Let’s pretend that George W Bush is president and in the first year of his term in office he was visited by the head of the NRA 12 times. Do you think the press would make an issue of exactly what the NRA was doing with such access to the president?

Or let’s say that during the first year of his second term while the war in Iraq was in full swing the president of Halliburton was at the White House 10 times. Do you think the press would try to connect the dots as to what this major supplier to the military was doing so many times meeting with the president?

I don’t know your answer, but I think that major news media organizations would have focused on little else. Their stories and alleged reports would have been jammed with innuendos and suppositions as to what these groups were up to and why they had such unlimited access to the seat of American governmental power.

Now let’s stop pretending and switch to the here and now with the Anointed One, Barack Hussein Obama in the oval office.

The White House released the visitors list recording those who were allowed past the gates at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the first 10 months of the Obama administration. There were representatives from a number of special interest groups and just as many major celebrities on this official record. But the number one name on the list with the most visits inside the White House was the president of the Service Employees International Union, Andy Stern. You don’t get into the White House without first getting some pretty high level clearance. Records show that Mr. Stern was granted access to the White House 22 times in the first 10 months of Obama’s presidency. That is more than twice a month or just about every other week for Obama’s term thus far. And do the major media outlets raise the question as to what in the world this union boss is doing so many times in the White House? Nope. Nary a word. Only a scant few lines simply reporting the fact. With 22 visits in 10 months Andy Stern may well have been in the oval office more than the first lady, but the major press organizations choose to focus instead on the fact that the Michael Jordon and the Jeremiah Wright shown on the list are not the famous ones but instead others with those same names.

The SEIU is the fastest growing organized labor union in the country. They made their claim to fame as the Building Service Employees Union founded in Chicago in the 1920’s representing janitors, elevator operators and window washers and heading the Justice for Janitors campaign. But now as the SEIU their focus is on the healthcare industry attempting to organize nurses, hospital workers, home healthcare workers and nursing home employees.

SEIU was one of the leading supporters to candidate Barack Obama and it is apparent that the old Chicago style quid pro quo is now in full swing. You see along with nationalizing health insurance and healthcare the ObamaCare bills currently being crafted in the halls of both the Senate and the House requires a large portion of healthcare workers to become, you guessed it, union employees. And what union would these tens if not hundreds of thousands of employees join? Why the SEIU of course.

With the stroke of a presidential pen Barack Hussein Obama could effectively double the size of the SEIU currently estimated to be 1.8 million strong. No wonder it was the SEIU that sent hired thugs to beat up and intimidate attendees at local tea party gatherings and ObamaCare protest rallies.

An organized labor union with a penchant for assault and battery carrying out a plan to forcibly stifle free speech and political activism with seemingly unlimited access to the White House and the president they helped put in place. And the major media outlets are too intimidated or too blinded by the liberal charisma of this bought and paid for president to say a word about it.

Be afraid America. This isn’t pretend anymore.

Another old expression that seems to be almost prophetic in its accuracy of the famed community activist turned leader of the free world Barack Hussein Obama.

As news wires were jammed with dismal economic statistics showing the worst quarterly economic downturn in 25 years the new president broke out his already well used pen and signed another series of executive orders strengthening organized labor at the expense of wage paying business and the 91% of private sector workers that do not belong to a union.

He also announced the formation of a task force assigned to address the problems of the American middle-class. This task force will be chaired by Vice President Joe Biden, giving him a chance to spend some time away from the talk show circuit and live microphones.

The president stated the reasoning behind his actions was to “level the playing field” for labor unions in their ongoing struggles with employers. The drawback in that reasoning is apparent to even the casual observer if one takes more than 5 minutes to review recent history. Labor unions are not looking for a level playing field. On a level playing field the union loses.

This is not to say that the mentality of reality the union’s posses can’t change. But thanks to this president and his administration of change, the unions are free to do anything but.

Using some of his old community activist rhetoric, the president said “I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem. To me it’s part of the solution. You cannot have a strong middle class without a strong labor movement.” The inability to accept or understand the role organized labor has played in the destruction of industries such as the Big Three Automotive manufacturers or the self-serving damage unrealistic union contracts have done over the years to industry as a whole is a very dangerous bliss. While this position is to be expected from a community activist it is beyond reproach for a president of all the people in the midst of a very serious recession. If you don’t understand that unrealistic union contracts are a problem, just take a ride through Detroit or any other major industrialized union metropolis.

It was back on February 20, 2008 that Teamsters Union President James Hoffa publicly made his endorsement of Barack Hussein Obama for president. He was the very first major union official to do so. Hoffa was an invited guest to this signing ceremony and said “It’s a new day for workers. We finally have a White House that is dedicated to working with us to rebuild our middle class. Hope for the American dream is being restored.”

This blatant quid pro quo by Obama is an obvious attempt to use all the governmental power necessary to continue pounding a square peg into a round hole. As Obama has already stated during his campaign he will use any means necessary to punish companies that send work out of the country, and he is now making it clear that he will also use his power to dictate the wages and benefits businesses will pay for in house work as well, effectively eliminating any possibility for these businesses to compete in a globally competitive market.

The real problem this community activist president fails to address, or possibly even understand, is that with the exception of those who work directly for the union, businesses pay wages not unions. In order for businesses to survive and continue to pay wages they must be competitive on a global scale. Historically unions have completely disregarded this simple fact and have focused solely on their own short term interest rather than the long term viability of the company that employs the workers.

One can hope that the president will gain some influence on just how unrealistic the unions will choose to be. But it is unlikely he would throw away any of the support he will undoubtedly garner by taking any action that could be construed as less than 100 percent union support.
His next executive order will likely direct some sort of protectionist legislation such as his most recent folly of insisting that all steel used in his forthcoming ill-conceived infrastructure rebuilding be made only in America. This legislation will undoubtedly bring retaliation from our global trading partners and will only further damage the valuable export business of the unionized manufacturers.

James P. Hoffa made a bold move in backing Barack H. Obama for president. But the strings attached to that endorsement are sufficient to choke any hope of a speedy economic recovery.

“Present day society is wholly based on the exploitation of the vast masses of the working class by a tiny minority of the population, the class of landowners and that of the capitalists. It is a slave society, since the “free” workers, who all their life work for the capitalists, are “entitled” only to such means of subsistence as are essential for the maintenance of slaves who produce profit, for the safeguarding and perpetuation of capitalist slavery” – Vladimir Lenin – 1905