In September of 2009, the workers at Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner factory in South Carolina voted 199-68 to decertify representation by the International Association of Machinists.

This was a bold move, but one that was key to enticing Boeing to use the SC facility to build their hot new Jumbo Jet.

At the time, Boeing spokeswoman Candy Eslinger said:

"We are pleased that hourly workers elected to deal directly with the company on employment matters. We are also pleased that Boeing Charleston can move forward and meet commitments on the 787 program."

When this happened, I spoke about it on my Radio Show as yet another example of how big labor is killing jobs in the private sector. Sure, this was a boon for South Carolina.

But the other side of this story is all the jobs that were chased out of Washington State by union thugs. Those jobs are now gone forever.

Well, as I have pointed out many times, big labor owns Obama and his administration. Obama hopes to raise $1 billion for his 2012 campaign and the majority of this money will be coming from union kick-backs in exchange for anti-business "favors."

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“Every corner of the federal government has to be looked at here, revenues [tax increases] are going to have to be part of this.”

David Plouffe
Senior White House Adviser
April 10, 2011

In a few hours, Barrack Obama will be giving us his vision for deficit reduction. My guess is that it will lack specifics when it comes to spending cuts and include heavy demagogurey in the areas of "protecting education, the poor, and the elderly" and of course -- "taxing the rich."

Nothing new here; this has been Obama's deficit reduction plan all along and given his leadership model as president here's what we can expect:

1. Select a very liberal venue to give a speech.
2. Deliver a passionate speech rich in class demagogurey.
3. Leave town and let Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi do his dirty work.

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"Children born today will see 50 cents of every dollar they earn turned over to the government to pay for retirees' benefits. As intolerable as that is, today's Democrats have chosen to ignore it, screaming instead about "Wall Street" bailouts and "taxing the rich."

Investors Business Daily
April, 4, 2011

As Harry Reid plays political parlor games attempting to cast Paul Ryan's proposed budget cuts as nothing more than GOP politics as usual "bowing to right wing extremists in the Tea Party," the United States treasury is teetering on a complete collapse.

Clearly, Harry and his minions have got their talking points down cold. In fact, I have yet to hear a single dem on Capital Hill talk about the deficit without immediately dismissing GOP efforts with the words "Tea Party" and "Extreme."

If I didn't know better, I'd say that Harry is taking his marching orders from the late father of Communist Russia -- Vladimir Lenin, who said: "a lie told often enough becomes the truth."

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UC Berkley professor and notorious liberal Robert Reich wrote a very thoughtful piece last week detailing all the reasons why Team Obama's economic policy was in a full death spiral (see below).

I applaud little Bob for his honesty about the true state of the economy. I also agree with his central point -- pessimistic consumers buy less. But then he and I part company.

Bob kind of augers into the whole consumer demand theme, as if consumer demand is just some sort of serendipitous happening -- it's not.

Consumer confidence is driven by one thing and one thing only, how do people feel about their job and career prospects.

Obama has continuously demonized the private sector for over 2 years and until the Tea Party swept fiscal conservatives into office last November, there was absolutely nothing for private sector workers to feel optimistic about.

And while Obama did give public sector workers a temporary reprise from economic realty with his "government worker bail-out' (AKA The Stimulus), like all sugar highs, it wore off big time and now it's hell to pay.

Big labor can camp out in the Wisconsin State House "until the cows come home," but it won't change the fact that there isn't enough money or tax base to cover their fat salaries and ludicrous pensions, so there not very optimistic either.

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The teacher's unions seem to have lost the battle in Wisconsin and Ohio, but what about the war?

Here's what we know:

• Although the per student spending in the United States continues to outpace the rest of the world, our educational results have fallen to the point where the educational performance of our children is closer to that of a 3rd world country than number one South Korea.
• What's worse is that the US ranks 25th in Math of the 34 so-called first world countries. Math skills are key to the kind of technological innovation that drives our economy.
• If we stopped all new teacher's union pension programs today, we'd still have a $1 trillion shortfall in funding current obligations.
  
• This is a direct result of union agreements that grant multi-million dollar pensions to teachers who retire early after contributing only a few hundred thousand dollars (see 49 year old teacher retires with a $3.3 million pension after contributing just $124,000).
• Last year, the two largest teachers’ unions - NEA and the American Federation of Teachers - spend nearly $70 million a year on politics, with another $92 million going toward other contributions, gifts and grants to educators.
• Over the last 20 years, 99% of the billions of dollars doled out by teacher's unions in political contributions went to democrats.
  

If this isn't text book greed and corruption, I don't know what is.

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