Obama- The random Interventionist.

      Harry Truman said he always wanted to find a one-handed economist because when he asked the economists their opinion, they would always say, “Well the economy should improve, but then again on the other hand, it might not.” Well, Mr. Truman, you can relax now because you’ve found your one-handed economist and his name is Obama.

When asked to do or take action against certain things in the economy, Obama on the one hand says, “Well, that institution is an independent institution, and I can’t take action against that institution. But on the other hand, maybe I can.” 

According to the New York Times, the NLRB is suing Boeing for opening a plant in South Carolina which would employ 5,000 workers. The NLRB insists that Boeing operate that plant in Puget Sound, Washington; further, that Boeing has opened the plant in South Carolina to retaliate against a possible union strike in Washington. And you guessed it, the plant in South Carolina is nonunion and the plant in Washington is union. 

The NLRB sounds more like the National Union Association to me than the National Labor Relations Board. It would seem to me, incorrectly apparently, that labor relations would be supportive of a plant in South Carolina that would employ 5,000 workers to build an airplane that is behind schedule. It’s not enough that the administration allowed billions of dollars of purchases of aircraft to go to the air bus consortium in Europe rather than Boeing, and that that purchase was made by an American corporation. But the administration did nothing to stop it. And on the other hand, as Obama is reported to have said now, “I can’t interfere with the NLRB, they are an independent agency.”  I suspect he forgot that he appoints each and every member of the NLRB board.

Now let’s take a macro look at Obama the random-interventionist. On the one hand, Obama intervened, injected himself into General Motors, Chrysler, several hundred banks, and on and on. So on the one hand, when it suits Obama’s purposes, he can intervene. But on the other hand, when it doesn’t suit his purposes, he can not. No wonder he doesn’t intervene with the NLRB because they are obviously pro-union. Maybe they’re all union for all I know. But in any event, to tell an aircraft company, particularly a company which is the largest exporter of products of any American company, Boeing exports airplanes around the world, to tell this company that they must build their airplanes in Washington rather than where they wish to build them seems to a me a bit asinine. 

Before I forget – on the other hand, Obama did say to GE, “It’s certainly okay to take a business out of Wisconsin and put it in China.” 

Obama is clearly Harry Truman’s answer to the multi-handed economist because Obama on the one hand does this, on the other hand does that, and on another hand he does just the opposite or something totally different. He is multi-handed, multi-faceted, and makes inconsistency consistent.