Tyranny South of the Border
What happens when a federal agency, in this case the National Labor Relations Board, throws it weight around in a blatant attempt to block a private business from doing business? Tyranny happens.
That’s the take from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who doesn’t pull any punches with his assessment of the government hatchet job and general thuggery taking place in his backyard – in this case, the NLRB attempts to block Boeing from building a production plant near Charleston. This from National Review Online:
DeMint remains infuriated with the National Labor Relations Board for bullying Boeing. “This situation borders on tyranny,” he says. “If an unelected, unaccountable, unconfirmed bureaucrat can threaten thousands of jobs and a billion-dollar investment, after the facility is virtually complete, it smacks of a Third World–type dictatorship.”
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“I have seen a lot of absurd things come out of this administration,” DeMint sighs. “But the absurdity here is pretty amazing. This involves the right of a company to decide where to locate its business. I cannot believe that the president has not spoken out about it. This kind of thing should not happen in America.”
“This is not about South Carolina,” DeMint notes. “This is about every American company and every state, and not just right-to-work states. This will also hurt the forced-union states. Why would a company, like BMW for example, locate in a union state if they know that they could not move or expand?”
DeMint is right, of course; this isn’t just about South Carolina and Boeing. This is about the Obama Administration’s overtly hostile attitude toward basic free enterprise, assuming such a thing still exists. Which given recent developments is an assumption very much open for debate.
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