Why are we not seeing this in the news?
Question by catrn1010: Why are we not seeing this in the news?
Why wasn't this all over the news? What does Obama think he is DOING?
WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele today released the following statement concerning the executive order quietly signed by President Barack Obama on Friday ordering the use of union labor for federal construction projects:
“President Obama’s executive order will drive up the cost of government at a time when we should be doing everything possible to save taxpayer dollars. Federal contracts should go to the businesses that can offer taxpayers the best value – not just the unions who supported the Democrats’ campaigns last year. Quietly signing executive orders to payback campaign backers undermines Obama promise to change Washington. It is a disappointment for Americans hoping for more transparency and less politics as usual in Washington.”
I found it on the GOP website for those who are interested
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Answer by Sassygirlzmom
Nothing surprises me.
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July 31st, 2011 - 04:43
It’s the first stage to forced labor, it will get worse and those whom think Obama will not abuse the executive order power to further this end brace yourself.
July 31st, 2011 - 05:09
Wow, that’s insane. It’s obvious why the liberal networks didn’t report it, they don’t want people to know and they are part of the democrat party.
July 31st, 2011 - 05:47
Obama bought his presidency, now he’s paying up…the Democrats don’t honestly CARE about America, just about lining their own pockets.
You aren’t honestly surprised, are you?
July 31st, 2011 - 05:57
Obviously it IS in the news. Otherwise how would you have ever found out about it?
July 31st, 2011 - 06:33
my guess…the vast majority of media outlets are liberal – they are not going to expose info that conservatives and/or moderates would object to. they want to keep the the public perception of Barry in the positive, even if it means not reporting everything…
July 31st, 2011 - 07:08
People have been saying all along that most of the money in the porkulus bill would go to special interest. Unions are no different.
July 31st, 2011 - 07:25
Union labor is the best labor.
July 31st, 2011 - 07:45
Obama is a mormon… I mean MUSLIM… I mean… MORON!
July 31st, 2011 - 08:03
Uh, he wants workers to be treated fairly.
Yep, he’s one rotten SOB. I hope someday I can get a job where I’m not treated fairly. Everybody should strive for that in America.
You found it on a GOP web site…not surprising
July 31st, 2011 - 08:43
That is the way the Democrats run New Jersey. It explains why we were well into red ink well before the latest economic downturn. To fill in a pot hole on a road in New Jersey costs about 5 times what it costs in Pennsylvania which is right next door.
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July 31st, 2011 - 08:53
If the government controls the media – they control what information we are and are not supposed to know but obviously this was leaked to at least one media source or you wouldn’t have found out about it.
Anyway, I think he’s just betraying the trust of the people who bought into his campaign of “change”. I think we’ll see a lot more betrayal and lies, and corruption from him before we see any positive changes! And in the meantime the changes we’ll see won’t be what we wanted or what his followers expected. If this order he just signed was so great and a good thing then why be so quiet about it?
July 31st, 2011 - 09:32
Obama has done this before, he chooses to sign things on Friday evenings silently, hoping it wont get out to the media, like last Friday evening when he repealed the abortion laws by Bush..
July 31st, 2011 - 10:15
Why? Because it’s not important. I suppose you’d rather have illegal immigrant contractors and contractors from overseas bidding on government jobs? Maybe money-sucking Halliburton?
By the way, it was in the so-called “liberal” news.
July 31st, 2011 - 11:02
Applause! Applause! All for Barack Obama. I am a Republican and would never have voted for Obama but he’s starting to make a few moves that I really like.
I believe in giving labor conracts and jobs to unionized workers and companies because:
1: I believe in unions.
2: I believe strong unions fight to keep out foreign products.
3. If a union worker doesn’t get the job it might just go to a forien worker.
No let me state this for posterity. I believe in protectionism. It would seem that Obama did too until a few of our traitor congressmen jumped on him.
July 31st, 2011 - 11:36
Read about the cost over runs at DIA Denver International Airport.
They could only use minorities it was an expensive cost over run mess.
July 31st, 2011 - 12:24
Are you sure you want to use “Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele” as a source? Guess you haven’t heard about him yet.
“WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) — Newly elected Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele funneled payments to a defunct company run by his sister, a former Steele official says.
Alan Fabian, 44, who was finance chairman for Steele’s unsuccessful 2006 run for U.S. Senate in Maryland, last year was sentenced to nine years in prison for swindling millions of dollars from businesses and banks, and charged with a series of frauds totaling almost $ 40 million. In a deal with prosecutors, Fabian has turned over information indicating Steele paid $ 37,000 to sister Monica Turner, even though her company had been dissolved 11 months earlier, The Washington Post (NYSE:WPO) reported.
Fabian also alleges during his 2006 Senate campaign, Steele, a former Maryland lieutenant governor, used money from his campaign improperly and paid $ 75,000 from the campaign to a law firm for work that was never performed, the newspaper said.
The Post said it is unclear how extensively his claims have been pursued, but a spokesman for Steele said federal agents have contacted Turner recently.
Steele spokesman Curt Anderson said he did not know what information the federal agents were seeking, but said of Fabian’s allegations, “It’s from, what, a convicted felon? And it has no substantiation in fact.”
Be careful of the flying glass when the stones thrown hit a glass house.
July 31st, 2011 - 12:34
“squak! I knew this would happen! Squak!”
Seriously, we all knew this was coming. We conservatives warned the left what damage this idiot would do to us all, but they refused to listen! Now what?
July 31st, 2011 - 13:33
Apparently, you or Michael Steele aren’t fans of unions.
There are a lot of people employed by union labor in the US. The fact that Obama wants unionized labor to work on construction projects is in keeping with something that a lot of Democrats favor.
Remember when the big 3 automakers asked for a bailout? Republicans didn’t want to give it to them mostly because they used unionized labor. They pointed to foreign-owned automakers as being successful because they don’t use any unions (Even though the foreign owned companies receive bailouts from their homecountries from time to time).
Me, I don’t think unions are a terrible thing (I’m in one). They make sure that employees are paid fair and have proper benefits.
July 31st, 2011 - 14:20
you’ve obviously never worked in construction…the wages paid to union laborers depends on the wages set forth by the Department of Labor for that area..it will not drive up the cost of construction
July 31st, 2011 - 14:49
No one who cares at all for the well-being of their country listens to that freak.
The point of the stimulus is to hire people and PAY them, so they can stay in their homes, and buy stuff, keeping companies in business.
Slave labor recieving slave wages will NOT have that effect.
The Republican policy of destroying the power of unions– of the working people — is one of the things that’s lead to our current collapse of no one having any money.
When 25% of us were in unions, all workers benefitted. That’s when we had the biggest, comfiest, most thriving middle class ever.
Dismantling that is why the people who do all the work are seeing their standard of living go down the toilet, and why tens of millions of us have no healthcare.
Instead of returning to the Middle Ages — where 1% of the people owned 99% of everything, and everyone else starved, we need to again be an economy of mostly middle class, rather than a country of mostly abject poverty.