seem to believe, slave wages. In some places, it is a living wage, especially if the Government isn’t taking a massive bite out of your paycheck and regulating things like housing so tightly that it drives all the costs up to insane levels. I can’t help but think there might be a lot of folks out there who would rather make $10 to $20 per hour than not have jobs and live off the government… I know I would, and have, taken jobs that were less than ideal rather than take charity I didn’t truly need.
So, you would rather that the jobs went to union elitists in Washington State rather than to “rednecks” that need jobs, and are willing to work at a lower wage to feed their wives and children, in South Carolina. Aren’t the unions in Washington willing to “sacrifice” some loss of jobs for the good of all Americans? We hear enough of that from the Left – “Everyone must give up their fair share”, for the sake of America.
I appologize Caestal. My response above was to Lefty. I agree with your position on the subject.
No one forces the top level of these companies. What concerns me is that the execs salaries have been going up, while wages are pretty flat.
I’m not unsympathetic to the needs of business to control costs, but the flip side of this equation is that as employers they control the lives of people, their ability to buy a house, send kids to college etc.
Say you want to homeschool your kids which seems somewhat popular around here? Is a $15 an hour salary going to allow you to have one spouse stay at home?
Look, if you say you can get by on $42K for a family in South Carolina I guess you’re right. Seems tight to me, but I’m in New York.
What does concern me is what happens to people when States like South Carolina fall over themselves to get Boeing to invest and how all the tax incentives etc. benefit workers, and that the jobs created don’t leave people in a borderline poverty situation where they’re a net drain on States.
Overall though I find not much to cheer about when good paying jobs disappear. Somehow I’m less concerned with those who are doing well at the top than those who are in danger of losing what they have.
“No one forces the top level of these companies”
yet this is exactly what happens
companies are forced all the time to alter plans in order to conform to some arbitrary compliance or another
it is the nature of ‘force,’ specifically, which ‘road to serfdom’ is based
this notion of a “living wage” is as much a canard as a “living” constitution
We’re talking about executive compensation and whether the heads of corporations should be chained to their desks and accept mere million dollar salaries instead of tens of millions. Not whether corporations are unduly burdened with regulations.
As for the “Living Wage” being a canard, you don’t believe that there is a wage at people can live comfortably in a given region? It seems to me only natural that if you’re at a certain salary level, you’re doing well.
Certainly I’d put Charles Dickens in my corner:
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”
“I’m not unsympathetic to the needs of business to control costs, but the flip side of this equation is that as employers they control the lives of people, their ability to buy a house, send kids to college etc.”
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So your antidote to the apparently awful situation where the owners of the business set the wages based on their knowledge of the costs is for YOU, who know nothing of the costs, to set the wages?
HOw exactly is that better? What keeps you from spending far more than the company can afford to pay in wages and putting itself into bankruptcy?
Well Sparky, I’m only a troll here, but I do know my way around a balance sheet.
You’re putting an awful lot of words in my mouth but to answer your question, yes there are qualified people on both sides of the table who know the business and are aware of the company’s finances.
Keep in mind that corporations have their own negotiations with States and local municipalities that play out oddly similar to the threat to strike. Boeing asked for and received some 2.5 billion dollars worth of tax abatements over a 20 year period. Washington State has to be pissed that jobs are going to be leaving.
So, how good a company is it if we need to cut your tax bill to keep jobs in our state?
First of all, it wasn’t the pay rates themselves, but the constant threat of strikes, that made it uneconomical for Boeing to expand manufacturing on the “left coast.”
Second, the cost of living is so much lower in SC that the non-union workers here may be better off than the union workers on the “left coast.”
If there’s a choice between working for the minimum wage and not working at all, which would YOU pick?
We’re living in a globalized economy. Boeing can’t just keep being picked on by lefties to pay more for workers and everything else, when it’s facing strong competition from Airbus.
A worker is worth what a private company is willing to pay him. Period.
Maybe you would be happier if we just shut down Boeing altogether, and then there wouldn’t be any non-union jobs in NC anymore.
Airbus? Our competition is a Euro-Socialist union lovin’ corporation?
Shouldn’t that even the playing field?
Is Nicki a natural born U.S. Citizen? I think she’d make a great president.
Yes. Born in Bamberg, South Carolina. Qualifies on all grounds for national office-holding:
http://www.nikkihaley.com/about-nikki
Of course, by current standards, Gov. Haley is considerably over-qualified.
The irony is that all the Dems from Obama on down keep making noises about growing the economy and American competitiveness in the world. One of the most competitive world-class companies has been Boeing, which has held its own against Airbus despite heavy French subsidies for that company. So what does the Obama administration do? It goes after Boeing–right in the middle of our economic slump and high unemployment–to make it harder for Boeing to compete with Airbus.
The undisputed jewel in America’s crown has been computers and software. Google is a true American success story, their software is used all over the world, a company to be celebrated. So what does Obama do? His FTC launched an antitrust investigation of Google–right in the middle of our economic slump and high unemployment.
So on the one hand you’ve got liberals angry that companies “are sitting on” billions of dollars and not expanding or hiring people–but if you’ve got a company like Boeing or Google that is expanding and hiring, liberals demand they be stopped.
If you want to understand the mindset of such people, have a look at this comment by a liberal about Solyndra:
“All governments around the world pick winners and losers…because government contracting for needed infrastructure, services, and products is ALWAYS happening. Therefore, the argument that government shouldn’t pick winners and losers from this perspective makes no sense. In addition, since there is no expertise in crowds picking a good winner or bad loser in the private market I prefer the idea of an educated group making a better choice. Unless conservatives are going to defend the constant stream of snake oil products designed to rip off the public as somehow having more inherent merit than a new process that more efficiently cleans up water.”
http://discussions.latimes.com/20/lanews/la-ed-solyndra-20110902/10
We’ve got a lot of Americans who are genuine socialists even if they don’t know that label applies to them.
michelle obama has more TESTOSTERONE than this half-white guy that calls himself president has…face it…the guy is a wimp!
Obama is so far into the unions and the money they have donated and promise to donate, he is not about to speak out.
This is the bottom of our troubles……….. the Unions.
Most of us see it and things are going to change…….
Nikki Haley is what we need more.
We have long proposed that the NLRB should be abolished out of existence. We are happy to see this gutsy lady do the same.
There is a tongue-in-cheek “Preview to Obama’s Jobs Program to Congress.” at http://www.robbingamerica.com that is sarcastic but holds a lot of truth.
It agrees with the Governor about the Obama policies for the job’s market.
Re claims1 @4
More accurately, I heard a radio interview, yesterday, with the CEO of Gibson, and based on what he said, this “wood” issue goes a lot deeper than any of us suspected. Not only do they want Gibson to secure its wood from Madagascar – “They have indicated that, if Gibson would please move its entire operation to Madagascar, all his problems would disappear”. Does this sound like Chicago-style, thuggery politicsa to anyone, other than me?
That should be the basis of at least one Republican ad in the 2012 campaign. It’s hard to picture a better illustration of what’s wrong with Obama and his policies than selectively enforcing environmental legislation against only a Republican-supporting business and then telling that business to move to a foreign country. It would certainly explain why unemployment is so intractably high despite all the money thrown at the problem.
“SC Gov. Nikki Haley … Calls Obama ‘Cowardly’”
I was going to commend Gov. Haley for calling a spade a spade but then realized that someone might take that as a racist remark. (I vaguely remember Archie Bunker calling black people “spades”.)
It’s a shame how a perfectly good non-racist expression can’t be used any more because it contains a word that is occasionally a racial slur….