Last Friday afternoon, as the Senate prepared to pass the massive, pork-filled “stimulus” bill, President Barack Obama quietly arranged to virtually ensure that every construction project funded by the federal government will result in more forced union dues revenue for Big Labor.
The new executive order signed by Obama on Friday encourages government bureaucrats to adopt discriminatory, union-only project labor agreements for any “large-scale construction project” – defined as any project costing over $25 million – and thus discriminate against the 92.5 percent of private sector workers who have chosen for a wide variety of reasons not to join a union.
With the “stimulus” bill approaching one trillion dollars including many such projects, Big Labor stands to rake in literally hundreds of millions of dollars in new forced-dues revenue seized straight out of workers’ paychecks, whether they support the union or not. (Meanwhile, other "stimulus" funds will go to groups with strong ties to organized labor.)
President Obama’s new executive order comes a week after he issued two other executive orders giving the Secretary of Labor unchecked, unprecedented authority to blacklist non-union employees wanting to work on federal contracts.
Taken together, the new executive orders indicate President Obama is quite eager to repay the union bosses for spending well over one billion dollars (in mostly forced union dues) to elect Obama and other pro-forced unionism candidates.
Moreover, Big Labor’s high command is likely to funnel that money right back into its political machine in expectation of even more forced unionism power grabs – including efforts toward the ultimate goal of eliminating all 22 state Right to Work laws by federal fiat.
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Unions
If you want to try and figure out what they are trying to do in Washington with the unions just look back to Germany pre-WWII. Hitler new that if he was going to control the people he must control the unions first. After he gained complete control of the unions he used his new found power to organize more and more of the people into the unions, once he had most of the workforce under his control he then ordered all weapons in private hands to be confiscated, the rest is history.
Now, if American citizens don't wake up and smell the peper spray, we are soon to be just like the Germans, controlled by an ever growing power in Washington run by obama, harry reid, and nancy pelosi. And the reason we have so much empathy in this country today? Almost half the citizens of the U.S. receive some kind of check or payment from the federal or state government each month, not all are on welfare, some get retirement from government jobs, but most do not. When we have an society that has more takers sitting in the wagon than pulling the wagon we are done. It's the cycle of an Republic; first the people brake away from tyranny, like we did during our Revolutionary War, then there are years, centuries, of peace and prosparity, then the people realize that they are a very rich society and they start voting themselves the riches, eventually draining the countries coffers, then the government steps in and says they are the only ones that can save the country, so keep voting us in. As long as the money lasts the people are content, but the money never lasts and the people that have been living off of the taxpayers finally revolt, where's mine they say? At which time the government must take control and first announces Marshall Law to keep order. Once they have complete control a dictator will arrise and put the people in bondage again, it's all to keep order you see. Then the cycle begins again, the people fight to gain freedom, they win and things get better, and there's all that money sitting in Washington again.
Take a good look around folks, things look familiar? We are in the last stage of the cycle, robbing our treasury and letting the frigging crooks in Washington take everything from us, our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. We are talking about tens of trillions of dollars here. If you don't have an idea of what a trillion is think of this; if Christ spent one million dollars a day, every day up to now, he would still not have spent a trillion dollars. You know, a trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon your talking about serious money. FOLKS, WE ARE FOOLS, STUPID, AND WE ARE DONE FOR, OUR POLITITIANS HAVE RUINED THIS COUNTRY AND DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIX IT, SO THEY ARE TAKING EVERYTHING THEY CAN GET FOR THEMSELVES AND WE WILL SOON BE ON OUR OWN. HOPE YOUR POWDER IS DRY, MINE IS. Signed: RamBoze. From the last stronghold left in California, Mariposa County.
Obama is Hitler Reincarnated
Obama’s rants are not only non-Presidential, the rants are Hitleristic. Presidents don’t screech away like he does. This is the way that Hitler got away with hijacking a whole nation.
I just hope people begin to recognize this. If there was any way to have a referendum on his election, it would be the best thing America has done in a long time.
Hitler reincarnated?
Everyone is, of course, entitled to an opinion. I've not heard this one before, and don't expect to hear it again. I may have to be more selective about the sites I visit. I did notice, now that it has been mentioned, that when Obama speaks, his lips move--same as Hitler!