Thursday, September 08, 2011

"So,,,,,,Let's Cripple Home-Builders, Too!!"

With MACT, Obozo's boyzzz have threatened to virtually eliminate industry.  With the coal-burning regs, the Obozos will take out about 12.5% of electric-generating capacity countrywide.  With the de facto halt to drilling permits on US territory, they've dis-employed several tens of thousands near the Gulf and in the West.

What remains?  Home-building contractors.

Many larger home builders, while acquiring land for homes and marketing them, entrust much of the construction to carpenters, electricians and others employed by contractors. The contractors rarely are unionized. …

Some industry officials said they thought the Labor Department might be trying to establish that a general construction contractor, such as a large home builder, is a “joint employer” of a subcontractor. That would make the general contractor liable for wage-and-hour violations at its subcontractor.

“There has been a movement afoot in many instances fueled by the unions to force the subcontractors to be employees of the builders, because the next step is to unionize them,” said [Jerry] Howard of the National Association of Homebuilders.

How to remedy this threat to the Republic?  Easy.  Drown 'em in paperwork!

 A copy of one letter, dated Aug. 1 and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, said the department was opening a probe under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which governs matters such as overtime pay and limits on using teen workers.

The letter instructed the home builder to immediately turn over the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, pay rates and hours worked for all employees over the past two years. It asked the names of all contractors hired in the past year. The letter didn’t allege any specific violations of law.

The March of the Statists continues.

HT:  MoonBattery

16 comments:

jimspice said...

I was hoping you could provide link to support your claim oil production is down under Obama, because I just can't seem to locate any. Are your claim claims re: construction similarly sourced?

Dad29 said...

I did NOT say that 'production' is down.

I said that EXPLORATION has been severely curtailed.

Anonymous said...

And the job impact from the moritorium is very severe as outlined by Dr. Joseph Mason from Louisiana State University in July of 2010. Mine is a hard-copy but the report should be out there on the web.

David

jimspice said...

Allow me to rephrase:

I was hoping you could provide a link to support your claim oil exploration is down under Obama, because I just can't seem to locate any.

Anonymous said...

www.noia.org/website/download.asp?id=40016

Do you want us to read it for you as well?

David

jimspice said...

July 2010. Good one. Anything a little more recent?

Dad29 said...

What's changed, Jim?

J. Strupp said...

Oil exploration and extraction is strong in this country and expanding.

jimspice said...

What's changed? Seriously? How about the moratorium being lifted after careful consideration being given to the question whether continuing current practices would result in more disasters and the implementation of new rules?

Dad29 said...

You mean AFTER all the rigs left the Gulf for drilling contracts?

Anonymous said...

Before I invest the time to do the research you apparently will not do Jim, what are the parameters?

How recent? What authors will you not accept? What organizations will you reject?

David

Dad29 said...

Amer. Petro. Institute:

Average active rotary drilling rigs in the U.S. as of August 1, 2011: 1,900 (all-time high of 4,530 announced 12/28/81; record low of 488 announced 4/23/99). (2010 average: 1,541) [Baker Hughes Inc., Houston]

Looks like US drilling is up a bit from 2010. That's from exploration BEFORE Obozo's Regime.

See: http://www.api.org/Newsroom/upload/Aug_11_Petroleum_Facts_at_Glance.pdf

jimspice said...

Politifact breaks it down nicely. Be sure to follow the link to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, which has the update stats. Also, please play around with the raw data from their eWell Online Query. There's a downloadable version too.

Anonymous said...

From your link Jim...

"We should note that while drilling permits haven’t disappeared entirely, the pace of approval has slowed, in large part because Obama has made clear that he wants drilling to be done safely and in an environmentally sensitive fashion.

Lee Hunt, executive director of the International Association of Drilling Contractors, said in March that there has been a "molasses effect" with permitting by the Obama Administration. Even shallow-water permits have fallen from their prior level, despite not being directly affected by the post-spill moratorium. Meanwhile, permits for deep-water wells are likely to be a third of what was projected prior to the gulf spill.

Andy Radford, senior policy adviser at the American Petroleum Institute, agreed that permit approvals dropped after the BP spill, but he added in March that the pace of permitting was picking up. "We'll get to the new normal eventually," he said."

Those three say it all. Politifact simply proved permitting has not stopped entirely. But they admit that the pace has indeed stayed below normal in shallow and deep water drilling.

Thanks for proving Dad's point.

David

jimspice said...

Did you play with the stats as I suggested? We're already above permitting rates from the early Bush II years. I suppose you would have preferred business as usual after the gulf spill?

Anonymous said...

How did I know Bush would get brought up?

1. Dad said exploration had been slowed
2. You said prove it
3. I attempted but my doc's were not new enough for you
4. You proved it

Now you want to say it does or does not match up with another time period?

How about you lay out the actual rules under which you will admit that Dad's statement was correct and THEN we will try to help you out?

David