I haven’t ranted about something that has really teed me off in awhile, but this has me steaming mad…and it should make you mad also. But unfortunately, it probably won’t surprise you.
As with almost everything that liberals claim they’re for, don’t listen to their empty rhetoric and platitudes, but rather, watch what they do if you want to get, as they say in court, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Take, for instance, Boeing Corporation, one of our nation’s oldest and most respected companies, and the largest exporter of American products to foreign markets, namely, its airplanes.
Its newest plane, seen above, is the 787 Dreamliner, and Boeing has orders to build over 850 of them, worth a whopping $165 billion dollars, but it’s three years behind schedule building them due to a myriad of reasons, mainly getting the thousands of parts being built by sub-contractors from around the world.
Boeing is now ready to start building the airplane, which will be the most fuel-efficient commercial airplane ever built, resulting in amazing environmental performance, and it will also the quietest commercial airplane ever built. And as for the “cherry on top of the cake”, the airplane will use 20 percent less fuel than any other similar plane currently being built.
Nothing its only current competitor (E.U.-based Airbus) in the commercial airplane design and building arena has rivals this extremely high-tech and fuel-efficient airplane, which explains why about 850 have been ordered by airlines all over the world, including most U.S.-based carriers.
So, in an attempt to catch up on the backlog of building these fuel-efficient planes, which the airlines want as soon as possible, with jet fuel prices being sky-high (pun intended), Boeing decided to build a second plant, in addition to its main airplane-building plant in Everett, Washington.
This plant would create, at a minimum, 5000 high-paying jobs for skilled employees assembling these planes, at a time when we have record-breaking unemployment and a dismal economic picture for the foreseeable future.
We also have a President, Barack Obama, who claims to care so much about creating jobs for American workers that he went on a bus tour throughout the heartland of America (on a Canadian-built bus) to push American companies to create more jobs for the American people.
I emphasize the word “would” for a good reason. Like I said at the top, don’t listen to liberals, like Obama, and their empty rhetoric, watch what they actually do, if you want to get the whole story. And the fact of the matter is the Obama administration is fighting Boeing tooth and nail, in an unprecedented way never before seen by any Presidential administration in decades, to stop the company from building this plant and creating the 5000 jobs that would go along with it.
So about now you’re probably asking yourself why would this President, and his administration, who all claim to feel the pain of the American people desperately needing and wanting good, high-paying jobs, not want Boeing to build this plant and create all these badly needed jobs?”.
The reason is a simple one if you use (warning: oxymoron alert!) liberal logic. You see, they’re not the right kind of jobs! Only in the (warning: another oxymoron alert) mind of a liberal could the creation of 5000 new, good high-paying jobs be a bad thing, especially during these extremely tough economic times, be worth fighting against by any and all means necessary.
You see, Boeing built this plant (and finally opened it in June, defying the administration and the National Labor Relations Board) in North Charleston, South Carolina, which is a right to work state, meaning that the unions that represent the Boeing workers in Washington, and have a nasty reputation for calling for their people to walk off their jobs and strike if Boeing doesn’t succumb to their extortion, would not represent these workers. The jobs would be high-paying non-union jobs.
And that is the problem and the only reason why the Obama administration, through the auspices of its National Labor Relations Board, which Obama has packed with union thugs who have donated millions of dollars to him and the democrats, are fighting Boeing every step of the way, and for the first time in modern American history, are trying to keep a privately-owned American company from opening a plant where it sees fit. This is truly unprecedented stuff.
As with all things liberal, its not about the jobs, it’s about them being the right kind of jobs. Just like with most liberals its not good enough just to be a black person or a female or any minority, you’ve got to be the right kind of minority- a female or black liberal to actually count.
And because this administration in particular, and the democrat party in general, are beholden to the union goons and their millions of dollars that are given to virtually only democrats in every election (even though a lot of their members are Republicans and resent this), Obama and his NLRB are still fighting against this plant, even though it’s already up and running.
And not only is the Obama administration fighting against these excellent jobs being created in South Carolina, which has double-digit unemployment rate that exceeds the national average, and also the highest black unemployment rate in the U.S.A. (and a lot of these new jobs would go to minorities), but the man Obama recently appointed to head his jobs-creating task force, Jeff Imelt, the traitorous CEO of General Electric, just proudly announced that his company, GE, is going to partner with communist China in building commercial airplanes in China, built by Chinese workers, to directly compete against Boeing and its American workforce.
So the next time you hear Obama or any liberal rant about the need for American companies to create good, high-paying jobs for American workers, like the disgusting race-baiting black liberal congresswoman Frederica Wilson from Florida, who claimed that the high black unemployment rate is due mostly to racism, take it with extreme skepticism, and think about all the excellent, high-paying jobs in South Carolina that Boeing wants to create, and that Obama and the democrats are fighting against every step of the way, by any means possible.