In all the recent "stimulus" hoopla, President Barack Obama and Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman have found themselves in something of a war of words:
Sin City's mayor wants President Barack Obama to apologize for saying companies shouldn't visit Las Vegas on the taxpayer's dime.
Oscar Goodman spoke after a regular scheduled meeting with tourism officials where he expressed concern that federal lawmakers might be discouraging travel to the city...
"You can't get corporate jets, you can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer's dime," Obama said.
President Obama has already begun paying back Big Labor's big money boys for spending record sums to put him in the White House. As we reported yesterday on Freedom@Work, part of this payback is the Obama Administration's quiet attempt to delay and ultimately cancel a new rule requiring union bosses to report more specific information about how they are spending their forced dues revenue.
Members and nonmembers forced to pay dues as a condition of employment deserve the right to know where their money is going -- for instance, this private LearJet, shown below taking off in Las Vegas. Machinists union bosses spent $1.8 million (from forced dues) for hangars, jet fuel, jet maintenance, mechanics, pilots, and associated loan repayments in 2006 alone.
In November, Machinists union bosses flew the jet from Canada to Ireland on workers' dime. But the Obama Administration is moving right now to keep the ordinary unionized worker from knowing how much this and other flights by union bosses cost the employees on a per-union-official basis.
Obama claims he wants transparency and accountability -- but apparently he makes an exception for union bosses.
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Exceptionist Politics
Obama is becoming well known for his "exceptionist politics" as I will call them. He makes a rule, right away there comes a problem, first in his Cabinet appointment, but he allowed waivers and exceptions, even in his rule he made that Americans would be able to view any Bills being voted on for five days before a vote was taken. Right off the bat there was an exception and we didn't get to look at that robbery bill, I mean stimulus/porkulus/spendulous bill, whatever you want to call it.
Now union bosses get an exception.
So, apparently, laws and rules are only for the general public and anyone who is doing Obama's (dirty) work gets an exception.
Exceptionist Politics
Obama is becoming well known for his "exceptionist politics" as I will call them. He makes a rule, right away there comes a problem, first in his Cabinet appointment, but he allowed waivers and exceptions, even in his rule he made that Americans would be able to view any Bills being voted on for five days before a vote was taken. Right off the bat there was an exception and we didn't get to look at that robbery bill, I mean stimulus/porkulus/spendulous bill, whatever you want to call it.
Now union bosses get an exception.
So, apparently, laws and rules are only for the general public and anyone who is doing Obama's (dirty) work gets an exception.
The Machinist Union. Do
The Machinist Union. Do they not work on airplanes? Is the Machinist Union asking for the Fed to bail them out? Didn't think so. You fail to mention that the Union Workers wages are on average 30% higher. You are as ignorant as John McCain and Sister Sara from Alaska!
Machinist Jet
You are kidding aren't you. Union dues are nothing more than a forced tax in non-right to work states. And by the way, there is a bill in Congress to eliminate states rights to even have right to work provisions. Get a clue.
How easily one forgets! The
How easily one forgets! The airlines had their bail outs... 2001?
Reply to Machinists Union. Do
For Machinists Union.DO:
Get a clue!! You certainly must be a management level union boss! We all need to wake up. These unions are all crooks and our current power hungry president with his pencil written Obomanomics are going to cost us for years to come. How about if the unions all became totally transparent with their money. Maybe even give back some of the misspent dues. That would be a real stimulus!! We need to not bail out the Auto Industry, It's only bailing out the UAW. You want to revive detroit- do away with the UAW and their crooks. We can become more competitive and ultimately get more people back to work, which will do more to stimulate the detroit economy. The Unions have become greedy and only think of themselves, hiding under the veil of concern for the middle class.
Hating my union more each day