Joe Wilson

I was proud to stand with Gov. Nikki Haley, Atty. Gen. Alan Wilson and U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham, Jim DeMint, Lamar Alexander and Rand Paul on Tuesday when we and business leaders demanded that President Barack Obama call off the National Labor Relations Board’s unwarranted attack on the Boeing Company and our state.

We cannot allow the federal government to rush into situations where it doesn’t belong, especially when its actions are harmful to private enterprise like in the NLRB complaint. Boeing made a strategic decision to build its Dreamliner facility in North Charleston. The company came to South Carolina because our state makes the effort to create a business friendly environment. Our low taxes, skilled workforce, and status as a right-to-work state are powerful tools that offer a competitive advantage to employers over competing states.

Boeing merely built a new facility in a state that offered many more advantages, to their shareholders and workers, than another. I’ve talked about the federal government overreaching before, but this just takes inappropriate bureaucratic conduct to a whole new level. This sort of meddling is a direct assault on the American ideals of a free market system and individual freedom.

Yesterday, Sen. Graham stated if Boeing did break a law by building here instead of Washington state, then President Obama wouldn’t have made a former Boeing director, Bill Daley, his chief of staff and appointed the president of the company to head the President’s Exports Council. He’s right, which makes the president’s silence on the issue all the more deafening.

Nothing was wrong then, and nothing is wrong now. President Obama is struggling in the polls and his reelection prospects don’t look bright. His administration is grasping at straws. This assault by the NLRB is a clear call to unions to stick with President Obama next year. This complaint sets a dangerous precedent for government intervention in private industry. I refuse to allow unelected bureaucrats attempt to push their agenda at the expense of our state, our economy and our jobs.

I want to know what you think about the matter. Please use my Facebook page to let me know what you think about the federal government’s most recent move to hurt South Carolina’s economy.

Sincerely,

Joe Wilson
U.S. Congressman

One Response to “Jobs, not more unions and more government”

1. Gill Fisher says:

   May 13, 2011 at 2:48 pm

   I support Joe Wilson 100%. God save America.