Boeing Engineers Do It Again, Despite the "Surprised" Public Officials

Community “officials” express “surprise” that Boeing is constructing a plant in South Carolina to build a new airplane line at that plant instead of in Everett, Washington.

The “surprise” is feigned. In South Carolina the engineers de-certified the union. In Washington, the engineers not only hate Boeing, they have been convicted of destroying the property of employees who have crossed the picket line. Boeing employees in Washington State have been pampered by a union-loving government – at all levels - and have priced and “attituded” themselves out of work, at least in this monumental decision. Boeing employees are the perfect example of greedy people who believe the union provides the paycheck, not the employer. For the union-bought community “leaders” to instead admit that they were not “surprised” would be to confess that they have been in bed with organized labor, refusing to voice concerns that the union goons are out of line as they suck the blood from the employer.
In Everett, Washington, where the plane may have been built, the Gestapo International Association of Fire Fighters actually runs a print shop to print yard signs for union-friendly public office candidates. This is the environment in which Boeing had to try to reign in labor costs.

Our governor, Christine Gregoire, who is a union prostitute, has spent every taxpayer dollar she can legally scrounge, to artificially lower the costs Boeing would incur in Washigton so that the non-labor costs added to the exorbitant labor costs would still be less than the total cost of building the plane in South Carolina. Normally Boeing has little appreciation of anything other than money but it may be in this case the company tired of union hatred and if the reader has seen any public TV interviewing union officials, the reader would find it tough to disagree with Boeing.

I am not a fan of big business and that includes big labor but clearly labor is at fault for the lost Washington jobs. The responsibility is not shared; labor was offered several opporunities to keep the labor costs down. The prostitute governor has no business taking my money to lower other Boeing costs so that when non-labor costs are added to exorbitant labor cost cost of production is still less expensive in Washington. Several years ago Boeing moved its corporate headquarters to Chicago to lower costs. Hello!

I am delighted that Boeing chose South Carolina for its new aircraft. There are reasonable people in any group including organized labor and perhaps those people in the Boeing Engineers' group in Washington will begin to stand up against the goon “leadership” to develop a partnership attitude instead of the “we are aggrieved” attitude.

Fun to watch.

Five Thumbs Up, Three Middle Fingers

I sport several anti-Obama/anti-progressive bumper stickers on both of my cars (Toyotas, by the way, made in Japan).

So far I have had five “thumbs-up” and three middle finger gestures. (Thank you, founding fathers for the First Amendment, without which the others would matter little.) While we are exercising our freedom of speech it surprises me that those hostile to freedom and dissent are unashamed to act uncivil.

As time rolls along, I will see more thumbs and fewer fingers. In the meantime, as a courteous man, I always return the gesture in kind.

Enjoy the holiday season before His Highness bans turkeys from the markets at PETA’s request.

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The Post Office Is Too Big to Fail?

The tax and fees-gobbling black hole we call the United States Post Office does not get much attention even when citizens complain (which I have). Watch this:

CRISIS! CRISIS, ATTENTION ALL AMERICANS:

“The United States Postal Service is losing so much money we may have to resort to 5-day service”! That dire warning proclaimed about six months ago.

No one cared; most of us use the Internet for our business. The Internet is infinitely more reliable and a great deal less expensive. The hoped-for public outcry did not materialize. Social Security is paid electronically with no need for the Post Office. If I don’t get my Netflix I can watch it on line. And a few months later:

CRISIS! CRISIS, ATTENTION ALL AMERICANS:

“The United States Postal Service is losing so much money we may have to resort to 5-day service”!

Same crisis cried to the public again, and again there was no heartburn; no one cared. After two failed attempts to scare the public in to rejoicing at the opportunity to pay more at the counter and through taxes to float a mistletoe bureaucracy, the crisis died, the fiscal disaster is now being addressed outside of the public eye. The reason we know Obama is hiding the negotiations from Fox and the public is because the USPS Unions are silent about this “crisis.” If they were not getting their usurious demands met they would be proclaiming the sky is falling and buying ads against hold-the-line politicians. The silence really is revealing

Why would a diminished and less expensive post office scare me? The post office delivers mail only when it feels like delivering mail. Last year we had 8 feet of snow in Spokane, not all was on the ground at one time. Even though my road was plowed the Post Office did not deliver my mail for five days. No store fronts at which citizens could retrieve mail after work; nothing more than a paid furlough for lethargic postal employees. I sure hope that the employees still collected their pay checks. Remember the credo “through rain, snow, sleet and hail”? The Post Office does not. While I did not get my mail for five days A FedEx delivery person made his way to my house, obviously risking his personal safety, perhaps even HIS LIFE, walked up to my door with a package. Given the choice, and I never will be, which organization would I use to deliver my mail? Obama will make sure that I don’t get that choice…250,000 union voters and that, my friends, really is “too big to fail.”

I use two stamps a month (Christmas season exempt); everything I can manage on line I do, banking, purchases to include my entire Christmas list. I use E-Bay. I pay my bills on line. My Visa and mortgages are both on line. I get my news from the Net.

The Post Office has already raised the price of stamps again and again and they will again; all with the quiet blessing of a silent congress and His Holiness. Eventually the Post Office will collapse on itself and as His Holiness did for the United Auto Workers he will buy pensions for all postal workers, using my money. I mean, hey! Why not? The workers remain quiet in the Democrat camp and the taxpayers who managed to avoid the “services” of the USPS monopoly will pay for the services they do NOT use through income taxes.

It never ends.

I don’t want to be ripped to support under-worked, over-paid and typically ungrateful government employees. I want private carriers to carry all packages and mail. “Choice and competition,” just like His Holiness proclaims is the lynchpin of health care “reform.”

Not that he ever meant that!

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