South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley writes in today's Wall Street Journal,
In October 2009, Boeing, long one of the best corporations in America, made an announcement that changed the economic outlook of South Carolina forever: The company's second line of 787 Dreamliners would be produced in North Charleston.
In choosing to manufacture in my state, Boeing was exercising its right as a free enterprise in a free nation to conduct business wherever it believed would best serve both the bottom line and the employees of its company. This is not a novel or complicated idea. It's called capitalism.
Boeing has since poured billions of dollars into a new, state-of-the art facility in South Carolina's picturesque Low Country along the Atlantic coast. It has created thousands of good jobs and joined the long tradition of distinguished and employee-friendly corporations that have found a home, and a partner, in the Palmetto State.
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That is apparently too much for President Obama and his union-beholden appointees at the National Labor Relations Board, who have asked the courts to intervene and force Boeing to stop production in South Carolina. The NLRB wants Boeing to produce the planes only in Washington state, where its workers must belong to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
Like almost every other administration policy decision, this one is motivated by Obama's compulsion to garner maximum political gain. How remarkable, that Obama is actively preventing private sector job growth at a time when so many Americans need jobs. To state the obvious, Obama is what's wrong with the economy now.
Of course, democrats are anti-job. That's why they have labor unions, and certfications, etc, to limit jobs.
Posted by: jtorod | April 29, 2011 at 10:24 PM