Obama Turns Blind Eye to Union-Backed Card Check

Despite Widespread Opposition From Business and Congress Obama Turns Blind Eye to Union-Backed Card Check If there’s one thing we’ve learned about President Obama it is once he proposes an idea, no matter how unpopular it is, he is unwilling to listen to the people. The Cap and Tax bill, even though it doesn’t have the votes in the Senate and is derided by members of both parties, is still on the active list. Now we learn the Card Check bill, which gives labor unions the power to create a union through a simple majority via an open vote that intimidates workers, is alive and flying under the radar. How can this be? All you have to do is recognize that the President appointed Craig Becker, a union lawyer with deep sympathies for the unions, to head the National Labor Relations... Read More

What Took So Long to Help Small Business?

If this nation is looking for an issue that will get bipartisan support, that issue is being debated right now: it’s the Small Business Bill. For two years, President Obama has virtually ignored small business – the source of 70 percent of new jobs — but suddenly he’s paying some attention. The result is that it’s a rare time in Congress that both parties actually support a bill. Can you imagine how the toxic environment in Congress would have changed if he had supported these and other small business initiatives at the very onset of his administration? Can you imagine how many jobs could have been created over the last two years? It’s as if the President has awoken from a two-year coma. After stonewalling shouts from the business community and some legislators, the... Read More

What are Trade Unions Smoking?

Trade unions are in such deep decline that only seven percent of all U.S. private sector workers are now union members. That leaves ninety three percent of our workforce who are not eligible, interested or have rejected union membership. So unions are desperate to get more workers on the union rolls. How desperate? Word comes from The Wall Street Journal that the Teamsters Union is trying to organize the forty employees of one of California’s largest marijuana growers. You read this right. Marjyn Investments, based in Oakland, which grows pot for medical uses, has allowed its employees to reach out to the Teamsters to form a union shop. The feeling from the company is that it will legitimize its business. Meanwhile, employees will get a raise in salary, health benefits and a pension.... Read More

Living the LBJ Legacy

Several weeks ago I had suggested  President Obama thought that he was patterning himself after Lincoln.  But after doing some more thinking, I realized that the President’s channeling of former presidents does not stop with Lincoln. Now he thinks he’s LBJ. Not since LBJ in 1965 has any president attempted to pass so much of its agenda in one Congress.  LBJ called his plan The Great Society, during which major spending programs addressed education, health care (Medicaid and Medicare) , urban problems, and transportation.   Every social program under the sun got money thrown at it, as if that was the answer.   And the result was out of control spending and a greatly weakened presidency. Now President Obama is racking up unprecedented deficits by trying to initiative in a matter of... Read More

Neal Asbury to be Keynote Speaker at the South Florida Manufacturers Association 50th Anniversary Meeting

Neal Asbury will be the dinner keynote speaker at the South Florida Manufacturers Association 50th Anniversary Meeting on September 27th, 2010. This year’s meeting is entitled “Made in the USA and Here to Stay” and it is sponsored by Florida Power and Light. The meeting will focus on preparing for the expansion of “Top Line” that follows several years of cost cutting. It will provide manufacturers with the building blocks to weather the recovery process and turn “actionable items into increased market share.” The annual event which commemorates the South Florida Manufacturers Association’s 50th anniversary will be held at the Coral Springs Marriott Hotel, Golf Club & Convention Center in Coral Springs, Florida. SFMA’s meeting will be divided into two sessions. The first... Read More

What Happened to President Obama?

As I listened to the speech that President Obama delivered in Cleveland on Wednesday, a sudden shiver went down my spine. I had the eerie feeling that the President didn’t seem himself. In fact, I was startled to discern that aliens had abducted the President and replaced him with a look-alike. My suspicions were aroused when I heard this cloned look-alike announce that small businesses needed tax relief since the private sector creates most of the jobs. It was stunning. The original President Obama never said such things. And then I started searching the skies for more UFOs when this Presidential look-alike proclaimed that it was time to shrink the federal government. It froze my blood. After racking up trillions in debt through out of control spending on stimulus and social programs,... Read More

When Unions Punish Mexican Truckers, They Punish Americans

When Unions Punish Mexican Truckers They Punish Every American. As I have maintained countless times, NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) is by far the most beneficial trade legislation Congress has ever passed. Today, Mexico imports more U.S. made products than China and Japan combined. In fact, a guest on my radio show “Truth for America,” former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Carlos Gutierrez, noted that during 2008, the U.S. exported $115 billion to Mexico (up 13 percent). All in all, thirty percent of all U.S. trade goes to our two NAFTA partners. You would think this country would do everything it could to nourish this relationship. But with the tacit approval of the Obama administration, the Teamsters Union has manufactured unsubstantiated data that Mexican truckers transporting... Read More

Is China Going Green…Or Just Going Under?

China likes to make noise that they are adopting “Green” standards that will take the target off their backs from environmental groups who see China as the world’s leading polluter. Just recently they announced they are closing down 2,000 steel mills and other industrial sites that are polluting the skies. Green initiative or propaganda? You choose. The latest report out of China, as detailed in news reports, is that during the first half of 2010, China’s air quality actually deteriorated. In fact, for the first time in five years, acid rain is now making life miserable in more than 200 of its 440 cities. I’ve seen this first hand during many visits to China and I can tell you it is a nightmare. A yellow mist hangs over its cities making it nearly impossible to breathe.... Read More

Neal Asbury speaking at the Global Summit II on November 9th 2010

The Global Summit II is entitled “Humanity Uniting for a Sustainable Future”. It’s focus is on creating global partnerships and local program support systems to unite powerful grass-roots stakeholders and co-create a sustainable future. The Global Summit is a biannual event, and this year it will be held at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California. Council topics range from ecological and agricultural subjects like Bio-diversity, Climate Change, and Food Security to the economic subjects of Scarcity, Conflict, Reconciling Local Living Economies and our Global Currency System, and Oil and Bio-Regional Trade. Additional council topics include Free Speech, Free Press, and Self-Governance. Participants across a multitude of disciplines share the same objectives for the Global Summit.... Read More

John Negroponte Endorses Conscientious Equity

“Neal Asbury’s work is very important to understanding America’s role in global trade.” – John D. Negroponte “Conscientious Equity is written from the hands-on perspective of an American businessman who has been in the trenches of owning and operating his own business in the Philippines. This is a valuable contribution to our discussion about how to get economies, including our own, going again.”–John D. Negroponte, Yale University, Former United States Deputy Secretary of State “An original thinker . . . and a visionary entrepreneur, Neal Asbury offers a clear and realistic assessment of the challenges facing firms and policymakers regarding international trade today, as well as creative solutions that could allow the United States to retain its competitive... Read More