Why does the working class scare the heck out of the elite socialist Democrats?

Because they have to keep telling them they will stop the job loss and factory closings when they know they have no solutions to do so.

The two Democrats are really pandering to the working class and the so-called poor. If they turn them loose they know they will lose the support of the Big Labor, which also includes the Teachers and Civil Service Unions. Obama tells them how bad off they are to hang in there, a government check is on the way.

Hillary tells them that Obama is an elitist and looks down on them by proclaiming them “bitter and depressed”. He opines they take up guns and religion to satisfy their “bitterness”. Hillary is also an elitist, and did not recognize the “culture code” which Obama was really using. What he was saying is that things are so bad in the small towns, that the men will take to streets and riot with guns and the woman will run to the churches to pray for them. On the streets the people were insulted with his simplification of “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” only when things are tight. They feel that they practice their faith as part of their every day life and have the right to use their guns when they want to for hunting, target shooting, and defending their families.

Obama tried to calm things down by saying “he MAY have use the wrong words when he said what he said in his “sorry speech” but it was too late. The boys and girls in the “Hood” already got the message.  Hillary said she came from a working class family and she understands their concerns. This sounded like Richard Nixon during his Presidential campaign when he said his wife Pat wore woolen coats not fir ones. She refuses to accept the, I’m sorry speech and calls Obama’s remarks “elitist and divisive”.

The facts are that most of these blue collar and working class poor are in States, where labor unions have strong representation among them. Many of the factories are located in small towns which become almost totally dependent on them providing work for that town. Labor Unions over the years have formed “Tribes” called “locals” and take their marching orders from the “National Head Honcho”. They demand outrageous benefit packages, pay leveling with out regard to merit or performance, no firing clauses, relocation, and modernization restrictions in their contracts. The unions have been demanding much higher wages for, and received them, low level non skilled workers than the non-union shops around the Nation. This caused high school graduates to seek employment right out of school. They were lulled into the union where the brotherhood will take care of them until retirement.

Johnstown Pennsylvania has about 15 labor unions representing just about everything and jobs have been cut in every sector. Johnstown is a typical city devastated by unions and the FreightCar America Company is a good example why. 

FreightCar America, Inc. recently announced that it will close its manufacturing facility located in Johnstown, Pa., which employs approximately 390 employees. This action is in line with FreightCar’s strategy of optimizing production at its low-cost manufacturing facilities and continuing its focus on cost control.  Is critical for them to take full advantage of their other lower-cost manufacturing facilities in order to produce their railcars with a competitive cost structure, said Chris Ragot, president and CEO. “Our Johnstown, Pennsylvania manufacturing plant is a higher-cost facility than our other locations. Although we entered into decisional bargaining with the union representing our Johnstown employees regarding labor costs at the Johnstown facility, we and the union did not reach an agreement that would have allowed us to continue to operate the facility in a cost-effective way. We will continue to focus on strategic initiatives and cost control to remain competitive despite a challenging railcar market.”  Although Ragot didn’t say the Johnstown facility was most likely the oldest one and was not making use of modernized or automated assembly methods, because of union restrictions.

The company announced in December that it has entered into a joint venture with Titagarh Wagons Ltd. of Kolkata, India to develop freight cars for the growing Indian market. The company intends to begin production there in 2009 using manufacturing methods honed (meaning automation) in the U.S.  I think you know what’s going to happen next. 

The Locals in the small towns have to take orders from the National Headquarters even when they knew the issue would hurt them locally. The National, pits the men and woman against the real employers by calling walkouts, strikes, and slow down across the broad spectrum of the union’s influence. While this may have helped the union shops in the larger urban areas, in the small town shops it had the opposite affect. For the most part because these small town shops are so called feeder shops, which make and supply parts and subassemblies, depending on the big assembly factories for their orders, can not afford to pay the massive overhead demanded by the unions, and since some had these no fire and layoff clauses in their contracts they had to shudder the factories, leaving the blue collar employees, with little or no higher education and un-skilled, with no alternatives.

The Democrat Party keeps pandering to these unions which use the workers hard earned money from their dues to lobby and give to the Democrat party in turn they get bills past, such as the workers must use show of hands when voting. It used to be secret balloting but they couldn’t tell who voted to strike or not to strike.

These, mostly unskilled jobs, are gone and no amount of retraining will get, the laid off workers, jobs in that area. In fact the majority of students graduating for the collages in Pennsylvania are seeking jobs elsewhere in the country. New Hi Tech companies would have to locate in the Johnstown area and the retrained worker would need a four year engineering technical degree in order to compete with the collage students. All these politicians are promising big money, for training, to the labor unions for these so called new jobs. It AIN’T going to happen. 

What they could do is to do away with corporate taxes which will cut cost for the companies who are still in the area and therefore stay there. Pennsylvania should declare their State a “right to work State” which would get the labor unions out of the way.

The low skilled jobs are not coming back unless the lack of a corporate tax, and right to work laws are passed, may bring back some low skilled ones from China.