Here is an excerpt regarding United airlines globalist success:
The Star Alliance has had a good month, and United Airlines has been one of the main beneficiaries.
In a year when a principal theme for legacy carriers was global expansion -- to China, India, Europe and Africa -- the largest of the air alliances had a December to remember, formally adding two major Chinese airlines and announcing that a big Indian carrier will also join.
United CEO Glenn Tilton applauded the arrival of Air China and Shanghai Airlines into the alliance in a taped message to employees last week. "It is difficult to overstate the importance of these two Chinese carriers for United and the continued growth of our services to China," he said.
The next day the Teamsters issues a press release regarding United Airline’s American mechanics:
United Airline mechanics and supporters from the Teamsters Union leafleted eight airports nationwide on Thursday. They alerted passengers to the airline’s practice of outsourcing heavy maintenance of its airplanes to China.
The Teamsters, who are organizing mechanics from United (NASDAQ: UAUA), support them in their efforts to prevent the sale of the San Francisco aircraft maintenance operation. The mechanics believe that aviation safety is compromised by outsourcing maintenance.
United now outsources all of its heavy maintenance of Boeing 747s and 777s to South Korea and China. In the Beijing repair station, only five of 2,179 mechanics are certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Governor Rounds has decided to use Higher Ed as the mechanism to compete globally. Here is an excerpt by Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College from their November 2007 Imprimas:
The report of the National Commission on the Future of Higher Education reduces education to the purpose of preparing young people for a job and of making the nation powerful and successful in its economic competition with other nations. The idea-questionable on its face-is that only a national coordinated effort can make us formidable to China, for example. China in indeed growing rapidly. This has become possible only because, under duress and against its every wish, the government of China has liberated its people to start their own businesses and make their own plans. They seek to emulate our successes to the extent they are forced. We seek to emulate their failures because we find them attractive.
I think we need to rethink Governor Rounds’ plans to promote economic development based upon obtaining federal funding (and the controls that come with it) through expanding South Dakota’s Higher Ed. Governor Rounds seems to have lost faith in the people of South Dakota to make decisions for ourselves. I guess he must think that we are just a bunch of hillbillies. Or maybe he has just accepted the false premise of the globalists that bigger is always better. Looks like to me the plan means we have to move to China to get a job, or maybe we can make a living sweeping the floors of governments buildings. The pay may not be great, but we can probably get by with food stamps and other government welfare programs.
