Since our current President was sworn in, you keep hearing from his followers, and that includes the few on here about how important things like the stimulus bill were.

I have maintained that the "stimulus" bill was loaded with a lot of little "traps" but we are just learning more and more about the relationship of this President and unions...

"...he included special restrictions on much of the economic-stimulus funds, requiring that large portions of the $787 billion be used only on projects involving unionized workers. The stimulus also included “Buy American” clauses that infuriated our trading partners. Though Obama was said to oppose adding trade restrictions to the bill, that didn’t stop him from signing it.

This article from Bloomberg goes into much of this President's love affair with unions and is one more example of where this is going...

"President Barack Obama’s union with labor unions has become a marriage made in hell. If he wants to save his presidency, and his party, he should seek a divorce.

When Obama met with House Republicans last month, he chastised them for mischaracterizing his health-care agenda. “You’d think that this thing was some Bolshevik plot,” he said. It’s not, of course, but Republicans can be forgiven for observing the truth that this president has been more in the tank for the labor movement than any U.S. president since World War II.

It certainly has made great financial sense for the president to align himself with the unions. After all, organized labor spent more than $100 million in the last election supporting Democrats. And for unions, the investment looks like a good one. Since taking office, Obama has doggedly pursued their agenda".

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aJarhKRzqHqY


And by the way, wouldnt it be great if our President held a news conference ?