Congressman Trey Gowdy from South Carolina is one of my favorites because he delivers with passion. My own Congressman delivers what ever the party line tells him to. For that he collects a sizable salary. So instead of listening to my representative’s speeches, I listen to those who can make a point and deliver with conviction.
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Should Boeing recall the entire fleet of Boeing 747’s used by the president as Air Force One?
It would serve POTUS right to be grounded for his efforts to stand in the way of a great manufacturing company like Boeing from doing what is right for its business.
The National Labor Relations Board is filing suit against Boeing to block their move to South Carolina. I wonder who might be behind that move? Let me think, OBAMA? No, it can’t be OBAMA he wouldn’t pull a stunt like that now would he? Behind the scenes he is pulling strings like crazy to regulate companies to do what he says. I suppose that is the Change that 53% of the genius people of America voted for.
Boeing is also one of the few remaining manufacturing companies employing thousands of highly technical people. Instead of encouraging the company to build the world’s best airplane in AMERICA, he is blocking the company from setting up shop in the “Right to Work” state of South Carolina in favor of IAM union state Washington.. (It figures, South Carolina was one of the original slave colonies.)
With this effort to save the IAM, Obama is pushing hard for Boeing to move all of its plant to China. This is another example of a union warring against a company with the attitude of “we will beat you sucker even if it means you go out of business.” The UAW did it to the US auto industry, now the machinist union wants to do the same thing. Do you get the feeling I can’t stand unions? I’ll save you the effort, I Can not stand unions. They may have had a useful life during the industrial revolution, but they are obsolete in a global economy. I’ll clue you in, A chinese machinist doesn’t give a rats ass about how much an IAM guy makes. All the Chinaman cares about is feeding his family. If he can do that by making a dollar an hour, he will, and the IAM will just move on to another company and harass it until it too moves to China.
I’m sorry, but POTUS is a jerk. He doesn’t understand nor care about anything but buying votes. Do you think he cares about the American business? Hell no. He certainly doesn’t care about Boeing even though he appointed Boeing CEO, Jim Mc Nerney to his Export Council. It appears Mc Nerney may also have to export his job.
Supporting American business would get people back to work again. That would mean fewer people depending on Obama for sustenance. That would put a giant crimp into the Hope and Change Nanny State.
Do you want my recommendation to the problem? I’ll give it anyway. Boeing recalls the entire fleet of airplanes at Obama’s disposal, and We the People recall Obama.
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This BLOGGER took some needed downtime. Peggy and I went south and east until we hit some serious water, then followed the coast further southward. We were seeking warmer weather, and some colorful spring flowers. We got it all. Along the way, we stopped to visit friends from another life. I have a list of friends I want to visit before I die, and I got to see four of them.
We also got to see a section of the country that we’ve never seen before, i.e. the North and South Carolina coast. Peggy lived in Columbia, South Carolina during the nineteen fifties. She was with her husband Ron, while he was in the army. Our sight seeing began in the small hamlet of Sneads Ferry, North Carolina, on the Atlantic ocean. Sneads Ferry is a fishing town located on the southern border of Camp Lejeune, a U.S. Marine training base.
The couple we visited built their dream home on Everett Creek which winds into Stone Bay, then into the Intercoastal Waterway, and finally the Atlantic Ocean. Barbara, the Lady of the House, is a Master Gardener. She took her training in North Carolina, and was a encyclopedia of horticultural knowledge about local plants. She has been building her new garden for five years. It continues to expand. Inside the house she sports a collection of orchids. Many are in bloom, and are gorgeous. Gary, the Master of the House, designed and built the home. He is an engineer and it shows in the construction details of the building, and layout. He also added a greenhouse for Barb, and a walkway from the house to the creek .
Time flew by rapidly, and the visit lasted longer than we had anticipated. Gary and Barb drove us around Sneads Ferry, and Topsail Island. The town is a blink of the eye, while the island, and beach stretches for miles. The weather was cool and drizzly, so there were not too many hardy souls on the beach; it was empty. We quickly gathered a few shells to bring home, then moved on. We lunched on softshell crab at the Sears Landing Grill in Surf City, and talked about times we spent together.
Gary and Barb recommended we see Charleston, so onward down the coast we drove to Charleston, South Carolina. The city founded in 1670 is one of the oldest in the United States. We checked into the Mills House Hotel in the heart of the historic district. Built in 1853, it stands as one of the oldest hotels in North America. It was totally remodeled, and updated in 1970. Without doubt, this is a five star hotel.
Peggy and I arranged to take a carriage ride around town in the morning. We passed homes and churches built in the seventeen hundreds. All have been meticulously restored. The entire historic district is on the National Registry, and will remain so in perpetuity. Even though the district is historical and old, it is houses many private citizens, and commercial enterprises. We ate lunch in an old building, once a cotton warehouse, and now a modern sports bar.
After lunch, we sauntered to the harbor and took a cruise around the bay for a waterfront perspective. One of the porters on the ship lives in a house boat at the dock . He is retired, and fortifying his income working on the cruise boat. He commuted by taking a thirty second walk from his tiny float home across the dock to the sightseeing boat. Peggy and I got sun burn while basking on the deck. She was white knuckling the chair the whole time, not being one for taking boat rides.
We arrived at the Staybridge Suites in Savannah, Georgia on Bay Street early. Our room was not ready yet so to kill time, we booked a trolley tour of the historical district. What a city! I always wanted to see Savannah, but somehow this part of the country eluded me. Savannah was founded in 1733, by General James Oglethorpe. He was also the architect of the city layout. The historic district is a beautiful grid of streets divided into districts by squares or parks. Twenty four distinct little squares define open spaces between congested avenues of row houses and mansions. Twenty two of the squares still exist. Two have fallen prey to civic center development. In between the streets with the squares are larger more elegant boulevrds. The median dividers on the boulevards are filled with pink, white, rose, and red azaleas. Shading the streets are giant oaks, three hundred years old, and dripping with dainty Spanish Moss.
Peggy and I roamed the streets from square to square taking house tours, and visiting museums. Among the more notable homes we visited was the Juliette Gordon Low birthplace. Juliette founded the Girl Scouts of America In 1912. The house has been preserved, and is in excellent condition. It contains many pieces of the original furnishings. In the Telfair Museum of Art we saw two wxhibitions by black artists. One of them by a man named Robert Colescott has a series of contemporary paintings on display. It is my opinion that this man was on some serious shit while he painted. The second artist, Elizabeth King, displayed a ceramic mannekin head the size of an apple and with infinite realistic detail . She photographed the head from various angles against a black background; the photos are magnificent. She is a true artist, while Colescott seemed to paint only while high, or maybe he just can’t see too well.
The Savannah river front along River Street is a string of shops, and restaurants, converted from old cotton warehouses. A Green and Yellow Trolley runs along a track laid in the center of the cobblestone street, reminiscent of streetcars I rode in Chicago during the forties. A container ship passed by as we shopped. Savannah is the second largest container port in the US. Here is a piece of useless info, the largest export out of the port is chicken; shipped to China.
More to follow.
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Death Of the Shining City
