Dear Ruler made a speech yesterday to the AFL-CIO.  In a very telling statement, Barack Obama said, "It is good to be back among friends.”  That’s no surprise, coming from a man who once described his time in the private sector as working behind enemy lines, and who also once considered domestic terrorist Bill Ayers a friend.  But let’s look at our working list of Obama’s “friends.”

• Unions and their union goon leadership
• The moochers, leaches and parasites
• People who make a living off of the moochers, leaches, parasites
• College campuses & academia
• Blacks who vote on skin color rather than the future of their children
• The media & Hollywood – people with no touch with reality.
• Old people who think Republicans will take away their social security
• Government employees
• Communists disguised as environmentalists
• Idiots
• What ever the plural of “ignoranus” is. 

Those are Obama’s “friends.”  I’d be curious to know if he has ever given a speech to a group of entrepreneurs or venture capitalists or veterans and told them that it was good to be “back among friends.”  Don’t waste too much time looking for that. 

But Caesar Obammus’ speech was laden in wealth envy rhetoric.  Pandering to the mindless union sheeple, he says, “I believe the economy is stronger when collective bargaining rights are protected. I believe when folks try and take collective bargaining rights away by passing so-called ‘right to work’ laws that might also be called ‘right to work for less,’ laws, that’s not about economics, that’s about politics.”

What a putz.  First of all, please keep in mind that the purpose of a business is to make money.  It is absolutely a matter of economics to consider the price of labor into the cost of doing business.  These businesses are not in business to employ people and ensure their right to collectively bargain. 

But secondly, Barack Obama is wrong when he says that the economy is stronger when collect bargaining rights are protected.   A study published in 2011 found that right-to-work states are economically outperforming states without right-to-work laws.  Right-to-work states are gaining more new residents, more new businesses, more new jobs, and see faster income growth.

From 2000-2010, forced-union states lost 9 seats while right-to-work states gained 9. The increase in population and new businesses (right-to-work states had 46 percent more private business growth) has also resulted in a greater increase in employment and income in right-to-work states.

“From 1993-2009, private sector employment increased 37.9% in RTW [right-to-work] states (15.8 million jobs) compared to 19.6% (14.5 million jobs) in forced-unionism states,” the report reads. “Individual income in RTW states is growing at a faster rate than forced-unionism states. From 1993-2010 real per capita personal income grew 39.5% in RTW states compared to 35.7% in forced-unionism states.”

Why are people like Barack Obama against right-to-work states?  A few reasons.  One reason is because the unions don’t like these states.  “Don’t like” isn’t strong enough. They HATE these states with a blinding passion.  How DARE people be allowed to work without being forced to join a union or pay union dues.  Why that’s just un-American!  Since unions don’t like the right-to-work states, Obama doesn’t like them either.  He can’t win without union support .. and winning is all he is concerned about right now.  .  Another reason is that Obama does not celebrate free market economics.  He believes in centralized power with collective workers.  There is no celebration of the individual in Obama’s world … only the collective.

What do the unions think about right-to-work laws?  Well … just recently in Indiana, the unions have actually gone so far as to compare it to slavery!  The International Union of Operating Engineers has filed a lawsuit claiming that Indiana’s right-to-work law violates the 13th Amendment, which states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States.”  The union claims that right-to-work laws allow the union to collectively bargain for employees that aren’t forced to pay union dues for those services.  The solution is pretty simple here … the unions can simply limit their collective bargaining contracts to those who pay union dues.  Duh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjBngMu-4kQ